Michael spent two decades in banking security leadership before joining the firm, including building the fraud operations center for a top-10 U.S. bank. He advises institutions on fraud-resilient design: the controls, monitoring and response planning that reduce losses before they happen.

He is the reason many Whitfield & Crane clients lose less before they ever need to call us.

Michael is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a former member of the Federal Reserve Bank’s fraud task force.

• Compliance & Regulatory Defense
• Digital Asset & Cyber Fraud

• Cut payment-fraud losses by 60% at a global bank through controls redesign
• Advised boards of three Fortune 500 companies on fraud governance
• Designed the response playbook that recovered $40 million across 200+ incidents in one year

J.D., Boston College Law School
B.A., University of Virginia

New York
Massachusetts

English

American Banker: Most Influential Risk & Compliance Leaders (2022)