Gary is the founder and President of IMAG, an advisory firm specializing in governance, culture change, financial crimes and global institution risk and compliance. A frequent industry speaker, he brings more than three and a half decades of experience providing advice and oversight to large US and global institutions of all industries. Gary frequently advises boards and senior management teams on strategic planning initiatives relating to governance and compliance lines of defense, enterprise reputational risk, technologies and advanced analytics. He also conducts high level, independent investigations for senior management. He has served as senior on-site Advisor or Interim Director for major client groups whose compliance programs are in management transition.

During his tenure at IMAG, he served as the Anti-money Laundering Director for HSBC North America during its large-scale regulatory order remediation and later as HSBC’s Chief Compliance Officer, managing the activities of over 1,800 US compliance staff. Prior to forming IMAG, he was Chief of Staff, General Counsel and Head of Compliance of Midland Bank plc USA and General Counsel of Midland’s Trade Finance division. He has served as the Chairman of the Board Compliance Committee of BBCN Bank, the largest Korean American publicly traded bank in the US and, upon BBCN’s acquisition of Wilshire Bank, was appointed Chairman of the Risk Committee of Hope Bancorp, the combined bank’s holding company.

Gary is a summa cum laude graduate of Lehigh University and received his J.D. from the School of Law of Case Western Reserve University. He is a member of the New York State and Federal bars. He is married, enjoys golf and fishing and plays boogie and blues piano.