ACAMS Central Ohio Chapter July 2026 Virtual Event: NIL & the Money Trail: Compliance, Regulation & AML Risks and Red Flags

Ryan Dees is a financial crimes compliance professional with over 15 years of experience across the banking and money services industries. She has held leadership roles developing and overseeing anti-money laundering and anti-fraud programs, as well as enterprise training initiatives designed to strengthen financial institutions’ ability to detect and prevent illicit activity.

Earlier in her career, Ryan served as a Director of Compliance at Walmart, where she oversaw AML and anti-fraud programs supporting one of the largest retail financial services platforms in the United States. Throughout her career, she has focused on strengthening compliance frameworks, enhancing financial crimes training, and helping organizations navigate evolving regulatory expectations.

Ryan holds the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designations and is an active contributor to the financial crimes compliance community.

Leslie serves as Grant Thornton’s Regulatory Compliance Capability Leader and has over two decades of experience in the financial services industry and consulting. She specializes in banking services and assists clients with the design and implementation of controls and risk management frameworks to help clients identify and mitigate compliance and operational risks.

Her extensive experience, along with her proficiency in process design and controls implementation, helps organizations navigate regulatory uncertainties and develop robust risk management frameworks. Throughout her tenure, Leslie has led multiple engagements supporting large financial services clients with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Bank, and Department of Justice enforcement actions, complaints and consent orders, and the associated regulatory remediation actions. Her work in building comprehensive compliance management programs provides actionable insights into the practical strategies needed to meet the challenges of the evolving regulatory environment.
 

D.J. Rossini, Managing Director, Grant Thornton Advisory,  brings 25+ years of experience leading high stakes investigations and complex compliance matters across financial crime, AML, fraud, bribery and corruption, and national security. A former FBI special agent, chief counsel, and chief compliance and ethics officer, and former Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, he has advised organizations on strengthening ethics and compliance programs, mitigation strategies, and governance. Rossini has testified in federal and state courts on a range of fraud and security cases and has been recognized with the FBI Medal of Excellence and the Bureau’s Manuel J. Gonzalez Ethics Award. He previously led global corporate security for Archer Daniels Midland and practiced civil litigation.