Our Founder

Jeff Lavine is an experienced governance, risk, and compliance leader with over 30 years of experience advising senior leaders and boards, enhancing risk and compliance programs, and preventing global financial crimes.

A recently retired Big 4 Global Financial Crimes Practice Leader, Jeff advises boards and senior leaders on risk mitigation, improving regulatory performance, and on design and marketing of compliance technologies. Jeff has led teams that have worked on nearly all of the largest bank AML and Sanctions regulatory actions throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He specializes in crisis and non-crisis organizational strategy, helping clients build more robust global compliance and anti-financial crime control programs. These programs improve risk culture, governance, and processes through improved communication, monitoring, and deployment of advanced technologies. 

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Highlighted Career Achievements

• Built the industry’s largest global financial crimes consulting practice

• Advised financial services regulatory agencies in their efforts to improve supervisory processes

• Led teams that have assisted financial market utilities in operationalizing AML and Sanctions compliance requirements and integrating financial crime prevention, detection, and compliance into automated systems and processes

• Provided strategic consulting guidance to global IT and data services firms to guide their new product offerings

• Managed bank and broker-dealer compliance and control infrastructure building and improvement

• Led internal audit departments

• Led the creation of policies and procedures and wrote regulatory applications for national and state banks, foreign branches and agencies, and their securities dealing and brokerage affiliates