Power Panel: Compliance As Leverage - How To Build Anti-Financial Crime Technology & Teams To Fast Track Growth
Power Panel: Compliance As Leverage - How To Build Anti-Financial Crime Technology & Teams To Fast Track Growth

Jas is the Managing Partner at StrategyBRIX, a boutique Risk and Compliance Consulting firm. Before StrategyBRIX, Jas served as the Head of FinancialCrimes and Compliance at leading fintechs, including Stripe and Airwallex. In addition, at PwC, Jas built and led the firm’s Financial Crimes (Fintech) practice across the US West Coast.
He has over 18 years of experience with building and managing programs in the Compliance space. In his role, Jas works closely with CCOs, CROs, and product leaders to solve complex risk,compliance, and monitoring problems. Additionally, as a part of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG), he advised the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network(FinCEN), a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury, in areas of Digital Identity Verification, KYC, and using advanced technologies to solve financial crimes.
Jas is a regular speaker at industry events, a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), and an executive committee member of theWest Coast AML Forum (WCAML)

Ryan Schmiedl is the Global Head of Payments - Trust & Safety at JPMorgan Chase. He is responsible for protecting the bank and its clients from the impacts of fraud and financial crimes. Specifically, Ryan oversees product, engineering and machine learning functions for fraud detection, validation services, authentication, sanctions screening, and regulatory reporting for JP Morgan Payments. Ryan also services as the Payments Chief Data Officer (CDO). He has extensive expertise in the areas of product management, software engineering, machine learning, and operations.
Before joining JPMorgan Chase, Ryan worked for Amazon Web Services, where he served as the General Manager of Fraud & Financial Crimes Prevention overseeing vision and direction as well as day-to-day operations. He led a team of research scientists, software engineers, product/program managers and fraud investigators who worked closely with executives, product leaders and customers to ensure fraud prevention objectives & best practices. Key accomplishments include launching a new Amazon service, Amazon Fraud Detector, significantly reducing Amazon fraud losses, improving customer friction and successfully moving the AWS commerce platform to China, meeting a regulatory commitment.
Prior to Amazon, Ryan was the Vice President of Product at SAS Institute. While in this role, he oversaw the vision & direction and roadmap for SAS’ portfolio of business analytic and machine learning software ($3.5😎. He also held the position of VP of Fraud & Financial Crimes business where he launched numerous offerings including Anti-Money Laundering Prevention, Credit Card Fraud Prevention, Case/Alert Management. Ryan created this business unit with CEO support in 2002, turning the portfolio into a market leader.
Ryan holds a MBA and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University.

Having over 12 years of compliance experience in building and leading programs in Financial Institutions, large Money Service Businesses and general FinTechs, Rob DeCampos currently serves as The Head of The AML Office for Intuit. Rob also oversees enterprise compliance related to Card Brand, NACHA and Brand Risk Management.
Prior to his role with Intuit, Rob held compliance responsibilities at PayPal directing expansive departments in the US as well as APAC. Before his time at PayPal, Rob was a Senior Investigator for American Express’ Financial Intelligence Unit. Rob holds a JD from Northeastern University and has been CAMS designated since 2012.

Christie Kim is the COO of Persona, the identity infrastructure company backed by Founders Fund, Index Ventures, and Coatue that offers businesses the building blocks to create personalized identity verification experiences for any use case. In her role, Christie oversees Persona’s business and operations functions, including sales, marketing, customer success, and operations. She is leading the team toward the company’s mission to be the identity layer of the internet for customers including Square, Sonder, Brex, Udemy, Gusto, BlockFi, Coursera, and AngelList. Previously, Christie was at LinkedIn where she was the head of business development for LinkedIn Learning Solutions.
- A brave new world – with digital technology a fraudster can be anywhere in the world
- How can the industry collaborate to educate consumers about the scale of the risk?
- What new tools and technologies can we harness to fight financial crime?
- Will biometric authentication be a game changer?