Empowering compliance through regulatory insiders

Alexandre is a Fintech & Anti-Financial Crime professional with over 13 years of practical experience within the financial services industry. He has been working with WU for 7 years in various risk management and anti-financial crime roles after what he has accompanied several Fintechs through their licensing processes, the establishment of their EU operations and AML/CFT programs. Alexandre participated in the foundation of the ACAMS Baltics Chapter. He is CAMS certified, ACAMS member and ACAMS instructor.

Tadas has 12 years of AML and compliance experience in both large corporations and small-to-medium sized FinTech startups. At Western Union he worked in various AML/Compliance departments both as a SME and as a manager. He is CAMS certified and has also worked in UK and Lithuanian licensed EMI and PI institutions as a Compliance Officer, assisting in the establishment of local operations. Before joining AMLYZE, he worked as Country Manager at open banking infrastructure platform Yapily, where he deepened his knowledge and skills in open banking and fintech industry.  Positive thinker and passionate about technology and sales, but never a fan of hard selling.

Tomas has a diverse background in AML/CFT area from different practical approaches, which includes supervision experience as regulatory insider with almost 5 years of experience in AML/CFT Division of the Bank of Lithuania, first-hand experience as FIU investigator in Western Union dealing with transaction monitoring of high risk customers and complex cases investigation and also previous legal experience which allows having broad perspective and mindset.

Eglė is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with hands-on experience in customer supervision and money laundering risk management in the context of financial institutions inspections. She has more than 13 years of experience in supervising financial market participants at the Bank of Lithuania, where her last position was Head of the Money Laundering Prevention Division. She represented the Lithuanian delegation during the Moneyval assessment of the country’s AML/CFT framework.

Jekaterina brings nearly a decade of experience at the Bank of Lithuania to her current role. Starting as Chief Lawyer, she rose to become Executive Director of Supervision Services, where she oversaw financial sector surveillance for Lithuania. Her contributions were instrumental in establishing Lithuania as a leading FinTech HUB in Europe. Jekaterina also led the project to establish the Lithuanian AML Center and made significant contributions to the work of the European Banking Authority in the field of AML.

Mantas is an experienced data professional with a proven track record in a number of industries, including financial services. At Danske Bank, Mantas set up the first model validation unit for compliance risk models in the Nordics and oversaw the independent validation of over 30 models. At Beyond, a data consultancy, Mantas was responsible for tuning, optimising and building advanced ML/AI compliance risk management solutions for global financial market participants.

Gediminas has spent 18 years in the software development industry, of which almost 12 years – in banking software solutions provider Forbis, where he designed and developed various banking systems. Having experience also with different types and flavors of databases and data engineering, he understands well the importance of data when it comes to AML/CFT tasks.

Liutauras has extensive experience of 4 years in Invest Lithuania as an Investment Advisor, where he was responsible for attracting global fintech companies to Lithuania and contributed significantly to positioning Lithuania as a burgeoning fintech hub. His previous experience includes working in alternative real estate financing and tokenisation space and leading investor communities.

Gabrielius is a vital member and driving force behind AMLYZE. With a career spanning multiple C-level positions in five different FinTech companies, he has gained extensive experience in regulatory affairs and process improvement. Gabrielius has a passion for detecting financial crimes, monitoring suspicious transactions, and automating these processes. This passion led him and his partners to establish their own financial crime prevention company.

Aleksandras has almost 4 years of experience as a product owner in fintechs, such as Contomobile, Mistertango or inHouse Pay, where his responsibilities included from product development to quality control. He also has 8 years of experience in banking software provider Forbis, where he had an opportunity to create or improve 6 different banking systems.

Evaldas’ background is a perfect mix of AML/CFT compliance, business intelligence and data analysis. Over the years he has worked and gained knowledge with companies such as Western Union, Barclays and Swedbank. He was responsible for delivering various reports and KPIs for Western Union’s AML compliance operations, developed reports and scorecards for Barclays and was responsible for developing and maintaining Swedbank’s AML platform.

Reda brings over 15 years of extensive expertise in financial services product development. As a product owner at banking core provider BankingLab, she oversaw the compliance module with a sharp focus on regulatory adherence for more than 3 years. During her 4-year tenure at Danske Bank, Reda led coordination efforts in high-priority AML system development initiatives. Prior to that, she worked as an analyst at Forbis, contributing to the creation of banking core systems. 

Mindaugas has worked for more than 30 years in the law enforcement agencies and financial services sector. Successfully performed different roles in Police, Financial Crime Investigation Service, FIU, AFCOS, starting from an investigator, police attaché, and supervisor and ending with deputy director. He is also a board member of the Fintech HUB LT association. He can be a motivational trainer on money laundering prevention at any financial institution.

Paulius has 16 years of experience as a business journalist and editor in leading Lithuania’s media outlets (Verslo žinios and BNS), focusing on financial markets, banks, fintechs, and related topics. Awarded and recognized as a journalist, he has turned his career more into the communications and marketing field, and, before joining AMLYZE, he spent almost 2 years at the Bank of Lithuania as Head of PR/Comms, where he was responsible for the central bank’s external and internal communication.