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Eli Morillo

Senior Managing Director

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2021 McKinney Avenue, Suite 340
Dallas, TX 75201

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Eli Morillo is a managed services leader with more over 20 years of experience building and operating financial crime compliance programs at scale. He specializes in end-to-end managed services across anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, investigations, and regulatory response for investment banks, commercial banks, financial institutions, fintechs, payment companies, and cryptocurrency exchanges. He has led global programs across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, partnering with executive leadership, legal teams, and regulators on complex, high-risk matters.

Experience

Eli has held senior leadership roles in consulting and financial services organizations where he built, transformed, and operated managed services platforms for large institutions and fast-growing regulated businesses. He is known for combining regulatory depth with operational execution across offshore and nearshore delivery, governance, quality control, and performance management.

His professional experience includes:

  • Building and leading global managed services operations with teams of more than 2,000 professionals across anti-money laundering, sanctions screening, fraud operations, transaction monitoring, and investigations.
  • Designing managed services delivery models from the ground up, including target operating model, governance structure, service catalog, workforce model, training framework, quality assurance, and productivity standards.
  • Running high-volume anti-money laundering and fraud operations with clear service levels, escalation protocols, and executive reporting across multijurisdiction environments. Subcontractors’ costs during the delay period.
  • Leading financial intelligence and investigations functions, including case intake, triage, alert review, investigations, suspicious activity escalation, and law enforcement response support.
  • Building agent and third-party oversight programs across more than 200 countries, including onboarding controls, due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and ongoing monitoring.
  • Standing up and scaling global sanctions managed services, including interdiction workflows, list management, disposition quality controls, and issue management.
  • Leading remediation and regulatory response programs tied to enforcement actions, consent orders, independent lookbacks, and validation requirements.
  • Creating and scaling offshore and nearshore compliance operations to improve cost efficiency, throughput, and quality while maintaining strong regulatory alignment and control effectiveness.
  • Supporting investment banks, commercial banks, financial institutions, fintechs, payment companies, cryptocurrency exchanges, broker-dealers, and money services businesses with compliance operations, transaction monitoring design, alert and case workflows, sanctions controls, investigations support, and regulatory readiness programs.
  • Advising investment banks, commercial banks, financial institutions, fintechs, payment companies, and cryptocurrency exchanges on anti-money laundering and fraud controls for fiat and cryptocurrency activity, including governance, operating procedures, control testing, and model risk and threshold tuning governance.
  • Partnering with legal and compliance leadership on cross-border regulatory matters involving U.S. and international authorities.
Education
  • EMBA, Business, Denver University
  • Bachelor's Degree, Accounting and Economics, University of South Dakota
Certifications
  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

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