acss-dc-chapter - Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists

ACSS

D.C. Chapter

About Chapter

Come join us to promote sanctions awareness and create a community for sanctions professionals in Washington D.C.! The mission of the ACSS D.C. Chapter is to serve, inform, and advance sanctions and export controls professionals in the national Capitol region. The Chapter holds regular events centered around hot topics in the sanctions industry that impact sanctions and export controls professionals.

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Board Members

Carol Beaumier

Chapter Chair

Senior Managing Director | Protiviti
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Carol is a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Risk and Compliance practice and oversees the firm’s Asia-Pac Financial Services Practice. Prior to joining Protiviti, Carol was a Partner with Arthur Andersen where she led the Global Regulatory Practice; a founding member of The Secura Group and leader of the firm’s Risk Management practice; and a regulator with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department.

An experienced consultant with more than thirty-five years of experience, Carol has extensive knowledge of numerous risk and regulatory issues affecting the financial services industry and frequently writes about and speaks on these issues.

For the last several years, Carol has been a regular presenter at the Institute of International Bankers’ BSA/AML/OFAC Training Series. She is also a lecturer at the Boston University School of Law for which she has designed and is teaching a financial crimes course in the University’s Certificate in Financial Services Compliance program.

David Kostelansky

Subject matter expert

Government
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David Kostelansky has subject matter expertise in economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and illicit finance, corruption, human rights, due diligence, strategic planning, and process optimization. Currently, David is the Division Chief for Anti-Corruption and Illicit Finance at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. Department of the Treasury. He oversees the implementation of the Global Magnitsky sanctions program which targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world. In 2021, David was awarded the Meritorious Service Award by then-Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin, and in 2017 was awarded “Outstanding New Employee of the Year.”

David has extensive private sector experience. He was a Senior Consultant in Deloitte’s Business Intelligence Services where he worked with a diverse group of finance, defense, and intelligence organizations. Prior to that role, David worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit where he researched and reported on multinational corporations, banking, and foreign direct investment in China. 

David received a M.S. in National Security Strategy from the National War College and a B.A. in International Economic Relations from American University. He also spent time studying at the London School of Economics and Peking University. 

Dennis Krepp

Export Controls Trade Manager

Caterpillar Inc
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Dennis is the Export Controls Trade Manager within the Trade Center of Excellence at Caterpillar Inc. He joined Caterpillar in November 2019 and has responsibility for export policy, licensing and classifications, as well as restricted party screening and sanctions compliance. Prior to joining Caterpillar he was the Division Director for the Sensors & Aerospace Division (S&AD) within the Office of National Security and Technology Transfer Controls, Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration. Dennis is a retired U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Engineer and while on active duty he also spent four years at the Department of State as a political-military advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation on space and missile proliferation issues and was the Head of the U.S. delegation to the multinational Missile Technology Control Regime Technical Experts Meetings.

Peter Grigg

Director, Compliance and Control, OFAC/Economic Sanctions Advisory Officer

BNY Mellon
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Peter has over a decade of professional experience in the financial services industry having specialized in senior program management and advisory roles within global economic sanctions compliance programs. His experience includes coordinating the development and execution of comprehensive enterprise-level economic sanctions risk assessments across multiple financial services business lines and jurisdictions, developing data-driven methodologies for measuring sanctions risk tolerance and related analysis, establishing inventories of sanctions-related laws, rules, and regulations used to support financial services’ development of controls and governance infrastructure. Most recently, Peter joined BNY Mellon in an advisory capacity supporting the business lines as they navigate a complex global regulatory environment.

Before establishing a career within economic sanctions compliance risk management, Peter held various management roles within consumer banking legal and regulatory compliance organizations. Peter is a D.C. native; he earned his JD/MBA from Duke University and bachelors in International Relations and Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Michael H. Huneke

Partner

Hughes Hubbard & Reed
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Michael H. Huneke is a partner in the Global Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance and Sanctions, Export Controls, and Anti-Money Laundering practice groups at Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

Mike’s recent thought leadership includes several “fresh looks” at all aspects of sanctions and export controls compliance, synthesizing key concepts from these complicated, dynamic regulatory topics and providing general counsel and chief compliance officers with the tools for focusing resources on the greatest risks for companies, directors, and officers.

The Legal 500 has recognized Mike as a “voice of reason when it comes to compliance matters,” with clients’ feedback including that Mike “stands out for his multi-jurisdictional knowledge of compliance, pragmatism and efficiency in handling cases.”

Mike received Lexology’s Client Choice Award for Investigations-USA for 2022 and 2023. Clients’ feedback included that Mike “is always able to quickly respond to the client’s queries even on a short notice and provides guidance which is at the same time precise and compelling.”

Mike was also recognized as one of four Hughes Hubbard attorneys honored to receive Global Investigations Review’s (GIR’s) “Most Important Development in the Practice or Law of International Investigations” 2020 award on behalf of the firm and its Global Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance team for his representation of Airbus in its historic settlement to successfully resolve bribery and corruption allegations.

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