CUNA Bank Secrecy Act Conference
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  David E. Abshier

David, a senior managing consultant in The Secura Group's Western Region, has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry as a chief credit officer, compliance manager, regulator, and consultant. He regularly performs loan portfolio reviews, due diligence examinations, Bank Secrecy Act reviews, and risk management engagements. Specific engagement experience includes developing a comprehensive risk-management program, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of community and nationwide lending networks, and developing credit-related policies and procedures. David has also performed numerous risk-management assignments involving credit analysis, litigation support, title resolution, operations analysis, sensitivity analysis, and compliance. His consulting experience spans small to large institutions throughout the western United States.

Prior to joining The Secura Group, David spent five years as a management consultant with a wide variety of clients ranging from community financial institutions to nationwide commercial banks. He served nearly five years with the Office of Thrift Supervision's special surveillance group and was designated as a certified thrift regulator.

  Carol R. Van Cleef

As a partner at Bryan Cave, LLP, Carol regularly advises credit unions and other financial services companies on federal and state regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters, including anti-money laundering, OFAC compliance, privacy and date security, federal deposit insurance, and other banking regulatory issues. She also works extensively on a variety of payments related issues including ACH transactions, electronic bill payment, and stored value/prepaid cards. She advises banking organizations, program managers, and distributors in the development and operation of prepaid or stored value card programs and in connection with different types of business combinations, including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Carol speaks and writes frequently on anti-money laundering compliance and payments issues. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and Fox News Live and has been heard on National Public Radio and numerous other radio stations.

  Franklin Drake

Franklin Drake joined the Raleigh, North Carolina law firm of Smith Debnam as an partner in April of 1994, after a 16 year practice specializing in creditor's rights, bankruptcy, and repossession law with William Mapother in Louisville, Kentucky. He was senior vice president of Mapother's law firm and is an owner of Smith Debnam.

Mr. Drake has practiced extensively in North Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia and the federal courts of southern Indiana. He lectures frequently at practical skills courses for attorneys and paralegals, and at bankruptcy and compliance training programs for NASCUS, regulatory agencies and state credit union leagues across the country. He has published a number of articles on bankruptcy and collections law over 20 years.

For the past 29 years, he has advised and represented most of the nation's major financers on secured lending and bankruptcy matters. He has specialized in representing credit unions for more than two decades.

  Nichole L. Seabron

Nichole is federal compliance counsel for CUNA Regulatory Affairs in the Washington, DC office. In this position Nichole is responsible for maintaining CUNA's e-Guide to Federal Laws and Regulations and responding to credit union compliance inquiries. She is responsible for editing and contributing to CUNA's monthly Compliance Challenge, the online compliance newsletter presented in a Q&A format.

Prior to joining CUNA in 2005, she was a corporate compliance officer/AVP with Bank of America Private Bank. Nichole has close to 10 years of financial services experience (including three years with Navy Federal Credit Union) in areas such as asset management, bankcard, and retail banking.

  Valerie Moss

Valerie is director of Compliance Information for CUNA Regulatory Affairs in the Washington, DC office. Valerie works closely with CUNA's Publications and Web Services Departments to deliver useful and accurate compliance information in a user-friendly format to CUNA's members. She is the editor of both Credit Union Magazine's Compliance Matters and CUNA's e-Guide to Federal Laws and Regulations. Although these are her major responsibilities, Valerie also helps support CUNA's compliance certification program RegTraC, monitors CUNA's compliance e-mail list "COBWEB," and answers compliance questions via telephone and e-mail. Before joining CUNA in 1997, Valerie was a regulatory specialist with the Michigan Credit Union League.

  Lorraine B. Lawlor

Lorraine is the chief of compliance outreach at the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. A CPA by trade, her primary responsibilities are to ensure that U.S. companies and individuals comply with U.S. economic sanctions imposed against foreign governments and groups of individuals, including terrorists and narcotics traffickers. She has been with OFAC since 1990, before which she was a revenue agent with the Internal Revenue Service, auditing primarily corporate tax returns. During her tenure at the IRS, she was active in the revenue agent training program and ran workshops on small-business taxation for the Small Business Administration.

  Tim McLeod

Tim provides a clear-cut focus on team development as the chief of operations and senior vice president at Singing River Federal Credit Union. Proper training, group ingenuity, and savvy awareness skills are qualities Tim stresses in dealing with today's evolving challenges such as fraud, business conformity, operational growth, disaster recovery, and compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act.

  Judy Graham

Judy began her career with the National Credit Union Administration as an examiner in Erie, PA in 1998. She is now a program officer in the Office of Examination and Insurance, concentrating on Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering issues and other areas of compliance.

  Mary-Lou Heighes, CUCE

Mary-Lou has been involved in the credit union movement since 1989. She has been involved in all areas of credit union operations: general operations, marketing, collections, lending, and compliance. She is a CUNA certified Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE) and is president of Compliance Plus, Inc., which provides strategic planning, training, compliance, and consulting services to credit unions. Mary-Lou was the senior research and information consultant for the California/Nevada Credit Union League for seven years, and since founding her company in 2000, has provided training for credit unions and leagues around the country. Prior to her tenure at the league, she spent five years in the credit union trenches.

  Laura Pizzarelli

Laura is the senior vice president of corporate relations at CO-OP Shared Branching, where her responsibilities include customer and vendor relations as well as overseeing operations of the network and organization. Laura was formerly vice president of corporate relations for Credit Union Service Corporation, which combined with CO-OP in 2007. She joined CUSC in January 1998 subsequent to her employment as an executive in the marketing area for Gwinnett Federal Credit Union in Georgia. As director of marketing, she was responsible for the development and implementation of the marketing plans for the credit union.

  Andrew King

Andrew is a product manager at Verafin. He has extensive experience in IT solutions for the financial services industry. Prior to joining Verafin, Andrew worked for a number of software vendors that specialize in products and services for financial institutions. Andrew has managed numerous client installations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand.

  Jamie King

Jamie is president and co-founder of Verafin, a software company that specializes in anti-money laundering and fraud detection solutions for the financial services industry. Prior to Verafin, Jamie co-founded Intrignia Solutions, a company specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence. Jamie is a regularly featured speaker at international anti-money laundering conferences. He has taught Computer Engineering at Memorial University and has authored numerous Artificial Intelligence publications.

  Woody Hodgdon, CUCE, BSACS

Woody is a Credit Union Compliance Expert (CUCE), Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Specialist (BSACS), and is the national compliance manager for Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union (formerly HP Employees FCU) in Palo Alto, California. Addison Avenue FCU serves employees of Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, Philips Electronics, and several other related employers in the United States and Puerto Rico. Prior to accepting his current job, Woody spent 17 years at HP Rocky Mountain Federal Credit Union in Loveland, Colorado which eventually merged with the other HP credit unions to form Addison Avenue FCU. He spent three years as an agent for CUNA Mutual in northern Colorado prior to starting his management career with credit unions. Woody has been involved in credit union management, operations, marketing, and compliance issues for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of Western CUNA Management School in Pomona, California. He is a 1980's graduate of CUNA's Regulatory Compliance School and attends annual update sessions to stay current. Woody has lectured to many groups about bankruptcy, the Americans with Disabilities Act, financial counseling, home banking, and risk-based lending. Woody is a charter member of the National Credit Union Institute and earned the Dean's List with Highest Honors designation.

For more program content information or to request a brochure call 800-356-9655, ext. 4249, or email elearning@cuna.coop. For registration questions, call 800-356-9655, ext.4400 or e-mail reginfo@cuna.coop.

 

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