Speakers: Tuesday 7 December

You Jung-Kee

Criminal Intelligence Officer, Financial Crimes Unit, INTERPOL

You Jung-Kee is a criminal intelligence officer at INTERPOL's Financial Crimes Unit. He is responsible for providing operational support to serve all members of the INTERPOL community on financial crime investigations and asset tracing matters. He has 15 years’ experience in the Korean National Police. In addition, he holds a Master's degree in law and is a member of the Korean Bar Association. Throughout his career he has focused on investigating financial crimes, holding several roles including the head of the Cybercrime unit and the head of the International Financial Crime team in Korea. He is passionate about combating virtual assets-based money laundering, and believes that this can be done through stronger coordination among relevant stakeholders.

Borja Pastor

Head of Financial Crime Team, European Financial and Crime Centre (EFECC), Europol

Borja Pastor is the Head of the Financial Crime Team at the European Financial and Crime Centre (EFECC). Before joining Europol, Borja worked as a Law Enforcement Senior Officer in Spain leading specialised units to counter organised crime and financial crime. He conducted numerous criminal investigations focused on complex financial crime schemes and sensitive cases. Now, he is sharing his expertise and experience from Europol to support EU MS. Borja believes that the most effective way of tackling organised crime is to fight against its economic foundation. The investigations focused on dismantling criminal organisations by blocking their financial support have been demonstrated more effective.

Federico Paesano

Senior Financial Investigation Specialist, International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), Basel Institute on Governance

Federico Paesano joined the Basel Institute's International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR) as Senior Financial Investigations Specialist in 2010, delivering technical training programmes on financial investigations and asset recovery in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Federico graduated from the Military Academy of the Guardia di Finanza in L’Aquila, Italy, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Università degli studi del Molise, Italy. For fourteen years, he worked for the Italian Financial Police, ending his career as Chief Investigator, leading and conducting judicial and financial investigations, focusing in particular on economic crimes such as corruption and money laundering.

Nils Andersen-Röed

Senior Director Audit and Investigations, Binance

Nils Andersen-Röed is Senior Director of Audit and Investigations in the Binance Investigations team. The team works to identify bad actors that attempt to commit crimes on Binance's platforms and to protect users' funds, as well as proactively supporting law enforcement agencies with their investigations. Before joining Binance, he worked as a specialist in the Europol Dark Web Team, where he coordinated and supported global law enforcement operations against criminality on the dark web. Before that, Nils was the Project Leader of the Dark Web Unit of the Dutch National Police. He was also the Project Leader of Operation Bayonet, leading to the takeover and takedown of the dark web marketplaces Hansa Market and Alphabay. Nils holds two Master's degrees in Criminal Investigations and Psychology.

Nathan Catania

Partner, XReg Consulting

Nathan Catania is Partner at XReg Consulting, a boutique crypto-asset policy and regulatory affairs consulting firm. Nathan advises public sector bodies on crypto-asset regulation, focussing on AML/CFT, provides technical training to regulators, law enforcement agencies and financial intelligence units, and audits and advises private entities, predominantly crypto-asset businesses. He is a former regulator, having served as a technical specialist at the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission’s DLT team. Nathan is also an ex-PwC assurance professional and is a Certified Blockchain Expert from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Pamela Clegg

Vice President of Financial Investigations, CipherTrace

Pamela Clegg is the Vice President of Financial Investigations for CipherTrace. She works with governments, law enforcement officials, regulators, law firms and financial institutions around the world to conduct cryptocurrency financial investigations and to train and educate on financial crimes, money laundering and other criminal activity within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Prior to joining CipherTrace, Pamela was the Assistant Vice President - BSA and Information Security for First State Bank. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds an MBA from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Seyra Dagadu

Investigative Lawyer

Seyra Dagadu is an expert in investigating white-collar crime and civil fraud, with a special interest in cryptocurrencies and their regulation. Following qualification as a barrister in England and Wales, he acquired a broad range of investigative skills within the AML/CTF arena as an investigative team member of the Serious Fraud Office and with the Solicitors Regulation Authority. He currently contributes to the Crypto Valley Association expert roundtable, including inputs for the FATF on regulating Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), and blogs regularly on topics critical to the CVA AML Taskforce.

Scott Johnston

Head of Public Sector Outreach, Chainalysis

Scott Johnston manages Public Sector Operations in EMEA for Chainalysis, where he works with users in law enforcement and intelligence. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Scott served with HM Royal Marines for five years before transitioning to UK Policing. He spent 18 years in the Metropolitan Police investigating all aspects of serious organised crime. He finished as a Detective Sergeant - leading their Proactive Money Laundering Taskforce – and implemented their strategy for dealing with the emerging threat of cryptocurrency as a vehicle to launder the proceeds of crime. He has participated in several communities of interest and workshops throughout Europe covering cryptocurrency within the economic crime landscape.

Maxim Kon

Compliance Consultant and CEO, Cheksy

Maxim started his career in traditional Swiss banks such as UBS and Julius Baer, where he had a front-to-back experience of over seven years covering Derivatives Trading, Back-Mid-Office and Compliance. When in late 2016 he was involved in a Bitcoin-related investigation, he fell in love with the Blockchain world. Since 2017, Maxim has worked in the Compliance departments of now Xapo Bank (until 2019 the largest custodian of Bitcoin) and later for Crypto Finance (first FINMA licensed Securities Dealer), helping them to receive and maintain their regulatory licences. In 2020 he started working as an independent consultant advising crypto and FinTech companies. He also launched a Blockchain Risk Tool that aggregates multiple providers into one – Cheksy.

Aidan Larkin

Co-Founder and CEO, Asset Reality

Aidan Larkin is the CEO and Co-Founder of FinTech startup Asset Reality. Asset Reality investigates, manages and realises seized crypto assets for public and private sector clients. A former criminal tax inspector for HM Revenue & Customs and an experienced Seized Asset Manager, Aidan was the world's first seized crypto auctioneer. He also acts as a consultant for UNODC, government agencies and NGOs to increase effectiveness in asset recovery, building infrastructure around crypto asset enforcement.

Ian Lee

Founding Team & Associate Director, Merkle Science

Ian Lee is part of the founding team at Merkle Science and led its investigations team before taking over as Associate Director where he also heads up Merkle Science’s SEA operations. A Singapore qualified lawyer, Ian had previously worked in the capital markets industry where he actively advised corporates for listings and corporate actions. Ian was recently named FinTech Leader Under 30 by the Singapore Fintech Association. Ian also serves as VP of Institute of Blockchain, a SkillsFuture accredited social enterprise focusing on Blockchain education and certification, sits on the ISO TC307 - Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Standards Technical Committee, and is part of the founding team of the Compliance Association and Network of Singapore. Ian graduated from the University of Warwick with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB).

Christine McAteer

Senior Compliance Advisor, SIX Digital Exchange (SDX)

As Senior Compliance Advisor at SDX, Chris McAteer specialises in the implementation of DLT and traditional compliance programmes for global clients. She has over 15 years’ experience in AML/CTF and sanctions management. Chris founded the AML Task Force within the Crypto Valley Association and the OpenVASP Association, a protocol dedicated to FATF travel rule compliance. Chris frequently represents national and industry interests towards the OECD, FATF, WTO and UN committees, and is a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) and Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).

Joana Neto

AML/CFT Data Specialist, European Banking Authority

Joana Neto is currently working in the field of AML/CFT in the European Banking Authority (EBA), as an AML/CFT Data Specialist with expertise in innovation topics. She works to ensure the integrity, transparency and orderly functioning of European financial markets, specifically preventing the use of the financial system for the purposes of ML/TF. Joana has previously held several roles in the wider area of financial crimes, ranging from research, compliance and risk management to investigations and data analytics. She has an academic background in criminology with a focus on financial and economic crime.