Junaid Khan is an experienced professional, working as an Enhanced Due Diligence Analyst in Investor and Treasury Services, at RBC.

He is interested in major investigations, including organized crime groups, human trafficking and drug trafficking.

Junaid has worked for some of the most highly respected financial institutions, including BMO Bank of Montreal, CIBC, and HSBC.

Junaid is a graduate of the University of Toronto and is looking at becoming an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

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Vanessa is a global Financial Crime Prevention professional having worked in New York, India and now Canada with a passion for learning about regulatory relations, crypto-compliance, sanctions regimes and unconscious bias. Her journey has involved managing teams and processes in a host of financial crime areas including Enhanced Due Diligence, Adverse Media Screening and Transaction Monitoring for global stakeholders. Vanessa was most recently a Director in Morgan Stanley’s Global Financial Crimes (GFC) team and prior to that an AVP with Barclays in their Financial Crimes Compliance team in Mumbai.

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Louis Forte is a Principal Consultant at Capco, a global technology and management consultancy specializing in driving digital transformation in the financial services industry. He has extensive experience supporting clients in financial crime advisory, change management, and operations transformation. Louis has worked across a number of Tier 1 banks and has a proven track record in delivery of complex projects across multiple jurisdictions and businesses.

During his time at Capco, Louis led the design and implementation of an MI & Reporting Target Operating Model for one of his clients, across all of its financial crime functions globally.

Louis holds a Masters in Management from University College London (UCL), and a BSc (Hons) in Business Management from the University of Surrey. Louis also recently graduated with a Distinction for an ICA International Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering.

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A curious investigator who believes that knowledge and development is a continuous journey.

Currently an AML Operations Analyst at Centtrip. She has experience in electronic money institutions (EMI) with a focus on the foreign exchange (fx) industries in London, United Kingdom.

The area of financial crime she is most interested in is counter terrorist financing and the roles of international, national government agencies and law enforcement in the fight against financial crime.

Suzanne has lived abroad away from her native city - Sydney, Australia for almost a decade. Whenever the opportunity arises, she likes to travel and to see different countries and cities. There are still many places that are on her list.

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Peter is a young and motivated financial crime professional, who recently started a new position by working for UBS Europe SE as Financial Crime Officer within their Investment Bank division located in Frankfurt, Germany. Before this current role he worked as (Senior) AML Analyst at a German "BaaS"-Fintech called Solarisbank AG and before that for Deutsche Bank in Berlin.

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Stephanie graduated from Erasmus University with a bachelor’s degree in Criminology. In 2020 she graduated from Leiden University with a master’s degree in Forensic Criminology. During her time at Leiden University she also participated in a project about the prison climate in Dutch prisons and the effects of prison climate. She investigated the effect of visits by family and friends on the willingness of the prisoners to change their behaviour.

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Temitope was born and raised in Nigeria, but now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. During the course of his career, he has had roles ranging from business support and administrative services, to exam administration, client support and compliance. Through these experiences, Temitope discovered his passion for all things compliance, including business assurance, audit, risk and investigations management. He has an inquisitive mind and has used his skills in tackling malpractice and financial crime in several cases with which he has been involved.

To transfer his unique experiences into the Canadian marketplace, Temitope is currently enrolled as a graduate student of the Financial Services Compliance Administration program at Seneca College, Toronto, and is in the process of pivoting into a career focusing on the intersection of cryptocurrencies, regulatory compliance and anti-money laundering.

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I possess over five years of experience in Finance, Accounting, Consulting, Customer Service fields; knowledge of investment products and mutual funds; principles of investment financial planning. Furthermore, I am a CPA candidate. I have completed the Honors Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting at Lakehead University in 2021 and The Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting (GDipPA) at the University of Toronto – Rotman School of Management in 2021.

I was born in New Delhi, India. Raised in Houston Texas, USA and currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Steve Hayward is a lawyer with 9 years of extensive litigation experience across four jurisdictions and a variety of practice areas, primarily in Criminal law. He has practiced as Defence counsel on a variety of complex litigation files. More recently he has practiced as Crown counsel, prosecuting a wide variety of criminal code offences.

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