Shelley Nicholls-Hunte
Shelley Nicholls-Hunte has had the distinct privilege of operating in the law enforcement, legal, and financial sectors in the AML/CFT/CPF, general compliance, and corporate governance spheres in the public and private sectors for approximately 18 years.
She holds the CAMS designation and the AMLFC Institute’s certificate in AML/CFT.
Shelley is an Attorney-at-Law with 25 years’ call to the Bar, with experience in family law, personal injuries, conveyances and mortgages, civil practice, wills and estates, corporate and commercial law, financial services law, etc. Shelley also holds a Diploma in Bible and Theology.
With this eclectic mix of skills, education and life experiences, she is very aware that she is to share her knowledge and experience with students and professionals alike and to assist in building and/ or the re-building of law enforcement, legal, AML/CFT/CPF and other compliance regimes to ensure adherence with the regulatory standards for relevant agencies, financial entities and Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions. She is also very aware that this intent to assist in building/ re-building regimes is also on a macro level, whether in Barbados, the Caribbean and countries further afield in order that these countries are seen as jurisdictions for sound financial investment and for conducting legitimate business.
Shelley truly enjoys using her skills to add value to people and environments. She is the current President of the Barbados Association of Compliance Professionals.
She has assisted in the formulation of the Barbados anti-money laundering & asset recovery laws and provided valuable information to the relevant authorities on drafting the revised anti-corruption law as a result of her study tour experience of Singapore’s anti-corruption regime. Shelley has also been engaged in the improvement of financial institutions’ AML regimes and her research supported efforts for entities’ business expansion into the Caribbean and compliance with those countries’ laws. She has researched electronic payment methods for an international organisation.
Shelley is a frequent presenter at AML-related conferences, locally, regionally, and internationally, including ACAMS, ComplianceAid, and 3 C’s Conferences. Shelley is also a trained assessor in the FATF 4th Round and served as law enforcement assessor to a Caribbean country’s Mutual Evaluation Exercise., a certified speaker, trainer and coach with John Maxwell Leadership and a trained counsellor.
Shelley is CEO and Lead Attorney of LexComad Inc., a boutique law firm honing the above-mentioned compliance and legal skills and offering relevant services. Shelley is married and a mother of three children.