On Thursday, April 7, 2022, the NAFUSA Annual Conference will feature a panel discussion entitled “Crypto: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly.” It will feature Steve Bunnell, Sean Joyce, Jan Massari and Eun Young Choi. The panel will be moderated by NAFUSA Vice President Ken Wainstein.

Steve Bunnell is the Chief Legal Officer of the Diem Association, a non-profit membership association established to develop a new global blockchain-based payment system that would provide faster, better, and less expensive payments, and promote financial inclusion.   Bunnell was the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017, and has also served as the Chief of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.   He is also the former Managing Partner of O’Melveny & Myers’ Washington office and a former Co-Chair of the firm’s Data Security and Privacy Practic

Bunnell is a Distinguished Fellow of Homeland Security at the Syracuse University College of Law, and a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations.  He received his law degree from Stanford Law School and his B.A. from Yale University.

Sean Joyce is a Principal in PwC’s Consulting Segment, where he is the Global & US Cybersecurity, Risk and Regulatory practice leader and a member of the U.S. Advisory Leadership Team. Sean has worked with clients in various sectors providing strategic guidance, regulatory response, investigative support, incident breach response and cybersecurity advice. Most notably, Sean has consulted in some of the most prolific cyber breaches, providing guidance and expertise to top executives.

Prior to rejoining PwC, Sean was the Chief Trust Officer at Airbnb where he led Design Specialists, Product Managers, Engineers and Data Scientists to help grow and defend the platform. Also, he had responsibility for Privacy and Community Policy. Sean was a member of the Airbnb Executive Committee.

Previously, Sean served as the Deputy Director with the FBI, and had daily oversight of the approximately 36,000 men and women of the FBI and its $8 billion annual budget. With more than 26 years of service in the FBI, Sean brought a wide range of operational and leadership experience. He was an integral part of transforming the FBI into an intelligence-driven organization.  Sean served in many positions during his tenure at the FBI including; the Executive Assistant Director at the FBI’s National Security Branch and lead intelligence official of the FBI, Assistant Director of International Operations, Section Chief of the Counterterrorism Division’s International Terrorism Operations Section, Joint Terrorism Task Force Supervisor, SWAT Team Leader, and Hostage Rescue Team Operator.

A Brockton, MA native, he holds degrees from Boston College and Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business.

Jai Masari is a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she is a member of  Financial Institutions and Fintech practices. Major global banks, asset managers and corporations look to Jai for advice on the requirements, impact and implementation of financial regulation. In the area of digital assets and cryptocurrency, she advises financial institutions, fintech firms, tech companies and startups on a wide range of legal and regulatory considerations.

Jai’s work in financial regulation and fintech has been recognized by Chambers, Law360, Euromoney, Global Banking Regulation Review and IFLR1000. A source quoted by Chambers says she “has a unique ability to decompose complex problems and develop elegant solutions” amid varying regulatory frameworks.

Jai serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum and has been a visiting lecturer at Berkeley Law School since 2017.

Ken Wainstein is a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he focuses his practice on corporate internal investigations and civil and criminal enforcement proceedings.

Ken spent over 20 years in a variety of law enforcement and national security positions in the government.  Between 1989 and 2001, Ken served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in both the Southern District of New York and the District of Columbia, where he handled criminal prosecutions ranging from public corruption to gang prosecution cases and held a variety of supervisory positions, including Acting United States Attorney.  In 2001, he was appointed Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, where he provided oversight and support to the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices.  Between 2002 and 2004, Ken served as General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and then as Chief of Staff to Director Robert S. Mueller III.

In 2004, Ken was appointed and then confirmed as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he lead the largest United States Attorney’s Office in the country.  In 2006, the U.S. Senate confirmed Ken as the first Assistant Attorney General for National Security.  In that position, Ken established and led the new National Security Division, which consolidated DOJ’s law enforcement and intelligence activities on counterterrorism and counterintelligence matters.

In 2008, after 19 years at the Justice Department, Ken was named Homeland Security Advisor by President George W. Bush.  In this capacity, he coordinated the nation’s counterterrorism, homeland security, infrastructure protection, and disaster response and recovery efforts.  He advised the President, convened and chaired meetings of the Cabinet Officers on the Homeland Security Council, and oversaw the inter-agency coordination process for homeland security and counterterrorism programs.

Eun Young Choi currently serves as the inaugural Director of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team at the Department of Justice, where she leads a team of subject matter experts drawn from across the Department, to identify, investigate, support and pursue the department’s cases involving the criminal use of digital assets; set strategic priorities regarding digital assets technologies; and lead the department’s efforts to coordinate with domestic and international law enforcement partners, regulatory agencies and private industry to combat the criminal use of digital assets. She previously served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, where she was responsible for coordinating and advising on cyber and cryptocurrency-related issues across the Department of Justice, and representing the Department in the development of interagency policy and strategy.

Eun Young began her career at the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she was the Office’s Cybercrime Coordinator and investigated and prosecuted cyber, fraud, and money laundering crimes, with a particular focus on network intrusions, digital currency, the dark web, and national security investigations.

Prior to her time at the Department, Eun Young was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable Reena Raggi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.