Andrew Rudd

About Andrew Rudd

Leading Citi\'s intelligence led approach to tackling the convergence of Financial Crime, Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, and the Illicit Flow of Cryptocurrency. Public-Private Partnership (P3) Leader.More than two decades of experience in Anti-Money Laundering, Cybercrime Intelligence, Nation-States, Hybrid Threats, Threat Actor Attribution, Organized Criminal Network Disruption, Digital Exploitation, Covert Investigations, Proactive Counter Terrorism, & Proactive Crime Targeting. International Public Speaker on Illicit Financial Networks, Cybercrime, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency, the Darkweb, and Open Source Intelligence. SANS SEC535 Offensive AI - Attack Tools & Techniques SANS FOR589 Cybercrime Intelligence Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC) Chainalysis Ethereum Investigation Certification (CEIC) Chainalysis Investigation Specialist Certification (CISC) Cryptocurrency Tracing Certified Examiner (CTCE) Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Advanced Certified Financial Crime Investigation Specialist (CAMS-FCI) Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA)

Experience

1. SVP Global Head of Aml Digital Intelligence

   Citi

   Dec 2021 — Present · US

   Founded Citi’s pioneering and industry leading intelligence efforts targeting digitally focused and technology enabled financial crime, illicit use of cryptocurrency, and GenAI abuse.Track trends, typologies and emerging threats. Identified and escalated national security threats, organized criminal groups, hybrid financial threats, covert networks, dark web activity, commercial spyware, trafficking, and activity linked to nation-states.Produce detailed tactical and strategic threat reports influencing enterprise business risk, anti-money laundering, technology, and cyber decision making and policy.Built and maintain specialized intelligence capabilities across clear web/deep web/dark web/crypto environments to proactively uncover emerging threats to Citi, financial ecosystem, and directly link threat actors to abuse observed on the platform and payment networks.Manage global team across US, EMEA and APAC.Product and application manager across multiple cutting edge technological solutions covering blockchain forensics, open-source intelligence, digital infrastructure intelligence, breached/leaked data, web traffic data, trade data etc.

Education

• SANS Technology Institute

  Foundations in Computers, Technology & Security (SEC3275)

• University of Portsmouth

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Counter Fraud & Criminal Justice