Before assuming his roles on the task force and strike force, David served as a Trial Attorney in the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division, where he investigated and prosecuted federal crimes related to national security, specializing in export controls and economic sanctions. Before joining CES, David served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division where he oversaw the national security and international law portfolios. David began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. David received a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law, a Master of Art in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University.

Ms. Tatjana Dobrovolny is a Senior Expert for Compliance programs and system solutions for Financial Crime Prevention and Detection. Her expertise covers Anti Money Laundering (AML), Combating Terrorism Financing / Financial Sanctions (CTF/FiSa) and Monitoring of Securities Transactions in Raiffeisen Bank International Group including CEE and CIS subsidiaries. Ms. Dobrovolny is also Chairman/Chairwomen of the Raiffeisen Change Advisory Board for Compliance solutions and Chief Product Owner for implementation of the Financial Crime Prevention and Detection systems. Her focus includes design and implementation of a range of policies, procedures and effective IT systems for Sanctions screening and AML monitoring of transactions.

Ms. Dobrovolny is with Raiffeisen Compliance for over 15 years serving also in sensitive data analytics and forensic investigations, having a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade.

Pete previously worked as a financial crimes compliance manager at a Big Four accounting firm, where he aided financial institution clients with enhancing and optimizing AML and sanctions programs and conducting program remediations. Earlier in his career, Pete practiced as an attorney where he worked primarily on behalf of institutional investors in securities litigation matters.

Pete currently serves on the Digital Assets and Payment Transparency working groups for the Wolfsberg Group. He is a member of the bar in several US state and federal jurisdictions and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

She is in charge of Sanctions risk oversight, investigations, reporting and Global Sanctions risk assessment. She is the predominant lead in regulatory examinations and audit reviews, and supports other key initiatives to enhance the Bank’s Sanctions Compliance Program.

Prior to joining Bank of the West, she worked at BNP Paribas in their Group Financial Security Department where she was the Head of Sanctions Training. She was in charge of the creation, segmentation and implementation of the Group’s OFAC Sanctions training curriculum. During her tenure, she has organized hundreds of face-to-face and remote training sessions for Compliance Officers and Relationship Managers all over the world.

Donlin is a founding member of the Women in Sanctions Network (WSN) Group. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law teaching economic Sanctions; has guest lectured at Columbia’s graduate School of International and Public Affairs and is a frequent speaker at various industry events.

Heidi is currently the Director, Global Sanctions in Scotiabank’s AML Risk Group, based in Toronto, Canada. In this role, she leads a team that is responsible for facilitating enterprise-wide compliance with Canadian and OFAC sanctions by providing expert advice and counsel on Scotiabank’s enterprise-wide sanctions program, client and transaction sanctions exposure, business line procedures and controls, the design of new products and services, as well as by delivering enterprise-wide advisory documents and guidance tools and business-specific sanctions training.

Before joining Scotiabank’s AML Risk Group, Heidi was Senior Legal Counsel in Scotiabank’s Legal Department supporting the Canadian retail bank and enterprise-wide insurance businesses.

Heidi holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) and is called to the Ontario Bar.

Previously, Howard was a Vice President in the Global Sanctions Compliance Department at MUFG, where he collaborated on sanctions compliance program initiatives and worked on wide-ranging projects, including risk assessments, global product reviews, and consulting on complex transactions. Prior to that, he held anti-financial crime roles at Citibank and AIG, where he provided sanctions and compliance subject-matter expertise to global stakeholders.

Before that, Spieler served in the Bloomberg administration for 10 years, with seven of those years as head of compliance at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he helped develop and maintain its risk-based compliance program, which included managing regulatory reporting as well as the ongoing monitoring and assessment of a $30 billion portfolio of public-private real estate transactions.

Between 2016 and June 2023 Howard served on the volunteer board of the ACAMS New York Chapter, with the last five years as as the Chapter Co-Chair. Howard holds a Master’s Degree in Accounting from Kean University, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from St. John’s University, and a Bachelor of Arts with a focus on political science from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Additional information about Howard’s education and professional experience may be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/howardspieler.

Prior to joining Treliant, John oversaw Kroll’s Financial Crimes Consulting and Risk unit leading teams experienced in analyzing and investigating transaction monitoring alerts, detecting suspicious activity, and identifying money laundering typologies, particularly for high-risk rated customers. This group also focused on developing and assessing AML policies and procedures, determining legal entity beneficial ownership, as well as conducting effective sanction screening as it relates to verifying customers.

Before joining Kroll, John had a distinguished 27 year career with the U.S. Department of Justice/Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), where he served as a Senior Executive Service (SES) member leading numerous global initiatives focused on disrupting and dismantling transnational organized crime syndicates, with an emphasis on their money laundering and other illicit activities.

In this role John served as DEA’s Chief of Global Financial Investigations, with responsibility for directing, overseeing and augmenting the organizations global strategies and objectives as they related to criminal investigations around the world. Additionally, in this capacity he represented DEA to OFAC, FinCEN, and FATF as it relates to providing strategic insight relating to regulatory and enforcement activity, as well as policy development.

Mr. Baker leads the customs and trade service offerings in the U.S by adding value for his clients through tariff impact studies, duty reduction strategies, responding to U.S. Customs inquiries (audits, prior disclosures, administrative protests, penalty allegations), and compliance procedure enhancements. He is experienced in identifying and implementing cost saving improvements such as first sale for export, tariff engineering, valuation planning, free trade agreement eligibility, and special program applications such as foreign trade zones.

Equally knowledgeable in export control and sanctions matters, Mr. Baker offers comprehensive assistance on compliance with the EAR (dual use export controls, proliferation controls, denied persons and entities, anti-boycott), OFAC regulations (embargoes and sanctions, specially designated nationals, and blocked persons), and ITAR. He routinely performs training on the deployment of import and export compliance policies for clients around the globe.

Mr. Baker works with companies to navigate the challenging landscape of civil and criminal international trade investigations including defense against alleged fraudulent imports, antidumping duty circumvention, smuggling and transshipment, and violation of U.S. export control rules. He also supports the assessment and monitoring of ongoing corrective actions as required by agreements with various U.S. government agencies and judicial branches.

Mr. Baker draws upon his experience as a petrochemical engineer to better provide technical guidance on product classification, licensing, and the testing of trade compliance controls. Prior to FTI Consulting, Mr. Baker started his international trade career with a boutique law firm specializing in import and export regulatory matters and was most recently a member of a Big 4 consultancy’s global trade practice.

Prior to joining IIBLP in 2018, Michael was the Director of Strategic Program Alliances at the Global Biological Sciences Institute, a non-profit working to improve biomedical research reproducibility throughout the biomed value chain. Michael wrote the popular weekly newsletter Standards Matter, spoke at numerous science conferences, and was a member of the D.C. Science Writers Association.

Prior to GBSI, Mr. Byrne worked with CREATe.org, a startup non-profit in the supply chain ethics space who worked with the major MNCs to better engage with their vast supply chains on IP protection and ethics.

Mr. Byrne is a graduate of The Florida State University.

With more than 15+ years of professional experience in the financial industry, she spend 8+ of those excelling in both commercial and technical roles and established herself as a well-rounded speaker in the subject matter of financial crime compliance and pioneered the use of technology in the trade industry for AirCargo companies. She holds a postgraduate Diploma in international AML regulations from the International Compliance Association and has advised more than 150+ international companies on industry practices in sanction screening, effective export controls management and financial crime compliance frameworks.

With a passion for technology, she sets the latest market trends and stays abreast recent regulatory developments.

Dave received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and attained a Masters of Business Administration, focusing on Management and Strategy from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

She is a frequent speaker in English, Spanish and Dutch on a variety of financial crime topics.

She earned law degrees from Leiden University (Netherlands) and Universidad La Católica (Lima, Peru), and was admitted to the Lima Bar Association. She also holds an international MBA from Florida International University. She speaks fluent Dutch, English and Spanish, as well as basic German.