KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jeremy Kroll
President, CEO, and Co-Founder
Jeremy Kroll is President, CEO, and co-founder of K2 Intelligence, a global strategic
intelligence firm with offices in New York, London, Madrid, and Tel Aviv.
At K2 Intelligence, Mr. Kroll oversees all aspects of the firm’s intelligence, investigative,
and security operations. He is also responsible for the firm’s business and strategic
development and is directly involved in a number of client engagements. In addition,
Mr. Kroll has led the firm’s development of proprietary data analytics software that
significantly enhances the acquisition and analysis of intelligence data.
Before co-founding K2, Mr. Kroll spent eleven years as a senior executive at Kroll Inc.,
a business intelligence firm that Jules Kroll founded and later sold to Marsh &
McLennan Companies in 2004. While at Kroll, Mr. Kroll served as Managing Director
and Vice President of Corporate Sales and Marketing and as General Manager of Kroll’s
Information Security Group. He also led the acquisition and integration of Kroll
Ontrack, at the time a nearly $300 million division, and headed the strategic and
business development function for what was, at the time, Kroll’s $200 million Advisory
Services business.
Mr. Kroll currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for City Year, a Bostonbased organization dedicated to lowering the dropout rate of U.S. high school children.
He is also President of American Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery of London. Mr. Kroll
received his MBA from TRIUM, the executive global MBA program of the New York
University Stern School of Business, HEC Paris, and the London School of Economics.
He holds a B.A. degree in Foreign Languages and Fine Arts from Georgetown University.
Thomas Bock
Executive Managing Director
Thomas Bock is a Managing Director and leads the Anti-Money Laundering and
Regulatory Compliance Practice at K2 Intelligence. He has more than twenty years of
experience serving the financial services industry in the areas of anti-money laundering,
sanctions, regulatory compliance, fraud investigations, and risk management.
Previously, Mr. Bock held several executive management positions at Ernst & Young,
Daylight Forensic & Advisory LLC, and KPMG, where he directed teams performing AML
services on behalf of large financial institutions. He also served as a fraud investigator
for Republic National Bank of New York.
Mr. Bock specializes in Know Your Customer (“KYC”), customer due diligence,
transaction monitoring, the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC/Sanctions, risk assessment,
enhanced due diligence, FCPA, and financial fraud investigations. Prior to joining K2, he
worked at CIT Group as an independent consultant leading a team that designed and
implemented a global transaction monitoring system that risk ranks customers, screens
for sanctions, and monitors transactions for the purpose of identifying potential money
laundering and/or terrorist financing operations.
In previous engagements, Mr. Bock performed gap analyses of AML and sanctions
programs for several major international financial institutions. This work included
reviews of sanctions policies and procedures, systems for filtering customers and
transactions, and processes for clearing and documenting potential matches to OFAC
filters. Additionally, Mr. Bock has performed an OFAC remediation on all existing
customers for a major U.S. financial institution, a project that included tuning the
existing filters as well as investigating, clearing, and documenting the results of
approximately 6,000 alerts. He has also performed sanctions/OFAC risk assessments
for several international financial institutions, work that included reviewing customers,
transactions, products, and geographies for each affiliated entity. Finally, throughout his
professional career, Mr. Bock has conducted numerous corporate fraud investigations,
created fraud prevention policies, and established due diligence procedures for
financial institutions.
Mr. Bock holds a B.S. degree in Computer Information Systems and Finance from
Manhattan College and an M.S. degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica
College.
Vincent D’Amelio, CPA
Executive Managing Director
Vincent D’Amelio is an Executive Managing Director at K2 Intelligence. He has more than
twenty years of experience performing forensic accounting analysis and investigations,
with particular expertise in regulatory compliance, integrity monitorships, Ponzi
schemes, asset misappropriation, financial statement fraud, and fidelity insurance
claims. He has testified as an expert witness in both federal and state courts.
Previously, Mr. D’Amelio served as the New York Office Managing Director for Navigant
Consulting and was a Director in KPMG’s Forensic practice. He also has law enforcement
experience as a Senior Financial Investigator with the New York County District
Attorney’s Office, where he focused on financial crimes, including money laundering.
In other relevant engagements, Mr. D’Amelio conducted an extensive analysis of private
banking transactions for a major U.S. bank entity. This analysis resulted in the
identification of numerous suspicious transactions in violation of OFAC and AML
regulations reported to the federal government. In addition, he conducted a covert
investigation of violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for a U.S. based
international hotel chain, which included an analysis of all aspects of the purchasing and
procurement functions within the organization, as well as interviews of witnesses and
targets of investigation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Saigon, Vietnam. Mr. D’Amelio
also assisted the court-appointed trustee of Agape World Inc., an alleged $500 million
Ponzi scheme prosecuted in the Eastern District of New York. In this role, he analyzed
all books and records and corresponding banking records to trace and determine the
ultimate disposition of funds, assisted the receiver in identifying and pursuing all
potential sources of recovery, performed claw back calculations on behalf of the trustee
to identify additional sources of recovery, and testified in Bankruptcy Court as a forensic
accounting expert in support of the trustee’s motion to consolidate related entities into
the pending bankruptcy proceeding.
Mr. D’Amelio holds a B.A. degree in Accounting from Queens College – CUNY and has
taught as an adjunct professor at St. John’s University and New York University. He is a
Certified Public Accountant licensed in New York State.
Mitchell D. Silber
Executive Managing Director
Mr. Silber is the Executive Managing Director for Intelligence and Analytic Solutions at K2
Intelligence in New York, where he leads the Intelligence and Data Analytics practice. Mr. Silber is
charged with identifying and developing strategic partnerships with companies that are creating
cutting edge analytics software platforms, designing new uses for them in the business intelligence
and investigations arena and creating new business practice areas around them. At K2, Mr. Silber
also leads the investment and acquisition committee and is responsible for vetting potential
opportunities for the firm.
Before joining K2, Mr. Silber served as Director of Intelligence Analysis at the New York Police
Department’s Intelligence Division. There, he supervised the Department’s entire portfolio of
ongoing terrorism-related investigations and managed the department’s Analytic and Cyber
Units. He also served as a special assistant to the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence,
managing strategic threat assessments and the Department’s relationships with international police
and intelligence agencies. Mr. Silber also was responsible for vetting new big data analytics
technology platforms, including Palantir.
Mr. Silber is the co-author of the 2007 NYPD report - Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown
Threat. He has briefed at the White House, National Security Council, CIA, FBI, National
Counter Terrorism Center and testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Mr. Silber is a visiting lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public
Affairs (SIPA), where he teaches a course on Modern Urban Counterterrorism. Mr. Silber
serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board at SIPA and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. He is the author of the The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West, published in
December 2011 by University of Pennsylvania Press.
Before working in counter terrorism, Mr. Silber was a partner at The Carson Group and one
of two principals at Evolution Capital, its investment bank subsidiary. There, Mr. Silber
created and managed Carson’s biotech consulting practice and was responsible for
investment banking at Evolution Capital.
Before earning his Masters Degree at Columbia, Mr. Silber spent nine years in corporate
finance as a partner at The Carson Group and as a principal at Evolution Capital, LLC. Mr.
Silber earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania.