Mark Giuffre

Experience

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  Drug Enforcement Administration

  Jun 1987 - Jan 2018

  Asst. Special Agent in Charge, Resident Agent in Charge, Inspector, Group Supervisor, Special Agent

  ● Led 90-member team, leading complex global criminal, financial, money laundering, and asset forfeiture investigations.● Directed multi-national collaborative operations, partnering with U.S. law enforcement to prosecute 70 top lieutenants of the world’s largest cartel, resulting in a U.S. District court-ordered $1.8B asset forfeiture.● Created innovative U.S.-Mexico intelligence sharing program to expedite identification of emerging money laundering and narcotics smuggling trends and transfer actionable leads for enforcement action.● Dismantled Guerreros Unidos Cartel cell, a large-scale heroin and fentanyl trafficking group, linked to violence in Iguala, Mexico.● Led presentations on money laundering trends and methodology to ACAMS National Training Conference in Las Vegas and to the Banker's Trade Group in Hong Kong.● Active participant in Illinois Fraud Working Group in partnership with the FBI, IRS, USPI, OIG, USAO, and state and local law enforcement and prosecutors, sharing emerging fraud threats, and providing training.● Coordinated with U.S. Attorney, Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, Department of Homeland Security, local regulatory elements, local law enforcement and foreign law enforcement agencies. Show less

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  Firebird Analytical Solutions & Technologies

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  Financial Investigator

  ● Investigation team support lead targeting a major purveyor of stolen credit cards, locating dark web data from an Eastern Europe safe haven as part of a successful multi-agency, multi-national investigation.● Disrupted and dismantled diverse criminal fraud organizations by targeting financial infrastructure and seeking criminal, civil, and administrative forfeiture actions.

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  BMO Financial Group

  Jul 2018 - Mar 2019

  Senior Risk Intelligence Officer

  ● Mentored colleagues on suspicious activity monitoring line of business best practice response, developing and implementing money laundering prevention.● Screened customers at the 8th largest bank in North America, performing risk assessment and protecting $973B in assets, additionally identifying and mitigating multi-million dollar fraud schemes.● Enhanced customer due diligence processes, focusing on identifying high risk customers such as money services, travel agencies, politically exposed persons. Show less

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  Jensen Hughes

  Mar 2019 - now

  Senior Director, Investigations

  ● Lead security risk management and financial investigations projects for Fortune 500 iconic brands and public organizations, delivering consultation services including financial, security, fraud, and internal investigations.● Manage 100% of misconduct internal investigations for an international NGO.● Perform complex security risk assessments, identifying emerging risks to financial controls and recommending improvements in policies and program at a major US manufacturing company.● Deliver loss mitigation and preventive action findings and recommendations following a $2.5M loss due to business email compromise at a large corporation.● Respond proactively to increased cybersecurity crime in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting vulnerability awareness.● Interview 200+ employees and ancillary witnesses, leading an office building mass shooting investigation resulting in 12+ casualties, provided detailed reports to forensic psychologist.● Direct independent third-party internal affairs investigations of allegations of misconduct and Officer Involved Shootings for Police Departments and cities throughout the United States.● Member federal consent decree monitor team, conducted quarterly assessments and progress reports to U.S. District Court, U.S. Department of Justice and Local Poice Department executive leadership.● Direct team to complete backlog of internal investigations cases for a large law enforcement agency under a federal consent decree.● Assess law enforcement programs for large Middle Eastern nation as senior subject matter expert (SME) on global criminal investigations and security, issuing a roadmap and resource management plan. Show less