Meet the Experts
Steven Levitt, Best-Selling Author, "Freakonomics"
A full professor in the University of Chicago's economics department (he received tenure after only two years) and recipient of the American Economic Association’s prestigious John Bates Clark Medal (given to the country's best economist under 40), what interests Levitt most is cheating, corruption and crime.
When Stephen Dubner (co-author of FREAKONOMICS ) profiled Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, he was beset by questions, queries, riddles and requests—from General Motors and the New York Yankees and U.S. senators but also from prisoners and parents and a man who sold bagels. A former Tour de France champion called him to ask his help in proving that the current Tour is rife with doping; the Central Intelligence Agency wanted to know how Levitt might use data to catch terrorists.
A populist in a field that is undergoing a bout of popularization, Levitt wants no less than to change the way we view the modern world. Levitt says: "Tax evasion. Money-laundering. I'd like to put together a set of tools that lets us catch terrorists. I mean, that's the goal. I don't necessarily know yet how I'd go about it. But given the right data, I have little doubt that I could figure out the answer."
Lisa Roth, CEO Keystone Capital Corporation
Lisa Roth is the Chief Executive Officer and majority owner of Keystone Capital Corporation, a small broker dealer specializing in Gen Y investment strategies, located in San Diego, CA, a role she has filled since 2001.
Ms. Roth has also served as the EVP Managing Director of National Regulatory Services (NRS) and she served in various executive capacities with Royal Alliance Associates, First Allied Securities and other brokerage and advisory firms.
In 2007 Ms. Roth was appointed to FINRA’s Small Firm Advisory Board and is currently serving a one-year term. She has also been a member of the FINRA Board of Arbitrators for over 15 years and she is the Chairman of the National Association of Independent Broker/Dealers’ (NAIBD) Board of Directors. Through her long term role on the Board of NAIBD, she has presented the small and independent firm perspective to regulators on a wide range of topics.
Ms. Roth currently holds Series 7, 24, 4, 53, 65, and 63 licenses.
Ms. Roth graduated from Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA where she received her B.A and was the recipient of its history prize in 1990. She currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Responsibility, a non-profit organization that provides education to children living alongside municipal dumps in Tijuana, Mexico, and is the founder of “Los Buen Deportes”, an organization through which U.S. and Mexican teens engage in recreational soccer games and clinics.
Kenneth Rijock, Financial Crime Consultant, World-Check
Mr. Rijock is believed to be the only former banking attorney-turned career money launderer who actively consults with law enforcement and the financial community.
He has more than 25 year’s experience in the field of money laundering, as a practicing laundryman, financial institution compliance consultant, and trainer/lecturer to law enforcement and the intelligence services of both the United States and Canada.
After serving as a banking lawyer in an international law firm, he spent the decade of the 1980s as a money launderer and advisor to narcotics trafficking organizations operating in North and South America. He has extensive experience in money laundering tactics and tradecraft.
While serving a federal prison sentence for racketeering and money laundering, he assisted with the first joint Swiss-American money laundering investigation of bankers and lawyers, and which resulted in a major seizure of the proceeds of crime.
Mr. Rijock is a veteran of the conflict in Vietnam and Cambodia, and holds the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and Bronze Star Medal.
Raj Mahajan, President SunGard Trading
Raj is a talented SunGard executive who has demonstrated his ability to successfully grow businesses, while maintaining satisfied clients and motivated employees. Today Raj oversees SunGard’s Trading businesses, delivering mission-critical trading systems while identifying new growth opportunities for SunGard, as well as its customers. Raj has proven to be very effective at marshalling his team to understand and respond to customer needs. He joined SunGard in 2004 with the acquisition of Kiodex, a company he founded and grew to its current position as the leading global provider of commodity trading and risk solutions. Prior to Kiodex, Raj held several executive positions at Goldman Sachs & Co. as an investment banker and principal investor. During his career at Goldman, he helped to launch Goldman Sachs Power, the firm’s electricity trading and risk group, and was part of the team that founded Orion Power Holdings, a Goldman Sachs portfolio investment company
Steve Sabin, COO SunGard Protegent
Steve Sabin is the Chief Operating Officer for SunGard Protegent with overall responsibility for Protegent Surveillance, Protegent PTA, Protegent EnGard and Protegent Customer Onboard. Prior to his appointment in January of 2008, Steve was Protegent’s VP of Implementation and Product Development where he managed numerous technology, product and operational initiatives.
Steve joined SunGard through acquisition while at Sterling Wentworth, where he developed solutions for the banking, insurance and brokerage industries. Steve was pivotal in the design and implementation of Sterling Wentworth’s enterprise software methodology. He organized and developed the company’s Suitability Knowledge Base System; a rule based compliance system based on NASD and SEC regulations. He also created a Data Validation component for Sterling Wentworth’s PathExpress program. Steve was involved in the development of 21 diverse financial modules (calculators) for implementation on the Internet and has also been involved in the organization, knowledge engineering and development of a Cross Seller knowledge base for a fortune 500 financial services firm.