About us

Rick McDonell is a Co-CEO and Co-Owner of McDonell-Nadeau. He is also Executive Director of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). Rick is known globally for his work as Executive Secretary of the FATF including the FATF’s revision of the international AML/CFT/PF Standards, the new Mutual Evaluation methodology covering technical and effectiveness compliance and the expansion of the FATF Global Network to nine FATF-Style Regional Bodies.

Prior to his FATF role, Rick was Chief of the UN Global Program against Money Laundering and the founder and inaugural Executive Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering. Rick has extensive experience as a prosecutor and investigator leading complex multidisciplinary investigation Task Forces into organised crime cases both nationally and internationally.

Rick is a member of the Advisory Board on the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing and Chair of the Advisory Board.  He is a graduate of Monash University, Australia with a BA, LLB and Graduate Diploma in Commercial Law.

Josée Nadeau is a Co-CEO and Co-Owner of McDonell-Nadeau. She is also an AML/CFT/PF Consultant for the International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank. Josée has extensive knowledge of the FATF Standards and Methodology including all aspects of the Mutual Evaluation process, ICRG process, and National Risk Assessments, as well as extensive hands-on implementation of the Standards in countries in all regions of the world.

Josée was Head of the Canadian Delegation to the FATF and to its regional bodies in the Caribbean, South America and Asia-Pacific. Josée led Canada in the FATF’s revision of its AML/CFT Standards in 2012, the FATF evaluation of Canada in 2016 and was co-chair of one of the FATF review groups. She has worked with many international and national organisations, including the FATF, OECD, the G7/8, the G20, the UN, Finance Canada, and the Bank of Canada.

Josée is a graduate of the Université de Montréal with a B.Sc and M.Sc in Economics.

Allan Prochazka is Managing Director at McDonell-Nadeau and brings over 15 years of experience providing strategic advice on domestic and international financial sector policy and regulatory matters. He previously worked at the Canadian Department of Finance, where he provided expert advice on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) and capital markets criminal enforcement issues.

Allan also previously served as Canada’s Head of Delegation to the APG and represented the Government of Canada at the FATF, where he led Canada’s engagement in the FATF’s ICRG process.

Allan is an experienced assessor having contributed to Mutual Evaluation, Follow-Up and ICRG reports at the FATF and APG. His current areas of focus include working with clients in conducting national and enterprise-wide ML/TF risk assessments and in developing AML/CFT compliance solutions for the virtual asset service provider (VASP) sector.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.

Alejandra Quevedo is a financial integrity consultant for McDonell-Nadeau and the World Bank. She has more than 15 years of experience working with countries in the development of their AML/CFT regimes.

Alejandra has worked as a consultant with the Organisation of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), the Financial Action Task Force of South America (GAFILAT), the International Development Group LLC (IDG), and the Human Security Collective (HSC) on a variety of projects supporting countries with their money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessments and helping them on their implementation of the FATF Standards and building their AML/CFT policies and strategies.

Alejandra is a highly experienced global AML/CFT specialist with extensive knowledge of the FATF Standards, the Mutual Evaluation process and the ICRG process. She has served as Deputy Executive Secretary of GAFILAT and as Legal Advisor to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). Alejandra has participated in eight Mutual Evaluations in Latin-America and the Caribbean and has been involved in numerous ICRG country assessments.

Alejandra has served as professor of Comparative Law at the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Colombia and as adjunct professor of Law and Economics at the Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales in Argentina. She has a degree in law from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

Alexandre Rodriguez-Vigouroux is a financial integrity consultant for McDonell-Nadeau. He is an experienced global AML/CFT specialist with extensive knowledge of the FATF Standards and Methodology, including the Mutual Evaluation process, the Follow-Up process and the ICRG process.

Alexandre previously worked at the Canadian Department of Finance where he provided advice on AML/CFT issues and participated in the coordination of the Canada Mutual Evaluation process.

Alexandre also previously worked at the FATF Secretariat as a policy analyst and has been involved in the Mutual Evaluation of Hong Kong, China, numerous follow-up reports and ICRG reviews.

Alexandre holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) from the École Nationale d’Administration Publique in Quebec, Canada and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Université Laval, also in Quebec, Canada.

Andrew Mahoney has over 34 year’s experience as a Scotland Yard detective working on serious, organised crime and counter terrorism with a focus on financial crime matters. Andrew was the Head of the London Regional Asset Recovery Team, Asset Confiscation Enforcement Team and he was also a Senior Officer in the UK National Terrorism Financial Investigation Unit.

He has worked overseas for the UK Government in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa advising on counter terrorism matters. Andrew designed and delivered bespoke in-country AML/CFT training overseas to prosecutors and investigators on behalf of the UK.

Andrew has worked for the FATF, undertaking Mutual Evaluations and as a member of the FATF joint group for the Middle East and Africa assisting countries under review.  He was a member of the National Financial Investigators Working Group in the UK advising on AML policy and fostering legislative change including work on Unexplained Wealth Orders and account freezing orders.

Andrew currently lectures to Scotland Yard detectives, holds an International Diploma in Money Laundering from the University of Manchester in the UK and is a member of the International Compliance Association. He is also an AML/CTF expert to the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.

Prior to his retirement in 2003, Aub Chapman was a career banker with over 42 years of professional experience. In his last role at Westpac Banking Corporation, he was responsible for managing a portfolio of functions including Group Fraud Control, Physical Security, Business Continuity Services, Cash and ATM Services as well as managing the group’s compliance with obligations under AML/CFT and other financial crime-related legislation.

Since his retirement, Aub has been consulting in both the public and private sectors, not only in Australia but also internationally. He specialises in controls against financial crimes (AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, Modern Slavery and IWT). His international experience includes assignments for the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the Eurasian Group on Money Laundering, Bank Negara Malaysia, Institut Bank-Bank Malaysia, and the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority.

Aub currently provides financial crime consulting and independent audit services to international and domestic banks, wealth management firms, money service businesses, payment service providers, gambling service businesses, equity crowd-funding businesses, fin-tech businesses, and digital currency exchanges.

Aub is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Australasian Chapter. He is CAMS certified and is a member of the ACAMS teaching faculty. Aub received the prestigious ACAMS AML Professional of the Year Award at the 8th ACAMS International AML and Financial Crime Conference held in Las Vegas in 2009.

Aub is a Fellow of Blockchain Australia and has been member of its Financial Crime Committee since its inception.

Craig Hamilton, formerly a Detective Inspector in New Zealand Police retired in September 2023 having been a police officer for 35 years.  Prior to his retirement he managed New Zealand’s forfeiture and money laundering investigation teams.   Craig has significant operational experience having successfully undertaken, supervised, and managed hundreds of conviction and non-conviction-based forfeitures. He also has extensive experience in undertaking and leading money laundering investigations. Given his experience he was influential in the development of policy and legislation related to all aspects of the AML/CFT system in New Zealand.

Craig is an experienced FATF assessor having participated in five mutual evaluations along with various follow-up reports and ICRG reviews.  As a member of the New Zealand FATF delegation, he has contemporary experience of being assessed against the standards.  The MER of New Zealand was adopted in 2021 which recognized New Zealand as highly effective in confiscation and international co-operation and substantially effective in both ML and TF investigation and risk understanding.

Upon retirement and on nomination of the New Zealand Commissioner of Police and by  recommendation of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Craig was appointed by His Majesty, King Charles III as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM), in recognition of service to the New Zealand Police and the community.  This Royal Honour recognized Craig involvement in the development of legislation, policy and practice and operational success in the pursuit and recovery of proceeds of crime across New Zealand and internationally.

Craig holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Economics) and a Diploma in Policing.

Jennifer Sweeney is a financial integrity consultant with more than 15 years’ experience advising governments on policy and legislative development issues.

She previously worked at the Canadian Department of Finance in which she led the development and implementation of various policy, legislative and regulatory initiatives, including substantial amendments to Canada’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime.  She has expertise in providing strategic, technical, and drafting advice regarding legislative and regulatory amendments to improve countries’ technical and effectiveness compliance with the FATF Standards, as well as the development and implementation of national and sectoral ML/TF risk assessments.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts (History) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Laws from the University of the West of England.

Lia Umans is a financial integrity consultant for McDonell-Nadeau and a technical assistance advisor for the IMF. She has over 25 years of extensive and unique experience with the Financial Action Task Force, the International Monetary Fund and the Belgian Financial Intelligence Unit. As a scientific expert to MONEYVAL—the FATF-Style Regional Body of the Council of Europe, she provides crucial input to ensure quality and consistency of this body’s mutual evaluation process.

From 2008 to 2019, Lia was a Policy Analyst at the FATF Secretariat. She provided significant contributions to the FATF’s policy work on identifying and responding to high-risk and non-co-operative jurisdictions and supported the FATF’s Evaluations and Compliance Group. She also played a key role in several mutual evaluations.

From 1996 to 2008, Lia held various positions at the Belgian Financial Intelligence Unit and was the FIU’s central contact point for other domestic AML/CFT authorities, counterpart FIUs and international organisations. As a co-chair of the Egmont Technical Assistance and Training Working Group, Lia made major contributions to the Egmont Group’s design and delivery of training programs for FIUs.

Lia holds a Master’s degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences.

Loretta Joseph is a public policy influencer and is globally recognised as a leading authority in digital asset regulation and blockchain technology.

She is a highly dynamic, skilled banking, financial and consulting professional with over 30 years of experience in financial markets and related sectors. She is a life time fellow of the advisory board of the ADCCA (Australian Digital Currency and Commerce Association) and holds various advisory positions for multiple tech, biotech and Cybersecurity companies.

Loretta champions the cause for responsible blockchain adoption with governments, Regulators and industry players around the globe. She was the recipient of the prestigious FinTech Australia FinTech Leader of 2017 award, the Female Leader of 2016 award and also the 2016 Alumni Award for Social Impact from Sancta Sophia College at Sydney University.

Malcolm Wright, the visionary behind InnoFi Advisory, drives financial services innovation through blockchain, virtual assets, DAOs, and NFTs. Renowned for his expertise in virtual asset regulation, he shaped Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) and propelled Shyft’s crypto Travel Rule solutions. Malcolm’s transformative impact spans across Schroders, Revolut, Thomson Reuters, BitMEX, Eqonex, and his own tech venture.

As Director of Regulatory Affairs, APAC, and Vice-Chair at GBBC Digital Finance (GDF), he advocated for favorable virtual asset regulations and co-led GDF’s AML group, cementing his influence. Malcolm co-founded a consortium of 135 experts, creating the widely-adopted IVMS101 data standard, meeting FATF’s crypto ‘Travel Rule.’ His recent initiative streamlined onboarding between financial institutions and virtual asset providers with the Wolfsberg Group.

Malcolm, an engaging speaker and writer, clarifies virtual assets and risk management. Chairing the Practitioners Advisory Board at the International Compliance Association and serving as an Associate Fellow at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, he remains a vital voice in financial services and virtual assets.

Marijn Ridderikhof is a financial integrity consultant for McDonell-Nadeau, the IMF and the Council of Europe. He is an experienced global AML/CFT and Anti-Corruption specialist with extensive knowledge of regulating and supervising financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions, and of the FATF Standards, the Mutual Evaluation and ICRG processes.

Marijn has worked at the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) as a senior expert in integrity supervision when he led several projects in this field, including in the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean. He represented DNB in the Delegation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the FATF and CFATF for many years, including through participation in the FATF working groups responsible for the revision of the AML/CFT Standards. He also served as a financial expert in the Mutual Evaluations of Australia and South Africa.

Marijn is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam with a Master’s degree in Law (LL.M with a specialization in European and International Law) and passed several exams in Economic and Commercial Law, and also in International Relations at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).

Michelle is a lawyer, admitted in Australia (2004) and the United Kingdom (2008).  Michelle worked as a solicitor in private practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, predominantly in litigation.  Following this, Michelle became a Crown Advocate with the Crown Prosecution Service (United Kingdom), responsible for the restraint and confiscation of proceeds of crime within the Organised Crime Division.

She is the former Director of Implementation at the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) where she conducted 3 APG Mutual Evaluations, FATF follow up reviews, and focused on countries under the FATF International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG). Michelle led the APG delegation for 3 FATF ICRG exit onsite visits. She has provided advice to the highest levels of government on AML/CFT implementation and represented the APG at various international meetings including the FATF Plenary.  During her time at the APG, Michelle also took an interest in targeted financial sanctions relating to terrorism and proliferation financing including undertaking a review of the laws of APG countries on this topic. Michelle has also led the team responsible for Australia’s proceeds of crime asset manager and takes a keen interest in this area.

She is presently a financial integrity consultant for McDonell Nadeau Consultants working with different countries globally on various aspects of AML/CFT implementation, assistance with FATF processes and related national risk assessments and is engaged as a legal consultant to the United Nations Development Programme Pacific Anti Corruption Project.

Mr. Hansen has accumulated over 30 years of expertise in the field of investigating financial crime and AML/CFT field.  Mr. Hansen completed a successful career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which over 12 years was spend investigating domestic and international high profile ML investigations, 7 years establishing Canada’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FINTRAC) and 2 years with Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) developing CFT Programs.  Since 2009, Mr. Hansen has been engaged as a consultant supporting over 25 countries strengthen their AML/CFT regimes in the areas of judicial, law enforcement (LEA), national security (CFT) and financial intelligence units (FIU) while working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), Asia Development Bank (ADB),United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime, and other technical assistance providers.  Mr. Hansen’s is a trained FATF evaluator having participated as the FIU and LEA expert in the mutual evaluations. During the past three years Mr. Hansen in his role with McDonnell Nadeau has support several countries prepare for FATF Mutual Evaluations or, countries efforts for exiting the FATF ICRG processes.  He has participated as an expert supporting several countries undertake National AML/CFT Risk Assessments (NRA) and developing National AML/CFT Strategies. Mr. Hansen resides now in Ottawa, Canada after spending the six (6) years residing in SE Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore).

Wayne Walsh S.C. is a practising barrister who specializes in financial crime and compliance. He was previously a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Hong Kong for 25 years and a regular member of the Hong Kong, China delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

From 2010 to 2012, Wayne co-chaired a FATF Working Group which revised the current FATF Forty Recommendations. He participated in FATF Mutual Evaluations as a legal assessor and assisted Hong Kong, China during its FATF Mutual Evaluations in 2008 and 2019. Wayne continues to advise the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on AML/CFT standards and is an AML/CFT consultant for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Early in his career, Wayne worked as an Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, a commercial litigator, and a prosecutor with the Serious Fraud Office in New Zealand. He is the author of the legal textbook “Cross-Border Crime in Hong Kong: Extradition, Mutual Assistance, Financial Sanctions” which was published by Lexis Nexis in 2020. Wayne holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Otago, a Bachelor of Laws degree, also from the University of Otago, and a Master of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Auckland.