Pinnacle Connections, LLC
Helping You Rise Above Legal & Regulatory Challenges
About Us
​Pinnacle Connections, LLC specializes in assisting clients with staffing needs for Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions and Know-Your-Customer Projects, Financial Crimes Compliance Audit Support, and Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments. Pinnacle’s established team of professionals assist financial institutions, law firms, consulting firms, and other corporations with preparing for litigation, responding to regulatory enforcement orders pertaining to AML/KYC/Sanctions, and resolving complex financial fraud and bribery investigations. Our experienced team of licensed attorneys, former law enforcement officials, CFE and CAMS certified investigators, and former banking executives have assisted numerous clients on projects throughout the United States.

Executive Team
Kristin L. Ross

Kristin Ross, Managing Principal, has over fifteen years of experience providing anti-money laundering (“AML”) regulatory compliance, investigative, and program advisory services. Ms. Ross has assisted domestic and foreign financial institutions with regulatory examination preparedness, Know Your Customer (“KYC”) data collection and remediation processes, compliance program reviews, transaction and investigation look-backs, enterprise-wide risk assessments, customer risk ranking methodologies, and the development of programs and procedures for compliance with AML and USA PATRIOT Act regulations Prior to forming Pinnacle Connections, Kristin worked in the AML units of a Big Four firm, a small boutique firm, and a large global financial institution.
Paul S. Gupta

Paul Gupta, Managing Principal, brings over twenty years of expertise delivering litigation support and technology solutions. Mr. Gupta’s experience includes outsourcing sensitive work for financial institutions in the United States, Europe and India, organizing an off-shore electronic data discovery and bibliographic coding vendor, developing successful sales and marketing strategies in the eDiscovery space, and identifying and forging relationships with key decision makers in the legal and financial industry. Prior to joining Pinnacle Connections, Paul spent his career founding and operating companies which provided services to Fortune 500 corporations, AmLaw 100 law firms and Big Four accounting firms.