Samantha J. Leventhal

Samantha J. Leventhal is the Global Financial Crimes Executive responsible for the oversight for Global Wealth & Investment Management and Global Markets.  In this role, Samantha is responsible for driving the execution of the anti-money laundering program across Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith and Bank of America Securities supporting both the retail and institutional broker dealers under the Bank of America umbrella.

Prior to this role, Samantha was the Global Wealth and Investment Management Risk Executive overseeing the Consumer and Small Business, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, Bank of America Private Bank, Merrill Edge/Consumer Investments and Bank of America Merchant services.  Samantha has also served as the Chief Risk Officer for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Merrill EDGE.

Samantha joined Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in May 2002 as a member of the Office of General Counsel in the Global Monetary and Financial Control Group.  This group was responsible for developing and implementing the company’s anti-money laundering program.  Samantha was part of that team until 2008 and as part of the transition work between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, Samantha assumed responsibility for the Enterprise Client Coverage Team which was responsible for building a client referral program between the newly combined Bank and broker-dealer.  In 2012, Samantha joined GWIM Compliance and served as the GWIM Compliance Chief Operating Officer coordinating strategic business initiatives across the GWIM businesses.  In 2015, Samantha was named the GWIM Compliance Executive responsible for the GWIM Investment Solutions Group and Retirement and Personal Wealth Solutions group overseeing the compliance program for these retail broker-dealer products.  In 2017, Samantha was named the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management/Merrill EDGE Chief Risk Officer and Samantha assumed her current role as Global Financial Crimes Executive in May 2019.

Samantha graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied Diplomatic History and subsequently attended the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  After law school, Samantha practiced white collar criminal defense where she represented both corporations and individuals in complex business investigations.

Samantha lives in New York and is active with fundraising for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  Samantha is also an avid hiker and has hiked across six of the seven continents around the globe.