Dr. Amber D. Scott, DBA, MBA, CIPP/C, CBP, FIS, CAMS

Co-Founder, Chairperson & Strategic Advisor

Amber has broad-based in-house financial compliance experience that includes insurance, securities, payments, and banking. She holds several professional designations, including Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Financial Intelligence Specialist (FIS), Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), and Certified Privacy Professional (CIPP).

Amber completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo, earning a bachelor’s degree with a major in Psychology. Her academic interests have always included law and criminology. As a teaching assistant, she helped develop the university’s first applied psychology course on criminal profiling. She has also received a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the University of Aspen and a doctorate in business administration (DBA) from the Paris School of Business. Amber’s doctoral research was focused on “early perceptions of the effectiveness of Canadian anti-money laundering (AML) legislation in the virtual asset (VA) domain.”

The first memory that Amber has about financial crime is hearing her father and a friend of the family discussing the dilemma faced by a local union that had fallen under the influence of an organized crime group. Pension monies had allegedly been deferred into investments that benefited the crime organization, but not the union membership. Many discussions with her father followed on the structures that could allow a criminal organization to circumvent the controls in an established organization for their own purposes without suffering any consequences. It was all very confusing and fascinating for a ten-year-old.

While her confusion has faded, her fascination never has. Amber is passionate about ethical and legal compliance. Her obsession with understanding risks and devising actionable solutions has led her to work in the financial services industry and with Canadian accounting and consulting firms. In 2013, she co-founded Outlier Compliance Group to provide truly professional compliance solutions to Canadian reporting entities.

Amber is a firm believer in the idea that good compliance can enable good business.

Reach out to her directly at:

• • Email:   amber@outliercompliance.com
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