Cannabis Banking Due Diligence – Deep Dive (US)

Brion Nazzaro is the President of the Association of Certified Commercial Cannabis Experts, ACCCE. Prior to joining ACCCE, he had broad experience as an Internal Director and Chief Compliance Officer with extensive experience in Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF), sanctions, international regulatory frameworks, loss prevention, and risk management. Brion has been the Chairman on Compliance Committee, AML Committee, and Risk Committee at multiple financial institutions. He has also worked with MSBs and FinTechs with various charters both U.S. and internationally to implement commercial cannabis business customer programs. 

Brion holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master of Business Administration concentrated in Finance from the University of Denver. Additionally, Brion has achieved recognition as a Certified Commercial Cannabis Expert (CCCE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and NACD Governance Fellow.

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Carole is an accomplished financial services professional with over 25 years of experience as a results-oriented leader with an outstanding track record leading sales, operations, risk management, marketing, strategic business development, project management/process improvement and technology teams. She is a decisive leader and creative thinker who brings a strong combination of vision, strategic planning, task orientation and interpersonal skills to a leadership role.

In her current role as Chief Compliance Officer at North Bay Credit Union, Carole manages a team of compliance professionals providing banking solutions to the cannabis industry throughout California. With a focus on community safety, North Bay Credit Union is recognized as an early leader in cannabis banking having launched its program three years ago. In the last 24 months, NBCU has calculated it has assisted its members in depositing over $500M of legal cannabis funds into its credit union – making all communities it serves much safer.

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Jontae James, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at NatureTrak. Jontae is the founder of NatureTrak an enterprise risk management platform for financial institutions that bank the cannabis industry. He has consulted with government agencies to build track and trace solutions creating proprietary algorithms to uncover unusual or suspicious activity in the supply chain.  Jontae has over 15 years in government & enterprise SaaS supply chain management. Prior to NatureTrak, he was Co-founder of Bluntli, a digital licensing platform in the cannabis industry that specialized in patient and entity license verification back in 2015. This was the first of several track and trace technologies to bring transparency and visibility into the emerging cannabis market.

Please connect with me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jontae/ or at [email protected]. Find out more about NatureTrak at www.naturetrak.com.

James Kirk Barry II is the founder and CEO of Clarion Compliance. Under his leadership, Clarion Compliance provides the most comprehensive and trusted verification and compliance resources available for governmental agencies and businesses that are engaged in the emerging cannabis economy.

Mr. Barry developed the Clarion Compliance national database and local government-focused consulting model based upon his unique understanding of specific government and industry stakeholder needs. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Mr. Barry served a quarter of a century in law enforcement before founding and operating his own criminal and civil investigations firm. He also brings more than a decade of hands-on management in the legal cannabis industry to Clarion Compliance.