Vic is a burgeoning entrepreneur focused passionately on building impact-oriented companies. He has over 16 years of experience as an industry executive, subject matter expert, and practitioner in the multiple disciplines of financial crimes and intelligence. Vic is an alum of UCLA Anderson School of Management and a former collegiate student-athlete. Vic resides in Phoenix, AZ with his wife, 2 daughters, and son.

John is the founding Program Chair of Homeland Security and Director of the Master of Science in Intelligence Analysis at Rabdan Academy in the United Arab Emirates. His program is the first of its kind in the GCC providing education, training and research support to the UAE security community. A threat finance and intelligence expert, he has held numerous senior positions in the US government, banking and academia. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Case Western Reserve University, as well as an MA in Political Science from Eastern Illinois University and BA in International Studies from DePaul University. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi, UAE with his wife, 2 children, cat and dog.

Elizabeth is a Managing Director and Senior Counsel at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., a global, full-service broker-dealer and investment bank, where she has worked as an international securities attorney for the last fourteen years. She has an in-depth knowledge of financial services, with a focus on anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, international activities, institutional sales and trading, and corporate governance. Additionally, she is a co-founder and director of First Light Foundation, a non-profit, grantmaking, charitable organization. Elizabeth holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, a BA from the University of Notre Dame, a CAMS certification, and has been admitted to the New York Bar Association. She has also obtained an advance certification from the Wine and Spirits Education Trust.

Jim Richards is the principal and founder of RegTech Consulting LLC, focused on providing strategic advice on all aspects of financial crimes risk management to AML software providers, financial technology start-ups, cannabis-related businesses, mid-size banks, and money services businesses.
From 2005 through April 2018 Mr. Richards served as the BSA Officer and Director of Global Financial Crimes Risk Management for Wells Fargo & Co. As BSA officer, he was responsible for governance, training, and program oversight for BSA, anti-money laundering (AML), and sanctions for Wells Fargo’s global operations. As Director of Global Financial Crimes Risk Management, he was responsible for BSA, AML, counter-terrorist financing (CTF), external fraud, internal fraud and misconduct, the identity theft prevention program, global sanctions, financial crimes analytics, and high-risk customer due diligence.
Prior to his role with Wells Fargo, Mr. Richards was the AML operations executive at Bank of America. There, he was responsible for the operational aspects of Bank of America’s global AML and CTF monitoring, surveillance, investigations, and related SAR reporting. Prior to his 20-year career in banking, Mr. Richards was a prosecutor in Massachusetts, a barrister in Ontario, Canada, and a Special Constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He is the author of “Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering.” Mr. Richards has a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.) degree and Juris Doctorate from the University of British Columbia.