A Financial Crime Happy Hour
The Cash Only Team
Conner Freeman, CFCS, CAMS
Co-Host, Audio Engineer, Producer
Conner is a Certified Financial Crime Specialist from Des Moines, Iowa. Currently he resides in Oakland, CA where he works as a Financial Crimes Investigator at a Big Four financial institution.
Conner earned his ACFCS certification in 2018 and his ACAMS in 2020. He completed his Master's degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in May 2019, where he specialized in Financial Crime Management and acted as president of the Financial Crime Management Club. Conner earned his Bachelor's degree at Central College where he studied Political Science and Spanish.
Joules Barragan, CAMS
Co-Host, Creative Director, Producer
Joules is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and experienced open source intelligence analyst from Los Angeles, California. He completed his Bachelor's in Political Science and Russian Language at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and his Master's in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies with a specialization in Financial Crime Management at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Joules currently resides in Los Angeles, California working as the lead Financial Crimes and Compliance Analyst for a cryptocurrency intelligence and blockchain analytics firm and co-chairs a pro bono volunteer organization that helps victims of crypto-fraud recover lost assets. Despite being hard-of-hearing, Joules is a lover of languages and has professional experience working in both Spanish and Russian, both at home and abroad.