About GCI

Martin Woods

Chair

Martin Woods has a wealth of experience as a detective who once investigated financial crimes, including global frauds and money laundering. Upon leaving the police service he embarked upon a career as a senior financial crime compliance officer, working for and with a wide variety of firms all over the world. He has provided training to regulators, central banks, law enforcement agencies and regulated firms and has been called upon to provide expertise as well as guidance. He has been highly commended by regulators and is passionate about empowering people to fight financial crime.

He advocates we are all here to Make A Difference and he is always on the look out for those who may want to join his MAD – Make A Difference revolution. He prides himself as an enemy of the money launderer, the fraudster and the terrorist, who uses training to equip, inspire and motivate others.

Fraser Brown

Member

Fraser Brown has over 28 years’ experience in financial services regulation and compliance. ‎He is Executive Director, Banking & Insurance at the Financial Services Regulatory ‎Authority, the independent regulator of Abu Dhabi Global Market, an international financial ‎centre established in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where he has spent the last five-and-‎a-half years. Prior to this, he spent eleven years in authorisation roles at the Qatar Financial ‎Centre Regulatory Authority and the Dubai Financial Services Authority.

He has been based ‎in the Middle East since 1999, when he joined Abu Dhabi Investment Authority as a ‎Compliance Officer, after nearly three years working for the UK regulator supervising ‎derivatives trading firms, where he had particular responsibility for the oil and energy ‎markets. He began his career in regulation and compliance with a London Metal Exchange-‎oriented derivatives broker and fund manager based in London.‎

Aruna Iyengar

Member - APAC

Aruna has worked in Financial Services since she was in University, studying her Banking and Finance Degree. Post graduation, she spent 16 years at Macquarie Bank working in Client Services, Adviser Services and Outsourcing Relationship Management, before becoming the first Risk & Compliance Office in Service & Operations, Macquarie Financial Services Group. Over the next 10 years in her role in Compliance, she supported the business, and delivered both classroom and online compliance training on various topics. Joining JPMorgan Chase in 2012, she has been leading the APAC Compliance Training Team, developing complex online Compliance Training on a number of topics, supporting 16 countries in APAC, as well as partnering on Global Training Modules and Compliance Training Strategy. She is passionate about developing and delivering high quality, engaging and education Compliance Training for her stakeholders.

Turkka Toivola

Member

Turkka Toivola is an experienced compliance specialist with extensive knowledge of FATCA and CRS agreements. Turkka has worked in the financial industry for almost ten years and in that time has gained international experience by working for one of the largest banks in the Nordic countries and is currently residing in Finland. Turkka believes in continuous learning and education and encourages the pursuit of professional certifications. 

Turkka holds a BBA in business economics and a certificate in anti-money laundering. He is currently completing his masters’ degree in international business management..

Ahmad Tarteer

Member - MENA

Ahmad Tarteer is a very well-rounded and qualified ‎Compliance and AML expert and accredited trainer and speaker in Compliance and Anti-‎Financial Crimes. He is also a leader and influencer in the compliance and AML community and a well-known ‎expert in many related subjects, especially International Sanction, FATCA, and CRS; in ‎addition, he is an expert in AML intelligence and Business Logic Units since he implemented ‎AML solutions and AML System scenarios.

MARCENA HUNTER

Member

Marcena is a Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, which she has been with since 2012. While Marcena’s work has covered a wide scope of material and geographic spread, her current work has focused on gold-related crime, other mineral resources, illicit financial flows and development responses to organized crime. Marcena is also currently a Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, Sustainable Minerals Institute. Marcena past work includes analysing migration flows, access to justice, and gender issues, as well as providing guidance on security sector and criminal justice reform. Marcena has a JD from Washington and Lee University, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Denver. She is currently based in Australia.

DENNIS LORMEL

Member - GCI Americas

Dennis Lormel retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in December 2003, having served 28 years as a Special Agent. During his distinguished career, Dennis amassed extensive major case experience as a street agent, supervisor and senior executive, particularly in complex, document and labor intensive financial related investigative matters. In December 2000, Dennis was promoted to Chief of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Program.

Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Dennis formulated, established and directed the FBI’s comprehensive terrorist financing initiative. He developed and implemented a variety of proactive and progressive investigative methodologies. These efforts evolved into the formation of a formal Section within the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, known as The Terrorist Financing Operations Section. This multi-agency, multi-disciplined entity attained international recognition as one of the world’s elite operations for tracking, investigating and disrupting terrorist-related financial activity. For his visionary contributions, Dennis received numerous commendations and awards to include the Award for Investigative Initiative, from the U.S. Department of Justice and the George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in Counterterrorism, from the Central Intelligence Agency..

Over the last 15 years, Dennis has provided risk advisory consulting services. He is the founder and President of DML Associates, LLC. He provides consulting services and training related to terrorist financing, money laundering, fraud, financial crimes, suspicious activity and due diligence. He also offers financial intelligence services through case studies and trend analysis.
 

BRADEN M. PERRY

Member - GCI Americas

A former federal enforcement attorney and veteran in regulatory compliance and white-collar defense, Mr. Perry has the expertise and consults with clients throughout the United States in areas of internal investigations, enforcement matters, regulatory issues, and corporate transactions, including advising on highly complex regulatory structures. Mr. Perry routinely guides clients through all stages of litigation and specializes in complex, high-stakes disputes involving matters of first impression. He also regularly counsels clients on cybersecurity issues and is a strong advocate for top management and board member understanding of current cyber issues facing financial institutions. Mr. Perry serves as an expert witness in complex financial matters and has a deep understanding of the vast array of statutes, regulations, case law, and other requirements financial institutions are required to follow.

Viviana van Agtmaal

Member - South Africa

Experienced risk and compliance manager. Multi-faceted with UHNW client sales and advisory as well as in-depth international compliance and regulatory hands-on experience.
 

Proven skills in implementing and training on regulatory requirements and formulating practical compliance procedures and relevant documents. A passion and a flair for education in the financial services arena, Conscious Capitalism and Conscious Leadership