About the Speakers

Joosep Vahtras

Joosep is the Compliance Advisory Lead at Chainalysis, where he helps financial institutions and crypto native businesses build effective compliance programs in order to offer new products to their customers and encourage cryptocurrency adoption. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Joosep worked in various financial crime prevention roles across the financial services ecosystem, including at a European cryptocurrency broker, a leading Nordic investment bank, and most recently in management consulting.

Joe Baerenz

Joseph Baerenz is a training specialist at Chainalysis. In this role, he works with government investigators, regulators, and specialty cyber crime units teaching advanced investigation techniques, as well as with cryptocurrency businesses on the applications of the Chainalysis Know Your Transaction (KYT) product.

Prior to joining Chainalysis, Joe worked on the compliance investigations team at Gemini, a U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. Joe was introduced to the cryptocurrency industry as a legal intern at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission where he reviewed a cryptocurrency exchange traded fund proposal in the Division of Corporation Finance.

Ben Mattern

Ben Mattern is a Senior AML Investigator at TradeStation Securities Inc., which provides self-directed online brokerage services for cryptocurrency trading through TradeStation Crypto, Inc., and self-directed online securities and futures trading through TradeStation Securities, Inc.. Before joining TradeStation in 2021, Ben completed his MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey and worked as a graduate research assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies conducting open-source investigations of Russian financial crime and sanctions violations.

Seth Sattler

Seth Sattler is the Chief Compliance Officer at DigitalMint, a cryptocurrency point-of-sale operator and ransomware liquidity provider. He received his Anti-Money Laundering Specialist Certification in 2016. Prior to joining DigitalMint, he worked as an AML Investigator at Huntington National Bank for its AML Model Management and Optimization Team.

Seth co-founded the Cryptocurrency Compliance Cooperative, a collaborative association that advocates for universally accepted compliance standards within the cryptocurrency industry. The organization brings industry experts together to assist in developing AML, anti-fraud, and anti-terrorist financing controls for the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Seth is a member of the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiatives Cryptocurrency Consortium, where he assists with developing its red flag typology guide. He also serves on multiple committees and international working groups related to elder abuse, child exploitation, ransomware intelligence, and fraud victimization.