Chris is a Director in the Forensic Accounting team based in Zurich. Chris has 20 years of experience in financial crime risk management. He has led in-house teams in various top tier banks focusing on anti-money laundering, anti-bribery & corruption and sanctions. Chris’s blend of subject matter expertise and project and change management experience puts him in a helpful position to advise on both financial crime risk and implementing sustainable change.​

Chris brings a wealth of experience in engaging with regulators and regulatory expectations in enforcement situations, advising on acute financial crime risk matters and the broader control framework, as well conducting financial crime related investigations. His experience has covered Europe, Asia, Australia, America and the Middle East.​

Before joining FRA, Chris’s career in financial services has included the following roles:​

• Lead change manager for the first implementation of an anti-money laundering framework in a leading Australian wealth manager​
• Head of AML Systems and Investigations for a top tier Australian financial group​
• UK and Europe Head of AML for a leading global banking group with accountability for both day-to-day financial crime risk management and for the regional efforts to implement a financial crime transformation program while under regulatory enforcement​
• Head of Financial Crime Advisory for the commercial and wholesale banking divisions of a Nordic banking group​
• Head of Financial Crime and Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the Swiss subsidiary of a Tier 1 banking group​