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Cynthia Behnen – Gillison, CPA, CAMs

Financial Services Regulatory Compliance and FinCrimes Specialist

Profile

Cynthia is a senior financial services executive with over 25 years of experience building, operating, and stabilizing regulatory compliance and financial crimes programs for global banks, fintech partnerships, and payment companies. A credentialed CPA and CAMS leader with full P&L ownership experience, she specializes in modernizing risk operations, resolving regulatory scrutiny, and transitioning complex programs to sustainable in-house ownership.

Professional Background

Prior, Cynthia was a Partner and National Regulatory Compliance & Financial Crimes Practice Leader at RSM US LLP leading a national practice across the US, Canada, India, and El Salvador. Before joining RSM, she spent the better part of ten years as a Director, at PwC in their Advisory FS Risk & Reg Practice focused on bank regulatory response engagements. Earlier roles included bank regulation interpretation at the Big 4.

Education

Cynthia has a B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting) from the University of South Carolina, CPA from Washington State and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

Furthermore

Cynthia relocated from New York to Seattle with Deloitte in the early 2000s and is the proud mother of four, her oldest now a freshman at Penn State. Weekends are typically spent on the sidelines of soccer fields, volleyball courts, and tennis courts in her free time she’s an avid tennis player. She also remains an active volunteer in her community through the National Charity League.

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