{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Juan Llanos","label":"Chief Compliance Officer","image":"https://saywise-production-profilepicturestoragebucket-kbfooccc.s3.amazonaws.com/profile-pictures/61e45622-e71b-411b-98bc-2231df6d212f/linkedin-1791340765342.jpg","summary":"Crypto-native compliance executive and product builder with 15+ years translating novel product architectures into regulator-defensible controls, embedding compliance into product design through AI and automation.","location":{"city":"New York City, NY, United States"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"juanllanos","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/juanllanos"}]},"meta":{"canonical":"https://saywise.com/member4986","version":"v1.0.0","lastModified":"2026-10-07T02:40:06.783Z"},"x_saywise":{"handle":"member4986","pronouns":null,"availability":null,"oneLiner":"Crypto-native compliance executive and product builder with 15+ years translating novel product architectures into regulator-defensible controls, embedding compliance into product design through AI and automation.","profileUrl":"https://saywise.com/member4986","markdownUrl":"https://saywise.com/member4986/profile.md","pdfUrl":"https://saywise.com/member4986/resume.pdf","archetype":{"code":"HS-DG","name":"Launchpad Navigator","url":"https://saywise.com/sca/b813d5712267","rarity":"One of the first Launchpad Navigators on Saywise"}},"work":[{"name":"Félix","position":"Chief Compliance Officer","location":"New York, New York, United States","url":"https://felixpago.com","startDate":"2024-03-01","endDate":"2026-10-01","summary":"Leading design and execution of compliance, AML, sanctions, risk, and licensing infrastructure for a Series C cross-border payments platform using stablecoins. Designed the GRC model enabling cross-border USDC remittances through third-party and non-custodial infrastructure. Directed Felix's U.S. money transmitter licensing strategy, completing 42 applications in four months with 29 approved within the first year, and engaged directly with regulators on stablecoin settlement and hybrid fiat/crypto flows. Built AML/CFT, sanctions, monitoring, and governance infrastructure supporting rapid expansion while prototyping AI-enabled compliance workflows for regulatory analysis and policy design."},{"name":"Binance","position":"Director, Global Fiat Strategy and Operations","location":"New York, USA","url":"https://binance.com","startDate":"2020-04-01","endDate":"2021-10-01","summary":"Designed and led global fiat onboarding and operating strategy across EMEA and Latin America during rapid global scaling. Reduced licensing implementation costs by 50% through modular global licensing methodology, enabled 3x faster time to market by standardizing banking and payments partner onboarding, and expanded regional fiat volumes by 25% through improved API features and onboarding flows. Advised executives on regulatory and banking engagement across Europe, Latin America, and the Gulf."},{"name":"ConsenSys","position":"FinTech & RegTech Lead + Entrepreneur In Residence","location":"New York, New York, United States","url":"https://consensys.com","startDate":"2017-03-01","endDate":"2018-10-01","summary":"Translated emerging decentralized technologies into regulatory, compliance, and product frameworks during early Ethereum phase. Drove RegTech product vision, built global product team, and secured $2.5M to create company's first AML compliance platform. Built cross-functional product governance and risk-requirements process for compliance tooling. Worked with leading global legal teams on token classification, securities-law risk, and regulatory-perimeter analysis for blockchain protocols. Collaborated with Monetary Authority of Singapore and UK FCA Innovation Hub on decentralized identity and token classification."},{"name":"Juan Llanos Advisors","position":"Founder & Managing Director","location":"New York, USA","url":"https://juanllanos.com","startDate":"2015-06-01","endDate":"2020-07-01","summary":"Founded advisory firm delivering compliance and risk management strategy guidance to crypto fintech startups across three bear markets. Supported crypto wallets, exchanges, OTC desks, cross-border money transmitters, and payment processors in formulating strategy and executing product and operational design. Co-created concepts of Minimum Viable Compliant Product (MVCP) and Minimum Viable Compliance (MVC). Designed operating models, risk assessments, policies, controls, and regulator-ready documentation. Served as external compliance and policy advisor to financial regulators and blockchain associations globally."},{"name":"Bitreserve HQ, Inc. (now Uphold)","position":"Chief Compliance Officer + EVP of Strategic Partnerships","location":"San Francisco Bay Area","url":"https://uphold.com","startDate":"2014-03-01","endDate":"2015-06-01","summary":"Founding team member responsible for global compliance strategy, go-to-market planning, money-transmitter licensing, and product controls for digital payments and cryptocurrency wallet services. Built compliance program and product onboarding controls with Product and Finance teams. Completed 22 money-transmitter license applications in three months using productized project-management methodology. Helped accelerate launch of custodial cryptocurrency wallet by designing compliant onboarding and account-opening workflows."},{"name":"Ripio","position":"Chief Compliance Officer","location":"New York, New York, United States","url":"https://ripio.com","startDate":"2013-11-01","endDate":"2023-06-01","summary":"Served as early advisor to founders, consulting on strategy and operations over multiple years before transitioning to Chief Compliance Officer role following Series B. Provided guidance on regulatory, product, and operational strategy for the growing crypto platform."},{"name":"Unidos Financial Services, Inc.","position":"Chief Compliance Officer | EVP of Operations | Co-Founder","location":"New York, New York, United States","url":"https://unidosfinancial.com","startDate":"2006-08-01","endDate":"2014-03-01","summary":"Co-founder managing overall operations including consumer experience, IT infrastructure, software development, and quality assurance. Recognized as early leader in launching GPR prepaid card capability in Mexico. Increased user engagement by 50% and transaction speed by 2x through POS GUI redesign. Led compliance and operations for regulated consumer financial services, owning controls across customer experience, IT, software development, and QA to improve transaction integrity and customer outcomes."},{"name":"Remesas Quisqueyana, Inc. (now DolEx)","position":"BSA Compliance Officer + VP of Service","location":"New York, New York, United States","url":"https://quisqueyana.com","startDate":"2002-02-01","endDate":"2006-08-01"}],"education":[{"institution":"Mars Hill University","studyType":"American Literature (United States)","startDate":"1991-01-01","endDate":"1991-01-01"},{"institution":"Virginia Commonwealth University","studyType":"History","startDate":"1991-01-01","endDate":"1991-01-01"},{"institution":"Universidad de Palermo","studyType":"MBA in Strategic Marketing"},{"institution":"Universidad del Salvador","studyType":"BAs, Graduate Diploma in English, Linguistics, Translation and Education"}],"skills":[{"name":"Document Management"},{"name":"Process Design"},{"name":"Document Lifecycle Management"},{"name":"Money Transfers"},{"name":"Licensing"},{"name":"Advisory Board"},{"name":"Legal Document Preparation"},{"name":"Project Management"},{"name":"Trading Systems"},{"name":"Remittances"},{"name":"Customer Due Diligence (CDD)"},{"name":"Transaction Monitoring"},{"name":"Intercultural Communication"},{"name":"Partnership-building"},{"name":"Third-Party Vendor Management"},{"name":"Regulatory Technology"},{"name":"Employee Training"},{"name":"Smart Contracts"},{"name":"Public Key Cryptography"},{"name":"Entrepreneurship"},{"name":"Cryptocurrency"},{"name":"Regulatory Compliance"},{"name":"Analytical Skills"},{"name":"Emerging Trends"},{"name":"Internal Audits"},{"name":"Risk Consulting"},{"name":"Regulatory Examinations"},{"name":"Organizational Development"},{"name":"Risk Management"},{"name":"Strategy"},{"name":"Business Development"},{"name":"Financial Services"},{"name":"Anti Money Laundering"},{"name":"Business Strategy"},{"name":"CRM"},{"name":"Financial Risk"},{"name":"Strategic Planning"},{"name":"Analytics"},{"name":"Business Intelligence"},{"name":"Enterprise Risk Management"},{"name":"Product Management"},{"name":"Start-ups"},{"name":"Sanctions Governance"},{"name":"Enterprise Governance"},{"name":"Partner Risk"},{"name":"Operating Model Redesign"},{"name":"Decision Rights Design"},{"name":"Data Visualization"},{"name":"Agentic AI"},{"name":"Automation Tools"}],"certificates":[{"name":"Certificate of completion: Claude 101","date":"2026-05-01","issuer":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Certificate of completion: Introduction to agent skills","date":"2026-05-01","issuer":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Certificate of completion: Introduction to subagents","date":"2026-05-01","issuer":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Claude Code in Action","date":"2026-05-01","issuer":"Anthropic"},{"name":"LangChain for LLM Application Development","date":"2025-09-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"ACP: Agent Communication Protocol","date":"2025-07-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"DSPy: Build and Optimize Agentic Apps!","date":"2025-07-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"Event-Driven Agentic Document Workflows","date":"2025-07-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"Build Apps with Windsurf's AI Coding Agents","date":"2025-06-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex","date":"2025-03-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"Building toward Computer Use with Anthropic","date":"2025-03-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"Multi-Agent Systems with CrewAI","date":"2024-09-01","issuer":"CrewAI"},{"name":"AI Agentic Design Patterns with AutoGen","date":"2024-08-01","issuer":"DeepLearning.AI"},{"name":"AI for Good Specialization","date":"2023-11-01","issuer":"Coursera"},{"name":"AI For Everyone","date":"2023-11-01","issuer":"Coursera"},{"name":"Generative AI for Everyone","date":"2023-11-01","issuer":"Coursera"},{"name":"TRM Advanced Crypto Investigator (TRM-ACI)","date":"2023-04-01","issuer":"TRM Labs"},{"name":"TRM Crypto Compliance Specialist (TRM-CCS)","date":"2023-04-01","issuer":"TRM Labs"},{"name":"TRM Crypto Fundamentals Certification (TRM-CFC)","date":"2023-04-01","issuer":"TRM Labs"},{"name":"Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist","date":"2003-07-01","issuer":"ACAMS"}],"awards":[{"title":"14 NYC People in Bitcoin You Must Know","date":"2014-10-01","awarder":"AlleyWatch","summary":"Listed by AlleyWatch as one of the 14 NYC People in Bitcoin You Must Know, along with Andrew Chang, Joe Fiscella, Joseph Lubin, Jaron Lukasiewicz, Reggie Middleton, Jonathan Mohan, Tatiana Moroz, Francesco Rulli, Marco Santori, Barry Silbert, Rik Willard, Alex Waters, and Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss"},{"title":"Permanent Resident Status \"By Reason of Extraordinary Ability\"","date":"2008-08-01","awarder":"United States Citizenship and Immigration Services","summary":"Permanent resident status granted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services \"by reason of extraordinary ability\" in the fields of Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism."}],"publications":[{"name":"After BitMEX: Regulation Must Change for the Digital Age","summary":"A call for redesigning regulation for the 21st century. Without a balanced approach to public policy objectives, all we will accomplish is incremental evolution and preservation of the status quo."},{"name":"Preparing for Blockchain Regulation in the Post-Obama Era","summary":"A broad look at the trends impacting global regulation in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors."},{"name":"Will Bitcoin Change How We Think About Regulation?","summary":"A vision of how emerging technologies enabling radical transparency can inspire an alternative way to supervise financial institutions."},{"name":"No Banking, No Bitcoin","summary":"The \"denial of banking services\" issue that has plagued the money services business industry for over a decade, now renamed as \"derisking,\" has now begun to affect the emerging cryptocurrency industry. While the issue is complex and would require major policy and regulatory changes, industry participants had better pay attention to compliance, if they are to make their projects viable."},{"name":"The End of Bitcoin as We Know It","summary":"Crypto-preneurs need to solve for three variables on which the Liberty Reserve case, just as the E-Gold case of years back does too, offers glaring lessons: [a] Anonymity, [b] Compliance and [c] Substance. When faced with what we can’t control, let’s just make the best of it. We would be hard pressed to argue against the value of knowing our customer, right? So, JDI (just do it)!"},{"name":"The Criminal Precedent that Could Curb Bitcoin's Enthusiasm","summary":"The remarkable parallels between E-Gold and Bitcoin, and how the E-Gold enforcement action constitutes a key precedent not to be ignored."}]}