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Amadiebube Robert Mbama is the President of MBAMA & Associates, LLC (AKUN AML/BSA & Financial Consultants) a California based company.  Robert has more than twenty years of experience in the financial services sector. He was a Supervisor with the Department of Financial Institutions, State of California.  He has a BS in Accounting and MBA in Finance & Banking both from the University of San Francisco, California. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. He is also a certified financial forensics.

He helped to develop training and also train Money Transmitter Regulators Association examiners (MTRA). MTRA is an arm of various state banking department/financial institutions regulatory agencies that specialize in transmitters of money abroad, payment instruments issuers and travelers checks issuers. He is an anti money laundering consultant for many financial institutions in the U.S.

He was a former Financial Institutions Supervisor. As a Financial Institutions Supervisor, he was responsible for the senior, mid and entry level Financial Institutions Examiners. He assisted in planning, organizing, and implementing the examination program and regulatory oversight for a group of licensees. Prior to being promoted to this supervisory position, he was a Senior Financial Institutions Examiner with the Department of Financial Institutions, State of California. As a senior examiner, he was appointed by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions to the Internet Task Force and Special Licensees Task force. He was also one of the point persons during the Y2K conversion. In December 2002, he was awarded a rare State of California Superior Accomplishment Award and in the same month, he was awarded a Team Player of the Year Award by the Department of Financial Institutions for exhibiting a positive attitude, inspiring others to excel, and his contributions that continuously exceed expectations. Prior to joining the Department of Financial Institutions, Robert was a Savings and Loan Examiner for the State of California and was involved in examining troubled Savings and Loans during the Savings and Loan crises.

An active member of his community, he is the current Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) USA District Society. He was a former President of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce. In 2004 and 2005, he was the President of the Parish Council and prior to that, he served as a member of the Finance Committee for seven years.

Robert was a former online faculty member of Accounting and Finance classes at the University of Phoenix. In IMTC WEST 2011 he participated in the panel "Compliance challenges in multicultural settings: managing AML perceptions across different cultures" with fellow experts Connie Fenchel form AML Experts & Frank Lawrence from Coinstar.