Ed Tasellari
Director of Risk and Financial CrimeRipjarEd Tasellari is a member of Ripjar’s Financial Crime Intelligence team in North America. He leads strategic enterprise engagements with banks and large corporates, specializing in anti-money laundering (AML), fraud prevention, adverse media analytics, and financial crime threat investigations.
Ed works closely with Tier 1 and Tier 2 financial institutions to modernize their compliance infrastructure, delivering AI-driven solutions for AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and threat intelligence integration. His expertise includes building and optimizing customer risk programs, enhancing detection frameworks, and investigating complex financial crime patterns across data silos and global operations.
Before joining Ripjar, Ed held senior roles at Feedzai and Pegasystems, where he led compliance transformation programs for global financial institutions, spanning enterprise risk, fraud, and onboarding. Earlier in his career, he served as a Risk Specialist at Thomson Reuters and as a Senior Supervisor at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), where he oversaw the capital, liquidity, and governance practices of small and mid-sized banks in Canada.
Ed holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designations. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Finance Toronto Metropolitan University
