Carol R. Van Cleef is the chair of the Block Chain and Digital Asset Group at the law firm of Bradley Arant Cummings Boult LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience in anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance. She advises clients at the cross-roads of crypto-assets and US federal and state laws governing the operations of Virtual Asset Service Providers and other digital asset business ventures. She founded and chairs the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain AML Summit at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. She is the founder and CEO of the Luminous Group, and the founder of the AML Training Institute. She also is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). She was named in 2021 to the Forbes 50 over 50 (Investments).