Roger Aldridge, Director, KPMG Roger is an experienced former Chief Police Officer with both a local and national police background. He has led significant national criminal policy issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and delivered national multi-agency initiatives in organised crime and criminal asset recovery. In achieving this he worked alongside colleagues from other national law enforcement agencies and with Government.  Roger is one of the few ACPO officers with experience of both national organised crime investigation and local police force operations. Roger is now a Director at KPMG Forensic developing their services in support of law enforcement agencies.

James Allen, Director, Fraud Risk Management James Allen is a Director with Daylight in its London office. He has 10 years of experience in designing counter-fraud strategies and leading investigations for companies across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, within sectors including telecommunications, finance, civil engineering and civil enforcement. James has also developed strategies to manage revenue assurance, credit risk, bad debt, risk management, ethics and corporate security. Until recently, James was global Director of Fraud for France Telecom, where he was responsible for designing and implementing its global fraud strategy - meeting the financial performance, brand protection and compliance assurance needs of the business (including Sarbanes Oxley, Loi de Securite Financiere and FCPA). In addition to James’ expertise in managing high-technology related fraud engagements, he has led numerous risk reviews of core business processes and accounting practices, specialising in deriving financial benefit to businesses through visibility and control improvement programmes. This approach has enabled James to deliver several hundred million euros of benefit to the companies he has been involved with.  An accomplished speaker, James has designed and delivered tailored training sessions on a variety of subjects including fraud, money laundering and revenue assurance.  James has also guest lectured on fraud within a UK MBA programme. James is active within the ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) and a number of other associations.

Dr Timothy Brain QPM BA PhD FRSA, Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Police   Dr Timothy Brain has been the Chief Constable of Gloucestershire since 2001. He joined the Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1978, rising from constable to chief inspector prior to joining the Hampshire Constabulary on promotion to superintendent. He became Assistant Chief Constable in the West Midlands Police in 1994, where he was responsible for Community Affairs and later Operations. His specific responsibilities included the policing of Euro ’96, counter terrorist operations, and the extensive reorganisation of the force in 1997. In 1998 he was promoted to become Deputy Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, where his responsibilities included community relations and strategic planning.    Since becoming Chief Constable of Gloucestershire he has embarked upon a programme of significant strategic change, turning the Constabulary into a leading edge 21st Century organisation. The Force’s strategic plan Vision5 has been recognised as a leading example of strategic management. Achievements include completing the first Tri-service (Police, Fire and Ambulance) Emergency Control Centre, creating new specialist investigative units to combat serious and organised crime, and receiving the Investors In People award, becoming one of the few Police Forces to corporately achieve the standard.   He has been a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) since 1994 and is now one of the most senior chief constables in the country. He is the Association’s spokesperson on Prostitution and related vice matters, taking a leading part in framing the Government’s policy dealing with child prostitution in 1998 and creating ACPO’s own prostitution strategy in 2004. He is chair of ACPO’s Finance Business Area, with national responsibility for financial matters. He is also Chair of the Chief Police Officers’ Staff Association (CPOSA).    He has written extensively on a variety of police matters, and is a frequent speaker at conferences on a wide range of police subjects including strategic leadership, performance management and anti-vice policing. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM) in the 2002 Birthday Honours.

Mark Clemison BA MSc, Central Intelligence and Money Laundering Reporting Officer, Vodafone Group Services Ltd. After completing his degrees, in Business and Criminal Justice Studies, Mark joined Kent Police as an Intelligence Analyst. He joined Vodafone UK as a Senior Intelligence Analyst and was heavily involved in the setting up of their Fraud Management Unit. In 2005 Mark took up the position of Central Intelligence Analyst with Vodafone Group, with responsibility for analysis of incidents impacting more than one Vodafone Operating company. In 2006, Mark was appointed as the MLRO for Vodafone Group Services Ltd, with responsibility for Vodafone Money Transfer services. Mark is secretary to the Vodafone Global Fraud, Risk and Security Board, and is currently studying for a Diploma in AML with the ICA.

Ian Davidson, Detective Superintendent, Derbyshire Constabulary Ian Davidson is a Detective Superintendent with the Derbyshire Constabulary and has worked for the past 2 years as Staff Officer to Mick Creedon, the new Chief Constable of Derbyshire, in his role as the national lead for Proceeds of Crime.  Prior to taking up the role Ian was one of the County’s cadre of Senior Investigating Officers for major crime and has spent much of his service as a Detective. Ian first became involved in Proceeds of Crime legislation as a Detective Inspector when he was the Head of the Derbyshire Fraud Squad and qualified as an accredited financial investigator in 2000.  Despite returning to ‘mainstream’ Policing he maintained his interest in the subject and used the new legislation extensively in the field of local Policing and Organised crime. In 2006 Ian was the Police advisor to the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and acts as the Police Service representative on a number of national groups.  Currently Ian is heading up a number of projects looking to improve both Police and cross agency Proceeds of Crime performance and continues to support CC Creedon in a Staff Officer capacity.

Bob Ferguson, Head of Policy and Intelligence in the Financial Crime Division, Financial Services Authority The FSA's intelligence function supports the FSA's role as gatekeeper to the UK financial sector, as well as its financial crime risk assessments. The policy function leads on developing the risk-based approach to anti-money laundering, both domestically and internationally. Bob studied law at Edinburgh University, and lectured in Cardiff and Dundee, researching and publishing on the role of law and regulation in economic life. He went to the Securities and Investments Board in 1987 specialising in retail policy. There he helped to devise the review of pension misselling, and went on to supervise the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation in the aftermath of the Maxwell affair. After joining the FSA, he orchestrated the making of the FSA Handbook of Rules and Guidance, and led on the formulation of the FSA Principles.

John Flynn, Head of Financial Crime Prevention, Aviva   John joined Aviva in 2002 and is currently the Head of Financial Crime Prevention with responsibility for managing the Anti Money Laundering and Fraud risks across the Aviva Group worldwide. Prior to this role he was a Detective within the London Metropolitan Police, involved in the proactive investigation of those concerned in terrorism both domestically and internationally. Following the attacks of September 11th, he was seconded to the UK’s Financial Investigation Unit at the National Criminal Intelligence Service (predecessor to SOCA), where he was one of the founding members of the UK Terrorist Finance Team.

Nick Gargan, Assistant Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police Nick Gargan joined Thames Valley Police in April 2006 after being appointed as Assistant Chief Constable with responsibility for Local Policing. Nick was previously a Chief Superintendent with Leicestershire Constabulary where he had served since joining the police service in 1988. During his time there he worked as a BCU Commander for Leicestershire’s East Area and before that as a Detective Superintendent in charge of the constabulary’s specialist crime squads. He also spent three years on secondment to the National Criminal Intelligence Service based in London and Paris.   He chairs the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Covert Investigation (Legislation and Guidance) Peer Review Group and sits on the ACPO Steering Group responsible for the development of law and doctrine in relation to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).  He has recently taken on the ACPO Intelligence portfolio, within the Crime Business Area. Nick was born in York and maintains an interest in both York City and Leicester City football clubs. He is a keen runner and has completed marathons in London and Helsinki; his second London marathon was in April this year.

Jim Gee, Director of Fraud Services, KPMG Forensic Jim Gee has more than 20 years operational, policy and strategic experience as a counter fraud specialist operating in the UK in central government, local government and the NHS.  He has also advised the House of Commons Social Security Select Committee and the Minister of State for Welfare Reform on counter fraud issues.  He is a member of the UK Counter Fraud Specialist Professional Accreditation Board, the former founding Chair of the Institute of Counter Fraud Specialists, a member of the Editorial Board of ‘Public Finance’ magazine and the former Director-General of the new European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN), an organisation which he helped found in 2003. Since 2005, Jim has been a member of the UK Government’s Fraud Review Steering Group which developed the UK’s first cross-economy counter fraud strategy. This is now being implemented by Government and he chairs the Fraud Review’s Stakeholder Group and Working Group on Fraud Loss Measurement.At the start of 2007, he joined KPMG Forensic as its Director of Fraud Services, with a remit to develop the holistic, professional approach he pioneered in the NHS, and to offer a high quality, integrated service designed to accurately identify and reduce fraud losses.

Sandy Gilchrist, Director of Public Safety and Security Division, NICE Systems Mr Gilchrist is Director of Public Safety and Security for NICE, leading complex requirements to integrate the growing mountain of multimedia such as CCTV, voice and other unstructured data sources with sophisticated analytics in an increasingly joined-up world between industry, police and security agencies.  He took up the post 2 years ago, previously holding Director positions in Government (HMRC and PITO), after a career as Principle Consultant in EMEA for Northrop Grumman and IBM.  As the world has progressed from 'traditional' ICT, Sandy has pioneered the move towards interoperable intelligence-led security to leverage technologies in doing more with less, focussing on the real perpetrators, and freeing up valuable resources in a budget-strapped world. Sandy separates myth from reality with current deployed examples and sets out a roadmap based on need, ROI and continuous improvement.

Linda Heaton, Head of Financial Crime Policy, Halifax Bank of Scotland plc Linda Heaton is a qualified lawyer in both Australia and in England and Wales. After qualifying, she spent a short period in practice in Australia before coming to the UK at the beginning of 1988. Following a stint doing general criminal work for the Crown Prosecution Service, she joined the specialist division dealing with fraud in the Service. She was a Principal Crown Prosecutor dealing with all manner of fraud cases for a period of five years. In 1995, she completed a Masters of Law at the London School of Economics, and then spent a period on secondment in the Legal Unit at the Bank of England. She then worked in the City for a short period, before joining the Department of Trade and Industry in 1997, prosecuting rogue company directors and miscreant bankrupts during her time there. In 1999, she moved to the Serious Fraud Office and worked as a Case Controller there until 2005.   In 2005, she joined HBOS as the Deputy Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer, with responsibility for policy and technical development in the areas of money laundering, fraud and conflicts of interest.

David Humphries, Head of Criminal and Enforcement Policy Team, HM Revenue and Customs   Dave has spent 23 years in Revenue and Customs, which is quite an achievement given that HM Revenue and Customs was only created two and a half years ago! Dave is one of a small minority who worked in both former Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise before the two were merged in April 2005. He has been instrumental in that merger and will enjoy recounting tales of successes and challenges around the process. His specialist subject is tackling serious crime, not only using the combined strengths of the former revenue departments to do so, but engaging with the many other partner agencies, departments, overseas authorities and the private sector. Collaborative working in order to achieve success has been a constant feature. He is Head of Policy for HMRC in all matters criminal, which he views as including crimes against not only HMRC, but others too.   He was closely involved in the passage of the Proceeds of Crime Act through the Parliamentary process. The outward-looking nature of his role is reflected in him being on the Board of the UK Human Trafficking Centre, whilst retaining his day job in HMRC. In spare moments he enjoys being with his family, hunting down real ale and lamenting developments at Stamford Bridge.

Nick Kinsella, Operations Director, UK Human Trafficking Center Detective Chief Superintendent Nick Kinsella has over 27 years police experience spent mainly in the Criminal Investigation Department, (CID). A former school teacher, in 1995 Nick also obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Law.  Nick has been involved in the investigation of serious crime and the management of intelligence for a number of years. Previous posts held by Nick include Director of Intelligence in South Yorkshire Police and working for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary on sensitive issues in Northern Ireland, where amongst other work he led the review of intelligence management within Special Branch following the Omagh bomb. Between January 2004 and April 2006, Nick was an Assistant Director at the National Criminal Intelligence Service, (NCIS), responsible for that organisation’s  response to Organised Immigration Crime. On leaving NCIS Nick took up his current post as Head of the UK Human Trafficking Centre, (UKHTC).  Within this position, Nick has latterly been involved in several national and international operations to combat human trafficking and other organised crime.

Chris Leatherland, DipFS. FCIB. DipAML. FICA, Head of Financial Crime and MLRO, GE Capital Bank (GE Money)  Chris is currently Head of Financial Crime and Money Laundering Reporting Officer at GE Capital Bank (GE Money), a large retail centric operation with in excess of 8 million accounts handled by varying channels, and through numerous relationships both direct and with partners. Previously with the National Australia Group (Europe) in a similar role, he has a retail/commercial Banking background with an extensive history in regulatory interface, addressing the creation of both strategic and operational Anti-Money Laundering prevention and detection regimes. He has experience in effective commercially balanced risk based methodologies in “Know Your Customer” due diligence and application criteria, with various techniques used for transaction/activity monitoring from simple monetary value exception reports to intelligent IT based rule modelling solutions. With excess of 15 years experience liaising with all guises of Law Enforcement Agencies, both domestic and overseas his roles have provided him with comprehensive exposure to legal processes and operational cases across all Financial Crime mandates including Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud and Terrorist Financing.  Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Services, (formerly the Institute of Bankers), has a Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering, and was one of the first group in the UK to complete the qualification when established. He is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association.

Dan Levy, Senior Director, Risk Management, PayPal, Inc. Dan Levy is the senior director for Risk Management - Europe.  PayPal, an eBay company, is the safer, easier way to send and receive money online.  Levy joined PayPal in October 2001 and previously served as the director of fraud operations and director of product management. As the head of PayPal's Risk Management group in Europe, Levy oversees efforts to increase trust and reduce fraud for PayPal's users.  Prior to joining PayPal, Dan co-founded Justarrive, Inc., a San Francisco-based electronic ticketing company. He received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University and resides in London.

Patric Marshall, Director, EMEA, Worldcheck Patric Marshall is the Sales and Marketing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa for World-Check a product of Global Objectives Ltd, a UK registered company. Patric has been closely involved in the development of World-Check since its creation in 2001. World-Check is now the benchmark in KYC and assists over 2,000 banks, regulatory and enforcement agencies including 46 of the world's top 50 largest banks. Our work is to assist these organisations in their KYC procedures to ensure they do not violate their Regulatory, Reputational and Business risks. Patric has been involved in Compliance and AML for over 14 years and is a regular speaker on the International circuit. Patric began his career in banking and then worked for Euromoney for eleven years as a Publisher. He then worked for Thomson Financial Publishing for six years before joining World-Check.

Jason Pate, Director, KPMG Jason joined KPMG in 1996 and has approximately 15 years of experience in the accountancy profession. Since April 1996 Jason has specialised full-time in Forensic. He has considerable experience in a variety of forensic work types including: business crime and confiscation matters; competition and regulatory investigations; fraud investigations and accounting misstatements; civil recoveries arising from frauds; loss of profits cases; and sale and purchase agreement vetting. Jason has particularly strong experience in matters involving Civil recoveries arsing from fraud in the UK and overseas jurisdictions, business crime and competition related investigations, the latter including assisting a major FTSE plc in responding to an investigation undertaken by the Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) into alleged predatory and excessive pricing infringements under the Competition Act 1998.  He recently led the Forensic work on a significant multi-million pound alleged fraud perpetrated on a number of High Street banks in the UK.  The case involved recreating the accounting records following the destruction of the vast majority of the Company’s records, including a significant Forensic Technology element of imaging and recreating Company records from old “DAT” tapes and damaged computer hard drives.  Jason has acted as the KPMG named expert in numerous civil and criminal cases and he has given expert evidence at Trial.  Jason has prepared numerous expert accountancy reports in his own name in civil and criminal matters, the latter often being instructed on behalf of the Defence in cases including charges relating to theft, conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

Sandra Quinn, Lead on National Fraud Strategic Authority, Office of the Attorney General    Sandra Quinn is on secondment from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to the Attorney General’s Office to lead the setting up of the National Fraud Strategic Authority. A barrister, Sandra has a mixed background, including time in Government and business. She has worked in the UK and in Brussels including for the European Commission, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Lazard Brothers & Co., Limited, and the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation Sandra has been with the FSA since 1997 during which time she has had a variety of project management, policy, European negotiation and people leadership roles. Most recently she has been Head of Operations for the FSA’s Retail Market regulatory functions where she led risk management, strategic and financial planning, communications and HR for the FSA’s Retail Market Business Unit.

Shane Roberts, Head of Economic Crime, Bedfordshire Police  Shane is Head of Economic Crime with Bedfordshire Police and has responsibility for delivering the Force's Strategic and Operational response to POCA. A fully accredited Financial Investigator, he has specialised for past 5 year's in Money Laundering investigations into Organised Crime Group's and Individuals operating at local, regional, national and international level. He is passionate about SARS and is a member of the SARS Transformation Project with SOCA. His special interest areas include Offender Profiling and Money Laundering Typologies. He aims to devise mechanisms to ensure Public and Private sector work together more closely within the Anti-Money Laundering framework.

David Ruffley MP, Shadow Minister for Police Reform David Ruffley MP graduated from Cambridge University in law having also read economic history. He worked at Clifford Chance, the City of London solicitors from 1985 to 1991. In 1991 he became Special Adviser to Rt. Hon Kenneth Clarke MP when he was Secretary of State for Education and Science 1991-92, then Home Secretary 1992-93 and finally Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1996. Mr Ruffley then became strategic economic consultant to the Conservative Party in 1996-97, and in 1997 was elected as a Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds.  Since being elected, David has sat on the Public Administration Committee and the influential Treasury Select Committee where he gained a national reputation for his forensic cross examinations of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Following a move to the Opposition Whip’s Office where he was a Treasury Whip, David was then appointed Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform by David Cameron. In July 2007 David was promoted to be the new Shadow Minister for Police Reform. In this role, David Cameron has tasked him with holding the Government to account on crime figures, police performance, police red tape, counter terrorism, antisocial behaviour, and knife and gun crime.

Alison Saunders, Director, Organised Crime Division, Crown Prosecution Service  Alison joined the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 1986 when it first started.  Since then she has held many posts within the CPS.  Starting off as a prosecutor in South East London and moving to Policy Directorate at CPS Headquarters in 1991.   Following a spell in CPS Policy Alison spent 10 months on secondment at the Attorney General’s Office before joining HMCPSI and taking part in the first inspection of CPS London.  In April 1997 Alison took up post as Branch Crown Prosecutor in Wood Green, North London she was promoted in April 1999 to Assistant Chief Crown Prosecutor in London.  The sector which Alison looked after included Central London, and the Central Criminal Court.  In April 2001 Alison left London to take up post as Chief Crown Prosecutor in Sussex.   In July 2003 Alison returned to the Attorney General’s Office becoming Deputy Legal Secretary to the Attorney.  Whilst there she had responsibility for many key issues such as disclosure, the use of intercept evidence, army prosecutions arising out of the conflict in Iraq and a variety of other issues.  Alison oversaw the development of the Revised Attorney General Guidelines on Disclosure and was involved in the case of R v H&C.   In July 2005 Alison returned to the CPS as Director of the Organised Crime Division.   Following publication in 2004 of the government strategy for tackling organised crime the Director of Public Prosecutions established a new central division, the Organised Crime Division, to provide a dedicated prosecution service to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).  The division is responsible for giving prosecutorial and legal advice to the Serious Organised Crime Agency in relation to its work.

Emma Shaw, Managing Director, Esoteric Ltd Emma has been actively involved at all levels in both covert and overt investigations for over 20 years.  The early part of her career was spent with the Royal Military Police, followed by a career in UK government.  Emma is the Managing Director of Esoteric Ltd, a specialist TSCM and covert investigations company, which she founded in 1998.  The company provide bespoke confidential services, which assist their clients to deal with issues such as Theft, Fraud, Counterfeiting, employment related issues, and economic and corporate espionage. With a strong management team she has developed the company and in 2006, Esoteric, were awarded the prestigious BS EN9001: 2000 by the National Security Inspectorate (NSI).   Emma is a member of the Council for the Security Institute, the Registrar for the Validation Board of The Security Institute, Southern Region Chair for the Defence Industry Security Association (DISA) and Assistant Regional Vice President to ASIS Europe.

Detective Superintendent Oliver Shaw, Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit, City of London Police Oliver joined the City of London Police in 1994 and has served in a variety of detective roles. In 1998 Oliver took up a position on the Fraud Squad where he gained experience investigating offences such as banking, investment, insurance and insider fraud. Oliver later served as a Detective Sergeant and Detective Inspector within a general Criminal Investigation Department before promotion onto the Economic Crime Department where he managed a number of fraud investigation teams.   Oliver currently heads the force’s Overseas Anti-Corruption Unit and is Staff Officer to Commissioner Mike Bowron who holds the Association of Chief Police Officers’ portfolio on Economic Crime.