With over 12 years of experience in banking and finance, Adilah Holivay is a recognized leader in her field. As Co-Founder of DNA Legacy Blockchain Brokerage, she brings expertise in finance, technology, compliance, and risk management, with a keen eye on the transformative potential of Web3 technologies. Adilah's leadership roles, including Chair of the Board for NABCRMP, demonstrate her commitment to addressing industry challenges.

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Adilah's contributions have earned her recognition, notably a nomination for Board Member of the year in 2021. Her deep understanding of compliance and risk, honed through collaboration with Big 4 firms, is complemented by her status as a published author in the field.

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Passionate about innovation, Adilah focuses on topics such as emerging compliance trends, blockchain's impact on finance, diversity in the sector, and fostering innovation in financial leadership. Her insights and dedication to excellence make her a sought-after speaker and industry influencer.

Alessandra is a researcher in the legal fields of regulatory models, financial innovation, and regulation. Her research focuses on the intersection of financial regulation and innovation and the role of disrupting regulatory models in fostering and enabling innovation. Alessandra is currently an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where her research focuses on the role of regulatory sandboxes as as tool for innovation in the financial sector and building a better understanding of the regulatory models for regulatory sandboxes. Alessandra is also a research and teaching fellow in the Engineering Ethics Program at the University of Pennsylvania Engineering School with focus on relation between ethics and regulation. 

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Alessandra is also a Parner at Machado Meyer Advogados with focus on banking & financing and technology & innovation departments. She has represented clients in connection with a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters and has played a critical role in some of the most significant corporate transactions in Latin America involving financial and payments institutions, foreign exchange, Fintechs, blockchain & DeFi, cryptocurrencies & NFTs, ICOs & tokenization, instant payments & Pix, Open Banking, regulatory sandboxes and other related subjects, including in the development of groundbreaking regulatory frameworks issued by Brazilian agencies such as the Central Bank and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission. Alessandra's experience also includes representation of national and foreign entrepreneurs, startups, Venture Capital funds in the structuring of innovative projects, mapping of legal risks 360º, investment rounds (from angel to late stage investments), and exits.

Alicka is a dynamic and insightful speaker who delves into the fascinating nexus between creativity and emerging technologies. As a published ghostwriter with a rich 15-year history in the media and literary industries, Toby brings a wealth of knowledge and unique perspectives to the stage. She is particularly passionate about examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping our perceptions of reality and altering the narratives we craft. Alicka's presentations explore the profound implications of technological advancements on storytelling and human expression, making her a sought-after voice for audiences looking to understand the future of creativity in an AI-driven world. With a deep understanding of both the artistic and technical realms, Alicka offers compelling narratives that engage, inform, and inspire.

Alison K. Jimenez is President of Dynamic Securities Analytics, Inc. where she utilizes her extensive background in the financial services industry to consult and provide expert witness testimony on complex matters involving financial crime, fraud, and Anti-Money Laundering (‘AML’).

Ms. Jimenez has been retained as a testifying expert in federal and state courts, international arbitration, and regulatory enforcement actions on a variety of financial crime issues including bribery/corruption, bank fraud, cryptocurrency scams, and Ponzi schemes. In addition, Ms. Jimenez has experience providing damages and other quantitative witness testimony in securities litigation matters.

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Ms. Jimenez has published original research on cryptocurrency crime topics including blockchain analytics, analysis of CFPB cryptocurrency complaints, and Suspicious Activity Reports filed by cryptocurrency exchanges. Alison’s research on financial crime has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, American Banker, and by government agencies.

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Alison has applied her data analysis and technical skills in developing AML and anti-financial crime software applications. Ms. Jimenez has also served as an independent auditor to plan and conduct AML audits of financial institutions, verify compliance with PATRIOT Act, Suspicious Activity Report filing requirements and other rules/laws.  

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Ms. Jimenez has served on the Education and Examination Task Forces for the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and previously served as a member of the Department of Defense- Working Group on Counter Threat Finance. Ms. Jimenez frequently presents on AML and securities fraud issues at national and international conferences.

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Prior to this role, Alison worked at a large financial services firm and was a securities regulator. Ms. Jimenez holds a master’s degree in economics, is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Cryptocurrency Tracing Certified Examiner.

Alison Mangiero is the Acting Executive Director of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), an industry alliance that advocates for innovation-friendly regulation of growing proof-of-stake ecosystems. Alison previously founded Tocqueville Group (TQ), which incubated new ventures and built products, open source software, and other public goods for the Tezos ecosystem. Before founding TQ, Alison ran the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society, a nationwide, chapter-based association of free-market MBA students and business leaders. She managed the group from its inception with four students at Harvard Business School and grew it to more than 10,000 students across 30 chapters at top U.S. business schools. A recovering political scientist, Alison spent a decade prior in public policy and academia, and has broad experience in fundraising and growing membership associations. She currently teaches courses on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy at College of the Holy Cross and serves on the Executive Board of Advisors for the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies.

Alma Angotti is a Partner in Guidehouse’s Financial Services Segment, and Global Legislative and Regulatory Risk Lead. Alma is a recognized expert in compliance and investigations with an emphasis on anti-money laundering (AML), combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT) and economic sanctions compliance.

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Alma has over 10 years of consulting experience and has counselled her clients in a variety of projects, managed gap analyses, compliance program reviews, risk assessments, remediation efforts, investigations, and historical transaction reviews. Her clients include large, complex, global financial institutions, global payments institutions, mid-sized banks, broker-dealers, and Fintech and digital assets companies, hedge funds, casinos, and multinational corporations. She leads the firms cryptocurrency, digital assets and fintech projects.

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Alma has also held interim senior compliance leadership positions at several global and regional financial institutions providing day-to-day management of their compliance programs and assisting them with remediation efforts, often in the context of a regulatory or criminal enforcement action. She has trained and advised the financial services industry and regulators and government officials worldwide on AML, sanctions, CFT, and other regulatory compliance issues.

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In her 25 years of experience in regulation and enforcement, Alma held senior enforcement positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). In these positions, she was responsible for investigations and enforcement of the Bank Secrecy Act, the federal securities laws, and FINRA rules. At FinCEN and FINRA, she designed and lead the AML enforcement programs.

Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency. After working at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, she left government to serve as the Chief of Legal Affairs at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company. She briefly returned to government service when she was asked to lead the financial investigation for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. After serving on the Select Committee, she launched the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency, where she is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer. The Association was founded to build a global network of women and male allies in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 industries, who will advocate for the equal inclusion of women in the future of digital finance. She is also a Principal with Incite Consulting and provides expert and litigation advisory services to cryptocurrency businesses principally focused on business planning, risk and compliance strategy.

Dr. Ana Azevedo is an expert in blockchain technology, economic theory, and regulatory affairs. With a deep understanding of Ethereum's Proof of Stake and its comparison to traditional payment systems like Pix, she brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to her talks. Her research often explores interdisciplinarity providing a fresh and innovative approach to modern financial systems. She has delivered keynote speeches and participated in panels at numerous conferences and events, as well as mentor young talent in Brazil.In her talks, she covers topics such as:- The future of blockchain technology and its impact on global finance- Comparative analysis of Ethereum's Proof of Stake and traditional payment systems- Legislative and regulatory aspects of blockchain, cryptocurrency, Fintech, RegTech and more!

Angela leads Asia Pacific public policy and regulatory affairs for TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses and public agencies detect and investigate crypto-related fraud and financial crime.

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A former regulator, Angela spent over a decade at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), where she was most recently Deputy Director in charge of licensing for payment service providers. As part of the pioneering team for Singapore’s payments regulatory regime, she oversaw the development and implementation of the licensing framework as well as the assessment of several hundred payments and digital asset license applications. Prior to this, Angela held a diverse range of roles at MAS including in regulatory policy, business development and consumer education, giving her deep insight into the full gamut of policymaking considerations for global financial regulators.

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Angela was recently named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices for Asian finance. Follow her at

https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaajl.

Ann Brickley is a Senior Associate General Counsel in NASDAQ’s Enforcement group where she handles all manner of securities-related legal issues, including trading in crypto. Ann works on AML, Compliance, and Banking issues, too.  Prior to joining Nasdaq, Ann was a senior prosecutor at the Department of Justice for many years. Ann prosecuted complex white collar crimes involving domestic and foreign bribery and money laundering.  Ann is an experienced litigator and loves speaking about emerging legal issues.

Ann Stefan is Co-Founder & COO at Cubist, a key management infrastructure provider. She is an accomplished strategy executive who spent seven years as a fintech COO in a high-risk consumer segment. For the majority of her career, she has focused on new market expansion, product development, and rapid scaling in early-stage SaaS and fintech companies. She has a rare breadth of technical and management experience spanning risk, product, sales, marketing, customer support, and government contracts.Her core expertise centers around payment processing, online payments fraud prevention, and anti-money laundering programs, gained from years of building and running a fintech risk team and product in-house. She has a BS in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT.

Anrike Visser is an independent policy advisor with The Sentry and the founder of Global Ground Consulting. She has 12 years of experience investigating financial crime, money laundering and corruption across Europe, Asia, and Africa. In addition, she advises European governments, EU institutions, international financial institutions and private companies on AML/CFT policies including for digital assets. Previously, she worked for the Dutch government at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets assessing banks, insurers and investment companies.

Ayana Murphy is a Managing Director at Ankura based in New York. She has nearly 20 years of experience in regulatory compliance work, with a focus on Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance for the past 15 years. Ayana is a subject matter expert in BSA/AML compliance and has spent the bulk of her career at major international and domestic banks providing guidance on compliance with BSA/AML rules and regulations and collaborating with senior stakeholders to enhance AML controls, policies, and procedures. She holds a law degree from NYU and a BA from the University of Chicago.

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EXPERIENCE

Ayana has extensive experience in all facets of an institution-wide financial crime and sanctions compliance program, including BSA/AML and KYC program review, compliance testing, lookback reviews, quality assurance, policy and procedure reviews, risk assessments, and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) drafting and review.

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More recently, Ayana has performed BSA/AML work in the digital assets and cryptocurrencies space, helping blockchain platforms review and enhance their BSA/AML program compliance.

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Ayana’s professional experience includes:

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Conducting an end-to-end BSA/AML program review utilizing the five pillars of BSA/AML model of compliance, including an evaluation of the Know Your Customer, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting processes, as well as a policy/procedure review.

Leading multiple projects for financial institutions with enforcement actions or regulatory concerns, performing various aspects of anti-money laundering work where she has created and refined materials positioned for federal and state regulators, the board of directors, and internal audit functions, including the presentation of demonstrated testing capabilities and the strengthening of the bank’s control environment.

Performing independent testing of a bank’s sanctions screening systems and advising the bank with respect to the effectiveness of those controls considering the bank’s risk profile as well as developing targeted trainings based on identified areas of risk in the BSA/AML compliance program, as well as industry best practice and new developments in BSA/AML compliance.

Ayana was a compliance senior manager for an international bank, where she built out the independent controls and testing program and managed the day-to-day operations of the compliance testing program. In this role, she managed a team of experienced compliance professionals and oversaw the execution of independent testing of every Business-as-Usual (“BAU”) workstream of the BSA/AML compliance program.

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Ayana also spent four years working as an attorney, predominantly as a lawyer for the city of New York, with the Department of Investigations/Department of Buildings, where she prepared and argued administrative cases on behalf of the Department of Buildings at the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. She worked extensively with New York City’s Department of Investigation in cases involving fraud and other forms of corruption.

Beth Bisbee is currently the Director of Government Customer Growth and Strategy at Chainalysis Government Solutions (CGS). Beth has been designated as an expert witness in cryptocurrency and blockchain analysis in multiple district courts. Prior to that, Beth established the foremost cryptocurrency investigative program within Chainalysis in support of public sector. Before Chainalysis, she was an Intelligence Research Specialist at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) where she served as a nationally-recognized subject matter expert (SME) on cryptocurrencies, tracing the flow of illicit funds in criminal cases, and identifying transactional behavior occurring on the blockchain. As DEA's lead SME, Beth trained hundreds of agents and analysts at DEA and other law enforcement agencies, assisted in more than 400 investigations involving cryptocurrencies and served as a testifying witness. She has been researching cryptocurrencies and their illicit use, and actively working cases in that area, since 2014.

Beth Haddock is an independent board director and chief legal officer with over 25 years’ experience leading the design and successful implementation of modern governance programs. With a focus on accelerating safe and sustainable growth, Beth fosters a culture of risk ownership, partnership and creative problem-solving re-positioning governance and compliance as powerful business drivers at notable companies including Brown Brothers Harriman, Guggenheim Investments and AXA Advisors. She is an active board member and advisor, sharing her expertise and guidance on cutting-edge topics related to compliance, blockchain, and emerging technology. Beth currently serves as an Independent Board Member and Chair of the Compliance Committee at GMO-Z.com Trust Company, a yen and USD-backed stablecoin, a member of the advisory board for the Stablecoin Standard, a current Co-Chair for Web3, Digital Tech Taskforce Subcommittee for the New York City Bar Association, and an active member of the Regulatory Advisory Committee for the National Society of Compliance Professionals. As a founder of Warburton Advisers, Beth has advised clients since 2016 including T-Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton subsidiary Advisor Engine, World Gold Council’s ETF, GLD, as well as many blockchain companies notably Balancer, Grayscale and Orca. Beth also developed a patented technology to measure compliance ROI, she is the author of “Triple Bottom-line Compliance: How to Deliver Protection, Productivity and Impact,” and podcast host for “What’s Ethical?”