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After ten years of existence, DS Compliance will become DS Advisory services.
Elisa Da Silva is the Managing Director of DS Compliance, a consulting firm she launched in 2014 and in 2024, her services are evolving.
Over the last ten years, Elisa Da Silva has been providing services to the professionals of the financial sector and of the non-financial sector such as advisory, RC mandates for funds (“Responsable du contrôle des obligations”); secondment in Compliance and trainings.
In 2024, she will go on servicing her clients and additionally, she is also an Aspiring Independent Non-executive Director to the Boards of funds (alternative and UCITS), management companies/ AIFM and professionals of the financial sector (PFS).
She has 23 years of experience in the Compliance field and strong expertise in Regulatory Compliance, governance and anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing (AML-CFT).
Her added value to a Board is entrepreneurship spirit, when running her consulting firm, she had to pivot her strategy and change clients’ base during COVID crisis and more recently she changed service provider after ten years of business relationship.
She can also bring value to international companies in the financial sector starting from scratch their business, by setting-up their Compliance framework, and as such, liaising directly with the “Commission de surveillance du secteur financier” (CSSF), the financial authority in Luxembourg. From 2016 to 2017, she assisted an US Fund administrator specialized on Real estate assets, when they applied to a specialized Professional of the Financial Sector’s (PFS) license with the CSSF.
She has 23 years of experience in the Compliance field and strong expertise in Regulatory Compliance, governance and anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing (AML-CFT).
She can put into the table her persistence and dedication in international environment in fund distribution. She had been dealing with distributors on Compliance Regulatory and AML-CFT matters, in the Middle East (Emirates; Qatar; Saudi Arabia and Oman); in Europe (Andorra, San Marino) and Latin America.
From 2008 to 2012 she oversaw the Compliance Function for the Spanish platform, Allfunds Bank. She proposed at this time, a new methodology on risk assessment and distribution due diligence including onsite visits of distributors. She was exposed to international fund managers.
Then, for four years, from 2017 to 2020, she did the same exercise for a French Asset manager and Global distributor, Natixis Investment Managers. In 2019, she went to Panama, and performed risk assessment, distribution due diligence in Panamanian distributors.
In many opportunities, she has been exposed to the Boards when reporting to the management companies, AIFM and Professionals of the Financial sector’s Boards in her Compliance functions; and currently, in her advisory role, when providing specific AML-CFT trainings and RC mandate services to the Fund Boards.
The last three years, she also attended some courses as Aspiring Directors’ Program in INSEAD, France and Sustainable Finance in the University of Luxembourg.
She is active in Working groups and Committees in “Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs” (ILA), “Association Luxembourgeoise des fonds d’investissement” (ALFI) and “Luxembourg Private Equity Association” (LPEA) in fraud, distribution, AML-CFT and ESG.
For further information, please get in touch with her.
