Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert for Financial Services covering the EMEA region. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analyzing key policy/regulatory/cultural/technology drivers transforming the compliance market. Charmian is CAMS, CRMA, CDPSE and CISA certified.

Prior to joining SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, formally BAE Systems, Charmian was a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA, and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets.

Helena Wood is a Senior Research Fellow and head of the UK Economic Crime Programme at RUSI's Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, which tracks and supports the UK government's response to anti-money laundering, asset recovery and fraud.

Helena's research interests include reform of the UK's response to economic crime as well as the global policy response to criminal asset confiscation. Since joining CFCS as an Associate Fellow in 2015, Helena has published research on the UK's proceeds of crime architecture, fraud and anti-money laundering intelligence gaps.

Prior to joining CFCS as a staff member, Helena ran an independent financial crime consultancy, with clients across the public, private and third sectors. Eariler in her career Helena spent over a decade in public service in the UK, with positions at the National Crime Agency, the Asset Recovery Agency, HM Treasury and the Charity Commission.

Nick delivers economic crime policy and advocacy on behalf of members, leading on international engagement, benefi cial ownership and grand corruption. He provides the secretariat for the Anti-Bribery and Corruption panel and supports the money laundering advisory panel and UK Finance input to the economic crime reform programme. Prior to UK Finance, Nick worked both as a private sector advisor, supporting audits of corporate compliance and government reviews of public contractors and local authorities, and as a civil servant, representing the UK at the OECD working group on bribery and the OECD Responsible Business Conduct working group.

Christopher David is Director of White Collar Crime at Clifford Chance. Christopher specialises in representing both companies and individuals in white collar crime matters mainly involving allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing, tax evasion, cartels or money laundering. These matters predominantly involve investigations undertaken by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) or the National Crime Agency (NCA), as well as overseas agencies, such as the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

In addition, Christopher has considerable experience in cross-border corporate and internal investigations on behalf of multi-national corporations and major financial services clients. These investigations often involve multiple jurisdictions, as well as compliance issues and risk management. Christopher also has experience working as a member of a DOJ-appointed independent Compliance Monitorship team and is the co-author of “A Practical Guide to INTERPOL and Red Notices” published by Bloomsbury Professional.