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Kathleen O. Blanchard
John Burnett
Brenda Canterbury
Randy Carey
Pat Cashman
Maurice Clark
David Dickinson
Peter Djinis
Thomas Fleming
Ken Golliher
Mary Beth Guard
Michele Hassen-Hemerley
Gerard (Jerry) W. LiVigni
Kathleen Blanchard
Key Compliance Services
 Kathleen Blanchard is a regulatory compliance and bank risk management consultant with more than 24 years of experience at banks ranging in size from $2 billion to some of the world's largest banks.
Kathleen has held banking positions including Credit Policy and Procedures manager for a $40 Billion dollar bank, Compliance and BSA Manager for several banks, and Risk Manager for a $3 Billion dollar super community bank. Her extensive credit, regulatory and internal controls experience allows her to help banks to develop workable processes to meet regulatory requirements.
She holds CRCM and CRP certifications and is a graduate of the ABA National Compliance School. Kathleen has extensive experience conducting training on many topics and has presented at conferences on regulatory and risk and Sarbanes Oxley as it relates to banks. She has written white papers on banking issues and been published in the ABA Banking Journal and Compliance Week.
Kathleen is a BOL Guru and a Senior Consultant with Brintech in the Risk Management practice. Brintech's risk management consultants have experience in hundreds of financial institutions, defining policies, procedures, and working with regulators to define and avoid problems. She is also a partner in Key Compliance Services, a consulting firm providing mapping services and CRA/HMDA analysis.
John Burnett
BankersOnline.com
 John Burnett is a 1979 alumnus of the ABA National Compliance School, and served on its faculty for several years. He graduated with honors with the Class of 1990 from ABA's Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He is also a graduate of the BAI's and the Massachusetts Banker Association's Schools of Banking.
He joined Cape Cod Bank and Trust Company in 1971 and assumed his role as Compliance Officer in 1976. He also served as corporate secretary and secretary of CCBT's Board of Directors, as well as Clerk of the bank's holding company. John joined Glia Group, Inc., and became a part of the BOL Team in June, 2004.
Mr. Burnett is a former member chair of the Massachusetts Bankers Association Legal and Regulatory Compliance Committee, and of the American Bankers Association Compliance Executive Committee and NCS/NGCS Advisory Board. He served on ABA's Truth in Savings Task Force, and has served on several ABA and Massachusetts Bankers seminar panels.
Brenda Canterbury, CAMS
RBC Bank (USA)
Brenda is Senior Compliance Manager, Specialty Businesses with RBC Bank (USA) in Birmingham, Alabama. She is responsible for general compliance oversight of several of the bank's specialty business lines including prepaid cards, trust, factoring and leasing.
She began her banking career in 1978 and has extensive experience in developing and managing BSA/AML, deposit, branch audit and information security programs; conducting enterprise-wide risk assessments; and developing effective operational and compliance manuals in community bank environments. She served on the merger/acquisition team of a multi-bank community bank holding company for over twenty years, assisting in over 25 bank mergers and acquisitions.
She holds the designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and has been a speaker/trainer for civic organizations, Community Bankers Association of Alabama and the Center for Financial Training (formerly known as American Institute of Bankers).
M.E. Clark, Special Agent-Sr Analyst
Internal Revenue Service
Maurice Clark graduated from California State University in 1981 with a BA in Finance & Accounting. He was a U.S. Postal Inspector from 1981 through 1986, when he became a special agent with IRS Criminal Investigation. He has been posted in Dallas, TX his entire career, working a wide variety of significant financial crime cases.
In 2001, Special Agent Clark took the lead role in creating and managing the North Texas Asset Forfeiture Task Force. This group pooled the resources of IRS-CI with 3 state and local police detectives in efforts to pursue asset forfeiture opportunites that might otherwise be overlooked. A number of successful money laundering and other financial crime cases were completed, but eventually the task force began focusing on the lucrative area of SAR Review. Under Special Agent Clark's leadership over the last 5 years, this same task force has expanded to include 8 state & local police detectives, 3 IRS-CI agents, and one Secret Service agent.
The Dallas SAR Task Force has yielded a number of significant criminal cases of all types, resulting in more than a dozen prosecutions and over $6 million forfeited in the last 3 years. The Dallas SAR Task Force is now widely recognized as a model for other SAR Review teams across the nation by Dept of Justice and Dept of Treasury.
Special Agent Clark has recently been promoted to the job of Senior Program Analyst for BSA/SAR Review. He is relocating to Washington DC IRS headquarters where he will be responsible for managing the national SAR Review program.
Patricia Cashman
Cashman Compliance Solutions, LLC.
 Patricia is a partner in Cashman Compliance Solutions, LLC. She is responsible for consumer compliance reviews, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering reviews, and compliance and BSA training.
Patricia began her banking career in 1969. She has been the senior operations officer for three Dallas-Ft. Worth area community banks, an assistant examiner for the Texas Department of Banking and managed the compliance/internal audit division of TIB - The Independent BankersBank, one of the largest bankers' banks in the country.
Additionally, Patricia has spoken as a webcast/teleconference presenter for the American Bankers Association (ABA), BankersOnline (BOL) and the Center for Financial Training (CFT), taught a variety of compliance subjects for the Texas Bankers Association (TBA) and ABA at their respective Compliance Schools. She also serves as a BOL GURU and been a speaker/trainer for numerous banks and compliance organizations.
Randy Carey
 Randy Carey is an independent regulatory compliance and bank management consultant and provides internal compliance audit services.
Randy has nearly 30 years of banking experience which included positions ranging from Check Sorter Operator, Proof Supervisor, Senior Training Officer, Staffing Analysis Officer, VP and Project Manager, National Retail Loan Payment Processing Manager, VP - Compliance and Community Reinvestment Act Activities, and VP and Director of Internal Audit.
Randy utilizes his broad base of banking operations knowledge to help banks meet the challenges of regulatory compliance by suggesting practical solutions that are both effective and efficient.
Randy is a graduate of the ABA National Compliance School, the ABA National Graduate Compliance School, and the ABA National Truth-in-Lending School. He has served as an instructor for the American Institute of Banking and the Oregon and Texas Bankers Compliance Schools and passed the Certified Bank Compliance Officer examination. He is also a former member of the Community Reinvestment Leadership Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
David Dickinson
Banker's Compliance Consulting
 David is a highly trained expert in compliance regulations. He is also a motivational speaker and innovative educator. As a qualified speaker on compliance issues, David speaks for the American Bankers Association's National Compliance School, as well as, several State Banking Associations. He conducts various seminars throughout the year, has developed numerous compliance manuals and has written articles for prestigious banking publications. In 1993, He established the firm of Banker's Compliance Consulting.
Peter Djinis
 Peter Djinis is the founder of the Law Offices of Peter Djinis, specializing in civil and regulatory matters involving federal anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act laws. Before establishing his own law offices, he served as Executive Assistant Director for Regulatory Policy for the US Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), for which he was responsible for establishing regulatory policy and overseeing all aspects of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance by US bank and non-bank financial institutions. Peter is the author of The ABC's of the BSA, a reference book on BSA regulatory requirements. He often speaks on money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance matters and has frequently appeared in the national media and testified before Congress.
Thomas Fleming
 Mr. Fleming is the Assistant Director for the Office of Compliance at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The Office works to better ensure industry compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act through supporting, overseeing, and working in partnership with the agencies and organizations that examine for Bank Secrecy Act compliance. The Office also tracks the performance of financial institutions experiencing significant Bank Secrecy Act compliance deficiencies. As Assistant Director, Mr. Fleming has overall responsibility for managing these efforts and outreach initiatives to educate financial institution, regulatory, and law enforcement partners on these matters. Previously, Mr. Fleming served as the Assistant Director for the Office of Regulatory Policy at FinCEN. In that Office he oversaw the issuing of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations and guidance to interpret and clarify BSA regulations and policies.
Prior to joining FinCEN, Mr. Fleming was a Senior Compliance Specialist with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency where he developed Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering policies and examination procedures and provided authoritative advice and guidance on these matters. Prior to joining the Comptroller's Office, Mr. Fleming was the Deputy Assistant Director of FinCEN's former Office of Compliance and Regulatory Enforcement where he reviewed, analyzed and advised on Bank Secrecy Act regulations, rulings and policies and supervised civil penalty investigations of BSA violations. Mr. Fleming also worked as a Program Analyst for the Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision providing educational programs and compliance assistance to savings associations. Before joining the federal government, Mr. Fleming was a banker for over 20 years.
Mr. Fleming has spoken extensively on these issues to audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Ken Golliher
Pegasus Educational Services, LLC
 Ken Golliher is a principal with Pegasus Educational Services, LLC, a training firm headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an experienced banker with a unique ability to reduce complex legal concepts to plain English. He has explained the "why" and "how" of regulations to thousands of financial institution personnel and examiners. Ken's banking career began in 1972 and includes serving as a teller, commercial operations manager and as trust department legal counsel in a state and a national bank. For ten years he headed the education division of a regional consulting firm for financial institutions. He has served on the faculty of the LSU Graduate School of Banking, the OTS' Level I Compliance School and the FDIC's Advanced Consumer Protection School for examiners. He has presented seminars in more than 25 states and has served as an instructor at compliance schools sponsored by the Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas bankers associations. He is a member of the Society for Applied Learning Technology. He is also a moderator of the General, BSA, and Operations forums at Bankersonline
Mary Beth Guard
BankersOnline.com
 Mary Beth Guard currently serves as Executive Editor of BankersOnline.com and CEO of Glia Group, Inc., Mary Beth has had a long and distinguished career, graduating from law school in 1980, then going on to serve as general counsel for the Oklahoma State Banking Department, general counsel for the Oklahoma Bankers Association, and EVP of Specialized services for Thomson Financial Publishing prior to co-founding Glia Group, Inc. and BankersOnline.com. Mary Beth also serves as Executive Editor for BankingQuestions.com and as a partner in BankGuard Resources.
Mary Beth is on the advisory board for Bankers' Hotline. She has presented training programs for virtually every major national financial industry association, as well as more than a dozen state bankers associations and a host of other organizations. In addition, Mary Beth has written more than a thousand banking-related articles and is a BOL Guru.
Michelle Hassen-Hemerley
Corus Bank
 Michelle has been in the banking industry for the past 20 years. Her career began as an Examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch. Michelle was a Safety and Soundness Examiner and then became a Compliance Examiner, each requiring her to attend many banking schools across the country.
Michelle then crossed over to the bank side and became a Compliance Officer for one of the larger banks in the country. She was responsible for the compliance of two states and over 45 branches. If that wasn't enough, Michelle thought she would get the full circle of experience and she became a Compliance Consultant for a large accounting firm in the Chicago area. There, she assisted in writing several manuals for Sheshunoff and created various compliance tools for the industry.
For the past twelve years, Michelle has been responsible for the Compliance/Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Program at Corus Bank, a $9 billion organization based in Chicago, IL. Corus Bank has 11 branches in the Chicago area with its main branch just north of the city. The bank's primary focus is on Commercial Lending across the United States. In addition, the bank is a large provider of banking services to the currency exchange/check cashing industry in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Michelle has also worked as a private investigator on numerous cases over the past twenty years.
Michelle has been a speaker and a member of the planning committee for numerous conferences across the country for the past several years including ABA, BAI and the Graduate School of Banking. Her unique experience coupled with her enthusiasm for BSA Compliance provides a fresh perspective.
Michelle graduated from the University of Denver with a Finance and Marketing degree.
Gerard (Jerry) W. LiVigni
Senior Compliance Officer
U.S. Treasury Department
 Mr. LiVigni has over 28 years of International Banking Operations, Anti-Money Laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act compliance experience. Before joining OFAC Jerry was Vice President and Compliance AML Training Officer for BNP Paribas's bank and securities affiliate offices in the United States. He was responsible for USA PATRIOT Act AML policies and procedures as well as monitoring BSA and OFAC examination work programs, the "Firm" element and the Annual Firm meeting and training of registered representatives and floor traders at the New York Futures Commodity Mercantile Exchange.
Mr. LiVigni is a key member of the Compliance Outreach and Implementation team at the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control and plays a front line role in the financial war against international terrorists and narcotics traffickers. He provides practical advice on a daily basis to financial institutions from around the world on OFAC compliance issues, routinely interacting with his regulatory and private industry peers.
Jerry believes that the hallmark of addressing OFAC issues either as a financial institution or a "person" who comes under OFAC jurisdiction, one ought to rely on a "clear and reasonable approach" in both their risk assessment and its application. Since 2003 Mr. LiVigni has been a regular presenter at the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC Institute's) AML Workshop's OFAC module. In addition since 2003 Mr. LiVigni has been a regular speaker at the Annual Money Transmitter Regulators Association (MTRA) Conference for MSB State Regulators and Examiners and the MSB industry along with his addressing the International Money Transmitters Convention. Mr. LiVigni was a keynote speaker at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) BSA/AML Emerging Issues Forum. Since 2005 Jerry has been a regular presenter at the NASD (now FINRA) Institute's Anti-Money Laundering Symposium for OFAC related responsibilities and their impact on the securities industry. In October 2007 and again in November of 2008 Mr. LiVigni was a panelist at the half-day SIFMA and OFAC Symposium specifically addressing OFAC issues with regard to screening of the SDN and Blocked Persons List. For the last three years he has addressed the American Payroll Association's Capital Summit in Washington, D.C.
Mr. LiVigni has a B.A. degree from York College of the City University of New York. He also holds a New York State Teaching Certification.
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