Each year ACAMS is honored to be able to recognize our members at an awards ceremony during the conference in Las Vegas. Our award winners are the innovative thinkers and problem-solvers who have made outstanding contributions to our community.
ACAMS is honored to recognize our 2018 winners:
Jason Chorlins directly participates in forensic and financial service investigative engagements specializing in money laundering, internal corporate investigations, due diligence and regulatory compliance matters. He has been involved with several anti-money laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) consulting engagements, assisting banks with Know-Your-Customer file remediation, risk assessments, and transaction analysis look-backs. He has also performed data and model system validations for account and transaction surveillance systems for several financial institutions. Since joining Kaufman Rossin in 2006, Jason has advised a wide range of financial institutions from small privately owned banks to large multinational institutions in the United States, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
Jason Chorlins, CPA, CFE, CAMS
Jason Chorlins, CPA, CFE, CAMS
James Paul Cummings is currently the compliance specialist at Hamby & Hengeli LLC. Prior to joining Hamby & Hengeli LLC, Cummings was a senior special agent with the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His experience covers a wide array of complex criminal investigations: terrorist financing, narcotics/weapons smuggling, human trafficking and other high-risk violent criminal organizations. As a Senior Special Agent Cummings specialized in using Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering material gathered by financial institutions to detect, disrupt and deter these types of criminal organizations. Cummings has conducted hundreds of federal investigations resulting in the arrests of over 750 individuals and the seizure of millions of dollars of assets, cash and contraband.
James P. Cummings, Jr.
James P. Cummings
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Raymond Villanueva
- Assistant Director
- International Operations
- Homeland Security Investigations
- Bio
Raymond Villanueva
Raymond Villanueva is the Assistant Director for the Homeland Security Investigations, Office of International Operations. In this position, Mr. Villanueva is responsible for a budget of more than $160 million and the operational oversight of 62 offices in 46 countries and 8 Department of Defense liaison offices with over 400 personnel. Mr. Villanueva has more than 22 years of law enforcement experience.
Mr. Villanueva began his law enforcement career in 1994 as a Police Officer with the Puerto Rico Police Department where he was subsequently promoted to a criminal investigator position assigned to the U.S. Customs Service Task Force, Office of the Special Agent in Charge San Juan.
Since joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Mr. Villanueva has served in numerous key positions ranging from group supervisor for the Financial Crimes/Asset Forfeiture and Removal Group at HSI Buffalo, NY, section chief for the Illicit Finance and Proceeds of Crime Unit in Washington, DC, unit chief for the Trade Transparency Unit (TTU) in Washington, DC, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the HSI San Juan Office and most recently as the Deputy Assistant Director for HSI International Operations.
Chapter of the Year
The ACAMS Australasian Chapter was formally established in late 2007 with the main objective being to support ACAMS in its mission to advance the professional knowledge, skills and experience of those dedicated to the prevention and detection of money laundering. A second and equally important objective is to provide local AML professionals with a support network of like-minded persons and to deliver member events throughout the region.
The Chapter will assist ACAMS with the development of a CAMS elective sub-certification examination module that tests knowledge and understanding of Australia’s and New Zealand’s Anti-Money Laundering legislative regimes.
The Chapter covers the Australasian region which includes, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
In 2013 the Australasian Chapter Board of ACAMS resolved to implement a moratorium on chapter membership fees. The effect of this decision is to automatically extend chapter membership to all members of ACAMS who reside in the Australasian region.
Private-Public Partnership Award
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Sarah Runge
- Former Director
- Office of Strategic Policy, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes
- US Department of the Treasury
- Bio
Sarah Runge
Ms. Runge responsibilities included working with OSP policy advisors to create and manage strategic initiatives to enhance the transparency of the financial system across the banking and non-banking financial services industries; strengthen the effectiveness of targeted financial and economic measures against illicit financing networks; promote outreach to the charitable sector to implement protective measures against terrorist exploitation, and combat trade-based money laundering, the illicit use of cash couriers and bulk cash smuggling. Ms. Runge aided in the development of international initiatives to address illicit finance through her work with the G-8, G-20, FATF and international financial centers. Ms. Runge is a member of the U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, and the G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group.
Career Leadership Award
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Daniel D. Soto, CAMS
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Ally Bank
- Bio
Daniel D. Soto, CAMS
Mr. Soto is the Chief Compliance Officer for Ally, where he is responsible for Ally’s enterprise-wide compliance activities.
Before joining Ally, Dan spent two years with Wachovia/Wells Fargo in anti-money laundering and retail banking compliance; was for three years the Chief Compliance Officer for Royal Bank of Canada–Centura; and spent eight years with Bank of America in the global anti-money laundering compliance function.
Prior to joining the private industry, Dan was in the public sector as a commissioned bank examiner where he spent six years with the FDIC and nearly 10 years with the Federal Reserve Board.