David Stewart leads go-to-market strategy, engages with product management and provides strategic client support for fraud and compliance solutions worldwide. In addition to working closely with many of the world’s leading financial institutions and regulatory agencies, David collaborates with SAS research and development and delivery teams to deploy industry best practices.  Mr. Stewart leads a global team of subject matter experts with industry experience in preventing fraud and managing financial crimes risk.

Since 2005, David has hosted SAS’ annual Counterterrorism and Financial Crimes Forum co-sponsored by the US Department of Justice and several US financial institutions.  Previously, Mr. Stewart served as Global Account Manager for one of the world’s largest financial institutions focusing on the application of machine learning for credit analytics, customer intelligence and financial crimes applications. Stewart has over 30 years of financial services industry experience specializing in enterprise analytics.

Christopher Ghenne is a financial crime specialist with over 10 years’ experience in this field. He has worked in the banking, insurance, government and telecommunications sectors helping organisations comply with Anti Money Laundering regulations and protect their customers and shareholders from losses.

Working across the EMEA and AsiaPac regions, Christopher is responsible for developing propositions (including AML transaction monitoring, AML Optimisation and FATCA) for specific markets, working to strategically develop financial crime capabilities.

Prior of joining SAS, Christopher spent 8 years at Fiserv where he had various roles such as trainer, business analyst, pre sales and business development for the financial crime division. He was involved in more than 150 AML/CTF implementations worldwide.

Christopher has a Master in Economics from the University of Brussels (ULB) and is a certified anti money laundering specialist (CAMS). He is French speaking native and is fluent in English and Spanish.

With over 15 years of experience in Fraud and AML, and over 25 years of experience in financial services, Dan has helped countless customers solve their financial crime challenges in banking, insurance and government.

Dan started out his career in IT, then moved to the business side to help business units implement technology. He then moved into Financial Crimes when consulting at TD Bank on their AML implementation in 2003. From there, Dan joined SAS and was the Fraud lead for Canada. Dan departed SAS for 5 years and gained further experience with TransUnion as the Director of Fraud and ID management. He then moved on to RBC as an Enterprise Fraud Strategist. Dan brought his real-world experience back to SAS when he rejoined in December 2017.

Dan has passion and expertise in Social Network Analysis, Advanced Analytics (machine learning), payments fraud, Insurance fraud and first party fraud.