Board of Directors
Daniel L. Glaser
Chairman
The Honorable Daniel L. Glaser serves as Chairman of the Board.
Daniel is the global head of jurisdictional services at K2 Integrity and head of its Washington, D.C. office. In the past, Daniel served as Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes in the U.S. Department of the Treasury from May 2011 through January 2017. As Assistant Secretary, he was responsible for formulating and coordinating counterterrorist financing, anti-money laundering, sanctions, and other counter-illicit finance policies and strategies within the Treasury Department and U.S. government, and globally. Daniel led efforts relating to adversaries worldwide, including Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Russia, in addition to global terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Hizbollah, and Hamas. Daniel also led U.S. efforts to cooperate with global partners to secure the integrity of the international financial system, including serving as U.S. co-chair of the illicit finance track of the Global Counter-ISIL Coalition, U.S. chair of the illicit finance track of the U.S-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, and led U.S. efforts to establish both the U.S.-Mexico Public-Private Partnership and U.S.-GCC Public-Private Partnership.
Daniel served previously as Treasury’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes from November 2004 to May 2011. He also served as the Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) from 2001 to 2011, and served as co-chair of FATF’s International Cooperation Review Group from 2007 to 2017.
Earlier in his career, Daniel served as the inaugural Director of the Treasury Department’s Executive Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes and as Senior Counsel for Financial Crimes in the Treasury Departments Office of the General Counsel. He also served as an attorney for the U.S. Secret Service.
Daniel currently serves on the board of directors of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority. He also serves on the board of advisors of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; the Countering Terrorism and Extremism Advisory Council for the Middle East Institute; and the Counterterrorism Study Group at the Atlantic Council. He previously served on HSBC’s Middle East Financial Risk Advisory Committee. Daniel is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.
Daniel holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Chip Poncy
Director
Chip Poncy also serves on the boards of K2 Integrity, FinClusive, and Atomic 47, and is a senior advisor for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Economic and Financial Power.
Chip advises various financial institutions on financial crimes compliance and risk management remediation, transformation, and enhancement. These efforts include leading strategic advisory and technical engagements with global banks, regional financial institutions, money services businesses, and fintech companies. He also advises countries seeking to strengthen their anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes in accordance with global standards.
Prior to K2 Integrity, Chip spent more than a decade as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and was the inaugural Director of the Office of Strategic Policy for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. Chip assisted Treasury leadership in developing the U.S. government’s post-9/11 strategy to combat terrorist financing and led an office of advisors in creating policies and initiatives to combat the full spectrum of illicit finance. Chip also led the U.S. delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), co-chaired the policy working group of the FATF, and managed U.S. participation in various G7, G8, and G20 illicit finance expert groups.
Chip began his career as an associate in the New York offices of White & Case and has served as general counsel to biotechnology and internet radio companies. He co-pioneered a graduate course on national security and the international financial system as an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. Chip graduated with honors from Harvard University (B.A. in government) and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (M.A. in international relations), and he holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Chip is a Certified Risk Management Specialist in Global Sanctions and Russia Sanctions (CRMS-GS/RS).
Steven Sharpe
Director
Steven Sharpe is Vice-Chairman of K2 Integrity, Managing Director of The EmBeSa Corporation, Chairman of The Privacy Co., LLC, Executive Vice Chairman of Dundee Corporation and Chair of the Compensation and Governance Committees of Source Energy Services Ltd. and Crown Capital Partners. Recently, he was Chairman of Corporate Risk Holdings, LLC. Earlier, Steven was Senior Advisor to Blair Franklin Capital Partners Inc., the investment bank that he co- founded in 2002. From 2002 until 2007 Steven was co-Managing Partner of Blair Franklin.
Steven graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto in 1977 and remained in active practice until 1998.During that time, he advised banks, companies, boards of directors and shareholders, on strategic, conflictual and governance issues.
In 1998, Steven left legal practice to join The Kroll-O’Gara Company in New York. As Executive Vice President, he was responsible for strategic planning and corporate development. He left Kroll in 2001 and returned to Toronto and founded Blair Franklin. At Blair Franklin, Steven undertook several restructuring assignments for the firm’s clients. Since withdrawing from the Blair Franklin partnership, he has continued to advise clients, across Canada and internationally, on operational, governance and financial challenges.
Steven is a former director of Foamex International, Inc., Prime Restaurants Inc. (Board Chair), Security Technologies Group, Inc. (Executive Committee), Altamira Investment Services Limited (Chair, Audit Committee), RMX Exploration Company (Board Chair), C.A. Bancorp Inc.,(and CEO) Longview Oil Corp. (CEO and Board Chair), Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd. (Board Chair), Renegade Petroleum (Special Committee Chair), Madalena Energy Inc. (Board Chair and CEO), Corporate Risk Holdings, LLC (Board Chair), Essential Energy Services Ltd., Central Toronto Youth Services (Board Chair), the Child, Youth and Family Policy Research Centre (Founder, Vice-Chair), Camp Oochigeas (Executive Committee) and The Donwood Institute (Board Chair). Steven was instrumental in the merger of the Donwood, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Addiction Research Foundation and Queen Street Mental Health Centre into the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, Canada’s largest mental health teaching facility.
Antoun Sehnaoui
Director
Antoun Sehnaoui belongs to a reputable family from Beirut. He is currently the major shareholder of Société Générale de Banque au Liban S.A.L. (SGBL) and related group of companies including Fidus S.A.L. (SGBL Group) and holds office as Chairman General Manager and CEO of SGBL since October 2007.
Throughout the past years, Antoun Sehnaoui led the SGBL Group on the path of strong growth and consolidated its presence in several countries in the framework of a broader regional development plan, notably in Europe through the acquisition of:
- Societe Generale Cyprus which was purchased in 2009 and its name was subsequently changed to Societe Generale Bank – Cyprus Ltd. (SGBCy); and
- Banque Richelieu France (BRF), Banque Richelieu Monaco (BRM) and Richelieu Gestion (RG), which were purchased in July 2018. Antoun Sehnaoui holds office as Chairman of Compagnie Financière Richelieu (CFR), the private banking and asset management French company owning those three entities.
He is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BRF, the Chairman of BRM and the Chairman of Banque Richelieu GCC (SGBL’s affiliated bank in Abu Dhabi).
In January 2018, Antoun Sehnaoui acquired 100% of the share capital of Pikes Peak National Bank in Colorado (USA).
Antoun Sehnaoui is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Banks in Lebanon. He is also a shareholder in various companies belonging to the Sehnaoui family operating in several industries and businesses including, inter alia, trade, and media and entertainment industry. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Oscars).
Antoun Sehnaoui holds a BA in Business Administration – Major in International Finance and Banking from the University of Southern California (USA).
Beyond his professional responsibilities, Antoun Sehnaoui is actively involved in providing vulnerable categories of the Lebanese citizens with social assistance and support, particularly in times of economic and financial recession and crises. Moreover, he is an avid patron and collector of arts, animal rights advocate and technology enthusiast.
Executive Team
Grant Kreft
Chief Executive Officer
Grant Kreft is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Financial Integrity. As CEO, Grant, in partnership with the Board of Directors, is responsible for overseeing all facets of the organization.
With over 20 years of experience leading global organizations, Grant brings a dynamic, effective and influential leadership style that emphasizes customer-focused innovation, business transformation and growth. A New Zealand native and product of Otago University, Grant has a strong track record of building and developing leading B2B enterprises from a global perspective.
Prior to IFI, Grant was Vice President at SS&C Technologies, a leading cloud-based provider of financial services technology solutions. Prior to SS&C, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at DialedIn. He began his career at Intuition, the world’s leading provider of financial services training, becoming Chief Executive of its North American division after five years in leadership roles.
Danny McGlynn
President and Chief Integrity Officer
Danny is President and Chief Integrity Officer of the Institute for Financial Integrity. As Chief Integrity Officer, Danny is responsible for driving the culture of IFI by ensuring integrity, transparency and accountability within the organization and fostering the community within its DOLFIN member network. With a focus on ethics and integrity beyond compliance, Danny shapes IFI’s offering by integrating an integrity lifecycle into its products and services and promoting inter-agency and cross-sector cooperation within the financial integrity community, supporting collective action to increase scale and impact.
Bringing to bear over two decades at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Danny works with the IFI team to provide operationally useful training and resources to financial integrity professionals within DOLFIN to help sharpen their skills and enhance their expertise to meet heightened regulatory expectations in the areas of anti-money laundering, sanctions compliance, and other financial integrity topics.
Prior to IFI, Danny was a senior managing director at K2 Integrity for nearly four years, responsible for leading the DOLFIN platform team. In addition to these responsibilities, Danny assisted with and supported all aspects of K2 Integrity’s work, including the design and development of new services, products, and technologies.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Danny served more than 20 years with the Treasury Department, where he held a variety of positions at the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Most recently, he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) of OIA, and as the acting Assistant Secretary, responsible for leading the organization’s receipt, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence related to the Treasury’s mission to safeguard the international financial system from abuse and to combat threats to U.S national security. Danny also held positions as Treasury’s liaison to the U.S. Central Command, as a Compliance Specialist and Investigator for OFAC, and as a Presidential Management Fellow.
Danny received a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law, an M.A. from Florida International University in international studies, and a B.S. from Florida State University in international affairs. He was awarded the Stuart Levey Award in recognition of his dedicated service to and leadership of the Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
Danny is a Certified Risk Management Specialist in Global Sanctions and Russia Sanctions (CRMS-GS/RS).
Lauren Jack
Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer, Lauren is responsible for orchestrating the execution of key initiatives to shape IFI’s long-term impact across the financial integrity community.
Lauren’s expertise is deeply rooted in architecting and enabling strategies to optimize engagement, maximize client experiences, and ultimately fuel global business growth and financial outcomes. Passionate about problem solving and building meaningful products, she has a track record of consistently delivering operational excellence.
Prior to joining IFI, Lauren spent over a decade partnering with the world’s largest brands to drive learner engagement and behavioral change through education within the highly regulated industries of aviation, banking, finance, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, oil & gas, and tobacco. Most recently, Lauren served as Senior Director at SS&C, a multibillion-dollar financial services technology provider, where she was responsible for the development and management of the SS&C Learning Institute.
Lauren graduated with honors from the NYU Stern School of Business, earning her Bachelor of Science in Marketing and International Business with a concentration in Communications and Technology.
Shannon Barnes
Chief Product Officer
As Chief Product Officer, Shannon leads technical innovation and the development and implementation of the technical product vision for IFI’s proprietary DOLFIN platform. Shannon’s mission as CPO – a unique role in a training organization — is to re-envision the learning experience by leveraging generative artificial intelligence, while transforming how the modern learning record system communicates with partner platforms and delivers outcomes for organizations and professionals alike.
Prior to joining IFI, Shannon was a Senior Product Manager at K2 Integrity where he advised K2 leadership on tech strategy for major projects. Before K2 Integrity, Shannon worked at Palantir Technologies, partnering with critical institutions in Australia and North America to tackle complex enterprise data challenges and develop world-class software. Shannon also served in the Australian federal government in various policy and intelligence roles advising on counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, great power rivalries, anti-money laundering (AML), and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT). At AUSTRAC (the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre), Shannon was directly involved in the development of the 2012 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) methodology for assessing the effectiveness of AML/CFT systems.
Shannon holds an M.A., with honors, from the Strategic and Defense Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He received a B. Comm., with majors in economics and politics, and a B.A. in Asian studies, with majors in Asian history and Mandarin Chinese, from the University of Sydney. Shannon is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).