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Snell Hall and Library, Cathedral Church of Saint James

65 Church Street
Toronto, ON M5C 2E9

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Speaker Bios

Joseph Iuso - CEO, UseMyServices

The visionary and chief architect of the UseMyServices proprietary technology, Joseph has worked in the fields of e-Commerce and EFT integration for over 20 years. His extensive experience within the realm of self-service banking integration has helped many clients provide online, real-time transaction processing within the EFT community. Clients have included CIBC, ISM, IBM, ACI (Astech), ING Direct, Canadian Tire, and Royal Bank. With this understanding, Joseph has been able to link all the existing components to make UseMyServices a leader in real time bank payments technology.

Amber D. Scott - Founder & Chief AML Ninja, Outlier Solutions

Amber has broad-based financial compliance experience that includes insurance, mutual funds and banking. In addition to being a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Amber is also a Certified Privacy Professional (CIPP). She also holds a mutual fund sales designation from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) and a first level Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI).  She is also a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP).

Amber completed her undergraduate studies at the university of Waterloo. Her academic interests have always included law and criminology. As a teaching assistant she assisted in the development of the university’s first applied psychology course on criminal profiling. She has also received an MBA from the University of Aspen.

The first memory that Amber has about financial crime is hearing her father and a friend of the family discussing the dilemma faced by a local union that had fallen under the influence of an organized crime group. Pension monies had allegedly been deferred into investments that benefitted the crime organization, but not the union membership. Many discussions with her father followed on the structures that could allow a criminal organization to circumvent the controls in an established organization for their own purposes without suffering any consequences. It was all very confusing and fascinating for a ten year old.

While her confusion has faded, her fascination never has. Amber is passionate about ethical and legal compliance. Her obsession with understanding the risks and devising actionable solutions has lead her to work in the financial services industry and with Canadian consulting firms. In 2013, she founded Outlier Solutions Inc. to provide anti-money laundering (AML) solutions to Canadian reporting entities.

George De La Rosa, BComm, FCUIC - Luminus Financial

 Mr. De La Rosa has over 20 years of experience in the Credit Union system, and has held various positions.  Currently he serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Luminus Financial, a position he has held since 2005.  He has the distinction of becoming one of the youngest Credit Union CEOs, whose leadership helped the company receive the prestigious International Image Enhancement Award from the Credit Union Executive Society and whose vision has grown the credit union’s assets by over 300%.

Mr. De La Rosa received his Bachelor of Commerce – Business Management and Marketing Management with a minor in Human Resources from Ryerson University, in Toronto, Canada, and following this, he pursued his Fellowship with the Credit Union Institution of Canada through Dalhousie University. His commitment to the credit union system is further demonstrated by actively being involved as a board of director for the Ontario Credit Union Charitable Foundation, the Credit Union Services Association, and The Advisory Council for Smaller Asset Sized Credit Unions.

Mr. De La Rosa is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Susan Han - Senior Legal Counsel, AUM Law

Susan Han is a securities lawyer who focusses on regulatory compliance including AML.  Susan’s works at AUM Law, who has offices in Toronto and Montreal serving clients in the investment funds, wealth management and retail financial services industries.

Susan has served as the Corporate Secretary to a number of public companies and large investment fund complexes and their independent review committees (IRCs).  She speaks frequently on directors and officers liability and on corporate, fund and pension governance.

Before joining AUM Law, Susan worked at Miller Thomson, Dundee Wealth and Invesco Trimark.

James MacKenzie - Independent Consultant

James is an independent consultant, specializing in Anti-money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing.  A certified anti-money laundering specialist with over 15 years experience in the Financial Services Industry, James has previously worked at MNP, Fidelity Investments and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Specialising in the field of Money Service Business compliance and regulation.  He is a Director and founding board member of the Canadian Money Services Business Association.  He has helped over 50 MSBs and other reporting entities design and enhance their compliance regimes and has successfully contributed to reducing FINTRAC administrative monetary penalties by hundreds of thousands of dollars.  He also works closely with Canada’s top emerging currency focused Law Practices and is designing cutting edge compliance and risk based frameworks to address digital and virtual currencies.

James is delighted to have the opportunity to apply his skills and passion to a worthy pursuit that contributes to the legitimate Canadian and global economy. He is also fully bilingual (English and French) and conversant in Spanish.

Lisa Douglas - Regional Compliance Manager, FINTRAC

Lisa Douglas has over 17 years of experience in anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing. Currently, Lisa is a Regional Compliance Manager for the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) and has been for over 12 years. This role includes acting as a Case Manager for compliance examinations in order to ensure the appropriate oversight of major reporting entities. Lisa also leads compliance promotion and enforcement activities involving large and complex reporting entities, including MSBs.

Lisa came to FINTRAC from a large international MSB where she spent ten years in a variety of roles in both front and back office operations, including her final position as the Director of Regulatory Affairs.  Her responsibilities included the administration of the company Anti-Money Laundering Program and the establishment of the Corporate Privacy Program.

Ken Saul - Chief AML Officer - Canada, Globle Foreign Exchange, Inc.

Kenneth (“Ken”) H. Saul, B.A. LL.B., CAMS is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and from 2002 to October 2013, he served for nearly 11 years as General Counsel, Chief Compliance & Regulatory Officer for the Cambridge Mercantile Group, an MSB providing wholesale corporate/commercial global foreign currency exchange payments services and solutions.

Commencing in mid-October, 2013, he retired from Cambridge and is now currently working at Globle Foreign Exchange Inc, as the Canadian Chief AML Officer. Globle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trans Fast Remmittance LLC.

In October 2002, he began serving as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to a NASDAQ-listed company with multiple US and Canadian locations, and was appointed General Counsel and Chief Compliance & Regulatory Officer at Cambridge in December 2002.

Ken holds a ‘Teacher of Adults’ diploma from Centennial College.  He completed the Canadian Securities Course in 1998 and is a Professional Member and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist with the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”).  He is a founding member and Co-Secretary of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Chapter of ACAMS, and is an associate Board Member and strong supporter of the Canadian Money Services Businesses Association, and of the MSB sector generally.