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We are pleased to announce that Emerge Consultants have forged a partnership with Darktrace. Founded in 2013 by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge and government cyber intelligence experts in the US and the UK, Darktrace is recognized today as the world’s leading AI company for cyber security.
With deep expertise in mathematics and machine learning, as well as operational experience defending critical national assets, our founding team started Darktrace to empower organizations to defend their systems against the most sophisticated cyber-threats.
Darktrace’s pioneering technology, the Enterprise Immune System, applies AI to the cyber defense challenge for the first time, and has proven itself successful in detecting cyber-threats that existing, legacy systems cannot.
Darktrace is headquartered in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK, with 40 offices globally and over 800 employees. It is privately owned, with investors including KKR, Summit Partners, Vitruvian Partners, Samsung Ventures, TenEleven Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Talis Capital, Invoke Capital and Insight Venture Partners.
We are very pleased to announce Samantha Sheen as one of our Senior Regulatory advisors.
Sam is a financial crime prevention professional with over 15 years of practical experience in compliance. Sam holds a number of qualifications and is recognised as a subject matter expert in the field of financial crime. Sam’s previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer and CCO and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions, both offshore and in Europe. Sam also worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey and subsequently set up the financial crime division, overseeing the examination of a variety of financial institutions. She continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on financial crime matters. Sam has extensive training experience in the field of financial crime prevention and corporate governance matters. She has most recently been involved in projects involving FinTech businesses, the use of RegTech to mitigate financial crime and list management relating to the screening of customers and third parties. Sam most recently worked with ACAMS Europe as its AML Director and is a member of the Chapter in the UK. Sam is recognised by ACAMS as a subject matter expert and has co-authored a number of online certificate courses, facilitated working groups on 4/5AMLD in Europe and assistance in the development of white papers. Sam often writes about various financial crime topics and participates as moderator, presenter and panellist in a number of jurisdictions. Originally from Montreal, Quebec Canada, Sam holds a Bachelors of Public Administration, Law Degree, qualified as a barrister and solicitor and holds her Masters in Business, specialising in risk management.
We would like to congratulate our Managing Partner & Founder Tashfin Shafique in completing his Digital Strategies for Business Executive course from Columbia Business School. The course is in line with our Digital Transformation and Data Science Practice and will further support our clients, partners and colleagues in applying cutting edge solutions.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Graham Barrow. Graham will join as a senior advisor in our GRC practice. Graham has worked in senior roles across Global Banking, Markets, Corporate, Private, Retail and Wealth Management.
The fundamental ability he brought to all these roles was a deep understanding of the underpinning regulations, legislation, guidance and best practice case studies to ensure that all proposed controls, policies and procedures were based on first principles rather than received wisdom.
Graham has worked in locations across the world including London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai,Bangalore, Zurich, Berne, Geneva, Gibraltar, Monaco, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man, Cayman Islands, Mexico and Istanbul. He has been closely involved in two Systematic AML Programmes (SAMLPs) and has made major contributions to developing effective policy within Wealth, Private Banking, Correspondent Banking and Trade Finance.
He brings highly developed communication skills to everything he does as well as a keen awareness for the need for bespoke and effective coaching and development within the Financial Crime specialisms.He has an excellent working knowledge of TACT 2000, POCA 2002, MLR 2007, FSMA, SYSC, Wolfsberg, JMLSG (parts I and II) and an abundance of research papers.
Graham has a deep understanding of the worldwide Financial Crime/AML landscape which enables him to bring enormous value to the formulation of meaningful Financial Crime controls as well as huge experience in the design and implementation of an effective global implementation plan.
Graham brings specialist knowledge of the FCA’s Systematic AML Programme having been deeply involved with two recent SAMLPs.
by Hane Aung (PhD)
Thinking beyond databases
Big Data is everywhere, in today’s world valuable data is not just in standard databases, spreadsheets or organized file systems. You can retrieve and process valuable data from unstructured sources as well as structured systems. Your company already possesses a wealth of unstructured Big Data in many formats. For example, information can be gained from text-based messages, meeting minutes, reports and literature which can be processed using modern Natural Language Processing techniques to extract knowledge and understanding on a matter or topic important to you. Information can also be gained from a wide array of behavioral data that can relate to your clients, customers or employees through their interaction with your systems. This will allow you to have insight and a better understanding of the stakeholders that matter to your company as well and to potentially attract the customers and employees that you actually want.
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Our experts have experience working in diverse environments and communities with a range of people from many sectors. We understand that there is implicit knowledge that you will have about your aims and objectives but may be unfamiliar with Data Science. Our team will engage with you in a jargon-less manner and endeavour to understand your needs from your perspective.
As our experts stem from not just the commercial sector but also from world class academic institutions we have experience in training people from scratch to a professional grade level. We have trained people on a range of topics from basic statistical analytics all the way to the state-of-the-art in Deep Learning and other cutting-edge methods. You will have continuous comprehensible guidance in a clear and obfuscated way.
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Tashfin Shafique | Managing Partner & Founder Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance Practice E: tashfin.shafique@emerge-consultants.com M: +447974760942
Mizan Rahman | Senior Partner Head of Digital Transformation & Data Science Practice E: mizan.rahman@emerge-consultants.com M: +447930450427
Hane Aung (PhD) | Senior Consultant Data Science Practice E: hane.aung@emerge-consultants.com T: +442032871903
