Chris Swecker has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement, national security, legal, and corporate security/risk management. Chris served 24 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before retiring as one of the bureau’s top officials. As Assistant Director, Chris was responsible for eight FBI divisions encompassing more than half of the FBI’s total resources. He led all FBI criminal investigations including money laundering, organized crime/drug trafficking and financial crime matters; established and led several crime focused national task forces; and testified before Congress on numerous financial crime issues such as identity theft, crimes against children, mortgage fraud, human trafficking, financial crimes, information privacy and data compromise, crimes on the Internet, drug trafficking and gangs.

Swecker received the prestigious Presidential Rank Award for his service in Iraq and as Special Agent in Charge of the NC Office. He has appeared as a guest on numerous media programs including CNN, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Chris is a frequent public speaker on financial crimes, money laundering and cyber crimes.

Juan is an international thought leader in the anti-money laundering and regulatory compliance domains, and has been recognized as a pioneer in the development of compliance and risk management best practices for the money transfer industry and the emerging Bitcoin and Blockchain industries.

Juan is an advisor at several crypto-currency and technology start-ups. He also serves as a member of the Bitcoin Foundation’s Regulatory Affairs and Education Committees; Co-chair of Digital Asset Transfer Authority’s (DATA) AML Working Group; Coalition of Automated Legal Applications (COALA) Global’s Regulatory Oversight Working Group; and Wall Street Blockchain Alliance’s Advisory Board.

Juan has built and managed compliance programs all over the world – while dedicating his work to supporting the underserved and unbanked, and to influence sound, pro-innovation policy.  Juan has helped develop a large portfolio of innovative monetary services and tools – such as bill payments, money transfer products and Mexico’s first pre-paid debit card

Juan was granted permanent resident status by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services “by reason of extraordinary ability” in the fields of Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism.