Introducing 2021 International Fellow Josie Preston
Josie is the Nominated Officer and Group MLRO for Caesars Entertainment EMEA, part of the world’s largest casino entertainment company, Caesars Entertainment Inc., best known for Las Vegas properties such as Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, and the iconic Playboy Club in London.
Prior to this, she was the Head of Anti Money Laundering and MLRO at the Ritz Club, an exclusive and prestigious Casino in London’s Mayfair district; specialising in direction and oversight of Enhanced Due Diligence teams, with particular expertise in UHNWI, HNWI, and Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in the Middle East and Europe.
Josie has spent the past 5 years in AML leadership roles involving the establishment, training, and development of teams to combat Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime risk within the Casino gaming sphere, through internal strategic policymaking, risk assessment, threat analysis, and procedural development. She is a member of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) and the Gambling Anti-Money Laundering Group (GAMLG) industry bodies and active working groups.
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Introducing 2021 International Fellow - Katharina Stoll
Katharina Stoll is a Senior Lead Auditor for Anti-Financial Crime Compliance at Commerzbank AG where she leads national and international audits of the bank’s global AML and Sanctions compliance program. Before joining Commerzbank, Katharina worked at Protiviti as a Senior Consultant in Internal Audit performing and leading various risk-oriented audit activities. In this capacity, Katharina also implemented a group-wide audit program for sanctions & embargoes for one of the top 3 German banks, including the recording of the control framework and designing the audit program. Katharina started her career as an art historian at Bonhams in London, Poly Auction in Beijing, and Yves Siebers Auktionen in Stuttgart.
Katharina holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Frankfurt as well as PGCertificates from SOAS, University of London, and the University of Glasgow. Leveraging her education as an art historian and her work experience in the AML sector, Katharina’s PhD research with the University of Glasgow’s School of Law is focused on money laundering in the art market. She has contributed to conferences, events, and webinars as a speaker with ACAMS (2019), Deloitte (2020), the Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium (2018), and the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) (2017).
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Introducing 2021 International Fellow - Sue Scott
Sue Scott is a business coach, mentor and risk management professional with over twenty years of experience working in financial services. Her much loved career at HSBC spans regulatory and financial crime transformation, risk advisory, policy development and financial crime training. Sue was Global Head of Anti-bribery & Corruption at HSBC as well as being responsible for co-ordinating across specialist areas for the development of global financial crime policies and employee training programmes.
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Introducing 2021 Fellow - Thomas Feray
Thomas Feray is a highly experienced investigator with extensive expertise in the public and private sectors.
His career with the French Gendarmerie brought him to serve in specialized serious crime units including the Versailles Serious Crime Unit (Division Financial crimes) and the Cayenne Serious Crime Unit as part of the special operation “Harpie Orpaillage” (operation aimed at fighting against the illegal gold mining in French Guyana). As part of his missions, Thomas Feray lead several complex investigations, related to Labour law crimes, counterfeiting of luxury goods and to the money laundering of the proceeds of these crimes.
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Introducing 2021 Fellow - Gregory Dellas
Gregory Dellas is the Chief Compliance and Innovation Officer at ECOMMBX, an Electronic Money Institution with a flexible FinTech platform for cross-border inter-bank transactions.
Whilst at the Bank of Cyprus, Gregory led the anti-money laundering (AML) risk management team within the International Banking Services Division and acted as the local compliance officer. His team was responsible for the onboarding of high-risk clients, the evaluation of large and complex transactions, as well as the review of existing and approval of new high-risk client relationships. In addition, Dellas was responsible for providing advice, guidance and specialized training to management and staff on AML and regulatory compliance matters.
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Introducing 2021 Fellow - Samantha Sheen
Sam is a financial crime prevention professional with over 15 years of practical experience in compliance. Sam's previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer and CCO and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions, both offshore and in Europe.
Sam also worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey heading up its enforcement activities. She subsequently set up the regulator’s first financial crime division, overseeing the examination of a variety of financial institutions and formulating the regulator’s ongoing supervisory activities across a diverse group of financial sector participants.
Sam continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on financial crime matters and was approved last year as an independent assessor for MONEYVAL, the European based body of the FATF.
Sam has extensive training experience in the field of financial crime prevention and corporate governance matters. She has most recently been involved in projects related to FenTech businesses, the use of RegTech to mitigate financial crime and list management relating to the screening of customers and third parties. Sam worked with ACAMS Europe as its first subject matter expert as its AML Director and subsequently ran her one advisory business, assisting Crypto, FinTech and AML/CFTvendor technology and outsourcing vendors on various financial crime prevention matters. Sam is recognised by ACAMS and the EIMF as a subject matter expert and has co-authored a number of online certificate courses, facilitated working groups on 4/5AMLD in Europe and assistance in the development of white papers.
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