Humberto J. Aguilar

City of Miami—Office of Intergovernmental Affairs: Assistant to the City Manager 1978
Law Clerk to the Honorable George E Orr: 1978/79
    Judge for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida
Attorney - - Humberto J. Aguilar, P.A.: 1979/80
   Attorney at Law
Attorney- - Fernandez-Caubi, Fernandez & Aguilar, P.A.
   Attorney at Law- - Criminal defense:  1980/1990
Suited For Success (Miami) - 1999/Present
  Program Coordinator
Career Gear of Miami -1999/Present
  Program Coordinator

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

• University of Miami School of Law
  
• University of Winnipeg at Manitoba
  
• IIR London (Money Laundering Conference) Institute for
• International Research
  
• Money Global Alert (Puerto Rico--2002)
  
• Money Laundering Alert (Miami Beach--2003)
  
• Money Laundering Alert (Panama City, Panama -- 2003)
  
• COMPLINET 1st Annual Anti-Money Laundering Conference (London 2004); University of Edinburg -The Joseph Bell Centre; CLADIT--Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Conference (Guatemala 2004); Association of Money Laundering Compliance Officers (London 2004)
  
  AWARDS:
  2002- Suited For Success/Career Gear Service Award
  1981/1985-Dade County Bar Association Merit Award
  1981/1985-Miami Mental Health Center
  1978-National Credit Union Administrative Award
  1978-Spanish American Law Student Association
  1978-John Marshal Bar Association
  1978-Phi Delta Phi Fraternity Service Award
  1978-Sigma Alpha Epsilon True Gentleman Award
  1984/1988-Who's Who Among American Lawyers
  1986/1989-Who's Who Among Hispanics in America
  1978-Florida Blue Key
  1978-Savant- - University of Florida Leadership Society
  1978-University of Florida President's Award
  
  
  PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
  
• FLORIDA BAR ASSOCIATION  (1978-1991)*
  
• NEW YORK BAR ASSOCIATION (1980-1991)*
  
• NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION (1979-1991)*
  * I am no longer affiliated but shall be applying for readmission within the next two years.
  
  CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS:
  
• Mexico City for MLRO Conference in February 2004
  
• Dubai for IIR Banking and Compliance Conference April 2004
  
• Guatemala City Annual Banking Conference March 2004
  
• Complinet Annual Compliance Seminar January 2004 (London)
  
• MLRO Focus Group (Rothschild Securities Limites-London) January 2004
  
• Florida International University Center CiberLearning Conference (Miami-Panama)  Money Laundering (Miami 2004)     
  
• STOP Money Laundering Conference (London 2004)
  
• COMPLINET Money Laundering Conference  (Holland 2004)
  
• APCIMS Conference (London 2004)-- Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers 
  
• Association of Money Laundering Compliance Officers of Gibraltar ( Gibraltar 2005) 
  
• FT BUSINESS (EuroCrime Frankfurt, Germany 2005)
  
• FT BUSINESS (EuroCrime London, UK 2006)
  
• NEFF Cime & Fraud Conference UK (2006) 
  
• British Banking Association (Annual European Crime Conference, London UK 2007)
  
• ALIFC (Dominican Republic 2007/2006)
  
• SIIDF Accounting Caribbean Conference Santo Domingo (2007)
  University of Leeds (2007)
  
• IMLOA Conference in the Grand Cayman Island (2008)
  
• Dominican Republic ALIFC Training Seminar/Conference(2008)
  
• Fraud World Conference/IIR London (2008)
  

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Professor Declan Hill
Award winning journalist, specializing in reporting financial crime as well as highly esteemed documentaries and television news anchor

Declan Hill is an investigative academic, documentary maker and television news anchor. He specializes in reporting on organized crime and international issues. In the last few years he has completed documentaries on the killing of the head of the Canadian mafia, blood feuds in Kosovo and ethnic cleansing in Iraq. His work has won a number of national and international awards, including one from Amnesty International. Declan has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC Radio World Service and BBC Radio 4: his writing has appeared in the Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph. In 2008, he received his doctorate on the study of match-fixing in professional football from the University of Oxford. The book adaptation of his thesis is published in 8 languages and has become an international best-seller.

Jermyn Brooks
Transparency International, Director of Global Private Sector Programmes

Jermyn Brooks, Director of Global Private Sector Programmes for Transparency International, after acting both as Executive Director and CFO after he joined the organisation in 2000 and subsequently as a member of the international Board. His responsibility for TI’s private sector initiatives includes the involvement on the design of the AML standards of the Wolfsberg banking group, the Business Principles for Countering Bribery and other specific industry-focused initiatives. He is a member of the board of PACI (Partnering against Corruption Initiative) that has been initiated by leading CEO's at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Simon NM Young
Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong; Barrister, Parkside Chambers

Simon N.M. Young (楊艾文) is Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, and Barrister at Parkside Chambers. He was previously Crown Counsel in the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario where he specialised in criminal appeals and proceeds of crime. From 2006 to 2008 he led a public policy research project funded by the Research Grants Council and Central Policy Unit on reforming Hong Kong’s laws tackling crime-tainted property. His book, Civil Forfeiture of Criminal Property (Edward Elgar UK, 2009) was the main output of this project. Simon is a member of the Post-Release Supervision Board, Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong’s subcommittees on criminal hearsay and double jeopardy, and Investigation Panel A of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also the author of the Human Rights chapter in Archbold Hong Kong 2009.

Tadashi Kageyama
Senior Managing Director, Head of Investigations, Asia, Kroll

Tadashi Kageyama is a senior managing director and the head of investigations for Asia, specializing in business intelligence, investigations, and risk consulting services for corporate clients and government agencies. Mr. Kageyama helps clients respond to and mitigate the risk of fraud, dispute and litigation, regulatory and compliance violations, intellectual property theft, and the theft of assets and information.

Prior to joining Kroll, Mr. Kageyama was a global purchasing agent for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd and spent three years in the Tokyo head office and four years in the US head office in New York. He was responsible for producing supplier and competitor intelligence reports, market and industry analysis reports, drafting and implementing vendor controls, and providing litigation support for Mitsubishi’s global procurement operations. Mr. Kageyama’s responsibilities also included negotiating and securing a number of multimillion-dollar contracts with suppliers worldwide and investigating suspicious and disputed contracts.

Mr. Kageyama has worked as a staff writer for Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei), has served as an advisory member on the subcommittee of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and speaks Japanese, English, and Spanish.

Professional Experience

• Business Intelligence & Investigations. Over 12 years of experience carrying out sensitive and complex business intelligence assignments in multiple jurisdictions in the aerospace, automotive, ship-building, plant construction, engineering, chemical, retail, finance, telecommunication, and pharmaceutical industries. He also helps clients manage their intellectual property by providing investigative services and advice on global enforcement actions.
• Vendor Integrity Programs. Has helped design and implement comprehensive vendor integrity programs for a number of Fortune 500 caliber clients.
• Fraud Investigations. Has experience managing white-collar crime investigations such as fraud, embezzlement, extortion, and industrial espionage. He has also assisted in large litigation cases and business control study services to mitigate compliance and internal control-related risks.
  

Scott A. Warren
Managing Director, Head of Japan Office, Kroll

Mr. Scott A. Warren is a managing director at Kroll and head of Kroll’s Japan office, specializing in business intelligence & investigations and risk consulting services for corporate clients and government agencies. His areas of specialty include protecting intellectual property, computer forensics, eDiscovery and anti-cyber crime efforts.

Prior to joining Kroll, Mr. Warren was Senior Attorney and Director of Internet Safety Enforcement for North Asia for Microsoft Corporation, based in Tokyo. His responsibilities included leading Microsoft’s cyber crime enforcement and child safety efforts in Japan, Korea and Greater China, and working with local police to substantially increase the arrest of cybercriminals throughout the region. He was also the worldwide director of Xbox antipiracy, leading teams to protect the Xbox and Xbox 360 platform from pirates, as well as working with technical security experts to build those platforms in an enforcement-friendly way. He further served as the director of Microsoft’s anti-counterfeiting efforts in North Asia, helping to direct one of the largest seizures of counterfeit goods in company history, as well as negotiating the largest anti-counterfeiting settlement to date for Microsoft in Asia. In addition, he was the lead attorney responsible for the launch of the Xbox platform in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. As such, he supported the entire commercial and IP transactions related to the distribution, service, support, internal game development and 3rd party incentive agreements for Xbox and Xbox Live (its online component) in Asia. He worked for Microsoft for 5 years.

Mr. Warren is the prior General Counsel of Sega Corporation, the renowned videogame company, at its Tokyo headquarters, where he oversaw the US and European subsidiary legal departments and all other international transactions, licensing, litigation and the company’s overall anti-piracy efforts. He was responsible for the negotiation, licensing and roll-out of Sega-branded amusement centers throughout Asia and the Middle-East. He spent 7 years at Sega.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Warren wrote a book on Japanese employment practices for the publisher CCH and was a trial attorney litigating civil cases in Los Angeles, California. While in law school, Mr. Warren specialized in Entertainment Law and interned with Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. Music.

Kevin Zervos S.C.
Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions

Mr Kevin Zervos, SC, is Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions with the Hong Kong Department of Justice currently head of Appeals. Mr Zervos is a specialist in appeals and in the prosecution of white collar crime. In 1984, he worked in Australia with the Special Prosecutor’s office responsible for the investigation and prosecution of large scale revenue frauds. From 1985, he was Senior Assistant Director of the office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions at the Melbourne and Sydney Offices where he was in charge of the Major Fraud Section. From 1989 to 1992, he was General Counsel to the Independent Commission Against Corruption in New South Wales. From 1992 to date, he has worked as counsel with the Hong Kong Department of Justice, initially attached to the Commercial Crime Unit where he mainly prosecuted white collar crime cases and later as head of Appeals specializing in Human Rights. In May 2003, Mr. Zervos was appointed Senior Counsel in Hong Kong.

Mr Zervos has conducted the full ambit of trials and appeals in all fields of law. In trial work he has specialized in commercial crime, including credit card and currency frauds, banking and corporate frauds, infringement of intellectual property, money laundering and corruption. In appeal work he has conducted cases involving constitutional law, human rights, administrative law as well as most aspects of the criminal law and law of evidence. He has presented numerous papers and given talks on the subject of commercial crime including fraud, money laundering and corruption.

Tommy Seah
Chairperson, CSI World Headquarters
Managing Partner, CFE-in-Practice

Tommy is the Chairperson of CSI-World Headquarters and the elected Vice Chairman of The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Board of Regents based in Texas, USA. CFE is a post graduate professional qualification recognized by the FBI and USA Central Intelligence Agency in it’s recruitment of auditors for combating fraud. His services in providing technical training is much sought after by numerous banks in the region, including Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. Tommy's previous experience includes systems based auditing in an American International Bank, where he was the Senior Regional Auditor responsible for the Bank's audit in the Asia Pacific region. He has also held the top executive position of Chief of Internal Audit in a prime offshore bank where his audit duties cover the Singapore and Hong Kong operations of the bank. He covers all areas of the bank's audit of operations and IT systems. He also has practical working experience in the Operations Department of a foreign bank. Tommy Seah is the author of seven banking books including the F.I.G. Program. The FIG is the authoritative and definitive text on Financial Instruments designed to be used in the world wide banking industry for product training. This publication has received excellent review and first class commendation from some of the most authoritative professional certification body and top rated banks in the world. The other six authoritative texts used in his training are The Foreign Exchange Audit,The Control of Money Market Activities in Banks, Financial Management, MCA for Banks, SWAPS in Investment Banking and Anti-Money Laundering 101. His latest publication is Understanding and Auditing BASEL II, Operational Risk Management.

Michael Blanchflower S.C.
Parkside Chambers, Hong Kong

Background

• September 1978 to March 1986: Counsel in the Criminal Law Section, Canadian Department of Justice, doing prosecution and criminal appellate work.
• April 1986 to August 2002: Counsel in the Department of Justice, Hong Kong Government, doing prosecution, proceeds of crime, extradition, and mutual legal assistance work.
• September 2002: Commenced private practice.

Practice Areas

• Criminal law, commercial crime, money laundering and proceeds of crime, and stock market regulatory matters.
• Advising businesses, professionals, and private persons on proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering issues.