Speakers

The Institute MEMBER MEETING - JULY 7, 2022

Priya Giuliani
Financial Crime Investigations & Compliance Expert, Guidehouse

Priya is an experienced financial crime investigations and compliance expert with over 25 years’ experience.  She has worked as a Skilled Person and also advises firms how to manage successful outcomes from reviews conducted by other skilled persons and regulatory interventions.  Priya’s experience as an investigator gives her insight in to how money laundering and bribery & corruption can occur within organisations and the controls required to manage this risk effectively. Priya has successfully worked with some of the largest global financial institutions through to smaller firms including overseas banks, payment firms, challenger banks and asset managers. Priya regularly trains Boards and Executive Management on effective financial crime risk management. Prior to joining Guidehouse, Priya led the financial crime risk management practice at Promontory in the UK and was a Partner at KPMG specialising in Risk Consulting and Forensic before that.  She trained in audit and was also seconded as the first in-house forensic accountant at the Assets Recovery Agency established under POCA.   

Priya Giuliani

Alexandra Chirica
Founder at tale

Alexandra has been working in the Compliance/Financial Crime Recruitment space since 2017, building her network specifically in this niche for the past 5 years. In May 2020, Alex opened ‘Tale’, a recruitment business where empathy, the candidate journey and transparency are the core elements. It was born out of recognising the recruitment industry needed a change.  Focusing only on fintechs and Compliance/Anti Financial Crime, Alex has become a seasoned professional in consulting start-ups of any size on the best AML structures & understanding that culture and people, underpins the growth of any successful Fintech.

Alexandra Chirica

Ian Christie
Co-Founder, FincSelect

Ian has been recruiting within Financial Crime and Financial Crime Operations for over 7 years. Prior to this, he has 8 years experience working within Corporate and personal financial Recovery and Re-organisation within Consultancy. Ian is known for his open, friendly and honest style. He has passion for the anti-financial crime industry which drives his enthusiasm and technical understanding. Having partnered with numerous Financial Services firms to build out 1st and 2nd line teams either on short or long term programmes, Ian is known as the go to for all things temp in the Fin Crime world. He is also known for being extremely available, dependable in his delivery, his expert market knowledge and his utmost transparency in his costings.

Ian Christie

Geoff White
Author, Speaker, Investigative Journalist, Podcast Creator

Election hacking, money laundering, billion-dollar cyber heists… author and investigative journalist Geoff White has covered it all. His work’s been featured by BBC News, Audible, Sky News, The Sunday Times and many more. His new book, The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War was adapted from the hit BBC podcast and will be published by Penguin Random House on 9 June 2022. His first book, Crime Dot Com, took readers inside the murky world of the digital underground, uncovering cybercrime’s emergence as today’s global threat. His podcast series for Audible, The Dark Web exposed the shadow internet created by the US military and now home to hackers, crooks and freedom fighters.The twists and turns of his investigations have informed and entertained audiences from music festivals to political party conferences, and his live phone-hacking stage show was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Geoff White

Simon Bower
Investigations Editor, Finance Uncovered

Simon Bowers is Investigations Editor at non-profit journalism organisation Finance Uncovered and a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He has worked on some of the largest data leaks in the last decade — Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks and FinCEN Files — and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, Suddeutsche Zeitung, De Telegraaf, Australian Financial Review, Africa Uncensored, OCCRP, The Guardian, BBC and other major media outlets. Simon has also helped many whistleblowers tell their story, including former EY partner Amjad Rihan, who won a landmark $11m settlement from EY in 2020 after fleeing Dubai to tell the world about attempts to cover up billions of dollars in suspect gold laundered by UAE refineries.   

Simon Bowers

Alexandra Will
Director, Global Investigations and Compliance, Guidehouse

Alexandra has more than 15 years’ work experience in the financial services industry, 12 of them specialising in financial crime. She has been involved in multiple global financial crime transformation and remediation projects, with a focus on AML/CTF and Sanctions. Alexandra has supported financial services firms in the UK and various European jurisdictions in the development of their operating models, including governance models, policies and procedures, KYC / Customer Risk Rating, monitoring and screening approach as well as supporting the roll out of new controls and technology solutions. ​ Alexandra has supported multiple financial institutions in the UK prepare for regulatory visits. She also lead the development and execution of AML/CTF and Sanctions Risk Assessment methodology and approach for several international financial services firms.

 

Prior to joining Guidehouse, Alexandra was a director at a Big Four firm’s UK forensic financial crime practice Alexandra spent eight years at a major European bank, in various risk management functions of the bank’s Global Transaction Banking / Correspondent Banking Business in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Alexandra Will