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These regulatory compliance gurus live, breathe, and read their way through the mountains of regulatory issuances the industry throws our way and convert it into manageable, understandable, and actionable advice, tools, and resources.

BankCompliance.com is powered by the experience and wisdom of our banking experts. They do a lot of heavy lifting so that you can concentrate on performing your compliance tasks in the most efficient manner possible. As you review the bios below, note the depth and breadth of experience. From former regulators and examiners, to highly experienced bankers, to some of the top legal minds in banking, these compliance professionals stand ready to help support and maintain your regulatory compliance program.

Meet Your Gurus

Kimberly Boatwright

Kimberly Boatwright

CRCM, CAMS, FLE

Kimberly Boatwright is an industry-leading trainer and currently serves as the Director of Risk and Compliance at Compliance Resource, LLC. She has more than a two decades of experience working in the financial services industry. Ms. Boatwright is a well-regarded financial industry risk and compliance professional with a strong background in program development and implementation. She is a thought leader who specializes in Fair Lending, Anti-Money Laundering, OFAC and consumer compliance. During her career she has worked for and consulted with all types of financial institutions helping to establish and evolve compliance and risk programs. She is a frequent public speaker, trainer, and author on compliance and risk management topics. Kimberly is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist

Brian Crow

Brian Crow

CAMS

Brian J. Crow is a Compliance Associate at Thomas Compliance Associates, Inc. in Chicago, IL. Brian brings 20 years of prior banking experience to the consulting field. He was most recently Assistant Vice President and BSA Administrator for a suburban Chicago bank, where his responsibilities included preparing the bank’s annual BSA risk assessment and audit documentation. Earlier as Operations Officer at the same bank, Brian monitored AML activity, aided in the implementation of the bank’s AML software, and designed the bank’s authentication blocking program that helped to reduce debit card fraud losses by 95 percent. Mr. Crow has been, and continues to be, an education consultant for the Glia Group BOL Learning Connect program, conducting webinars that have covered VISA/MasterCard chargebacks, debit card compliance and fraud prevention for hundreds of banks. It was in this role that Mr. Crow was recognized as a Bankers Online Guru in 2011. Like many of us, Mr. Crow began his banking career as a teller, working his way up to head teller and then branch management responsibilities. He earned a B.A. degree in Theology from Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois. Because of his education background, Brian has been given the unofficial title of “Security Evangelist.”

John Burnett

John Burnett

John Burnett is an Associate Editor at Bankers Online, having joined after over 35 years of banking experience (over 25 of them in Compliance and Operations). He is one of the earliest members of the Bankers Online community. John is a graduate of the ABA National Compliance School, and served on its faculty for several years. He graduated with honors with from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking and is a graduate of the BAI and the Massachusetts Banker Association Schools of Banking. John is a former member and chair of the Massachusetts Bankers Association’s Legal and Regulatory Compliance Committee. He is an advisory board member for Bankers Hotline, and is a speaker and participant in many of BOL Conferences’ events and training webinars. 

Randy Carey

Randy Carey

Randy Carey spent 25 years in the banking industry in a wide range of positions, including AVP/Senior Compliance Officer, Vice President of Compliance and Community Reinvestment Act Activities and Vice President and Director of Internal Audit. Over the last ten years, Randy has provided professional compliance consulting and internal audit services to a wide range of financial institutions. These services encompass all aspects of consumer compliance within both the deposit and lending arenas and independent audits for Bank Secrecy Act compliance. Randy is a graduate of the ABA National Compliance School, Truth-in-Lending School, and Graduate Compliance School. He has served as an instructor for the American Institute of Banking, Oregon Bankers Compliance School, Texas Bankers Association Compliance School, and the BankersOnline BSA Top Gun Conference.

Melissa Blaser

Melissa Blaser

CRCM, CAMS, CPA, CFSA, CFIRS

Melissa Blaser is a partner at Wipfli LLP, leading their regulatory compliance practices. She assists financial institutions in navigating the complex requirements included within consumer federal bank regulations. Melissa has 30 years of experience in regulatory compliance, internal audit, and public accounting for the financial services industry.

Donna Olheiser

Donna Olheiser

AAP

Donna Olheiser is the vice president of Education Services and founder of Dynamic Mastership, LLC. She is an enthusiastic and energetic Certified Master Trainer with over 14 years’ experience. She has over 23 years of experience in the financial services industry which includes 9 years’ experience as the education service director at a Regional Payments Association (RPA), where she managed and facilitated the entire education program for nearly 800 financial institution members. Prior to that, Ms. Olheiser spent 14 years in various departments with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and also holds the Accredited ACH Professional (AAP) designation (achieved in 2004). Her extensive knowledge, enthusiasm, and passion for transferring payment processing knowledge using the adult learning theory is remarkable and has helped many payment professionals perform daily operational tasks including exception processing while remaining compliant with the NACHA Operating Rules. She uses scenarios and examples to bring the learning home, easy to comprehend and apply to real-life day-to-day ACH.

Robin Guthridge

Robin Guthridge

CRCM, CAMS

Robin Guthridge is known as a BSA and deposit compliance specialist, in-demand consultant and speaker, and currently serves as a director at Wipfli, LLP. Robin has a strong background in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance, leadership, and sales management. In addition to performing BSA examinations and validations of automated surveillance monitoring systems, she provides high level consultations regarding all aspects of the BSA and assists institutions with post examination remediation and enforcement action resolution. Robin is a sought-after speaker for local, state, and national industry events and provides customized BSA and deposit compliance training solutions. Her firsthand experience working in the financial services industry allows Robin to provide meaningful insight and helpful recommendations in the areas of BSA, Title 31, and deposit compliance. Her goal is to exceed expectations with every contact..

Barbara Boccia

Barbara Boccia

CRCM, MBA, JD

Barbara Boccia, has more than 20 years of regulatory compliance experience as a compliance practitioner and consultant across the broad range of A-to-Z consumer regulations, including a deep expertise with principle-based regulations such as UDAAP. She has worked with financial institutions and fintechs of all sizes, supporting exams before the CFPB, Federal Reserve, OCC, FDIC, and NCUA. Boccia is a well-known industry thought-leader, has presented at many industry events including for the ABA, CBA, and ICBA; and has written articles like “Managing UDAAP in the Digital Age” for ABA and “UDAAP Controls For Managing Risk” for the Journal of Financial Compliance. She is a member of the ABA Risk and Compliance Editorial Board.

Rebekah Leonard

Rebekah Leonard

CRCM

Rebekah Leonard, Rebekah is a sought-after compliance expert, the VP Director of Compliance for $6 billion community bank in Montana, and the owner of Elucidate LLC.
Elucidate means to “make clear, explain, throw light upon”, and describes Rebekah’s desire to illuminate the complexities of compliance with passion and fun. She’s created and produced a TRID music video parody and several Compliance Breakout escape rooms, which she frequently provides at state banking compliance conferences. She is an accomplished speaker and regularly provides webinars through Compliance Resource, LLC. Rebekah is currently serving as the VP Director of Compliance for a community bank in Montana. She began her career in 1995 at a private lending company, but soon settled into banking, where she’s covered nearly all of it – customer service and teller work, loan processing and review, and security and business continuity. She now oversees CRA, BSA and all aspects of compliance as a senior leader. She has successfully navigated numerous FDIC Compliance, CRA, and BSA Exams. Rebekah has a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University (Magna cum Laude), attended the American Bankers Association National Compliance School in 2003, and has held her Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager designation since 2006.

Kevin Olsen

Kevin Olsen

AAP, NCP, APRP, CHPC

Kevin Olsen is the Payments Professor, bringing enthusiasm and motivation to presentations. Viewing the world as a classroom which is exemplified in the professor’s “edutainment” ed-u-tain-mint (noun\ When education is motivating, informative, and fun) style of training as he seeks to educate and inform all on the latest developments and trends in the fascinating world of electronic payments Kevin develops programs, presentations, and articles designed to orient and educate financial professionals on a multitude of electronic payment topics. Kevin is also a certified business coach helping lead organizations to innovate and communicate in the ever-changing world of payments, including building of payment strategies with a focus on product development and use cases for faster payments (RTP & FedNow). You can find the Payments Professor on YouTube, Instagram, through the Payments Podium podcast and usually speaking at an event near you. Among his many certifications Kevin is an Accredited ACH Professional (AAP), an Accredited Payments Risk Professional (APRP), an NCP (National Check Payments Certification) and a Certified High-Performance Coach (CHPC) and holds a masters in industrial organizational psychology from Liberty University.

Barry Thompson

Barry Thompson

CRCM

Barry Thomspon, Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, is the author of 101 Security Tips for the Beginning Security Officer and is known as “The Fraud Educator.” He has worked in the financial services industry for over three decades, holding the positions of security officer, compliance officer, treasurer, senior vice president and executive vice president. He is the only fraud educator in this industry that has worked in senior management positions, which affords him unique insight into financial institutions. During his career, Barry has handled over 900 security cases. He has been involved with investigations and prosecutions on the federal, state, and local levels…and has testified before grand juries, county courts, bankruptcy courts, family courts and the New York State Supreme Court. As a security specialist for America’s Community Bankers (2000-2008), Barry has been involved in all phases of organizing the “national operations, technology and security conference,” including designing and overseeing the conference’s security track, hiring conference speakers, and writing the conference manual. Barry is an in-demand, internationally recognized speaker where he has made fraud, theft and security presentations to groups in Brussels, at the United Nations, and to Japanese bankers in Washington, DC. Recognizing the increasing importance of compliance in the banking industry, he became a certified regulatory compliance manager in 1997. Barry has attended prestigious schools held by the American Bankers Association and America’s Community Bankers. Among them are the national trust school, held at Northwestern University in 1999; the national compliance school, held at the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and Emory University in 2006; and the investment school at Fairfield University in 1993. He has put his knowledge and expertise to use as an instructor for both the Credit Union National Association’s security institute (2000-2008, 2011- Present), and for the Tennessee Bankers Association’s “Southeastern School of Banking” (2005-present). Barry is also a writer who contributes to Bankers’ Hotline, BankersOnline and other industry publications. He is a security and compliance guru for BankersOnline as well as a member of the advisory board for Bankers’ Hotline. As a result of Barry’s knowledge and expertise about financial fraud and identity theft, he has been interviewed by Newsweek, Consumer Reports and other national and regional publications. Barry’s professional and educational background along with his Certified Regulatory Compliance manager designation provides him with a depth of experience that very few in the financial services industry can match. Today, his firm focuses primarily on training at national and state conventions, and in-house to banks and credit unions, on topics from physical security to computer security. This includes in-depth instruction on identity theft, internal fraud, scams and schemes, conducting investigations, and social media and bank robbery. To date, he has trained more than 26,000 financial professionals – and growing.

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