Meet Our Speakers

Hugo Veazey joined RDC (now Moody’s Analytics) in 2019 as Director of Anti-Financial Crime Solutions and splits his time evenly between thought leadership, providing an internal point of compliance reference and developing relationships with existing and prospective clients with a view to providing maximum screening efficiency.

Having lived and worked in the Middle East for 15+ years, Geoff has built a strong professional network throughout many industries including government, telecoms, and finance. Having spent his entire career within the Cyber Security & RegTech software sector and has a proven record in establishing new niche technologies within the region.

Shaun Thomas joined MemberCheck in 2018. During that time, he has collaborated with key stakeholders to establish the organization's strategic goals, and worked with clients across the globe to ensure that their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing obligations have been met through MemberCheck's regulatory technology solution.

Yvonne Rossouw is a CA(SA) with a passion for doing the right thing. Yvonne is a consultant and public speaker at ProBeta Training, where she consults clients on POPIA and FICA compliance. It is one of her main goals to make difficult legislation understandable for any individual. Yvonne started her professional career as an academic clerk at the University of Pretoria, where she was an assistant lecturer to the CTA students. This is where she developed her enthusiasm for teaching and developing others. She completed her articles at BDO South Africa Inc and pursued her dream of training others. In the last five years her main focus has been risk and compliance, and how technology can assist in innovative and effective solutions to compliance requirements.

Zinhle is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, a Tax and Fiduciary Specialist at Investec, an aspiring entrepreneurial thought leader and a public speaker. She also identifies as a Multipotentialite/ Generalist. She has interests in data privacy and tax law, and she is currently studying towards a Masters in Tax Law at the University of Witwatersrand. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences majoring in Politics and Law as well as a postgraduate LLB from the University of Cape Town.

Yurika Pistorius is a BLC and LLB educated Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel and Head of Legal with 15+ years of extensive experience in legal, governance, risk and regulatory compliance management and organisational leadership. With an impeccable track record of business analysis and entrepreneurial vision, I am significantly skilled at developing, implementing and effectively addressing risk and compliance management to meet organisational objectives and goals.

Yin is the Head of Product (RegBrain) at CUBE, a market-leading regtech that transforms regulatory data into regulatory intelligence. RegBrain is CUBE's data learning engine, and is powered by advanced ML and NLP techniques focussed on machine understanding. Its core capabilities encompass everything from recommendation systems to the prediction of regulatory trends.