Chris advises financial services firms and their partners, focusing on regulatory compliance, risk management, and product development. He has helped dozens of firms by constructing operating models for effective governance, assessing risks and controls, and designing processes that integrate emerging technologies and advanced analytics, with a particular expertise in anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions.

Chris was most recently a managing director at Berkeley Research Group following over a decade at Promontory Financial Group in the United Kingdom and the United States, where he co-led the Americas financial crime compliance practice and helped to build the firm’s regtech and managed service affiliates. Prior to consulting, he worked with the United Nations in Tanzania through the UN Association in Canada.

He holds a B.Comm. from the Queen’s School of Business and an M.Sc. in Environment and Development from The London School of Economics and Political Science.