Orlando Gonzalez

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ABOUT ORLANDO GONZALEZ

Orlando Gonzalez CRP, AMLPOrlando provides over 35+ years of proven leadership and experience with demonstrated success within the areas of Fraud and Financial Crimes Investigations, Physical Security, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity & Resiliency, Life Safety, Operations Management, Regulatory Compliance, Bank Security Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Risk Management. As Director of Physical Security and Corporate Investigations he possess strong people and leadership skills with an emphasis of understanding the balance between a positive customer experience and corporate objectives. Mr. Gonzalez is a highly skilled and accomplished fraud investigator and banking professional with an extensive track record of success with investigations of complex, high-dollar financial transactions, offering proven analytical and investigative research talents critical to identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring compliance with Federal laws and industry guidelines, and protect against potential fraud and abuse of company resources. Mr. Gonzalez is one of the founding board members of the FISA organization, he served as President of the organization in 1997 and 2005. He also served as a FISA board member for over 26 years. Orlando has worked in partnership with several US Government agencies, law enforcement agencies and legal departments to obtain criminal convictions, restitution recovery, or judgments in favor of the organization and the State of Florida. Mr. Gonzalez has been one of the key investigative partners for the US Postal Inspectors Office in the combatting fraudulent Wash Check cases, the US Secret Service struggle against Wire Fraud & Money Mules, and the FBI’s battle against Business Emails Compromises (BEC) Mr. Gonzalez has also directed many successful response/recovery efforts from actual disasters and business disruptions. In 2006, Orlando was awarded the Mellon Star award and appeared on the cover of the Mellon Financial Corporation annual report, for is performance when three major hurricanes struck South Florida. In 2005, Orlando worked tirelessly and risked his personal safety to help ensure that Mellon employees were safe, the branches and headquarters remained operational and security was maintained. Mr. Gonzalez published a book on the topic of “Corporate Fraud Prevention” in 1998 and has provided several hours of security and fraud training seminars for law enforcement personal, large corporations and their staff.