Ashley Bostel is an expert in analytics, data science and technology for anti-financial crime. Since November 2021 he has been at NatWest Group, a UK banking and financial services company that includes NatWest Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ulster Bank, Coutts, Holt’s Military Banking, Lombard, and RBS International. He is currently the Financial Crime Analytics Strategy Lead for the Bank.  Prior to joining NatWest Group Ashley was a Product Manager at Nasdaq Market Technology guiding the development of product offerings in the anti-financial crime space. Before working at Nasdaq, he was Vice President for Tuning and Optimization in Anti-Financial Crime at Deutsche Bank. Ashley has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of anti-financial crime and has worked in several banking, consultancy, and technology organizations in the UK and around the world including stints at Accenture and Oracle. Ashley was formerly an academic and was a Lecturer in Neural Systems at the University of Essex UK; he has also worked in analytical software development and deployment in telecoms, marketing, and e-business. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from King's College London.