John Calderon is a financial crime and compliance executive with nearly 15 years of experience leading BSA/AML, sanctions, and consumer compliance programs across banks, fintech, and money services businesses. He has served as Chief Compliance Officer and BSA Officer, with a strong track record of building and remediating complex compliance frameworks under regulatory scrutiny, including consent orders and enforcement actions. He has led large-scale AML transformations, including the implementation of AI-driven transaction monitoring systems that improve detection and reduce false positives, and brings deep expertise in high-risk banking areas.

Christopher Phillips is a financial crime compliance leader with nearly 20 years building and transforming AML, sanctions, and fraud programs across banking, fintech, trading, and payments. Having led large, distributed analyst and investigator teams across the US and Europe, he turns complex, messy programs into sharper, faster operations through automation, machine learning, and AI. A frequent speaker and published author, Christopher focuses on practical, scalable controls, and how AI-native platforms are redefining investigation workflows and suspicious activity detection.

Xihua “Sabrina” Chen is the North America Head of Financial Crime Analytics at AML RightSource, where she leads data-driven advisory and analytics initiatives across financial crime compliance, risk management, and regulatory strategy. She brings more than 18 years of interdisciplinary experience across data science, anti-financial crime, risk analytics, strategy enablement, and product development.
Prior to AML RightSource, Sabrina spent more than a decade at Citi, where she served as Global Head of AML Customer Risk and Data Science Senior Lead. Her background also includes advisory and consulting roles at AlixPartners and KPMG. Sabrina is known for helping organizations apply analytics, automation, and emerging technologies to address complex financial crime and regulatory challenges.

Aadesh Gandhre is the General Auditor and Chief Audit Executive at DTCC, leading its global Internal Audit function. An award-winning leader, he is driving a tech-powered transformation by embedding analytics, automation, and AI across the audit lifecycle. Previously, Aadesh held senior audit and innovation leadership roles at Société Générale and Goldman Sachs. Recognized by the IIA as the 2026 Chief Audit Executive of the Year, he serves on multiple boards and holds a master's in Computer Science.

Goutam Gandhi leads enterprise AI strategy, AI risk management, and innovation across financial services. He also serves in a CISO capacity, overseeing cybersecurity and technology risk. With more than 25 years of experience spanning the Federal Reserve, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and high-growth fintechs, Goutam has built scalable banking operations that balance the speed of modern payments with the stability, discipline, and trust required by regulated institutions. He has also led AI-driven transformation initiatives, embedding responsible AI and governance into core banking operations, and designing execution frameworks that strengthen controls and reduce regulatory exposure.

Abhishek Mittal is EVP, Chief Product and AI Officer at AML RightSource, leading product innovation and AI-enabled transformation across global compliance services. He brings over 20 years of experience spanning financial services, regulatory technology, decision science, and artificial intelligence. Previously, Abhishek held senior leadership roles at Wolters Kluwer, launching award-winning AI products across a $1B+ portfolio, and managed risk workflows at American Express. He holds a Master’s from IIT Bombay and frequently speaks on compliance innovation.

As Managing Vice President at Capital One, Meera Das spearheads BSA/AML/OFAC monitoring and analytics, enhancing the AML program through machine learning and data science, and leading efforts to modernize legacy systems for stronger financial crime risk management. Previously, at BMO Financial Group, she provided strategic leadership of the AML monitoring program, advancing the Enterprise AML Compliance Program through analytics and risk modeling, driven by a mission to safeguard the financial system and set new benchmarks for vigilance industry-wide.

Patrick Bowe is Head of Product at Solytics Partners, where he focuses on developing and advancing technology solutions for financial crime compliance, risk management, AI governance, and model oversight. He works closely with financial institutions to translate complex regulatory, operational, and data challenges into practical technology-enabled solutions. Patrick brings a product-focused perspective on how institutions can adopt emerging technologies while maintaining strong controls, transparency, and regulatory defensibility.

C. Rob DeCampos, CAMS is the Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Payments Compliance at X, leading compliance strategy and scalable governance for financial innovation. He brings deep expertise across BSA/AML compliance, enterprise risk, and fintech operations. Previously, Rob served as Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President at Western Union, and held senior compliance leadership roles at Intuit, PayPal, and American Express. He holds a J.D. from Northeastern University and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Deepthi Machavaram is Executive Director and Global Head of Digital Financial Crimes Advisory at Morgan Stanley, focusing on financial crime risk, digital assets, and emerging technology compliance. She brings deep experience across AML advisory, fintech risk, and service delivery. Previously, Deepthi served as Director of Enterprise Digital Assets at BNY Mellon and Global Head of AML FinTech and Crypto Advisory at MUFG. She holds MBA degrees from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Indian School of Business.

Dinusha Briley is Senior Manager of Data Engineering, Security at Navy Federal Credit Union, specializing in building enterprise-scale, governed data ecosystems in highly regulated environments. She built Navy Federal’s first end-to-end fraud data ecosystem, converting fragmented data into trusted, decision-ready assets. A people-first leader, Dinusha focuses on aligning data strategy with fraud prevention, physical security, and regulatory compliance. She holds a bachelor's from the University of Maryland and completed executive education through MIT and Cornell.

Sourit Dasgupta, CAMS is Global Head of AML Governance, Risk and Analytics at Interactive Brokers, leading financial crimes compliance across a global brokerage and digital asset ecosystem. He brings over 13 years of experience in AML/CFT, sanctions, and model governance. Sourit specializes in integrating AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics into transaction monitoring. Previously, he held compliance roles at EY and Deloitte. He holds a master's in Computer Science and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Victor Salazar, CAMS, ICA is Director of AML Compliance Testing at Mizuho Americas, supporting the evaluation of financial crime compliance controls. He brings extensive experience in AML compliance testing, risk assurance, and banking operations. Victor has held progressively senior roles at Mizuho Americas, including Assistant Vice President and Vice President. Previously, he served as a Compliance Officer at HSBC and held client relationship roles at JPMorgan Chase. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Aishwarya Kothapally is a financial crimes compliance leader with more than 11 years of experience across AML, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, cryptocurrency compliance, regulatory reporting, KYC/CDD systems, and risk governance. She currently serves as First Vice President at BHI, where she leads strategic financial crimes compliance initiatives covering AML, sanctions, risk governance, automation, and regulatory excellence. Aishwarya has held financial crime, data analytics, model risk, and surveillance roles with Capgemini, Exiger, Matrix, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Wipro Technologies.

Danielle Miyagishima is a CAMS-certified financial crimes compliance professional with extensive experience across BSA/AML, sanctions, fraud, transaction monitoring, systems analytics, and high-risk customer activity. She currently serves as Senior BSA Systems & Analytics Specialist at OceanFirst Bank, where she supports risk-based monitoring, analytics, and control effectiveness across the BSA/AML program. Danielle previously spent more than a decade at Provident Bank in progressively senior BSA/AML and fraud systems roles.

Paul Gozzo is Vice President of Consulting Solutions at WorkFusion, a UiPath company, where he helps financial institutions apply AI and intelligent automation to complex financial crime and compliance operations. His work focuses on developing and deploying AI-driven solutions across areas including sanctions screening, adverse media, KYC, transaction monitoring, and investigations.

Thomas Messina is a senior AML and financial crimes compliance leader with deep experience across traditional financial institutions, digital assets, payments, Big Tech, and FinTech. He currently serves as Head of AML for Meta FinTech and BSA/AML Officer for Meta Payments, Inc., where he oversees financial crimes compliance for Meta’s FinTech and platform entities. His career includes senior roles at Deutsche Bank, Anchorage Digital, BNY Mellon, Citi, and PwC, with extensive work across AML, sanctions, fraud, KYC, transaction monitoring, model risk, digital assets, blockchain, and regulatory remediation. Thomas brings a unique perspective on how AI, payments, platform risk, and financial crime compliance are converging in the next generation of financial services.

Shabbir Husain is a financial crimes compliance and risk analytics leader currently serving as Principal Architect, Financial Crimes Risk Management at Wells Fargo, where he leads enterprise architecture for financial crimes systems and data. Previously, Shabbir served as Director, Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Systems at CFSB, where he led transaction screening optimization, and compliance transformation initiatives for a fintech sponsor bank. He also held senior financial crimes roles at Silicon Valley Bank, where he managed global governance, tuning, and configuration for sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening systems and helped drive adoption of machine learning solutions to reduce false positives and improve scalability.

Monica Lojano is a seasoned financial crimes and regulatory compliance professional with more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Her background spans regulatory compliance, internal audit, financial fraud, white-collar crime investigations, FCPA, anti-bribery and corruption, AML/BSA investigations, lookbacks, remediation, and forensic accounting. She has advised global financial institutions on complex compliance and investigative matters and currently serves as Senior Manager, Internal Audit, Global Markets and AML Regulatory Compliance at Scotiabank. Monica is a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and is fluent in Spanish.

Danielle Labarbera is Vice President of Sales, North America at Sumsub, where she leads regional growth strategy, enterprise acquisition, strategic partnerships, and sales team development. She brings more than 18 years of leadership experience across fintech, SaaS, financial services, and RegTech, with prior roles at American Express, Feedzai, Onfido, DocuSign, Accenture, and Goldman Sachs. Her expertise spans go-to-market strategy, revenue growth, identity verification, fraud prevention, and KYC/AML compliance, supported by an M.A. from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Moravian University.

Eric Lightfoot is Vice President, Americas at ComplyAdvantage, where he leads go-to-market and commercial growth across the region. He is an experienced sales and technology executive with a background spanning enterprise software, AI, financial crime compliance, and strategic partnerships, including prior leadership roles at DataRobot and BMC Software. He is also an active advisor and investor and holds degrees from Georgetown University and the London School of Economics.