Cengiz Kiamil - VP of Strategy

Fenergo

Cengiz joined Fenergo in August 2021 to head up its strategy division. He brings with him a wealth of subject matter expertise across commercial, corporate, and institutional banking in addition to digital strategy and innovation experience across the financial services industry. He joins us from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, where he spent five years, most recently as Executive Director and Head of Product Management in the CCIB COO office. Prior to this Cengiz spent over six years across Hong Kong and London with HSBC holding several roles during his tenure, including business management, and global product manager for the GBM Client Management Group. Cengiz holds a BSc in Economics from the University of East Anglia.

Jeff Lavine – Partner, Global Financial Crimes Leader

PwC

Jeff Lavine is the PwC Global Financial Crimes Leader. Jeff has led teams who have worked on nearly all of the largest bank AML and Sanctions regulatory actions throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. He has more than 25 years of experience working with both governments and global financial institutions to fix their most complicated matters. In addition to his leadership role, Jeff specializes in post-crisis organizational strategy, helping our clients build stronger global anti-financial crime control programs. An attorney and a Certified Public Accountant, Jeff has advised financial services regulatory agencies in their efforts to improve supervisory processes. He has led teams that have assisted financial market utilities to operationalize AML and Sanctions compliance requirements, and to integrate financial crime prevention, detection and compliance into automated systems and processes. He has run internal audit departments and provided strategic consulting guidance to global IT and data services firms to guide their new product offerings.

Ken Triemstra, Global Head of KYC and AML,

State Street

Ken Triemstra is the Global Head of the KYC Program and AML Policies for State Street and interim head of AML Programs. In his role, Ken is responsible for KYC Program design and enhancements, AML regulatory change, development of targeted AML Policies, and oversight of implementation. Ken also leads the end-to-end KYC Transformation initiative, which is a multi-year plan to streamline KYC, centralize execution, and enhance technology.  Most recently, Ken has also taken the lead managing the development of State Street’s FCC framework for State Street Digital Assets.  Prior to joining State Street, Ken most recently worked at JPMorgan Chase in various AML Compliance executive roles, including International Head of KYC and Global Head of KYC Policy. Ken has over 20 years within financial services with 15 directly in AML developing programs, remediations, and closure of regulatory enforcement actions across multiple global banks. Further, Ken has AML and product expertise in numerous niche areas: 5AMLD, Cannabis, Cryptocurrency, Peer-to-Peer Payments, and Wallets.

Neil Katkov, PhD – Head of Risk

Celent

Neil oversees the Risk and Compliance space at Celent. His expertise focuses on financial crime, anti-money laundering and know-your-customer compliance, AML/KYC technology, and regtech. Neil initiated Celent's influential research on AML compliance and technology in 2002. He regularly advises leading financial institutions and technology vendors on their business, technology, and compliance strategies. His advisory engagements have included vendor selection for financial institutions, market feasibility studies for financial institutions and technology vendors, and strategic due diligence on a number of the leading compliance vendors. Neil has been widely quoted in the press, including The Financial Times and The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, has appeared on CNBC, CNN, and TV Tokyo, and is a popular speaker at conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe. Neil previously launched and managed Celent’s presence in Asia for 15 years and helped establish Celent’s market leading position in Japan. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and MA and PhD degrees from Harvard University. He is fluent in English, Japanese, and Chinese.