Sharon Blanchette, CPA, CIA, CRCM, CAMS
Sharon Blanchette serves as a Director of AML & Consumer Compliance for Chartwell and has over 20 years of risk management, audit, regulatory compliance, AML, and IT experience. To this she has added significant experience with Fintechs and Fintech compliance. Prior to her current role, Sharon held roles as diverse as Chief Risk Officer, Director of a Financial Investigations Unit, Director of Consumer Compliance, and Audit Director. In some of her prior roles, Sharon was onboarded to remediate regulatory enforcement actions, and has extensive experience acting as a liaison to regulatory examiners.
In the Financial Crimes world, Sharon has extensive experience with AML, OFAC, and Fraud systems, and the process of documenting and testing the related models. She has also designed cannabis risk management programs for financial institutions. In the Consumer Compliance world, Sharon has experience implementing and testing compliance programs for UDAAP and the alphabet soup of lending and deposit regulations.