People

Michael Hyland - Chairman

Michael Hyland

Prior to establishing MHA in 1993, Michael spent 20 years as a senior executive within the Midland Bank Group in various roles covering security, fraud, internal audit and money laundering compliance and reporting. He was a founder member of the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG).

Michael regularly undertakes training and consulting on behalf of governments, financial regulators, regulators, banking associations and individual institutions in various parts of the world. He advises financial sector institutions on compliance policies and training strategies and is often called to advise on remedial compliance strategies following critical supervisory reports.

Michael is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Jan Hagen - Managing Director

Jan Hagen

Jan joined MHA in 2004 and has been Managing Director since early 2009. Whilst at MHA Jan has developed MHA’s e-learning business and MHA’s financial crime helpdesk offering. Jan leads the client acquisition process for MHA’s consulting projects and is responsible for the strategic direction of the business. Before joining MHA, Jan worked with Ernst & Young UK’s Regulatory and Risk Group.

Whilst there he developed a compliance training effectiveness assessment methodology for a large UK high street bank and was responsible for its implementation of a risk based AML training strategy for 11,000 account openers. Jan also has considerable experience of developing web-based courses for organisations such as Gartmore, Smith & Williamson and Legal & General. Jan holds the UK Diploma in Anti Money Laundering and is a Fellow at the International Compliance Association.

Mark Smith - Commercial Director

Mark Smith

Mark joined us in 2006 to establish a business development function for MHA. Early in 2009 Mark became a shareholder and Commercial Director of MHA with responsibility for business development and marketing as well as developing & managing third party relationships. In addition, Mark is responsible for the day-to-day management of MHA.

Immediately prior to his role at MHA, Mark held the position of Sales Director at the MAD Group, a company specialising in large tradeshows, previous to which Mark spent nine years as Brand Manager and General Manager of the Volkswagen Group.

Sue Thornhill - Professional Services Director

Sue Thornhill

Sue Thornhill is a director of MHA and has specialised in financial crime prevention for the past 24 years. She was previously a director at the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), a member of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group and authored the JMLSG Money Laundering Guidance Notes for the UK Financial Sector from 1990 until 2003. For fifteen years Sue ran the UK money laundering helpdesk in support of the Guidance Notes.

Sue was a member of the European Banking Federation Fraud and Money Laundering Working Party from 1990 to 2000. For several years she was a member of HM Treasury's Money Laundering Expert Group and sat on the FSA’s Money Laundering Rules Advisory Panel.

She acts as consultant to a number of financial sector firms and non-financial sector businesses within the UK and has advised a number of governments and financial sector regulators on their national strategies to prevent money laundering.

During 2004 she was appointed as a member of the team undertaking the Statutory Review of the Gibraltar FSC. Sue has recently been assisting the Financial Services Commissions of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Financial Supervision Commission of the Isle of Man in the redrafting of their Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Handbooks for the regulated sector.

Sue is AML consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat and the author of the Commonwealth AML/CFT Code of Best Practice. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Compliance Association and sits on the Money Laundering Steering Group of the Financial Sector Skills Council.

Martin Schofield - Senior Consultant

Martin Schofield

Martin has worked in financial crime prevention roles since 2001.

Since joining MHA he has been involved in reviewing the financial crime strategies, policies and procedures of regulated businesses in multiple jurisdictions, presented face to face training to a number of national and international clients, written course material for our e-learning provision, written AML/CTF handbooks for several organisations operating across multiple jurisdictions as well as managing our financial crime help desk.

Prior to joining MHA, Martin was Head of Financial Crime Prevention at Canada Life, where he was responsible for ensuring that effective and robust policies and procedures were in place to mitigate the risks posed to the company across jurisdictions from all aspects of financial crime. He joined Canada Life from Legal & General where he held various senior posts in Financial Crime Prevention and Data Security.

Martin Allen - Senior Consultant

Martin Allen

Martin joined MHA as a Senior Associate after a 32 year career in trade finance, international and retail banking.

Whilst working within the Barclays Private Banking & Wealth Management Division, Martin developed an international "centre of excellence" for Financial Crime Policy, which included procedures, training and communication strategies ensuring the firm’s global compliance with regulatory requirements. He delivered workshops on financial crime prevention and AML/CFT Compliance to senior managers and directors from regulated sectors throughout Europe, Africa and Asia.

Martin has in depth experience in financial crime prevention through creating policy, procedures, training and communications for fraud, identity theft, "phishing" and anti-money laundering.

David Hyde – Business Development Executive

David Hyde

David joins MHA with 20 years sales experience in Retail and Corporate, and is now developing new business relationships and managing accounts for MHA in the UK and Offshore.

David reports to Commercial Director Mark Smith with responsibility for new business development and will also be supporting the MHA Alliance Partner Programme.

Rebecca Grime - Client Liaison

Rebecca Grime

Beccie joined MHA in November 2011 from Santander. She has 15 years sales experience in financial and corporate customer service and marketing. Beccie has joined our MHA Gateway team where she looks after both current and prospective subscribers.

Jane Brockwell - Senior Administrator

Jane Brockwell

Jane joined MHA in 2008 as a Senior Administrator. Jane was initially employed as an addition to the e-learning support team. As the number of staff in the company has grown, Jane has become more involved with the general running of the office, while still acting as a back up to the e-learning support team.

Before joining MHA, Jane spent 20 years working in sales administration.

Sara Ball - Manager E-learning Services

Sara Ball

Sara joined MHA in 2008 after obtaining a law degree from the Guildford College of Law. Sara was initially employed as a course developer, working with clients from different sectors and jurisdictions on building web based AML/CTF, Fraud Prevention and Data Security courses, reflecting company specific exposures.

Late in 2009 Sara was given responsibility for leading MHA’s e-learning services, managing both design, content and the technical development of MHA’s online learning portfolio.

Aline Constan - Course Developer

Aline Constan

Aline joined MHA in February 2011 after completing her Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP Law School. Prior to moving to the UK, Aline attained a LLM in French Law from Université Paris II- Assas. Aline holds over 5 years of legal experience. Aline is currently employed as a course developer, working with clients from different sectors and jurisdictions on building web based AML/CTF, Fraud Prevention and Data Security courses, reflecting company specific exposures. Aline speaks French and English fluently. Aline is currently on maternity leave.

Lauren Shropshire - Course Developer

Lauren ShropshireLauren joined MHA in July 2011 after completing her Legal Practice Course from the Guildford College of Law. Between obtaining her LLB degree from the University of Reading and studying for her Legal Practice Course, Lauren had 5 years of legal experience. Lauren is currently employed as a course developer, working with clients from different sectors and jurisdictions on building web based AML/CTF, Fraud Prevention and Data Security courses, reflecting company specific exposures. Lauren is currently on maternity leave.

Marina Osman-Salleh - Course Developer

Marina Osman-Salleh

Marina came to MHA in October 2011 having completed her LPC in July at the College of Law in Guildford. Prior to that she completed her ICSA foundation course and then her law degree through the Open University whilst working for a top 3 share registration company. Before coming to law, Marina taught English in her home country of Malaysia following qualification from Southampton University. She is now resident in the UK. She is fluent in Bahasa Melayu (the Malaysian national language) and English.

Daniella Yoganathan – MHA Gateway Coordinator

Daniella Yoganathan

Daniella joined us in early 2010 having received an LLB from The College of Law in Guildford. Prior to studying law, Daniella worked as Director of Studies of a British independent school in Sri Lanka and completed a Masters in Neuroscience at King’s College London. Daniella began as a course developer in MHA's E-learning Department. During July 2010, Daniella became involved in the creation and development of MHA Gateway, our online financial crime resource centre. She now carries out multi-jurisdictional legal research and works closely with our consultants to ensure that Gateway is informative, well-maintained and continually evolving in line with our clients’ needs.