Gavin Proudley

Gavin Proudley has been helping clients manage financial crime, corruption and reputational risk for over 10 years. He has delivered enhanced due diligence services to clients across a range of jurisdictions and sectors, including financial services, oil and gas, life sciences and manufacturing. Gavin has supported clients involved in high-risk transactions by providing anti-bribery due diligence, and helped others design and implement broader due diligence programs. He works with large financial institutions, particularly with IPO and other investment banking teams, as well as supporting businesses in managing high-risk and high-value relationships. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Gavin was a director in EY's forensic practice and also worked in government for 11 years. He focused on international security and terrorism issues, advising senior officials, ministers and the prime minister's office.

Miroslava Panuscikova

Miroslava Panuscikova, Director, Strategic Client Advisory, Risk & Compliance is a subject matter expert with over 17 years of experience in the area of risk data creation, maintenance and analysis as well as data discovery, extraction and collection, with a particular focus on international sanctions, financial crime and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) compliance related content. She acts as the lead research contact for client engagements and has worked with a number of leading financial services institutions and corporate clients to help them get the best out of Dow Jones risk data.

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John Smith

John E. Smith, former Director of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), is co-head of Morrison Foerster’s National Security practice. Mr. Smith served as acting Under Secretary and Director, Deputy Director, and Associate Director of OFAC during his 11-year tenure at the Treasury Department. He also previously served as the only American on a UN Security Council panel of experts charged with monitoring the implementation of global terrorism sanctions and as a trial attorney at the U.S. Justice Department where he defended federal agencies including OFAC in challenges to significant government programs and statutes and acted as the lead trial counsel defending challenges to the terrorist asset freezing program implemented by OFAC following September 11, 2001.

Both in the United States and globally, clients turn to John for his deep experience and unique perspective on the complexities and escalating risk of U.S. and multilateral sanctions. He is a trusted advisor for clients navigating significant enforcement actions by U.S. and other government prosecutors and regulators.