Megan L. Nelson

Senior Vice President, Manager Financial Crimes Governance & Risk Assessments, BB&T

Megan Nelson is the Senior Vice President, Manager Financial Crimes Governance and Risk Assessments for BB&T. Megan took on this new role in August of 2016, where she is responsible for establishing and maintaining Company-wide anti-money laundering and sanctions risk assessments, testing and governance methodologies and processes.

Prior to joining BB&T, Megan was the Vice President over the Global Financial Crimes Compliance Risk Management Office for American Express. In this role, Megan had responsibility for enterprise-wide development of standards and processes related to Customer Due Diligence, Financial Crimes risk assessments, and Customer Risk Rating. Prior to that role Megan served as the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti Money Laundering Officer for American Express Bank, FSB.