New York City Chapter

Sue Martin

Chapter Secretary Member
Accuity As a C-Suite Executive Assistant with over ten years' experience in the financial services industry, Sue Martin is a dedicated and poised professional with trusted instincts and foresight. Sue has been in a support role handling up to four simultaneous global executives, while also managing a staff of fifty. Sue is team motivator, a seasoned event planner and creative problem solver.

Sue Martin joined Safe Banking Systems, an AML specialty company, in their formative years. She remained through their acquisition by Accuity, a risk and compliance leader. Sue has confidently taken on more responsibilities and tasks as they present themselves.

An active member of Accuity’s Green Team, Sue Martin is an environmental influencer. She is a featured writer in the company newsletter on behalf of the Green Team initiative, whose goal is to gain quantifiable environmental improvements on both an individual and corporate level.

In 2009, Sue was published by The American Management Association on the lesser-known subject of business in the virtual world. It was there that Sue first experienced immersive learning and online meetings. Sue collaborated with IBM, Princeton University and dozens of other establishments and individuals as she wrote the book, “The Unofficial Guide to Building Your Business in the Second Life Virtual World, Marketing and Selling your Product, Services and Brand In-World". Sue presented her book at the New York Public Library, where she held a live online demo to an astonished crowd.

Sue is happy to be part of ACSS New York and looks forward to working with sanctions specialists from around the world.

Phillip G Anderson

Chapter Treasurer Senior Vice President
HSBC Bank Phillip’s current role is a Senior Vice President within Global Risk Analytics at HSBC Bank responsible for providing oversight over model risk management processes related to Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions along with other operational risks and controls matters.

With over 19+ years of experience in the financial industry, Phil has extensive experience in various areas of banking with a focus on remediation of regulatory enforcement actions, matters requiring attention, consent orders, and deferred prosecution agreements related to modeling.

Phillip’s background and training is in information technology auditing, financial accounting, model development, and holds a degree with concentrations in accounting, finance, and management information systems.

David Chenkin

Legal Representative Managing Partner
Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP David B. Chenkin is the managing partner of law firm, and a Certified AntZeichner Ellman & Krause LLPi-Money Laundering Specialist. Chenkin represents major financial institutions and individuals in civil, criminal, regulatory and compliance-related investigations initiated by Congress and federal, state and local prosecutors and regulators. He also provides financial crime training to law enforcement, the private sector and other law firms. Chenkin is the recipient of Homeland Security Investigation’s HSI-New York Citizen’s Legacy Award, which he received for his efforts in counseling HSI agents in building relationships with the financial community.

Todd Maddison

Financial Services Representative Sanctions Manager
Rabobank Todd Maddison has been at Rabobank since 2018 and is the New York City-based Sanctions Manager of a 3 analyst team based in St. Louis. Todd’s team conducts the Sanctions and PEP screening and sanctions advisory for Rabobank’s US businesses. Todd has been in the banking and brokerage industries since the early 1990’s. Before Rabobank, Todd has held AML and front office roles at HSBC, UBS, Dreyfus mutual funds and JP Morgan Chase. Todd obtained a Bachelor’s degree in History from the State University of NY at Oneonta, the FINRA Series 6,7,24,63 and 79 licenses, and maintains the CAMS and Certified Sanctions Specialist certifications. Todd lives in Long Island with his wife and teenage son.

Emma Monaghan

Corporate Representative Deputy Head of Financial Crime
BlackRock 20+ years of experience in anti-money laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) advisory services, financial crime investigations and forensic accounting. Focused on a client base of global investment banks, foreign financial institutions, domestic and regional banks and other types of financial institutions. AML responsibilities have spanned multiple client facing and internal roles across the US, Europe and Asia.

Emma’s current role is the Deputy Head of Financial Crime at BlackRock, responsible for setting the strategy related to AML, anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions and fraud. Emma held previous roles at Citigroup and KPMG in New York and London. Her background and training is in forensic accounting, she has a degree in international accounting and finance and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Joseph Bognanno, III

President Oxonia Triskelion As President of Oxonia, Joseph leads an Advisory and Professional Services firm working with solutions providers and their customers to overcome the emblematic issues in applying technology to solve problems, avoiding waste and maximizing results.

Prior to launching Oxonia, Joseph served as Global VP of Strategy & Alliances at Accuity, Chief Innovation Officer at Safe Banking Systems and SVP, Head of Global Risk Analytics at HSBC and responsible all FCC solutions deployed in the US. He managed teams engaged in all aspects of model governance in relation to AML analytics, design, development, optimization, model validation and remediation.

Previously, he held various positions working with and for some of the world’s leading technology solutions providers and spent several years in the U.S. Treasury as Senior Advisor on Economic Crimes, and U.S. Treasury Attaché in liaison to the South American FATF to provide information technology solutions to combat financial crime through technical assistance programs.

Joseph has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry. More than 15 years have been spent within the Compliance industry, working to mitigate money laundering and other financial crime risks through the use of technology specific to AML/FCC initiatives. He has provided training, technical assistance, and guidance to both public and private sectors in over 40 countries.

As a subject matter expert, he has spoken at various industry events, notably ACAMS and FATF Plenaries, and has provided expert AML.

Max Lerner Managing Director, Global Head of Sanctions & ABC
State Street Bank Max Lerner is a Managing Director at State Street, a leading global bank focused in custodial, asset management and advisory, transfer agency, and administrative services based in Boston. In his role, Max serves as the Global Head of Sanctions Compliance and Anti-Bribery & Corruption Compliance. Max is accountable for the design, management, and execution of State Street’s global sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption programs, including the screening systems and resulting alert risk analysis and resolution, policy and business unit advisory functions, regulatory engagement and remediation activities, and personnel management of teams based across the globe.

Prior to his tenure at State Street, Max served as Legal Regulatory Counsel at Standard Chartered Bank, a major global bank focused on retail, trade finance, commercial, and correspondent banking, based at its New York office. Max’s practice focused on AML & sanctions advisory, dispute resolution management, and regulatory engagement, investigations, and remediation.

Max also currently serves as Chair of the Association of Global Custodians’ AML & Sanctions Committee.

Peter Piatetsky Co-Founder and CEO
Castellum.AI Peter served at the US Treasury Department in multiple roles, including as Senior Policy Advisor, advising the President, Treasury Secretary and other principals on sanctions, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing related to Iran, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine. Prior to Treasury, Peter supported US Special Forces in Afghanistan. Following Treasury, Peter held a leadership role at Woori, one of Korea's largest banks, supervising all of its financial crimes compliance in the US and advising the Chief Compliance Officer. He speaks regularly at industry conferences and is an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University.