2026 Conference Speakers

Damon Rowe
Partner, Meadows Collier

Mr. Rowe’s practice focus is White-Collar Crime and Government Regulatory Litigation, Tax Controversy and Litigation, and Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets, and NIL Representation. He has expertise in many areas including cryptocurrency, financial crimes, civil and criminal tax, money laundering, fraud, internal investigations, and the Bank Secrecy Act. Additionally, his NIL practice involves representing athletes and their families in business entity formations, contract review, advising on the taxability of NIL income, personal estate planning that is coordinated with an athlete’s business ventures, and a comprehensive review of potential state income tax issues for athletes.

Mr. Rowe began his career at the IRS in 1998 as a Special Agent and held numerous leadership positions for the agency. He served as the Special Agent in Charge for both the Los Angeles and Dallas Field Offices in the Criminal Investigation Division. This office investigates a diverse mix of financial investigations, including cybercrime, international tax fraud, identity theft, public corruption and Bank Secrecy Act. His next leadership position was Executive Director of International Operations in the Criminal Investigation Division. He successfully designed and implemented novel strategies to detect and mitigate international financial crimes, devised an international financial crime strategy used to train and educate thousands of global investigators in over 50 countries. His most recent position was Executive Director of the Office of Fraud Enforcement. While in this position, International and Domestic fraud threat mitigation strategies were developed and implemented for all IRS business operating divisions. This office implemented a four-pillar intelligence model which aided in fraud detection. He led the COVID Relief Fraud Project and the Joint International Task Force.

Mr. Rowe served on the law faculty as an Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, where he taught a course in international white-collar crime.

Mr. Rowe received his LL.M. in Tax from SMU Dedman School of Law and his J.D. from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He graduated from the University of Houston with a B.S. in Accounting.

Paul Bustos
Fraud Consultant

Paul Bustos is a Fraud Consultant specializing in digital payment fraud, account takeover (ATO), and fraud prevention strategy. With experience spanning forensic accounting, fraud investigations, and enterprise fraud risk management, he works at the intersection of technology, operations, and compliance to help organizations detect and prevent digital fraud while protecting the customer experience.

Paul has led cross-functional fraud initiatives involving payment security, identity verification, behavioral analytics, fraud governance, and incident response. His work includes implementing and optimizing rule-based fraud detection solutions, developing fraud prevention strategies, and partnering with technology, cybersecurity, legal, operations, and customer-facing teams to strengthen enterprise fraud controls.

A Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA), and ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC), Paul enjoys sharing practical approaches to fraud prevention, emerging payment threats, and risk-based decision making that organizations can apply immediately.

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