ACSS

South Florida Chapter

About Chapter

Come join us to promote sanctions awareness and create a community for sanctions professionals in Miami! The mission of the ACSS Miami Chapter is to serve, inform, and advance sanctions and export controls professionals in Miami as well as the South Florida area. The Chapter holds regular events centered around hot topics in the sanctions industry that impact sanctions and export controls professionals.

All ACSS members are added to their local Chapter automatically if they live or work in the Chapter area. If you would not like to be part of the Chapter or have any comments or concerns, please message our Helpdesk on helpdesk@sanctionsassociation.org.

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Board Members

Gabriel Garcia, CXS

Chapter Chair
Manager

KPMG

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Gabriel is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Global Sanctions Specialists (CGSS), and one of the first cohort recipients of the Certified Export Control Specialists (CXS). Gabriel has over seven years of professional experience leading and executing consulting services for domestic and international financial institutions of various sizes, in multiple languages, across multiple vertical markets serving Brokerage firms, Global Banks, Community Banks, Credit Unions, FinTech Companies, Loan Companies, and Money Service Businesses. Gabriel served global clients by providing AML/Sanctions reviews in Latin America, Europe, Asia, North America, and the Caribbean.

Gabriel is currently a Manager within the Financial Crimes group at KPMG where he provides guidance to clients with MRA issue validation. Prior to KPMG, Gabriel served as a Manager at Protiviti executing AML and Sanctions audits; GAP assessments based upon FinCEN’s Final Rule for Investment Advisors; and risk assessments. Gabriel started his career at Crowe where he executed AML and Sanctions Audits, Country Risk Assessments, Model Validations, BSA/AML Program Assessment and Road Maps, and designed Quality Assurance Programs for domestic and international clients.

Dennis Ansbro

Vice President

PNC Bank

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Dennis is a Vice President and Senior Sanctions Program Advisor within the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions Program at PNC. Dennis has over 41 years of experience in the financial services industry where he focused his efforts within risk management, compliance, foreign correspondent banking, finance, and banking operations. Prior to joining PNC, he held several positions at Capital One, Standard Chartered Bank, Ally Financial, and Wachovia Bank, a Wells Fargo company where he managed facets of global sanction operations and export control programs. Throughout his career, Dennis has held several leadership positions and has been instrumental in implementing targeted business initiatives to ensure compliance with global list screening, banking regulations and effective sanctions and international trade service remediation requirements.

Dennis earned a master’s degree with a focus in International Business and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Rosemont College located in Rosemont, PA. He is a founding member of the Greater Philadelphia ACAMS Chapter where he held the positions of Co-Chair and Membership Director. Dennis currently resides in Southwest Florida.

Josue Garcia, CSS

Independent attorney

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Josue is an attorney in private practice, his most recent role was Senior Manager in the Global Ethics & Compliance Department of Carnival Corporation & plc. He first joined Carnival in 2016 as Manager of Ethics & Compliance in the Global Legal Department, he was promoted to Senior Manager in 2018. His areas of direct day-to-day responsibility focused on licensing, regulatory, and compliance matters with a specialized emphasis on issues pertaining to Anti-Bribery & Corruption (AB&C), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Economic Sanctions. Josue also shared oversight and administration of the Corporate Hotline Program. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified Sanctions Specialist (CSS). He has over 20 years of AB&C, AML, and Economic Sanctions affairs experience , including but not limited to designing, implementing, and overseeing compliance programs in the aforementioned areas, coordinating due diligence efforts, transaction monitoring, internal/external audits, regulatory examinations, technology implementations, and successful mergers. Josue’s prior roles included Vice President of AML and Economic Sanctions for Capital Bank, N.A. (now known as First Horizon Bank) and he was with RSM US LLP’s regulatory compliance practice advising domestic and international clients on AML and Economic Sanctions matters. Josue earned his J.D. from St. Thomas University School of Law and his B.S. in Criminal Justice from Florida International University. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Florida and the U.S District Court- Southern District of Florida.

Daniel Fals

Manager II | Risk Advisory Services

Kaufman Rossin

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Daniel Fals is a manager in Kaufman Rossin’s risk advisory services practice. He has over 14 years of expertise with a primary focus in the financial services sector. Daniel assists banks, broker-dealers, FinTechs and other non-bank financial institutions to evaluate and manage risk. He concentrates his practice in risk management, with an emphasis on compliance frameworks such as the Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering and OFAC rules and regulations.
Currently, Daniel performs consulting engagements that include: BSA/AML & OFAC Sanctions Risk Assessments, Sanction and Transaction Monitoring system validations/calibrations, gap analyses of BSA/AML & OFAC Sanctions programs, facilitates the refinement of policies, procedures, and operational methodologies, and reviews of high-risk clients.

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