Tommaso Di Ruzza
Tommaso Di Ruzza is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice, based in Abu Dhabi. He advises global financial institutions and governments on all manner of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) issues, with a particular focus on helping clients design, establish, and maintain strong and effective Financial […]
Steven Herbst
Steven Herbst is vice president, client engagement—sports, media, and entertainment at K2 Integrity. With more than 25 years of experience in the media and sports industry, Steve has developed and executed strategic content and distribution plans in the professional and college space while managing multibillion-dollar sports partnerships and media rights deals at the network and […]
Sarah K. Runge
Sarah K. Runge is an executive managing director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice. She works with fintech firms and financial institution clients to review and improve their financial crime compliance policies and practices to ensure compliance with U.S. and global requirements. Sarah helps clients develop and implement relevant financing policies, procedures, and risk […]
Sarah Watson
Sarah Watson is a managing director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance and Strategic Advisory practices. She helps a wide range of clients combat illicit finance through innovative, dynamic, and flexible anti-money laundering/combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) programs. Sarah works with financial institution clients to review and improve their financial crime compliance policies and […]
Paola Tenconi
Paola Tenconi is a director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice based in Abu Dhabi. Working with law firms, corporates, financial institutions and private clients, she carries out complex, cross-border investigations on a broad range of matters including asset tracing, litigation support, fraud investigations, and business intelligence. Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Paola was […]
Yelena M. Talmazan
Yelena M. Talmazan is a managing director and senior advisor in K2 Integrity’s Financial, Internal Audit, and Risk Advisory practice. With 25 years of industry experience—the majority spent in the financial services, insurance, healthcare, technology, and consumer business industries directing and managing internal audit (IA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and intermediate holding company (IHC) compliance programs—Yelena works […]
Joseph Crotty
Joseph Crotty is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice. Applying his diverse experience in the investment management and trading sectors, Joe assists financial institutions with mandated transaction monitoring lookbacks, user acceptance testing (UAT), quality assurance (QA) reviews, and authoring detailed written reports for regulatory review. He also performs customer-based transaction data […]
Katrine Steffensen
Katrine Steffensen is a senior director in the Financial Crimes Compliance practice at K2 Integrity, where she advises both crypto natives and traditional finance (TradFi) clients on their financial crimes risk and compliance strategies. With an array of industry experience across banking and financial services, Fintechs, regulatory/supervisory bodies, and cryptocurrency platforms, Katrine advises and supports […]
Skip Trachtman
Skip Trachtman is head of client engagement at K2 Integrity. With more than 25 years of experience in sales and client relations, Skip leverages his relationship skills to help clients solve for their most complex issues. Skip also works closely with the firm’s practitioners and subject-matter experts to help drive new business and deepen existing […]
John Pelaschier
John Pelaschier is a managing director in K2 Integrity’s Agile Technologies innovation lab, an in-house technology lab charged with building tailored analytics and technology solutions to meet the complexities of a wide range of client engagements. With more than 25 years of diverse experience in technology—including almost a decade building systems for FinTech lenders—he partners […]
