Micah Breimhorst

Partner, Head of Financial Crime at IBM

Speaker

Micah leads the Promontory Financial Crimes Compliance Practice, serving US and global financial institutions, with over 25 years of financial services industry and consulting experience, including various leadership roles in all three lines of defense.

Prior to joining Promontory, Micah spent nearly 14 years at Wells Fargo in varying financial crimes compliance leadership roles. Micah’s most notable accomplishments included (1) leading the closure of a public BSA/AML Consent Order and later implementing perpetual KYC for low- and moderate-risk customers, and (2) developing a target operating model for the enterprise-wide financial crimes risk program, encompassing people, process, data, operations, and technology (ex: transaction monitoring, KYC, risk assessment, and sanctions screening).

Micah is active in the industry, including participation advisory groups, industry working groups, and speaking at conferences.