Ernie Perez – Managing Director

Ernie Perez
Managing Partner
New York/Florida

Ernest Perez is result-driven compliance professional with more than 20 years’ experience managing complex global compliance initiatives, specializing in regulatory remediation transaction monitoring and sanctions screening programs. Ernest is a skilled professional manager and a technologist with a strong ability to translate complex compliance objectives into actionable project tasks and technology solutions and deliverables.

His program specialties include:

Management of all aspects of projects along with acting as a liaison between the Compliance and Technology stakeholders, translating requirements into technical system configurations and designs. Reviews and evaluations of AML and sanctions scanning programs in order to transform Compliance groups from inefficient and reactive to proactive, strategic, and cost-effective program solutions.

Driving the implementation, upgrade, or optimization of all major commercial AML and sanctions screening systems. Tuning and optimization of sanctions screening and transaction monitoring systems in response to regulatory actions through “hands-on expertise” in system configuration.

Process reengineering of KYC policies and procedures in order to meet target operating models. Design new customer risk models and upgrades to Know Your Customer (‘KYC”) programs,

Mr. Perez has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Pace University along with an

M.B.A in Management of Business Administration from Fordham University.

Fluent in Spanish