Cheryl E. Bazard

Principal, Cheryl E. Bazard Law Chambers

 

Cheryl Bazard is an Attorney with Cheryl E. Bazard Law Chambers. She was called to the Bars of England and Wales and the Bahamas in 1991.

From 2002 to 2005, Ms. Bazard was Regional Director of Compliance for FirstCaribbean International Bank and created a compliance program for the 16 countries in which FirstCaribbean operated.

Her experience has landed her speaking engagements at major financial conferences in The Bahamas, Florida and Vienna, Austria and she has conducted anti-money laundering training for most major Bahamian retail financial institutions as well as offshore financial institutions and the Central Bank.

Ms. Bazard is a contributing writer to the newly released Anti-Money Laundering: International Law and Practice.

 

She has held various legal offices including Counsel in the Office of the Attorney-General and Acting Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate.

She holds International Diplomas in Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance with distinction from the International Compliance Association in London.

Her professional awards include the Bahamas Financial Services Board Annual Professional Excellence Award and the Bahamas' Compliance Officer of the Year.

Ms. Bazard is the Founding President of the Bahamas Association of Compliance Officers, Ethics Committee Member of the Bahamas Bar Association, Disciplinary Committee Member of the Bahamas Securities Commission and Tutor at the Eugene Dupuch Law School.

 

Jack A. Blum

Of Counsel, Baker Hostetler

 

Jack Blum has significant experience and focuses his practice in the areas of bank and securities firm compliance, congressional investigations, international financial crime, money laundering and offshore tax evasion.

 

Mr. Blum served for many years as a United States Senate staff attorney, where he was involved in numerous well-known investigations, including the investigation of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, General Noriega's drug trafficking and Lockheed's overseas bribes. Positions he has held with the Senate include: Assistant Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly (1965-1972); Associate Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1972-1976); and Special Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1987-1989).

 

Mr. Blum often testifies about money laundering and tax evasion before congressional committees, serves as a qualified expert to domestic governmental agencies and provides anti-money laundering training to domestic and foreign governmental agencies.

 

Mr. Blum is the co-author of "Financial Havens, Banking Secrecy & Money Laundering," UNDCP Technical Series, United Nations, 1998. In addition, his articles have been published in a number of books, including Transnational Crime in the Americas ("Offshore Money") (Tom Farrer ed., 1999), and he is a former Senior Editor of Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal.

 

Mr. Blum also speaks at events held throughout the United States and the world. In July 2007, Mr. Blum was the keynote speaker at the "Corporate Accountability, Limited Liability and the Future of Globalization" conference, hosted by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy of the University of London.

 

John Boaden

Director of International Operations, Verasys, LLC

 

Mr. Boaden is based in Texas. He specializes in asset location and recovery, complex fraud investigation, business intelligence, intellectual property and trademark protection issues; and corporate and criminal investigations, litigation support and due diligence.

 

Background

• Thirty-year veteran of British Police Service, responsible for investigating major international fraud and homicide inquiries;
• Expertise in solving high-value fraud cases derived from six years assignment with the Grand Cayman Royal Police Commercial Crimes Branch;
• Specialty in litigation support and testimony in high-profile cases in the USA, UK and Cayman Islands concerning financial transactions routed through Cayman and other offshore jurisdictions;
• Ten years experience running independent investigative and security agency based in South Florida;
• Multi-jurisdictional liaisons with law enforcement authorities around the globe resulted in scores of prosecutions worldwide in cases such as the 1991 worldwide closing of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) .

He is an in-demand speaker on white-collar crime in the Caribbean for Certified Fraud Examiners, Florida Association of Licensed Investigators, FBI Academy seminar in Quantico, Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants and international fraud/KYC.

 

Peter Broadhurst

Senior Partner, Broadhurst Barristers

 

Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation before all Courts and Administrative Tribunals. E-Commerce, Corporate Local and International Transactions; Estates and Trusts; Time Share, Residential and Commercial Real Estate and Development; Securities, Financings and Mutual Funds; insolvency and asset recovery; asset and privacy preservation.

 

While practicing in Canada, Mr. Broadhurst maintained a BV rating by Martindale-Hubbell indicating an exemplary reputation and well established practice habits. During his practice years in Canada he represented several Canadian Banks in security and asset recovery, receivership and insolvency matters and acted as counsel to several of the major accounting firms with respect to receivership appointments.

 

Admitted to Bar: 1971, Ontario; 1988 and 1994, Grand Court of the Cayman Islands

 

Education: Queen's University (B.A., 1965), University of Toronto (LL.B., 1969)

 

Associations and Memberships:

 

Founding Partner of Broadhurst Barristers, The Law Society of the Cayman Islands (Council Member), The Law Society of Upper Canada, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, The Cayman Islands Company Managers Association (Director), Notary Public, Ontario and The Cayman Islands, Canadian Bar Association (former member), Peel County Law Association (Director, 1981-1984, former member), The Lawyers Club (former member).

 

Paul Byles

Managing Director, Focus Corporate Services & Consulting

 

Paul Byles is former Head of Policy of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and a former Director of Regulatory & Economic Consulting at Deloitte in the Cayman Islands. He has worked in the financial services industry in the Cayman Islands for over 15 years.

 

His compliance experience includes providing services to private sector institutions across a range of financial services sectors as well as at the government level.

 

He is author of the book entitled 'Inside Offshore' which looks at the perception of regulation in the offshore world with a focus on the Cayman Islands.

 

He is also founder and publisher of the Cayman Financial Review an offshore financial services magazine and the Cayman Observer, a weekly business newspaper.

 

Paul is also a part-time lecturer for offshore financial services and regulation courses at the University College of the Cayman Islands.

 

He holds a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics (LSE). He is currently Managing Director of Focus Consulting, a consulting firm based in the Cayman Islands.

 

Carlos B. Castillo

Attorney, Seidman Prewitt DiBello & Lopez, PA

 

Carlos B. Castillo practices in the following areas of law: Commercial Litigation; Arbitration; White Collar Defense. He was Admitted in 1991 in Florida. He obtained a BA, with high honors, in 1988 from Florida International University. Law School: University of Miami, J.D., magna cum laude, 1991.

 

John D. Cowan

Managing Director, 6fusion International Limited

 

Mr. Cowan is a co-founder of 6fusion and an eight-year veteran of business and product development within the IT and Telecommunications sectors. He is a graduate of Queen's University at Kingston. A Canadian citizen, his tenure includes success developing new business during the Bermuda telecommunications deregulation period of 1999-2000 as well as developing and launching new telecommunications products and services. Mr. Cowan is credited as 6fusion's business model visionary.

 

Matthew Crawford

Associate, Maples and Calder

 

Mr. Crawford has broad commercial litigation, insolvency and contentious regulatory experience, particularly in the financial services sector. He regularly advises in relation to disputes and inquiries involving financial institutions and investment vehicles, including with respect to distressed investment funds.

 

Matthew joined Maples and Calder in 2006. He previously worked for Freshfields in London and Russell McVeagh in New Zealand.

 

He was educated at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1996, and Worcester College, Oxford, 2000.

 

He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1997, as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2002 and as an attorney-at-law in the Cayman Islands in 2006.

 

Christopher Culp, Ph.D

Adjunct Professor of Finance, University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business

 

Christopher L. Culp is a Senior Advisor at Compass Lexecon (a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc.), an Adjunct Professor of Finance at The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, the Swiss equivalent of an adjunct professor at Universität Bern in the Institut für Finanzmanagement, and Director of Risk Management Consulting Services, Inc.

 

He teaches graduate degree courses on structured finance, structured insurance, and derivatives, and provides consulting services in these same areas both for advisory purposes and in the support of litigation.

 

Dr. Culp is the author of four books -- Structured Finance & Insurance (2006), Risk Transfer: Derivatives in Theory & Practice (2004), The ART of Risk Management (2002), and The Risk Management Process (2001) – and the co-editor of two books – Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Consequences of the Failure of Enron and Other Major Corporations (co-edited with William Niskanen, 2003), and Corporate Hedging in Theory & Practice (co-edited with Merton Miller, 1999).

 

He has published numerous articles, and is on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, the Journal of Risk Finance, Futures Industry magazine, and FMA Online.

 

Culp holds a Ph.D. in finance from The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.

 

Edward H. Davis, Jr.

Founding Shareholder, Astigarraga Davis

 

Mr. Davis focuses his practice on the representation of corporate victims of fraud throughout the Americas and the Caribbean. In the course of his practice, Davis conducts financial fraud investigations, prosecutes civil claims for fraud, and pursues misappropriated assets. As might be expected, Davis' practice has a strong international component. The nature of money flow today is such that stolen funds can be instantaneously transferred. Davis has pursued such funds in jurisdictions across the globe ranging from Japan, to the Bahamas, to Latin America to Liechtenstein.

 

The unraveling of complex fraud scheme requires both knowledge and experience. Mr. Davis is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Member of the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. He is asked often to lecture on the subject of financial fraud. He has spoken to groups ranging from the global fraud investigation groups of one of the world's largest banks, to associations of certified public accountants, to investigative agencies.

 

Because of his knowledge in unraveling frauds, Mr. Davis also counsels clients in fraud prevention and emergency fraud response. He has advised bank audit committees and other corporate groups in such subjects.

 

His experience in pursuing misappropriated funds includes cases of public corruption. Mr. Davis has led teams of lawyers acting on behalf of a government seeking to undo fraudulent transactions in public projects.

 

Mr. Davis' knowledge in financial transaction originates from years of representing banks and other financial institutions in creditors' rights and other litigation, including disputes over wire transfers, letter of credit, forged checks and other issues. In the course of representing lenders he has prosecuted claims against borrowers and third parties for fraudulent transfers, commercial loan enforcement, enforcement of judgments, including foreign judgments, and foreclosure of mortgages and other security. He continues to practice actively in this area as a complement to the firm's financial fraud practice.

 

Admitted to practice in Florida and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, he has served as Chairman of the International Litigation and Arbitration Committee and on the Executive Council of the International Section of the Florida Bar. He is a member of the Inter-American Law Committee of the International Section of Law and Practice of the American Bar Association; Business Crime Committee of the International Bar Association; the Bankruptcy Bar of the Southern District of Florida; the International Bank Operations Association; and the Florida International Bankers Association. Under his leadership, the firm is also a member of the ICC Commercial Crimes Services Fraudnet Network and the Florida Bankers' Association.

 

Alex Erskine

Managing Partner, Appleby (BVI)

 

Alex Erskine is the Managing Partner of the BVI Office of Appleby law firm. He practices in the areas of corporate and commercial law, specializing in advising on structuring and operating investment vehicles including mutual funds, hedge funds, unit trusts, partnerships, and close ended funds. He advises on securities offerings, listings, investment banking, asset management issues, brokerage, custody and financial services generally. Mr. Erskine also specializes in providing advice on Bermuda's Investment Business Act which regulates the provision of Investment Services in and from Bermuda.

He joined the Appleby group in 1999. Prior to that he was Deputy Legal and Compliance Director of the asset management division of UBS AG.

Mr. Erskine was educated in Ghana and England and studied law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduating in 1986 with a LL.B.Hons. He passed his professional exams in 1987 and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1996, the Bermuda Bar in 2006 and the British Virgin Islands Bar in 2007.

He was born in Accra, Ghana and speaks fluent Akan.

 

Michele Fernandez

Chief Compliance Officer, Banco Internacional de Costa Rica

 

Michele Fernandez is the Chief Compliance Officer of Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, S.A., a bank wholly owned by the two largest commercial banks in Costa Rica. 

 

In this capacity, she is responsible for the bank's Compliance and Anti- Money Laundering program. Her responsibilities span all the offices of the bank's compliance function including money laundering and regulatory risk as well as operational risks related to this effort.  She is also responsible for the development of appropriate policies and procedures, conducting full and adequate training for the bank's offices throughout Central America and the development of advanced monitoring programs.

 

Prior to joining Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, Ms. Fernandez held positions at American Express Travel Related Services and at American Express Bank International.

 

Ms. Fernandez is a graduate of Florida International University with a degree in Business Administration.  

 

Joseph Field

Senior International Partner, Withers LLP

 

Joseph Field represents substantial international families on structuring their affairs and estate planning. He also advises financial institutions with respect to the establishment of international trust companies and a wide variety of financial services, particularly with respect to life insurance.

 

He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on legal issues facing international families and family offices.

 

He is Editor of Private Wealth Management, a directory for the Private Banking industry; Co-Author of Asset Protection Trusts with Milton Grundy and John Briggs; Editor of Investing Through Life Insurance, a book for the International Tax Planning Association; and Editor of Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts (with Simon Jennings and Anthony Travers) a book for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

 

He is a member of the American Bar Association, California Bar Association, The Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners, District of Columbia Bar Association, and New York Bar Association.

 

Anibal Figueroa

Legal Advisor, Superintendencia de Bancos (Panama)

 

[No resume available].

 

Burke Files

Principal, Financial Examinations & Evaluations, Inc.

 

Mr. Files is a widely recognized expert in the area of financial investigations and due diligence. He has authored numerous articles as well as books on the subject. Additionally, he has presented over 20 seminars on financial investigation subjects.

 

Financial Examinations & Evaluations, Inc. was founded by Mr. Files in 1991 and conducts investigations in the United States, Eastern Europe, Central and South America and China.

 

Before founding FE&E, Inc. Mr. Files was a partner in a regional consulting firm specializing in business, financial and securities consulting. He also served as the Director of Corporate Finance for an investment banking company. Additionally, Mr. Files was a commodities specialist for Oppenheimer/Rouse.

 

Mr. Files has written extensively and been quoted in many publications. Many times he is the quoted source for articles regarding financial investigation and due diligence. Among the publications in which he has been quoted are Chief Executive Officer, The American Southwest Quarterly, Offshore Journal, Marketarian and Market Advisors, Aegis e-Journal, John Cooke Fraud Report, Police and Security News, The Bodyguard - United Kingdom, Police Magazine, The ASLET Trainer, El Cosario, European Business, and NPR Market Watch.

 

In addition to numerous published articles, Mr. Files is the author of 'Due Diligence for the Financial Professional', 'Counterfeit Identification', and 'Background Investigation – Hire in haste, Repent in Receivership'.

 

Rodney M. Gallagher, OBE

Partner, Gaffney, Gallagher & Philip LLC

 

Rodney Gallagher joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1974. Prior to that he had experience with both a consulting engineering firm and a leading firm of economic consultants, working in East Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. In 1984, Mr. Gallagher was made a partner with the London firm of Coopers & Lybrand with particular responsibility for work in the Caribbean, having been involved with financial, industrial and economic development projects in the Caribbean for ODA, the EEC, USAID and other international agencies, residing in the region from 1979 to 1986.

 

With a background in economics and financial analysis, Mr. Gallagher has carried out a number of financial sector assignments including projects for the UK Government. In 1989/90 this work culminated in a personal appointment to undertake a review of the financial services sector in Anguilla, Cayman, BVI, TCI and Montserrat for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The report was published by HMSO and laid before Parliament in January 1990. In October of that year Mr. Gallagher was appointed as the Financial Services Adviser to the Secretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, based at the British High Commission, Bridgetown, Barbados. Mr. Gallagher resigned from the London partnership of Coopers & Lybrand, now Price Waterhouse Coopers, in 1995.

 

Over the last twelve years a number of major assignments have been completed, including the clean-up of the offshore sector in Montserrat and Anguilla, the reform of the offshore insurance sector in BVI, and the development of anti-money laundering and anti-fraud initiatives in a number of Caribbean states, including Antigua, Grenada, St Lucia and Belize. Between 1992-4 Mr. Gallagher played a key role in the formation of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), whose Secretariat is now based in Trinidad, and was responsible for the initial feasibility study and drafting the Kingston Declaration. Mr. Gallagher has been closely involved with a number of important, international law enforcement operations in the region, addressing the threat from both Colombian and Russian organized crime and helped establish the joint US-UK White Collar Crime Investigation Team (WCCIT), serving as a member of the WCCIT Oversight Committee from its inception. During 2001, Mr. Gallagher was the sole Commissioner on a Commission of Inquiry into public corruption related to the provision of telecommunications at the new airport terminal in the BVI.

 

In June 1998, Mr. Gallagher was awarded an OBE for services to HMG in the Caribbean and retired from service with the UK Government in December 2001. In March 2002, Mr. Gallagher was appointed as the External Commissioner on the board of the newly formed Financial Services Commission, British Virgin Islands.

 

Michael Gillard

Freelance Journalist

 

Michael Gillard has reported on tax havens for newspapers and TV documentaries over many years and has visited most of the tax havens in Europe and the Caribbean in an often fruitless effort to follow paper trails. He has written about tax havens for the Observer, the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday newspapers and Private Eye magazine, as well as produced radio and TV documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four, all in the United Kingdom.

 

His book on Britain's biggest ever tax scheme promoters was subsequently used as a reference book by the biggest-ever British tax fraudster.

 

Daniel M. Glosband

Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP

 

Dan Glosband is a partner in the firm's Business Law Department and a member of its Financial Restructuring Practice. Mr. Glosband's primary areas of practice are insolvency and reorganization. He represents secured and unsecured creditors, committees and debtors in workouts and proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Glosband has acted as an adviser to the U.S. State Department and the American Law Institute on international insolvency projects.

 

Mr. Glosband recently represented the lead investors in the proposed Chapter 11 plan of US Airways and its merger with America West and the fiduciaries for the employee stock plan in the Delta case. He also represents CNA Insurance, one of the main insurers of W.R. Grace in its asbestos-driven Chapter 11 case. Other recent engagements included the representation of buyers of assets from debtors in reorganization proceedings in Virginia, Michigan and Ontario.

In addition, Mr. Glosband recently served as lead counsel to Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Chapter 11 proceedings in the District of Massachusetts, completed the successful reorganization of GC Companies (General Cinema) in its Chapter 11 proceedings in Delaware and was lead counsel to MHI Shipbuilding LLC (the Fore River Shipyard) in Chapter 11 proceedings pending in the District of Massachusetts. He has represented the joint owners of a nuclear plant in reorganization proceedings of other owners and has also represented lenders and debtors in major real estate, retail and technology oriented reorganizations; parties to significant contracts with debtors in reorganization; purchasers of assets from debtors in insolvency proceedings, and defendants in complex Bankruptcy Court litigation.

 

Mr. Glosband is a former chairman of the Bankruptcy Law Committees for both the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations and is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Bankruptcy Committee, where he was chairman of the International Bankruptcy Subcommittee.

In addition, Mr. Glosband is official liaison of the Creditors Rights and Insolvency Committee of the International Bar Association to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law project on Cross-Border Insolvency and its ongoing Insolvency Working Group. He served as one of the primary draftsmen of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. Mr. Glosband also served as one of two primary draftsmen (with Professor Jay Westbrook of the University of Texas Law School) for proposed Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, "Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases."

 

Gregory S. Grossman

Founding Shareholder, Astigarraga Davis

 

Gregory Grossman's practice focuses on creditors' rights, including bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, restructurings, and litigation involving the Uniform Commercial Code. He is admitted to all Florida state courts, the 11th and 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts.

 

Mr. Grossman regularly represents institutional lenders regarding non-performing loans including negotiating and documenting workout agreements and enforcing loan documentation through litigation. Regarding workout negotiations and documentation, Mr. Grossman has represented lenders in restructurings of loans in a variety of industries including material handling, restaurant and hospitality, real estate development, motor vehicle, aviation, export/import, manufacturing, retailing, and wholesaling. Regarding loan enforcement litigation, he has substantial experience in all aspects of creditor's remedies including attachment, replevin, garnishment, executions, foreclosure, fraudulent transfer litigation, and proceedings supplementary to execution. Regarding bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, Mr. Grossman has represented lenders in all facets of reorganizations and liquidations including stay relief litigation, cash collateral disputes, bad faith dismissals, avoidance actions, and plan confirmation disputes. He has also represented and opposed insolvency trustees appointed in foreign countries to marshal assets in the United States through state and bankruptcy procedures. Grossman recently filed the first Chapter 15 Bankruptcy in the State of Florida when he successfully obtained "foreign main case" recognition of insolvency proceedings for a failed financial institution in Barbados. Regarding Uniform Commercial Code issues, Mr. Grossman has counseled and litigated cases involving the sale of goods, checks and electronic transfers, personal property leases, letters of credit, and security interest disputes.

 

He is a high honors graduate in finance from the University of Florida, where he also earned his J.D. with honors, Order of the Coif, and was a member of the Moot Court Board. Mr. Grossman has made numerous speeches on creditors' rights, enforcement of judgments (both domestic and foreign), assorted bankruptcy topics, workouts, and secured transactions. Prior to private practice, Mr. Grossman clerked for a United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Middle District of Florida.

 

Shaun Hassett, CAMS

Vice President, Cicada Corp.

 

Over the past 15 years, Mr. Hassett has regularly consulted with Regulatory Compliance/Risk Management professionals and Legal Counsel at leading financial institutions, securities firms, insurance companies, corporations and vendors to the financial community to help develop and implement systems designed to: reduce operational and regulatory risks; employ higher know your customer standards; and, comply with regulations such as the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the USA PATRIOT Act and EU Directives as well as those set forth by the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

 

Similarly, Mr. Hassett also works with cash management, treasury and back-room payment operations professionals at global, regional and community financial institutions, other financial and corporate payment originators and with vendors to those markets to integrate Accuity's Payment Solutions to improve overall payment processing efficacy.

 

Mr. Hassett is a member of ACAMS, is married and resides in suburban Chicago.

 

George R. Harper

Partner, Harper Meyer

 

George ("Rocky") Harper is recognized as a leading attorney in the field of Latin American-U.S. business transactions. International legal projects with which he has had significant experience include operation and finance aviation equipment leases, foreign debt renegotiations, asset based lending, distribution agreements, franchising, licensing, and commercial transactions.

 

Formerly the Chairman of the International Law Section of the Florida Bar, Mr. Harper received his B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Law Review. He was named to the Hispanic Business Magazine Legal Elite list and is a recipient of the Inter-American Law Review Lawyer of the Americas award.

 

Active in civic affairs, he has served on The Salvation Army Advisory Board, as President of the University of Miami Alumni Association, and as Chairman of the Board of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.

 

A Council member of the Inter-American Bar Association and a former member of the ABA Advisory Council of the Latin America Law Initiative, Mr. Harper has significant experience in the area of Foreign Assets Control Regulations.

 

Richard J. Hay

International Tax Principal, Stikeman Elliott

 

Richard Hay is an international tax principal and the head of the London Private Capital Group. The London Private Capital Group advises banks and private clients on tax, commercial, regulatory and political risk aspects of international estate planning structures for high net worth families, particularly those in Canada, Latin America and Europe. The group also advises governments, financial institutions and private clients on financial regulation and the information exchange initiatives conducted by the OECD, the EU, the FATF and the IMF.

 

Mr. Hay is Co-Chairman of the London based International Committee of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Mr. Hay is also a member of the International Bar Association, the International Tax Planning Association and the Law Society of England and Wales.

 

Based in London since 1987, Mr. Hay's professional career has been conducted in London, Singapore, New York and Toronto.

Prior to entering practice in 1987, Mr. Hay was Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario (1979-80) and lectured in International Taxation and Corporate Law on the Faculties of Law at the National University of Singapore (1984-87) and the University of Ottawa (1981-84).

 

He is Admitted to the Bar in Ontario, New York and England & Wales.

 

Brendan Hewson

Principal, Global Risk Advisory Services

 

Brendan Hewson is the Principal of Global Risk Advisory Services (GRA Services).

 

Mr. Hewson is a well-known and much requested speaker on international financial crime, at business and fraud conferences around the world. Prior speaking engagements have included presentations to the Institute of Chartered Accountants , The Law Society, North Carolina World Trade Association Conference, Asia-Pacific Financial Crime Conference and Exhibition, Institute of International Banking Law and Practice, government agencies in the United States , Southern Africa , and Thailand. He has also given lectures to banking organizations in Singapore, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Russia, the United States, Grand Cayman, Trinidad & Tobago and The British Virgin Islands (BVI).

 

He is currently a member of The Group of Experts on Commercial Fraud for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICTRAL).He is the author of "Seizure of Confidential Material". He is the founder of the International Financial Fraud Convention, an annual event dedicated to bringing together representatives from the financial services industry of established and emerging economies for the purpose of developing ways to prevent international financial fraud.

 

Prior to establishing Global Risk Advisory Services, Mr. Hewson was, for more than ten years, the Executive responsible for International Corporate Security for one of the largest global financial institutions. He managed staff located in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. His responsibilities included the prevention and detection of international financial crime for operations in more than 40 countries and over 2oo countries with banking relationships. He was also responsible for managing the bank's international physical security operations together with international travel security.

 

Prior to this, he was an officer with the Company Fraud Department, New Scotland Yard, London. He served as a police officer for nearly 30 years. He was involved in the investigation of many high-profile cases and his success has been recognized both by the judiciary and other agencies.

 

David Holukoff

Managing Director, Kroll Associates UK Ltd.

 

Mr. Holukoff has led numerous complex and high-profile engagements in the Caribbean region, specializing in offshore banking and financial institution insolvency matters. He is an authority in identifying fraudulent investment schemes and has acted on behalf of creditors and other stakeholders in multi-jurisdictional insolvency proceedings.

 

He has extensive experience in business restructuring, insolvency, asset-tracing and litigating support. Prior to joining Kroll, Mr. Holukoff worked for more than 10 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Grenada and Canada.

 

He is a Chartered Accountant and a Grenadian citizen, living in Grenada.

 

Stewart Kasner

Partner, Baker & McKenzie

 

Mr. Kasner is a partner in the Miami office's Tax Practice Group. His practice is focused primarily in the areas of international taxation, international trusts and international estates.

 

Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, Mr. Kasner was a partner at a boutique law firm in Coral Gables, Fla., providing tax advice to both foreign and domestic high net worth individuals with respect to their inbound and outbound activities. He began his career working in the Miami office of a national law firm, concentrating in the area of domestic taxation.

 

Mr. Kasner has advised foreign clients as to the U.S. tax issues and consequences relating to their international estates, offshore trusts, U.S. sitused assets including U.S. real property interests, closely held companies both engaged and not engaged in U.S. trades or businesses, gifts to U.S. family members, U.S. reporting requirements, portfolio debt instruments, withholding taxes, international reorganizations, liquidations, and reporting requirements of qualified and nonqualified intermediaries. In addition, Mr. Kasner has advised domestic clients as to the U.S. tax issues and consequences relating to their offshore corporate and trust activities, information reporting compliance, investments in offshore hedge funds, offshore life insurance and annuity products, treaty benefits, taxation of foreign trusts, their grantors and beneficiaries, entity classification elections and foreign tax credits. Mr. Kasner's experience also extends to planning and implementing international reorganizations and liquidations, reporting requirements of qualified and nonqualified intermediaries, drafting offshore trust instruments and international wills, as well as assignments of intellectual property rights.

 

Martin S. Kenney

Principal, Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors

 

Prior to founding Martin Kenney & Co., Solicitors, Mr. Kenney was a partner at Bermans, the English firm of Solicitors. Subsequently, Mr. Kenney co-founded the New York law firm Kenney, Becker, Solicitors LLP and Interclaim, a global asset recovery concern.

 

He is a specialist investigative and litigation lawyer in multi jurisdictional economic crime and international serious fraud, and has acted for a large number of substantial clients such as international banks, insurance companies and other private and governmental institutions. He is a practising Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts Civil Proceedings) of the Supreme Courts of England & Wales and of the Eastern Caribbean at the BVI, a non practising Barrister & Solicitor of British Columbia, a licensed foreign legal consultant in the State of New York, and a Registered Lawyer in Ireland.

 

Mr. Kenney holds an LL.M (International Business Law) from University College, London, and is a member of numerous professional societies. He has published and lectured on money laundering, legal and ethical restraints on the conduct of private investigations, and international concealed asset recovery. Mr. Kenney is widely regarded as a ground breaker in the use of pre emptive remedies in response to global economic crime to uproot bank secrets and freeze hidden assets simultaneously in multiple jurisdictions. He has been featured in articles and broadcasts of media outlets in many countries.

 

Offshore Alert of Miami has said that Mr. Kenney is "one of the world's leading authorities on the legal aspects of freezing and seizing assets in multiple jurisdictions." The Canadian Lawyer Magazine (Toronto) has said that he "…just may be – considering his Robin Hood reputation and his bulldog legal tactics – one of the most determined and trusted lawyers around." The Financial Times (US Edition) has called him a "top international asset chaser."

 

In June 1999, Mr. Kenney was appointed to the Working Group on Government Corruption of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London, which issued proposals for the reform of the law on abuse of power and government corruption in the United Kingdom. Mr. Kenney is an active member of Committee W (Business Crime) and Committee J (Insolvency and Creditors' Rights) of the International Bar Association. Mr. Kenney is also the exclusive member of Fraudnet for the BVI, a specialist network of leading fraud and business crime lawyers of the Commercial Crime Services Division of the International Chamber of Commerce.

 

Bernd H. Klose

Principal, Rechtsanwalt Bernd H. Klose

 

Mr. Klose's law firm was established in 1986 and is domiciled in Friedrichsdorf/Taunus, Germany. The firm specializes in advising creditors in insolvency cases and the winding up of insolvency proceedings. Another area of work is representation of injured parties in international fraud lawsuits and capital investment offenses with the objective of finding the perpetrators and repatriating the lost assets. In addition, receivership proceedings in the entire Rhine-Main region are wound up at the law office. In addition, there is the general department in which dunning procedures and lawsuits are handled and which is also available as a back office for the other departments.

 

Mr. Klose, Attorney-at-law, is the German representative of Fraudnet, a global association of leading attorneys in the area of anti-fraud, organized under the umbrella of the International Chamber of Paris /Commercial Crime Services.

 

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, based in Austin, Texas. Mr. Klose regularly gives presentations at diverse institutions on the legal principles and practice in his area of work. The Institute for Risk Management at the Steinbeis-College has appointed him as a part-time teacher for their MBA-degree program Risk & Fraud Management.

 

Kenneth M. Krys, CA, CFA, CBV, CFE, CAMS

Managing Director, Krys and Associates Cayman Ltd.

 

Kenneth Krys is the Managing Director of Krys & Associates Cayman Ltd., and liquidator of a number of high profile and complex cross-border engagements. He is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Chartered Business Valuator and has over 15 years experience in corporate recovery, forensic accounting and regulatory compliance matters in the Caribbean (including Bermuda, BVI, Jamaica and Belize).

 

Mr. Krys  has been a member of the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants since coming to the Cayman Islands in 1991 and is also a member of the CISPA Insolvency Practitioners Sub-Committee. He was elected to the Cayman Islands Compliance Association in 2000 and has served as Vice-President of CICA since 2004. In addition, he is a member of the local chapters of the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, as well as a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

 

Outside interests include being on the board of Directors of both Junior Achievement Cayman Islands and the National Council of Voluntary Organizations, and involvement in Mentoring Cayman.

 

David Marchant

Publisher, OffshoreAlert

 

David Marchant, owner of KYC News Inc., which publishes OffshoreAlert, is an investigative journalist who has exposed numerous international, white-collar crimes during his career, leading to eight libel lawsuits against him and/or OffshoreAlert in the USA, the Cayman Islands, Grenada, Canada, and Panama. He has never lost a libel action, never paid a cent in legal fees to plaintiffs and never published an apology, correction, or retraction about any of the articles being complained about.

 

Eleven officers belonging to three different plaintiff groups were subsequently criminally charged with fraud and/or money laundering following exposes by OffshoreAlert. These include Marc Harris, who is currently serving a 17-year prison sentence in the USA after being convicted of money laundering and tax evasion; four former officers of the First International Bank of Grenada, Douglas Ferguson, Robert Skirving, Rita Regale, and Laurent Barnabe, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in a $160 million investment fraud; and five former insiders in the Imperial Consolidated Group, Jared Brook, Lincoln Fraser, Nicholas Fraser, William Godley, and Robert Raven, who were due to go on trial in the United Kingdom in March, 2008, charged with involvement in an investment fraud that caused losses totaling more than $400 million to investors and creditors. A fifth former insider of FIBG, Van Arthur Brink, died while awaiting trial in Oregon.

 

Mr. Marchant is regularly referenced for financial crime stories by the world's media, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Miami Herald, Business Week, Forbes magazine, CBS News, Bloomberg Business News, The Times of London, the Independent on Sunday, and BBC Radio. Most recently, he was interviewed about his exposure of the First International Bank of Grenada group for a financial crime program entitled 'American Greed' which was due to air on CNBC on March 26, 2008.

 

His work has been referenced in two U. S. Congressional reports, namely 1994's 'Wishful Thinking: A World View of Insurance Solvency Regulation' by the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House of Representatives and 2001's 'Correspondent Banking: A Gateway to Money Laundering' by the US Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' and two books on financial crime, namely 2003's 'The Sink: Crime, Terror, and Dirty Money in the Offshore World' by Jeffrey Robinson and 2004's 'Crime School: Money Laundering: True Crime Meets The World Of Business And Finance' by Chris Mathers.

 

Additionally, upon invitation, Marchant wrote the money-laundering chapter of a training book for financial journalists called 'Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters' that was published in 2003 by Columbia University Press, the publishing arm of Columbia University, in New York.

 

Mr. Marchant began covering offshore finance while working in Bermuda from 1990-96. He left Bermuda in 1996 and started OffshoreAlert in Miami, Florida. In his career, he has written for publications in England, Wales, Bermuda and the United States, including the Gwent Gazette, Bournemouth Evening Echo, Western Daily Press and Lloyd's List/Insurance Day newspapers in the UK, The Royal Gazette and Bermuda Sun newspapers in Bermuda and National Underwriter insurance magazine in the United States.

 

Dr. Hans J. Marschdorf

CEO, Exposure Management Ltd.

 

Hans Marschdorf has worked as a financial investigator for the past 14 years. His experience includes a position as practice leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers' European investigations practice and, in the more distant past, as audit partner with KPMG in Canada and Germany. He was involved in merger negotiations of PwC on national level in Switzerland and in the merger of the international firm.

 

Since 1999, he has run his own forensic investigations practice specializing on international fraud investigations. Some of the larger cases handled or overseen by him include investigations into cigarette smuggling and counterfeiting in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, investigations on behalf of a Caribbean government into corruption and procurement fraud pertaining to major construction projects, an investigation on behalf of the Swiss General Prosecutor's office in conjunction with the Italian government in a case of bribery of a former prime minister of Italy. He also participated as one of the lead partners in the investigation into dormant assets deposited in Swiss banks by victims of NAZI persecution.

 

Dr. Marshdorf, a dual citizen of Canada and Germany, is resident in Central Ontario. He holds a Ph.D in Business Administration from the University of Cologne, Germany, is licenced to practice accounting in the European Union and holds the designation of Certified Fraud Examiner in the USA.

 

He has published a number of articles on aspects of fraud investigation, economic analysis of insolvency law and international taxation. He serves as member of the Advisory Board to the Institute Risk & Fraud Management of Steinbeis Hochschule, a Berlin Business School. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Huntsville Suzuki School of Music.

 

Angela Mele, CAMS, MICA

Compliance Officer, Bodden Compliance Services Ltd.

 

Angela Mele has 12 years in international financial services, having worked at Dundee Leeds Management Services, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and, more recently, with Citi Hedge Fund Services (Cayman) Ltd., formerly BISYS Hedge Fund Services (Cayman) Limited. On December 3, 2007, she joined Bodden Compliance Services Ltd., which is based in the Cayman Islands and provides risk, compliance and anti-money laundering consulting to regulated firms in the Caribbean.

 

Ms. Mele chaired the Caribbean Task Force for the ACAMS for two years, and she has been Secretary to, and Chair of, the Educational Subcommittee of the Cayman Islands Fund Administrators Association since February 2006. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, holds an International Diploma in Compliance, a Member of the International Compliance Association and ACAMS and is a former teacher.

 

Daniel J. Mitchell

Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

 

Daniel J. Mitchell is a top expert on tax reform and supply-side tax policy. Mr. Mitchell is a strong advocate of a flat tax and international tax competition. Prior to joining Cato, Mr. Mitchell was a senior fellow with The Heritage Foundation, and an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee. He also served on the 1988 Bush/Quayle transition team and was Director of Tax and Budget Policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy.

 

His articles can be found in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, and Washington Times. He is a frequent guest on radio and television and a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.

 

Mr. Mitchell holds bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

 

David M. Mizrachi Fidanque

Senior Partner, Mizrachi Davarro & Urriola

Mr. Mizrachi is the senior partner of Mizrachi Davarro & Urriola in the Republic of Panama. He is a United States trained attorney (BA with Departmental Honors, University of Pennsylvania, JD cum laude Tulane Law School), who is admitted to practice law in Panama and the State of Florida (State and Federal Courts).

 

As such, Mr. Mizrachi has had unique experience in the private practice of Panamanian commercial law in an international business environment, with extensive exposure to many common law and civil law jurisdictions throughout the world, including many offshore jurisdictions.

 

During the 1990s he was a commercial litigation associate at a large Florida law firm. He has served as Panamanian law counsel in several litigation matters pending in the United States, England, the Netherland Antilles, Mexico, Canada and other jurisdictions. He has assisted foreign governments and private parties in seeking evidence, serving process and pursuing actions in front of Panamanian courts and agencies. He routinely counsels Panamanian banks and private companies on compliance and KYC issues, as well as on corporate law matters, international loan syndications, mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions.

 

Mr. Mizrachi has served as an expert on Panamanian law in New York State Courts and Federal District Courts in Florida and Indiana.  He has also assisted in organizing several Panamanian corporations, trusts and private interest foundations.

 

Mr. Mizrachi is a neutral of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration Center, a Public Translator and has recently been featured as a speaker on matters of Panamanian law in London (LexisNexis), Miami, (Florida Bar), Buenos Aires (Latin American Jewish Lawyer Forum) Chicago (Northwestern Law), Geneva (C5), Washington, DC (FraudNet) and Panama (US Commercial Service).  He is the author of the Panama Digest of the Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (Oxford University Press, 2006) and the Panama Section of  Getting the Deal Through - Real Estate (LBR, 2008).  His law firm is a member of ICC-FraudNet, a network of law firms affiliated with the International Chamber of Commerce that aims to become the worlds' leading network of law firms specializing in white collar crime and is also a member of International Law Firms, an international association of independent law firms.

 

Julia A. Mold, CAMS

Forensic & Dispute Services, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP

 

Ms. Mold's experience covers multiple areas of service, including Securities and Exchange Commission investigations, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering investigations and remediation, Look Backs, and other AML risk mitigation matters, including internal audit.

 

The scope of her industry experience spans domestic and foreign financial institutions (global and domestic retail banks, correspondent banks, money services businesses, broker dealers, and investment advisors). Since joining Deloitte FAS, she has conducted more than twenty large and complex AML projects for financial institutions, including assessments of fund transfers, payable through accounts, currency transaction reporting, private and correspondent banking, high risk customer investigations, investigative training and customer risk ranking methodology.

 

Prior to joining Deloitte FAS, Ms. Mold held positions as Adjunct Director of Regulatory Compliance for the Mexican-government-owned development bank where she designed and implemented the AML program and as a regulator with the New York Stock Exchange, Division of Member Firm Regulation. Ms. Mold is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist ('CAMS'), a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the U.S. Treasury's Private Sector Dialogue with the MENA region.

 

Ira Morales Mičkunas, CAMS

Managing Director, Milersen LLC

 

Ira Morales Mičkunas is a Consultant, Managing Director for Latin America, and Member of Milersen LLC. She manages, develops and supervises the Latin American Region in reference to Independent Audits of client Anti-money Laundering Programs, Know Your Customer (KYC) Programs and Training for financial industry companies in the Banking, Securities, Insurance, Gems and Precious Metals, Trade, Real Estate and Money Service Business sectors, among others. Prior to co-founding Milersen, she worked for a Global Risk Mitigating Consulting firm focusing in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. Ms. Morales is a designated Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialist.

 

Ira has been invited numerous times as a guest speaker throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, namely Bogota, Caracas, Mexico City, Panama City, Cayman Islands, Barbados, Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne and Luxembourg on issues involving money laundering, corruption and organized crime. She has written articles, collaborated on official publication documents with the United Nations, Office on Drugs and Crime, and interviewed on anti-money laundering related topics for different publications.

 

Kenneth Morgan

Executive Director, Rawlinson & Hunter Ltd. (BV)

 

Ken Morgan has been with Rawlinson & Hunter Ltd in the British Virgin Islands since 1997. He began his offshore career in 1968 in the Cayman Islands before moving to Bermuda in 1972. He spent 18 years in private banking and trust work with one of the major Bermuda banks, eventually becoming responsible for all trust, investment and mutual fund administration in the Bermuda office.

 

Ken has been a frequent speaker at international trust and estate planning conferences, and travels extensively to discuss the advantages of the British Virgin Islands and to visit clients and potential clients. He has also had several articles published in professional journals. Ken is a member of STEP and of the International Tax Planning Association.

 

Richard Murphy

Research Director, Tax Justice Network

 

Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant and graduate economist. He trained with KPMG in London before setting up his own firm in 1985 in London. He and his partners sold the firm in 2000 when it had 800 clients. He is a serial entrepreneur, having directed more than 10 SMEs.

Since 2000, Richard has increasingly been involved in taxation policy, both as an adviser and campaigner. He is director Tax Research LLP and advises the Tax Justice Network, the Publish What You Pay campaign and many NGOs on tax and development.

He is a member of the ACCA's Research Committee and is a research fellow at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and at the Tax Research Institute at the University of Nottingham.

A regular radio and TV commentator on tax and corporate accountability, he has also addressed UN, EU, HMRC and international diplomatic meetings on these issues. He writes a daily blog at www.taxresearch.org.uk/blog.

 

DC Page

Managing Partner, Verasys, LLC

 

Mr. Page's areas of expertise are:

• Risk mitigation operations including management consulting, investigations and security consulting;
• Contingency planning for terrorist events around the world including threat assessments and the design of effective solutions; and
• Management of complex multi-jurisdictional investigations

Background:

• Kroll Associates Managing Director in the company's Miami and Los Angeles offices.  Managed risk mitigation services for all locations in California, Florida, Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean;
• U.S. Customs Service Senior Special Agent in Washington D.C. and San Diego;
• State of Wisconsin Special Investigator;
• Managed the Dale Earnhardt death investigation for NASCAR;
• Developed a global crisis response program for several multi-national corporations;
• Managed a multitude of high profile litigation support cases including the 2000 Presidential Election Florida Recount matter;
• Experienced in managing cases in the complex international marketplace including corporate contests, transactional due diligence and related litigation;
• Investigated and prosecuted complex money-laundering conspiracy cases and narcotics-related special operations;
• Investigated trade related business frauds including counterfeit product manufacturing and importation;
• Liaison with other government bodies such as the Treasury Department, Justice Department and the Congress; and
• Deep cover capacity infiltrating narcotics and organized crime criminal operations.

Polly Pickering, CAMS

Relationship Manager, Foreshore Limited

 

Polly Pickering is the Caribbean Area Manager and local representative for Foreshore, a Jersey (UK) based offshore datacenter, and has been working with Internet based business solutions in Cayman for the past 12 years.  Formerly a partner of IFS Cayman, a technology and IT infrastructure company, Polly is a Certified Ecommerce Consultant who sits on the regional CEC Board of Standards. She is a recognized disaster recovery infrastructure consultant and business continuity planner.  Additionally, she is the Secretary to the eBusiness Advisory Board under the Cayman Islands Information Technology Ministry.

 

Mrs. Pickering's areas of expertise include offshore ebusiness consulting and disaster recovery (DR) business continuity planning and she is a certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS). She was among the first disaster recovery specialist in the Cayman Islands and has proven her proficiency through the success of many local projects ranging from internet commodity trading platforms, global financial funds transfer systems, intrusion detection systems, Know Your Customer Outsourced Services and a Cayman Islands-based Internet Payment Gateway, eShore.

 

Mrs. Pickering regularly organizes awareness programs for local businesses to examine IT risk and has worked with the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce to host training classes in emergency response and business continuity planning for some of the leading Cayman Islands Financial Service Providers. She regularly contributes articles on disaster recovery to the Cayman Business Journal. 

 

She entered the computer and Internet business after nine years in automotive engineering in Detroit. She moved to the Cayman Islands in 1996. Mrs. Pickering received her BS from Western Michigan University in 1989.

 

Timothy Ridley, OBE

Chairman, Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

 

Timothy Ridley is a former senior partner of the largest law firm in the Cayman Islands. From early 1995 until the end of 1999, he was principally based in Hong Kong heading up the Asia practice of the firm.

 

Mr. Ridley is a graduate of Cambridge University (BA) and Harvard Law School (LLM) and qualified as a solicitor in England.  He has practised as a Cayman Islands attorney-at-law for over 30 years, writes and speaks widely on Cayman Islands legal and regulatory matters, is a member of numerous international professional associations and has served on the editorial boards of leading publications such the Harvard International Law Journal.

 

Mr. Ridley has served on various consultative committees advising the Cayman Islands' Government on matters relating to the financial and local industries. He is currently a member of the Private Sector Consultative Committee and Financial Services Council.

 

In July 2002, he was appointed to the Boards of the Health Services Authority (retired January 2005) and the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (Chairman, July 2004). He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1996 for services to the financial industry and the local community.

 

Robert L. Roach

Counsel & Chief Investigator to the Majority, US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

 

[No resume available]

 

 

Nancy J. Saur

ATC Trustees (Cayman) Ltd.

 

Ms. Saur is currently responsible for compliance and risk management for the offices of the ATC Group N.V. In 2004, she was appointed director and general manager of Bodden Compliance Services Ltd., a successful compliance consulting company headquartered in the Cayman Islands. She founded the Cayman Islands Compliance Association, managed the development of computer-based training for its members and created a Cayman Islands module for an international compliance training program.

 

Ms. Saur is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and holds an International Diploma in Compliance. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the International Compliance Association and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. Based in the Cayman Islands for many years, she has been a presenter at local and international Anti-Money Laundering conferences.

 

Michael R. Scott

Senior Partner, Callenders and Co.

 

Michael Ross Scott was born in Nassau in 1951. He earned his B.A. in 1973 at MacMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Scott was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray's Inn) in July 1976 and to The Bahamas Bar in August of that year. He is a member of The Bahamas Bar Association. Scott's practice areas include Commercial Litigation, Admiralty Practice, Ship Finance & Registration, Professional Negligence, Insurance Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation, including passing off, Financial Services, Insolvency and Financial Trusts Litigation.

 

Eduardo D'Angelo P. Silva

Chairman, Cayman Islands Financial Services Association

 

Eduardo D'Angelo P. Silva, born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the International College of the Cayman Islands.

 

After working for 10 years with major Brazilian banking institutions such as Banco Itaú, Banco Crefisul (at the time, associated to Citibank, NA), and Banco Sul América, he moved to the Cayman Islands in 1994 to open the offices of Sul America International Bank (offshore banking arm of Sul América de Seguros Group, one of the largest insurance group in Brazil and Latin America.), where he is today the Managing Director.

 

Mr. Silva held the office of President of The Cayman Islands Bankers Association from 1998 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2007, co-chairing its Biennial Conference in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2006. During his terms, the Association developed several training programs, including an Anti-Money Laundering Seminar attended by all bank employees, and commissioned the first study of the Banking Industry’s impact in the economy of the Cayman Islands.

 

In 2003, he took part in the creation of the Cayman Islands Financial Services Association, whose membership comprises associations and companies from all the different sectors of Cayman’s financial industry. Its mission is to communicate, locally and overseas, the quality and integrity of the financial industry. Mr. Silva was elected Chairman of the Board of that Association in 2007.

 

Jeffrey Sklar, CPA, CAMS

Managing Director, SHC Consulting Group, Inc.

 

Mr. Sklar is considered one of the foremost authorities on Anti Money Laundering Compliance Issues for Non Bank Financial Institutions. He has developed AML Compliance Programs and Training Programs for MSB's, Broker/Dealers, Insurance Companies as well as Casinos and Traditional Banking Institutions. In addition, as a valuation analyst, he has participated in and testified in numerous cases in the MSB Industry.

 

Currently, Mr. Sklar serves as the Chairman for the Metropolitan New York ACAMS Chapter. Mr. Sklar is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist and a Certified Fraud Specialist.

 

Graeme McDowell Smith

Director, British Virgin Islands Financial Investigation Agency

 

Graeme Smith started his working life in electrical engineering but switched to the Police Force in 1973. Since then, he worked in criminal investigation at local CID level, then Regional Crime Squad and Drugs Squad, where he was involved in drugs importation investigation and confiscation of assets.

 

Mr. Smith then had a break from investigation, spending four years in Police training schools as an instructor, before returning to the Regional Crime Squad, where he was involved in financial investigation. In 1995, he took up the post as head of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Financial Investigation Unit. He retired from the Police in 2003 and he was appointed the Director Financial Investigation Agency, a statutory Government Body for the British Virgin Islands.

 

Lorna Smith

Director, British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre

 

A Career civil servant, Lorna Smith has acted as head of the civil service from time to time. Mrs. Smith presently serves as Executive Director of the BVI International Finance Centre (formerly Public Relations Director in the Financial Services Unit) in the Ministry of Finance, having been seconded from being head of the Public Sector Development Programme. She has served in several top civil service positions. For ten years, she was Permanent Secretary to the Chief Minister H. Lavity Stoutt. She also served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works and periodically acts as Deputy Governor.
    

A graduate of the University of the West Indies and Tufts University, Mrs. Smith is married to BVI Opposition leader the Hon. Dr. Orlando Smith.

 

Jacqueline Somersall-Berry, MPA, CAMS

Director, St. Kitts & Nevis Financial Intelligence Unit

 

From May 2004 to the present, Ms. Somersall-Berry has been the Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of St. Kitts & Nevis. Previously, she has held the positions of Deputy Director, FIU, St. Kitts & Nevis; High Court Administrator & Commissioner of Oaths, High Court of Justice, Basseterre, St. Kitts: managed case flow and Court proceedings (Civil and Criminal); and administered oaths; Assistant Registrar of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Office, High Court of Justice, Basseterre, St. Kitts; Administrative Specialist/Assistant to Director, Eastern Caribbean Center, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI: managed the Administrative and Statistical Units in the department; and edited unit's magazine; and Clerk (Administrative/Court) – High Court of Justice, Basseterre, St. Kitts: duties -  responsible for the registration of property, mortgages, bills of sale, probates, intellectual property, claim forms, and  companies (offshore and local); processing and preparing documents for civil and criminal court matters; typing depositions; and note taking during civil and criminal proceedings.

 

Ms. Somersall-Berry is a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), and an Associate Member, Caribbean Perspective Magazine – Eastern Caribbean Center, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, USVI.

 

During her career, she has made many presentations and served as a panelist on AML/CFT issues, including:

• To the regulated sector (financial, money remitters, insurance, casino etc) in St. Kitts-Nevis initiated by FIU; and at request of respective organizations.    And also at seminars and workshops organized by Financial Services Dept., St. Kitts; and Financial Services Dept., Nevis; and
• In Barbados, and St. Lucia at the request of the US Drug Enforcement Administration at annual DEA Caribbean Drug Commanders Conference; and in Barbados by the U S Caribbean Regional scholarship Programme (CRISP) at the Anti-money Laundering seminar; and at the request of FIU (Jamaica) in Jamaica at MSBs' Regulator's Conference.

She has represented the FIU on the St. Kitts & Nevis Local Financial Action Task Force Committee and represented St. Kitts & Nevis at the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), at Heads of FIU meetings, and at CFATF Plenary sessions.

 

Her areas of expertise include: FIUs: management and maintenance; data mining, data management and analysis, human resource development; sharing informatioon, supporting the investigative and prosecutorial processes e.g. Asset identification and investigation. Land and corporate registration systems; and the court system in the Caribbean.

 

Christopher Stride, CA, CPA

Managing Director, Krys and Associates (BVI) Ltd.

 

Mr. Stride is the Managing Director of Krys & Associates (BVI) Ltd. and a Director of Krys & Associates Cayman Ltd.  He commenced his career with the RSM International organization in South Africa in 1993. International transfers brought him to the Chicago office of RSM for six years where he was a Director in the Financial Services practice, providing audit and consulting services to hedge funds, broker-dealers and FCM's.

 

At the end of 2002 Mr. Stride was transferred to establish a new office of RSM to facilitate the provision of audit services to RSM's worldwide hedge fund practice. In 2006, he established an office in the British Virgin Islands to further expand RSM International's reach into the Caribbean. In July 2007, he joined Krys & Associates to provide niche corporate recovery and insolvency services to offshore entities. Since 2003, Mr. Stride has acted on a number of occasions as Liquidator or Administrator of Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands based entities.

 

He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, as well as a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of South Africa.

 

Mr. Stride holds both a Chartered Accountant designation as well as being a Certified Public Accountant.  He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants. 

 

Sven Stumbauer

Director, Forensic, KPMG

 

Mr. Stumbauer joined KPMG's Atlanta Forensic practice in October of 2004. Prior to joining KPMG ForensicSM, he worked with the NASD (National Association of Security Dealers) as a Compliance Examiner. His prior experience includes Financial and AML/USA PATRIOT Act compliance audits of broker/dealers as well as securities fraud examinations.

 

Mr. Stumbauer's industry expertise includes domestic and international banks, broker/dealers, trust companies and hedge funds, focusing on regulatory compliance, fraud issues and Anti-Money Laundering compliance. He participated in the development and deployment of KPMG's proprietary Anti-Money Laundering approach and system, for both correspondent and retail banking, which focuses on the development of scenarios to identify potentially suspicious transactions as well as other indicators of money laundering or fraud.

 

Mr. Stumbauer is fluent in English, German, Czech and Slovak, and possesses a working knowledge of Russian and Spanish. He has extensive international professional experience in the United States, throughout Europe the Caribbean Islands, South America and Asia.

 

In addition, Mr. Stumbauer is frequently asked to speak and/or to address regulatory compliance topics relating to Anti-Money Laundering in the current marketplace. In the last two years, ge has been invited to speak at several conferences in the U.S., the Caribbean, South America, and the Middle East. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA).

 

Mario A. Vlieg

Associate, Mossack Fonseca & Co.

 

Born in Colon, Republic of Panama, October 24, 1969. Admitted: 1993. Education: Santa Maria La Antigua University, School of Law (LL.B., 1993; LL. M., Maritime Law, 1998) Panama; Latin University of Panama, Tax Management Certificate (2006); Assistant Legal Advisor to the Colon Free Zone, 1993-1994. Professor of Law, Santa María La Antigua, School of Law, 1997-1999. Staff member since 1999.

Member: Panama Bar Association. Maritime Law Association. Languages: Spanish and English.

 

 

John F. Walsh

President/CEO, SightSpan

 

John F. Walsh is a founding partner and the Chief Executive Officer of SightSpan. Prior to forming SightSpan, he was the Wachovia CIB Data Czar, where he managed data gathering and information sharing initiatives across the investment banks platform.  Prior to joining Wachovia Corporation, he was the Senior Vice President of AML Technology at Bank of America, engaged with AML Strategy across the enterprise. In addition, Mr. Walsh has held leadership positions at Merrill Lynch in Debt Trading and eCommerce Technology and worked on a number of high profile initiatives at multiple banks, broker dealers and exchanges.

He brings over 20 years of International Business and Technology experience to SightSpan in both the Securities and Banking Industry. He has personally led divisions and companies engaged in high risk trading in Commodities, Foreign Exchange and International Fixed Income products, as both a trader and as a Senior Level Executive. He has worked in the United States as well as directly in several high-risk emerging market countries, during which time he gained valuable experience addressing Global Risk and International Compliance issues.

 

Jane Wareham

Associate, Stuarts Walker Hersant

 

Ms. Wareham joined the Company/Commercial Department of Stuarts Walker Hersant in October 2005 and has been actively involved in corporate restructuring, mutual fund creation and advising on matters of Cayman Islands Companies Law.

She qualified and was admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales in 1996 and joined the Private Client/Trusts Department of Garrett & Co., the legal subsidiary of Arthur Andersen, in London where she undertook international family trust and estate planning. Her experience in international planning led to a position as in-house counsel with a prominent Dutch bank and mutual fund administrator based in the Cayman Islands.

In 2000, Ms. Wareham returned to London where she was responsible as a director of the representative office of a European based Private Bank for co-ordinating and introducing trust and corporate business from other offshore offices within the bank's network. Following four years in London, Jane moved back to the Cayman Islands as in-house counsel dealing with contentious trust matters and long standing onshore tax litigation.

She has spoken at several international conferences and published articles on the topic of money laundering and banking compliance, most recently "A review of proposed reform to the mutual fund regulatory regime in the Cayman Islands" Offshore Business Magazine" March 2006 Edition.

 

Ms. Wareham is a member of the International Bar Association. Her areas of practice are Corporate Law , Estate and Trust, Estate Planning, General Practice, International Investments, Litigation, and Marketing Law.

 

Jose Wise

Director of Operations & General Counsel, Verasys, LLC

 

Mr. Wise is responsible for supervising the the operations and investigations of Verasys, LLC, which offers a range of global intelligence and risk consulting services.

 

He has extensive experience in due diligence, litigation support, asset searches and international fraud matters, as well as providing public records and information review and analysis.

 

He is a former Kroll Associate Director, spending over seven years in Kroll's Miami/Latin American Regional headquarters in Miami, focusing on litigation support and complex litigation management, asset searching, business intelligence, intellectual property and security consulting matters. While with Kroll, he accumulated a wealth of experience managing cases in the complex international marketplace, including corporate contests, transactional due diligence and related litigation, including work for multi-national Fortune 500 corporations, international financial institutions and foreign governments in Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

Mr. Wise is a commercial and maritime litigator. His legal experience and training provide him with an instrumental perspective and understanding of client needs and potential issues related to investigative assignments.

 

He is fluent in English and Spanish. He received a Bachelor's Degree in International Affairs, Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida 1987, and a Juris Doctorate, Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida 1990. He has been a member of the Florida Bar Association since 1991.

 

He is a founding and current member of the Latin American Polygraphers Association (ALP) since 1996.