I'm a director in the financial crime and investigations team. I support clients with anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, bribery, corruption, and fraud issues. I initially trained as a Chartered Accountant and now have over 20 years of professional experience both in consulting and in industry, including five years based in the Middle East. I have also completed a 12-month secondment to the UK financial services regulator.
- I work closely with clients and legal counsel to assess and remediate compliance frameworks or to perform investigations and lookbacks in response to identified issues. My recent experience includes:
- supporting a Skilled Person s166 review for a UK bank and an equivalent review for an offshore regulator
- drafting financial crime policies and procedures for a newly regulated entity
performing financial crime risk assessments
- reviewing the Know Your Customer framework for a global bank subject to a US monitorship
- assisting a global bank investigating potential non-compliance with US sanctions regulations, in cooperation with multiple US agencies
investigating global financial crime schemes, such as the Russian Laundromat, 1MDB, and the Panama Papers, to identify and mitigate risk in the customer base of a global bank
- proactive leverage of financial crime typologies and themes to identify and mitigate risk in the customer base of a global bank
- reviewing and assessing the ABC compliance framework for a UK company that was under a deferred prosecution agreement with the Serious Fraud Office.
Outside of work, I love to travel, with the Angkor Temples in Cambodia and safari on the Serengeti in Tanzania ranking as my favourite locations to date. In London, I'm an avid theatregoer.
