About Us

AMY FAUST
Vice President of Marketing
and Compliance Masters Group Coordinator

Amy brings more than 15 years of experience in regulatory compliance.  She was instrumental in the creation of the Compliance Masters Group and continues to serve as membership coordinator.  Amy maintains the company’s social media presence and loves connecting with and helping clients.  In addition to her BA in Business Administration from Bellarmine University, Amy holds the ABA Certificate in both Lending and Deposit Compliance.

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AUDREY SULLIVAN
Director of Marketing

Audrey is an agile marketer and most recently served as the marketing manager at a training and events company dedicated to the financial and health care industries.  She joined the team in 2022 and is focused on ensuring COMPLIANCE RESOURCE continues to be your number one compliance training partner. Audrey is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and daydreams about one day solving crimes from an old house in Maine just like Murder, She Wrote.

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BRENT VINCENT
Director of Operations

Brent manages the operations and is instrumental in producing hundreds of training sessions annually.  Brent oversees the security of customer information and all online transactions and is critical to the success of the Community Forum and the Compliance Marketplace.  Brent holds a degree in Computer Engineering Technology from Sullivan Institute of Technology and Design and a BA in Business Studies from Sullivan University. Brent is also ABA certified in Lending and Deposit Compliance.

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JACK HOLZKNECHT
Founder and Senior Consultant

Jack’s career began in 1976 as a federal bank examiner. He later headed the product and education divisions of a regional consulting company where he developed loan and deposit form systems and software. Jack formed COMPLIANCE RESOURCE in 2010 to response to challenges presented by Dodd Frank and massive regulatory change.  Since that time, Jack and the team have grown the company and trained thousands of bankers nationwide.  Jack has served as the lead instructor at compliance schools and state associations in over 43 states and continues to be a leader in compliance training.  He is a graduate of Bellarmine University, a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, and a member of the National Speakers Association.

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JORDAN HICKS
Vice President of Relationship Management

Jordan joined COMPLIANCE RESOURCE in 2022 and brings over six years of experience helping banks and credit unions improve their compliance programs.  Previous client facing roles at TRUPOINT Partners and NContracts provide Jordan insight into the challenges compliance departments face daily.  As VP of Relationship Management, Jordan ensures our client’s success by providing the most comprehensive training solutions for our clients and their staffs.  A University of Alabama alum, when Jordan isn’t cheering on the Crimson Tide, he can be found on the golf course taking money from friends.

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KIMBERLY BOATWRIGHT, CAMS CRCM
Executive Vice President of Risk and Compliance

Kimberly has more than two decades of experience working in the financial services industry as a risk and compliance professional.  Kimberly has a strong background in program development and implementation. During her career, she has worked for and consulted with all types of financial institutions helping to establish and evolve their compliance programs. Kimberly came on board at COMPLIANCE RESOURCE in 2022 and loves helping other compliance professionals manage their compliance departments as efficiently as possible. She is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. A proud mom of three, Kimberly loves nothing more than spending time with her family.

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TREY SULLIVAN
Managing Partner

Trey joined COMPLIANCE RESOURCE in 2022 and serves as Managing Partner.  Having founded, managed, and grown several compliance companies previously, Trey brings over 20 years of experience to the company.  Trey will help manage the firm and provide strategic direction with the intention of growing the company while maintaining the high-quality solutions COMPLIANCE RESOURCE is known for.

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KIMBERLY BOATWRIGHT, CRCM, CAMS

Kimberly Boatwright is EVP and Director of Risk and Compliance at Compliance Resource, LLC and has more than a two decades of experience working in the financial services industry. Ms. Boatwright is a well-regarded financial industry risk and compliance professional with a strong background in program development and implementation. She is a thought leader who specializes in Fair Lending, Anti-Money Laundering, OFAC and consumer compliance. During her career she has worked for and consulted with all types of financial institutions helping to establish and evolve compliance and risk programs. She is a frequent public speaker, trainer, and author on compliance and risk management topics. Kimberly is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

JACK HOLZKNECHT

Jack is the Founder of Compliance Resource, LLC. He has been delivering the word on lending compliance for 43 years. In 38 years as a trainer over 130,000 bankers (and many examiners) have participated in Jack’s live seminars and webinars. Jack’s career began in 1976 as a federal bank examiner. He later headed the product and education divisions of a regional consulting company. There he developed loan and deposit form systems and software. He also developed and presented training programs to bankers in 43 states. Jack has been an instructor at compliance schools presented by a number of state bankers associations. As a contractor he developed and delivered compliance training for the FDIC for ten years. Jack has a BA in Business Administration from Bellarmine University, he is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, and a member of the National Speakers Association. He is also a “BOL Guru."

Debra J. Geister

Debra Geister has been a Financial Crimes Strategist and Industry Contributor for more than 20 years. She has worked with the leading AML and RegTech providers in the industry to help improve money laundering and fraud detection systems. She is currently a Vice President of Regulatory and Compliance products at Socure, Inc. Geister also founded Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions, LLC.  The company focuses on solutions for identification and detection of transnational criminal organizations (TCO) and the mechanisms of fraud and money laundering. They specialize in investigator “hybrid threat” training, precision scenario development and risk assessment services. Prior to S2, Ms. Geister worked with Treliant,  NICE Actimize and Matrix International.  She also held a position as the Senior Vice President of the Financial Intelligence Unit for a US based financial institution, leading the combined Fraud and Bank Secrecy Act Unit, guiding the bank out of a cease-and-desist order.  Previously, for 10 years, she was Senior Director of Consulting Services and also Director of Market Planning for AML and Fraud Products at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Debra developed products to assist clients with processes such as sanctions screening, application fraud, OFAC, PEP, KYC and EDD and 314a. She has worked with many of the largest global and domestic financial institutions. She has extensive experience with the technologies and design behind many of the products that support the Financial Services industries and all areas of AML and Fraud including, Customer Information Programs, Application Fraud, Mortgage Fraud, ACH Fraud and Sanctions Compliance, KYC, CDD and Transaction Monitoring and Investigations. Geister is also an experienced speaker and media analyst on the topics of money laundering, fraud and financial crimes.

REBEKAH LEONARD, CAMS

Rebekah Leonard is the owner and founder of Elucidate, LLC, a compliance consulting and training company based in Bozeman, Montana.  Rebekah has been in the finance and banking industry since 1995, with experience including customer service, teller, bank operations, loan review, loan officer, branch manager, BSA, security officer, and compliance. In 2001 she became her bank’s compliance officer, rising in 2015 to the level of Senior Vice President of Compliance and CRA, helping the bank grow from $300MM in assets to over $1B at its acquisition.  She has successfully navigated through five FDIC Compliance Exams, and most recently has worked specifically and deeply in lending compliance as a specialist in the field.  Rebekah has a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University (Magna cum Laude), attended the American Bankers Association National Compliance School in 2003, and is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager since 2006.

ERIC COLLINSWORTH

Eric Collinsworth has been actively involved in the real estate industry since 2004. He became and affiliate broker in 2005 and received the TN Certified Residential Appraiser designation in 2006. He is a compliance expert familiar with valuation related regulations. He also teaches regulatory compliance to community bankers and other associations throughout the United States. He served in a supervisory role for a multi-billion dollar financial institution headquartered in Middle Tennessee and was responsible for developing compliance forms, appraisal policies, appraisal reviews, appraisal training, and market analyses, as well as the management of the day to day operations of the appraisal department. In October 2011, Eric formed Appraisal Advisory Associates, LLC in order to share his growing knowledge and expertise and to fill a need he recognized within smaller community banks for sound advice relating to the regulatory changes in the real estate valuation portion of the industry. Since then, he has partnered with others to form three other companies in the real estate valuation industry.

SUSAN COSTONIS

Susan Costonis is a compliance consultant and trainer. She began her banking career in 1978 and specializes in compliance management along with deposit and lending regulatory training. Susan has successfully managed compliance programs and exams for institutions that ranged from a community bank to large multi-state bank holding companies.  She has been a compliance officer for institutions supervised by the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve.  Susan has been a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager since 1998, completed the ABA Graduate Compliance School, and graduated from the University of Akron and the Graduate Banking School of the University of Colorado.  She regularly presents to financial institution audiences in several states and “translates” complex regulations into simple concepts by using humor and real-life examples.