ICT (Middle East) trainers have relevant, specialist knowledge and first-hand experience. This combination ensures an engaging and stimulating learning experience, helping to ensure knowledge is retained. They understand the financial services working environment and have been teaching for a number of years. They impart their knowledge via demonstrations, anecdotes, role plays, and simulations. The following provides a sample of the trainers that we use.

Pekka Dare

Pekka is responsible for the development and delivery of the ICA Financial Crime and AML programs worldwide. He has a wealth of experience in industry, having held the CF 11 controlled function as MLRO for a large UK life & pensions firm.

Pekka has also managed the Financial Crime Department within a major UK high street bank. This role involved managing external and internal fraud risk and AML systems and controls.

A qualified lawyer, admitted in both the UK and New Zealand, Pekka has experience of conducting prosecutions for tax evasion as well as providing legal advice in dealing with organised and serious crime for the New Zealand Inland Revenue, plus a range of experience in dealing with complex fraud and corporate structures. He has also worked for the UK Department of Trade and Industry (now BERR) in the investigation of corporate fraud and misfeasance including the investigation of insider dealing offences.

The range of practical experience Pekka brings to his role includes the management of FSA ARROW visits and thematic regulatory reviews. His experience of managing a range of complex fraud and money laundering cases enables him to bring a mix of academic and practical insights into his role.

Pekka has an extensive range of industry contacts and regularly speaks at financial crime forums and events around the world.  He has served as a committee member of the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers (IMLPO), as well as the ABI AML Committee, and is joint chair of the Money Laundering Officer's Discussion Group (MLODG) a body which shares best practice amongst practitioners.

Jonathan Bowdler

Jonathan is the Course Director responsible for all of the ICA Compliance programmes, both UK and International.  Having seventeen years of financial services industry experience, holding senior Compliance roles (including Approved Person status) for the last nine, Jonathan has a wealth of practical compliance experience.

With an MBA from Henley Business School and a Diploma in Management from Reading University Jonathan is also highly qualified in business management, and is therefore able to place compliance management within the context of wider corporate strategy, a must-have skill for the modern senior Compliance professional.

Jonathan has delivered compliance training in jurisdictions across the globe, spoken at numerous conferences both in the UK and abroad and regularly writes on compliance topics for specialist industry websites.  He is also a fully qualified investment and mortgage advisor and is a member of a number of industry forums.

Sharon Ward

During her five years with ICA , initially as Global Course Director and more recently as Development Director, Sharon has been involved in a number of key initiatives contributing to the organisation's development. These have included the ongoing ICA/Skills Council Standards and Qualifications project and, more recently, the Distance Learning development programme including the introduction of webinars.

Sharon is responsible for ensuring the continued delivery of the high quality, academic and practically focused qualifications for which ICA is known, focusing on developing the practices of the Association through a variety of academic and educational activities, together with management of the relationship between academic and practical approaches and of the Course Directors responsible for each programme.

With an MSc in Financial Regulation & Compliance Management, together with a number of other industry recognised qualifications and over 20 years in the financial services sector, Sharon is a highly qualified compliance professional with extensive practical compliance and business experience across a number of financial services disciplines. She was formerly the Compliance & Training Director for a large IFA network where she held the CF10 Controlled Function. She was the Chair of the Midlands Region for the Compliance Institute in addition to being a visiting lecturer at London Metropolitan University and, upon joining ICA , she was appointed as a visiting lecturer on the University of Manchester Business School MBA and delivered the Management of Compliance, Regulation and Risk programme on a global platform.

Richard Lines

Richard has been involved in fraud investigation since joining HM Customs and Excise in 1975. He was mainly involved there in the investigation of narcotics smuggling. He moved to British Telecommunications Plc in 1986 where he was charged with the investigation of crimes against that company. In 1989 he joined the London Stock Exchange where he led investigations into Market-related frauds including insider dealing and market manipulation.

In 1994 he became a consultant, delivering training in fraud and fraud investigation. He has worked extensively internationally, including North, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Central, South and South Eastern Asia.

He is a specialist in fraud and continues to conduct investigations as well as to develop training programmes. He has worked with ICT since 2005 delivering their Financial Crime Awareness Certificate course to which he was a contributing author, the Financial Crime Prevention Diploma and the International Crime Prevention Diploma

Andrew Glover

Andrew is the Regional Managing Director of ICA Regional Office in Singapore. He is responsible for the development and operation of ICA programmes in this jurisdiction. Previously, as the Global Director of Education and Training for the ICA, he had oversight for the UK and International programmes at which time his role encompassed the development of the training and education programmes in new jurisdictions. Andrew is a visiting lecturer and mentor for the University of Manchester.

Andrew began his career in the Financial Services sector in 1986, moving into the Compliance arena in 1989. Working mainly in the Product Provider sector he held various management posts covering areas such as business verification, complaints handling and financial promotions. This breadth and depth of knowledge lead to appointment to the CF10 Controlled Function. As the impact of AML legislation within the industry increased he concentrated on this area and was appointed to the CF11 Controlled Function of Money Laundering Reporting Officer, responsible for all aspects of compliance with the regulations and guidance.

In 2003 he formed, and now chairs, the Money Laundering Reporting Officer’s Discussion Group (MLRODG). The aim of the MLRODG is to provide a focal point for MLROs to ensure that they remain up to date in a constantly changing environment, to collectively comment on industry developments and to share concerns, best practice and solutions. This is achieved via quarterly meetings, in addition to the ability to telephone / email the other members.

Ben Holt

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