John Dalton is a senior managing director at K2 Integrity. With more than 20 years of leadership and risk management experience in the financial crimes solutions sector, John advises financial institutions on financial crimes compliance matters, including anti-money laundering (AML), combating the financing of terrorism (CFT), and other threats to the international financial system. He helps clients to develop counter-illicit financing regulations, guidance, policies, procedures, and risk assessment tools and identify, assess, and address complex illicit finance risks to more effectively and efficiently prevent abuse and to ensure compliance with U.S. and global requirements, including Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) obligations.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, John served as senior vice president of financial services product and solutions strategy at First Derivatives and KX, responsible for the vision, strategy, and execution of roadmap investment across the portfolio. He defined and led a new go-to-market initiative for expansion of KX’s core technology and surveillance product line into new financial services areas. He also defined and led a global partnership program with technology, data, and services vendors.
Before his time at First Derivatives and KX, John was vice president of financial crime product management at Ayasdi AI, where he defined an innovative vision, strategy and roadmap for the differentiated use of topological data analysis (TDA) in combatting financial crimes, defining and developing the use cases and development roadmap for the core underlying customer segmentation modeling to significantly enhance the quality of alerted behaviors.
Earlier in his career, John held positions of increasing responsibility at SAS and BAE Systems Applied Intelligence.
John has been invited to be a keynote speaker, panelist, and round table speaker at numerous virtual conferences, including 1LOD for “Financial Crime Automation and Trade Surveillance Deep Dives” and Transform Finance.
He received a dual B.Sc. in management information systems and finance from the University North Carolina at Wilmington. He is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the International Association of Special Investigation Units and is Pragmatic Marketing Certified.