Community

Where women in risk move forward together.

Our mission is to unite women countering risk in finance, government, and technology to accelerate career growth and increase our ability to reduce financial crime risks.
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The WIRE Mission

It started with a gap worth closing.

Women were leading some of the hardest work in financial crime and risk, but there was no dedicated community built to connect them across institutions, sectors, and career stages.

WIRE was created to change that.

What began as a grassroots effort has grown into a community built on a simple idea: opportunity grows when women create it for one another.

Founders

Meet the people leading the mission.

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EVP Marketing

Annalisa Camarillo

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VP, Federal Solutions

Jennifer Roy

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Co-founder. WIRE , Quantifind

Theresa Buechner

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Director, Head of AML Advisory, SoFi

Heather Allen

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Executive Director, Consumer Lending, BSA/AML, Wells Fargo

Susan Silcox

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VP, Quantitative Analytics Team – Consumer and Small Business AML and EFM, Bank of America

Natalie Navratil

Historical Sources of Inspiration

Joanne Pierce Misko

Joanne Pierce Misko grew up in Niagara Falls, New York, the daughter and sister of police officers. Out of college, Pierce entered the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Buffalo, New York, where she taught middle and high school students for 10 years. Misko left the convent in 1970 and joined the FBI as a researcher at the Training Academy

Following FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's death in 1972, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray opened the special agent position to females. Misko’s supervisor asked if she had any interest in applying. “Absolutely, I would be interested,” Misko said. Shortly after Joanne became one of the first women special agents for the FBI.

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