Christopher Watler is Co-Founder and Principal, AML Compliance and Regulatory Services. He has more than 20 years of financial-services experience across capital markets, governance, regulatory compliance and risk management in New York and the Cayman Islands.

He has served in senior management roles including Director, AML Compliance Officer, Principal Point of Contact and Liquidator for investment funds, CLOs, securitisation vehicles and private-equity structures.

Before Canopy, Christopher was a Senior Vice President at Maples Group in the Fiduciary Division. During a 19-year tenure he managed capital-markets work and Cayman regulatory services including AML, tax compliance and economic substance. Earlier roles included Arthur Andersen LLP in Cayman and New York, where he worked on audits of funds, CLOs, banks and broker-dealers, and Fortis Fund Administration.