Neela Das, Head of Innovation, Accuity
Neela Das leads Accuity’s global, multi-disciplinary innovation team with regional hubs in London, Paris, and Singapore. She is responsible for developing the innovation strategy, collaborating with the financial crime and payments business and technology teams across the globe. Her teams focus on driving ideas from concept to prototype quickly and efficiently using lean methodologies.
Innovation projects at Accuity have included everything from making use of maritime geolocation data to PoCs for distributed ledger technology. Neela currently has a particular focus on the implementation of AI, collaborating closely with clients to uncover pragmatic solutions to their problems.
Benjamin Davis, Chief Research Officer, Kharon
Ben heads the Kharon research and analysis team, which supports global institutions with highest caliber sanctions-related risk intelligence. Ben’s unparalleled expertise on the commercial and operational activities associated with sanctioned actors is built on over a decade of experience in the US government, academia, and private legal practice. Ben served as an analyst at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, as the US Treasury’s Financial Attaché to the Palestinian Authority based in Jerusalem, and as co-lead of the Iraq Threat Finance Cell in Baghdad. As a practicing attorney, Ben litigated a number of complex financial crime cases. He has taught numerous university courses on terrorism and international law issues.
Vincent Gaudel, Compliance Expert, Accuity
Vincent Gaudel is Compliance Expert of Accuity. His responsibilities involve monitoring worldwide regulatory trends to guide product development, functionality growth, and client expansions. Through his previous experiences as a compliance and risk management consultant and compliance officer, Vincent guides expertise in anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism. His contribution has successfully supported sales process and sanctions data teams through in-depth regulatory analysis.
Vincent received his Master in Political Sciences and International and European Relations at Linköping University, Sweden and holds M.Sc in International Business from INSEEC, France.
Victoria Lumb, Senior Vice President, Kharon
Victoria leads Kharon’s global sales team and operations. She brings to Kharon over a decade of global business development and management experience in AML data and software solutions. Victoria worked ten years at Accuity/Fircosoft building and leading the global sales team and has advised multiple start-ups on launching sales operations and go-to-market strategies.
Roger Matthews, Partner, Dentons
Roger is a partner in Dentons’ London office. He is a member of the International Trade, EU Regulatory, Brexit and Government Affairs practice groups.
Roger advises on international trade matters. He focuses in particular on international sanctions, export controls, customs/import controls and the commercial aspects of international trade. His practice ranges from advisory, strategic, contractual and compliance advice, through engaging with regulators, to investigations and contentions advice. He also advises on the trade implications of Brexit including how clients, both in the UK and abroad, can best prepare for it. His clients include businesses involved in international trade across all sectors, financial services institutions and government bodies.
In addition to many years in private practice, Roger has previously served in the HM Treasury sanctions section, as a national expert on sanctions and certain trade policies at the European Commission, and at the Bank of England/PRA. He therefore brings valuable insights to his advice on Brexit preparations and government engagement, as well as real expertise on sanctions and international trade matters.
Roger is a sanctions expert on the Law Society’s Money Laundering Task Force, and writes regularly on trade and sanctions matters.
Howard Mendelsohn, Chief Client Officer, Kharon
Howard works closely with business, compliance and legal professionals to strengthen programs and controls for managing financial crime risk. Howard has over two decades of experience in combatting illicit financial activity, in both the government and the private sector. Howard served at the US Treasury Department from 2001 to 2011, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Assistant Secretary (Acting) for Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Howard led Treasury’s intelligence functions, including oversight of analytical production, risk assessment, security, and strategic planning. Following his service at Treasury, Howard held leadership positions in Enterprise Compliance at PNC Financial Services Group. He is a recognized thought leader on Financial Crime matters and speaks regularly at conferences.
Thomas Mounty, Account Director, Kharon
Tom is based out of Kharon's London, UK office where he manages engagements across the insurance, maritime and legal sectors. Prior to joining Kharon, Tom managed a business development team at Deloitte and focused on developing new markets at Accuity/Fircosoft.
Simon Rybicki, Manager, Kharon
Markus Schulz, Global Head of Change Management Financial Crimes Compliance, ING
Markus Schulz is the Global Head of Change Management for Financial Crimes Compliance at ING. In his current role he looks after the transformation of the Bank’s financial crime control and organisational framework with a special focus on RegTech. He is a trained banker by trade and has over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and since the early 2000s dedicated to the fight against financial crime working for a number of global Financial Institutions.
He is passionate about modernising and developing the Financial Crime Compliance industry especially the future of surveillance. For this he is a very active member with a number of instrumental groups like the Wolfsberg Group, Egmont Group, Madison Group, Basel Institute on Governance, Insurance Europe, FATF, IACA and the European Commission just to mention some. He has initiated and lead various successful collective industry action groups around topics like Trade & Economic Sanctions, AML and FATCA as well as Ethics in Business.
Markus is currently the Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).
Joshua Shrager, Senior Vice President, Kharon
Josh works with Kharon’s key clients on strategic initiatives and partnership opportunities, he also leads Kharon's thought leadership and training programs. Prior to Kharon, Josh was a director at data analytics firm Quid, where he managed east coast and Europe client relations operations as well as directed company wide client engagement strategy and implementation. Previously, Josh served in the US Department of the Treasury as the Deputy Financial Attaché to Saudi Arabia as well as co-lead of the Iraq Threat Finance Cell in Baghdad. He also was a US Department of State Foreign Service Officer, with postings in Mexico and The Gambia, where he oversaw the embassy’s Public Affairs office.