Brandon Gilmore

• Lead the design, development, and governance of AML/Sanctions risk assessment metrics and platform capabilities, aligning financial crimes compliance strategy with technology solutions.
• Oversee the design, maintenance, and operationalization of OCC/FFIEC-aligned AML and Sanctions risk logic, partnering with technology and data teams to automate processes and reduce manual workload across global and domestic business lines.
• Influence executive decision-making by leading enterprise-wide transformation of the risk assessment framework, embedding dynamic scoring and data-driven insights to align with evolving OCC/FFIEC expectations.
• Serve as the primary liaison between Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, and Data Governance to ensure unified risk reporting and adherence to enterprise compliance strategy.

Key Achievements

• Led OCC/FFIEC exam readiness initiatives, producing documentation and walkthroughs that resulted in zero high-priority findings in recent regulatory reviews.
• Expanded AML/Sanctions risk assessment automation, enhancing reporting accuracy and reducing turnaround times for operations across 50+ jurisdictions.
• Achieved enterprise-wide standardization of the risk assessment methodology, ensuring consistent application and compliance across multiple regulatory regimes.
• Redesigned the Sanctions Inherent Risk structure, refining metrics and thresholds to meet evolving regulatory requirements, eliminating 55 manual rating overrides and significantly improving inherent risk scoring accuracy.

• Led AML investigations, SAR drafting, and the identification of emerging AML typologies to detect and mitigate potential financial crimes.
• Applied investigative insights to strengthen transaction monitoring, enhance detection logic, and inform enterprise compliance strategy.

Key Achievements

• Directed high-priority AML investigations, resulting in multiple law enforcement referrals and enhanced monitoring scenarios.
• Authored high-quality Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) that met all regulatory deadlines and received zero quality rejections.
• Identified and documented emerging AML typologies, influencing updates to the bank’s detection logic and contributing to a measurable reduction in false positives.

• Provided all-source intelligence and targeting analysis in support of U.S. government and military operations.
• Led multi-agency collaboration to identify and disrupt illicit procurement networks, integrating financial, law enforcement, and intelligence data.

Key Achievements

• Produced hundreds actionable intelligence packages that directly supported law enforcement investigations and worldwide military operations.
• Coordinated with FBI, DHS, and Department of Commerce to dismantle multiple illicit procurement and export control violation networks.

• Led a 40+ Marine unit responsible for security of Presidential and Vice-Presidential communications assets worldwide.
• Developed and implemented security protocols for domestic and foreign operations in coordination with intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Key Achievements

• Managed high-security operations for Presidential and diplomatic missions without a single security breach.
• Implemented security measures based on intelligence threat assessments, improving mission safety and operational readiness.