I was born in Amman, Jordan to a Danish father working for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and my Greek/Italian mother who worked with His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hassan. Most of my formative years were spent in Bonn, Germany where I attended the American Department of Defense school and later graduated with an IB Diploma from Bonn International School.
I lead an active life being a member of BSA (Boy Scouts of America) for over 10 years, where I was a troop leader for most of my senior time. I also served as an active member of the Church and Youth group which gave me the opportunities to travel around Europe, and most notably traveled to Romania several times to help rebuild an ex-Communist camp into an orphanage.
Currently I am working in Financial Crime Models, Solutions & Data Analytics. Since joining the team I have worked on a number of large projects:
All of the projects are intended to help improve Financial Crime Compliance become more proactive, streamlined and enable us to come to better data oriented solutions.
In the Fraud, Anti Bribery and Corruption & Tax Evasion Team I was able to get a better understanding of those risk areas as they covered four (Fraud was broken down into Internal and External Fraud) out of the seven risks in Financial Crime Compliance. I was able to improve on my risk management skills as well as be involved in Group wide projects.
Some achievements from the team are:
During my time in the Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Funding team in 1LoD I learned a lot about how the bank gathers information, our KYC systems and the process we have for our various customers, both for Personal customers as well as Business Customers. I was the key account manager for Denmark and Norway.
I was one of the organising managers for the FinTech festival where I was in charge of the VIPs such as Justin Tredeau, Prime Minister Modi and Christine Lagarde. Some of my other events were 2IC for IoT Asia, ITAP, World Rubber Week, Carehab and other techshows. Some of my other responsibilities were budgeting and risk assessments.
I produced reports for Danish business/business interests in Germany as well as authored a large report about drones in Germany that was used as Denmark's official drone strategy. Other reports I wrote included topics such as IoT and Germany's IoT future.
I was part of the team that set up and ran the 3GF Green conference in Copenhagen. I traveled to Bangalore, India, where we set up part of the conference for MCI. Despite our equipment being delayed at customs and the conference starting in 12 hours, we managed to set everything up and ensured smooth operation throughout the conference. During my time with Teletech I learned a great deal about technical equipment.
Solid CRM and client facing experience. I was involved in the preparation for a conference in Laos for the government.
Legal Research
Documentation Review
Regulatory expertise
Training delivery
Anti-Money Laundering
Compliance Monitoring
Investigations skills
Document Review
Risk Management
Decision-Making
Adaptability and Flexibility
Attention to Detail
Passionate
Loyal
Strategic Planning
ICA International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering
Strength training
I enjoy the outdoors, a personal record was climbing up to the Kehlsteinhaus in one and half hours and doing the Traumpfade
Meeting up with friends
Reading the world classics as well as the modern ones
Gaming I built my own gaming computer
Tinkering with electronics/ learn more about software
Trying new experiences
Trying new foods, as I am an avid food lover
History
Keeping up with Politics /current events
Learning and knowing something new everyday
Movies and TV shows