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AML / MLRO talent: who to hire into the regulatory function.

This is the first candidate dataset for the ICP defined in report #5. Brighty is building a licensed EMI with a two-person compliance team, and it keeps re-posting the MLRO, CISO and chief accountant roles — meaning it can't fill its key seats through ordinary search. We took the role with the sharpest pain — AML / MLRO / Financial Crime — and built a live, verified, contactable pool from the same fintech feeder companies that already supply Brighty with people. Not a raw list scraped from open search — data engineering for a specific hiring problem: who, why now, and how we found them.

882
targeted AML specialists in Brighty's hiring zone
822
in the dataset, enriched (avg 129 fields)
155
senior / proven "MLRO-ready"
95
already hold the MLRO / Head of Compliance title

prepared 2026-06-28 · MEASURED · Outricher data

01The hiring problem: what won't close

In report #5 the pattern is clear: Brighty's hardest roles are its regulatory core. The MLRO role was re-posted ×4–6, CISO ×4, chief accountant ×3. Re-posting the same vacancy over and over is a plain "can't find them" signal. Meanwhile Brighty's compliance team is just two people, and the company holds an EMI licence: the regulator requires a designated MLRO. This isn't "one more hire" — it's a structural risk.

The standard way to close a role like this — posting the vacancy or external recruiting — runs straight into a narrow, overheated market. Below are 882 targeted AML specialists already working at Brighty's feeder companies, named and verified against the data.

02The universe: where we source from

Current AML / Financial-Crime / Compliance specialists at Brighty's feeder companies (the ones its team already came from), in the geographies where Brighty actually hires (EU/EEA + Switzerland + UK + UAE). This is an honest floor for the named set of companies — the full graph is larger.

Feeder companyAML core (current, in hiring zone)
Revolut486
Crypto.com186
TransferGo55
Bitpanda54
Paysera52
Nexo33
kevin.18
Total unique882
Warm channel — Revolut. Brighty's CTO is a Revolut alumnus, and the team already includes 9 people from there. Revolut holds 1,567 AML specialists in our data globally, 486 of them in Brighty's hiring zone. That's a proven corridor: referral outreach lands a noticeably higher response rate than cold contact.

A note on honesty: we deliberately excluded one feeder's large offshore AML center in South Asia (640 people) — it's a geographic mismatch for a company with hubs in Vilnius and Dubai. One feeder (a major payments service) returned no AML rows in our dataset — that's an honest gap, and we're not hiding it.

03Two tiers: senior-proven and promising middle

Exactly what was asked for: the best, but not necessarily the most expensive. The pool of 822 candidates is split into two primary tiers — each with its own hiring economics — plus 23 adjacent profiles (risk / fraud / onboarding) kept separate. 155 + 644 + 23 = 822.

Tier A — Senior / Proven · 155 people

Already held an MLRO / Head of Compliance / Compliance Director role at a licensed fintech. Can be Brighty's designated MLRO from day one — closing the regulatory requirement with no ramp-up. Of these, 95 currently hold the registered-officer title. More expensive, but you're buying readiness, not potential.

CandidateCurrent roleFeederGeoTime in roleScore
Vytautas (Vito) Danta Chief Compliance Officer Europe Revolut Lithuania 5.6 yr A+ 15
Greta Leganovic Deputy MLRO Revolut Lithuania 4.3 yr A+ 15
Konstantinas Vaškevičius Money Laundering Reporting Officer Revolut Lithuania 0.7 yr A+ 14
Naledi Ngubeni Head of Compliance - Africa Region Crypto.com UAE 4.8 yr A+ 14
Elan Faidel MLRO Germany Revolut Germany 3.7 yr A+ 13.5
Laurent-Guy Germain Head of FinCrime / MLRO - Spain Revolut Spain 5.4 yr A+ 13.5
Dimitrios Sachinidis Senior Legal Counsel and Head of Compliance - Wealth & Trading Revolut United Kingdom 3.7 yr A+ 13.5
Nelson Y. Regional MLRO APAC Revolut Cyprus 5 yr A+ 13.5

Top of the funnel — real people from the dataset. #1 is a Chief Compliance Officer Europe from Revolut, based in Lithuania (Brighty's regulatory home, zero relocation). Not a hypothesis — a row in the file.

Tier B — Promising middle · 644 people

AML analysts, Financial Crime Analysts, Compliance Officers, KYC Leads with tier-1 fintech training but "one rung below MLRO." The career ladder KYC → AML Analyst → AML Officer / Deputy MLRO → MLRO is standard; a strong analyst with 2–4 years is a candidate for Deputy MLRO with room to grow. Far cheaper than senior, trained to world-class standards. Of these, 446 have been in the same role for ≥3 years — a structural "stuck, ready for the next step" signal.

CandidateCurrent roleFeederGeoTime in roleScore
Ana Kirejeva Financial Crime Analyst Revolut Lithuania 4.7 yr A 12
Okesola Sanusi Support Specialist (KYC/ATO) Revolut Lithuania 3.9 yr A 12
Fausta Stankeviciute KYC support specialist Revolut Lithuania 4.5 yr A 12
Ruta Prendiukaite Financial Crime Analyst AML/CTF Revolut Lithuania 6.4 yr A 12
Tatenda Chagonda Senior Financial Crime Data Analyst Revolut United Kingdom 6.3 yr A 11.5
David Backhouse Business Transformation Manager - Financial Crime Product Expansion Operations Revolut United Kingdom 4.5 yr A 11.5
Danielle Coyle Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Crime Revolut United Kingdom 5 yr A 11.5
Ryo Fujita FinCrime - Senior Ⅱ AML/CTF SME (QC and L&D) Revolut Poland 3.8 yr A 11.5

CAVEAT: the middle tier fills AML Officer / Deputy MLRO, but not the licence's named MLRO — the MLRO seat itself needs Tier A. Don't mix the two roles in one funnel.

Adjacent · 23 people

Risk / fraud / onboarding — functions next door to AML. In the dataset they're marked with a separate tag and never mixed into the target funnels A and B. Included for completeness of the pool — some of them convert into an AML track if you want them to.

04Why they're ready to move right now

Readiness to move isn't a guess — it's detected structurally from career data.

Stuck (long tenure)

446 of 822 have been in their current role ≥3 years with no title change. At a large fintech the AML team is hundreds of people; promotion is slow and you're "one of 486." At Brighty the same person is compliance hire #3, with a direct path to Head / MLRO. This is the strongest pull trigger.

Warm corridor (Revolut)

444 candidates come from Revolut, where Brighty's team already came from (9 people on the team). Outreach with the reference "your former colleague is already here and happy" removes the main barrier to moving — trust in a young company.

Crypto-native

261 already work in crypto fintech (their feeder is a crypto company): they understand the travel rule, on-chain analytics, the crypto specifics of AML. For a crypto-fiat neobank that's a precise fit, not generic compliance.

Zero relocation

118 are already in Lithuania — Brighty's regulatory home. A move with no relocation, with knowledge of the local regulator and the language of the Baltic licence. The lowest-friction hire there is.

05Dataset composition

By function within the pool — you can see this isn't "everyone under the word compliance" but a structured funnel.

FunctionPeopleShare
AML / Compliance specialist32840%
KYC / onboarding specialist20124%
Senior AML / Compliance manager11514%
Registered officer (MLRO / Head of Compliance)9512%
AML / FinCrime leadership607%
Adjacent (risk / fraud / onboarding)233%

Geography (top 8)

Bulgaria
198
Poland
122
Lithuania
118
Portugal
108
United Kingdom
84
Spain
31
Austria
24
UAE
23

06What you get in the file

The full dataset: JSONL / CSV / Excel + ready-made segments. Each profile carries career depth, education, skills, location, contacts (where available), score and tier. Quality is measured, not claimed.

  1. leads.xlsx — Excel with all 148 fields across 822 candidates.
  2. leads.csv / leads.jsonl — for CRM and programmatic processing.
  3. segments/ — ready-made slices: senior-proven, promising middle, registered-officer-ready, the warm Revolut channel, crypto-native, Lithuania-no-relocation, stuck-and-ready, with-email, and one per feeder.
Get the dataset: Request this dataset ↗ — 822 candidates, all formats + 17 segments.
Quality metricValue
Profiles in the dataset822
Fields per profile (min · avg · max · union)91 · 129 · 147 · 148
Outreach-ready (email / phone / profile)100%
Email (combined)31% (255)
Hot A+/A185

We only provide email and phone from verified sources — where there is none, the value is NULL; we don't invent contacts. Depth can be raised with targeted contact re-enrichment for the tier you choose.

07How to read on

This is a sample of what we do for any of the 6 roles in report #5 — and for any company. Name the role and the tier, and we'll build the next dataset in the same format: a verified pool, scoring, segments, contacts, evidence.

★ Next: CISO / Information Security · chief accountant / finance · UX Lead · Customer Success · Data Analyst — every role is delivered the same way.

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MEASURED · Outricher data · 2026-06-28