Speakers & Advisory Board

Speakers & Advisory Board

Lisa A. White

Executive vice president, supervision, regulation and credit

Richmond Federal Reserve Bank

Lisa White was appointed executive vice president for Supervision, Regulation and Credit in 2017 with responsibility for managing supervisory risk and responding to regulatory and compliance issues for both the Fifth District and the Federal Reserve System.

White provides strategic leadership and direction for the Richmond Fed’s supervision of community, regional and large banks for the collection and validation of financial and structural data from firms, and for the provision of discount window services to depository institutions within the Fifth District.

White joined the Richmond Fed in 1995 and has served in several roles, including conducting community bank examinations, managing credit and market risk specialist teams and leading the examination team dedicated to Bank of America. She has also led the Richmond Fed’s supervisory program for large financial institutions, including Capital One, BB&T and E*TRADE.

She received her bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Albion College and her master’s in business administration from Wake Forest University.

Jason Schugel

Chief risk officer

Ally Financial

Jason Schugel was named chief risk officer for Ally Financial in the spring of 2018. He has overall responsibility for execution of Ally’s Independent risk management. He has responsibility for the enterprise risk management framework, establishment of risk management processes, an ensuring that Ally targets an appropriate balance between risk and return, mitigating unnecessary risk and protecting the company’s financial returns.

Schugel was previously deputy chief risk officer for the company since 2017, leading various risk-management activities. Prior to that role, he was general auditor for Ally, responsible for the company's internal audit function as well as administrative oversight for Ally's loan review function.

Schugel joined Ally in 2009, overseeing the company’s financial planning and analysis team, which is responsible for Ally’s financial performance reporting, enterprise-wide forecasting and planning. He also served as lead finance executive for Ally's global functions. Before joining Ally, he was vice president of financial planning and analysis, and investor relations at LendingTree, LLC. Prior to that, he worked in investment banking for Wachovia and began his career at First Plus Financial, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a master’s degree in business administration from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University.  Schugel is the Chairman of the board of the Allegro Foundation, an organization that is a champion for children with disabilities. He also volunteers regularly with Charlotte Rescue Mission organization, which helps people struggling with the disease of addiction achieve long-term sobriety, find employment and stable housing.

Ronald Ratcliffe

Managing director, applied portfolio analysis

BlackRock

Ronald Ratcliffe, PhD, is a Managing Director in BlackRock’s Applied Portfolio Analysis practice area within the Analytics & Quantitative Solutions (AQS) group. He focuses on multi-asset portfolio risk, scenario analysis, and portfolio construction.

Dr. Ratcliffe's service with BlackRock dates back to 2004, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to joining AQS, he led the Market-Driven Scenarios (MDS) initiative as Head of Cross-Platform Scenario Analysis in the Risk & Quantitative Analysis (RQA) group. Previously in RQA, he was Head of Multi-Asset Investment Risk for the Americas West region. In the Portfolio Management Group (PMG), he was a portfolio manager and developed systematic macro trading strategies. Prior to joining BGI, Dr. Ratcliffe was a senior manager at KPMG in corporate valuation and international transfer pricing. Previously, he was the chief economist for Latin America at SG Cowen Securities, a subsidiary of Societe Generale. Before that he was with Bankers Trust Company (now part of Deutsche Bank) where he carried out country risk analysis.

Dr. Ratcliffe earned BA degrees in economics and in political science, with distinction and with departmental honors in economics, from Stanford University. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ramona Anderson

Chief risk officer

Horizon Bank

Experienced Chief Risk Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial industry. Skilled in Banking, Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit, Information Security, and Enterprise Risk Management. Certified banking professional with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) focused in Economics and Finance.

Sathish Muthukrishnan

Chief information officer

Ally Financial

Sathish Muthukrishnan is chief information officer. He was named chief information, data and digital officer for Ally Financial Inc. in December 2019. In this role, Muthukrishnan is responsible for advancing Ally’s technical and digital capabilities, including cyber security and infrastructure, and accelerating the company’s growth and evolution as a leader in the digital financial services sector. He is based in Ally’s Charlotte corporate center and reports to Ally CEO Jeffrey J. Brown.

Muthukrishnan has held a number of senior technology leadership roles with substantial scale and global reach, and previously served as the chief digital and information officer for Honeywell Aerospace, a nearly $14 billion revenue business within Honeywell International. He brings to Ally more than 20 years of technology leadership experience in complex businesses with high availability and reliability requirements on their technology, ten of which were spent in financial services with American Express prior to joining Honeywell.

Muthukrishnan graduated from University of Madras with a degree in engineering specializing in computer science. He is a member of the Advisory Board of WIT International and was recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Innovation for several years at American Express. Muthukrishnan has over 25 filed patents in the manufacturing, payments and the digital technology space.

Tanmoy Mukherjee

Managing director and chief risk officer

Waterfall Asset Management

Tanmoy is the Chief Risk Officer for Waterfall Asset Management a $12BN Hedge Fund specializing in Structured Credit in both Public and Private Markets. Prior to joining Waterfall, Tanmoy was the Head of Risk, North America and Senior Data Scientist at CQS, a $20BN Multi Strategy Credit Hedge Fund based out of US and Europe, where he managed Risk for the Credit Businesses and led Data Science projects for the Investment and Marketing Teams. Before CQS, Tanmoy worked at Axonic Capital, a $5BN Credit Hedge Fund where he was the Chief Risk Officer and the Head of Quantitative Research. Tanmoy has prior work experience at Sorin Capital and at Capital One. Tanmoy received a Master’s in Financial Engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from University of Delhi and a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.

Michael Neilsen

Managing director, head of investment risk management

Barings

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Duncan Wood

Global editorial director

Risk.net

Duncan Wood is the London-based editor-in-chief of Risk.net. He was promoted to the role at the start of 2015, to lead the editorial reorganisation of the website and its print titles. Wood had been editor of Risk magazine since July 2011. He rejoined Risk as European editor in October 2009, having originally worked for Risk and Asia Risk in London and Hong Kong as a writer and researcher between 1998 and 2000.

In the intervening years, Wood was news editor for the Oliver Wyman-founded online start-up ERisk.com. He also worked freelance for six years while living in Germany, with his work featuring in Euromoney, Financial News, IFR, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as Risk magazine and its sister titles. Wood has written about derivatives and risk throughout his 17-year career in journalism. He is a Neal Awards finalist, and has won Incisive Media's journalist and editor of the year awards.

Doug Hague

Executive director school of data science

UNC Charlotte

As founding Executive Director, Dr. Doug Hague established the vision for the School of Data Science, as well as manages its resources, programs, and serves as the representative to the UNC Charlotte community and external industry partners.

Dr. Hague has more than 20 years of experience in global technology. Before joining UNC Charlotte, he served as the Chief Analytics Officer at Bank of America Merchant Services, where he implemented data governance policies and practices for internal and external entities. Prior to Bank of America Merchant Services, he held multiple roles at Bank of America, Sprint, and United Technologies.

Dr. Hague earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Tulsa, a master’s degree in System Design and Management from MIT, and a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State University.

Eban Scanlan

Managing director - CIO risk

Deutsche Bank - Americas

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Kris Devasabai

Editor-in-chief

Risk.net

Kris Devasabai is the New York-based editor-in-chief of Risk.net. Previously, he was bureau chief and US editor of Risk magazine. He manages the editorial team. Prior to joining Risk, Kris covered hedge funds, asset management, cross-border investing and law for several publications.

Kris holds a bachelor’s degree in law and government from the University of Manchester, and he completed his legal training at the Inns of Court School of Law in London. He was called to the bar of England and Wales in 2003.

David Passmore

Head coach, women’s national team

USA Field Hockey

David is the current Women’s National Field Hockey Head Coach who are based in Charlotte, North Carolina and recently won silver in the Pan American Games in Chile. Formerly a professor of Coaching Science & Education at Dublin City University David has applied the practical knowledge gained as a teacher, coach, coach developer and high performance director to various sporting contexts, business and academic areas of research. Before completing a professional doctorate David worked in elite sport for 14 years, formerly with British hockey before moving to Ireland where he coached the Irish Men’s team and served as High Performance Director with Hockey Ireland for 7 years. David then spent a period of 10 years in academia where his key research interests were culture building, coach development, talent development management processes, and applying science and data within the coaching process.

 

Father of 5 David also worked as lead consultant for Sport Ireland Institute in their elite coach development program, the Pursuit of Excellence within which he completed his doctorate in 2016. David is still actively involved in elite coach development working as a mentor on the European Top Coach Programme and as an Educator with the World Hockey Academy. David has been to two Olympics and former Ireland’s Men’s Head Coach and Women’s National Assistant Coach. David has worked as a consultant with several national and multinational companies drawing upon the close relationship between business and sport.

Simon Hoskins

Chief executive

USA Field Hockey

Simon Hoskins is the Executive Director of USA Field Hockey. He previously held the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the organization, a position he had held since January 2013.

Hoskins joined USA Field Hockey in November of 2008 following roles in different sectors of the sports industry including England Rugby and the Premiership Rugby, the Vail Valley Foundation, and Major League Soccer. Hoskins is a graduate of the University of Oregon, and Loughborough University, England. Hoskins resides in Colorado with his wife and two children.

Sajjad Rashid

Head of enterprise data risk management

Bank of America

Desireé Partin

Head of business unit risk management

Truist Bank

Desireé has oversight and advisory for all risk types, establishment of risk frameworks, and execution of risk programs; as well as Operational monitoring.

Experience: 10+ years in financial services, including assurance activities, focused on risk and change management, system implementations, process design, and regulatory matters. Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Bachelor of Arts in Economics. CAMS and CIA certified.

Steve Boras

Executive vice-president

Citizens Bank

Steve Boras is the Head of Model Risk Management & Validation at Citizens Bank in Boston, focused on managing the model risk of the bank via validation of models, performance management and monitoring of outcomes, and serving as a sounding board for new and emerging modeling techniques and their respective appropriateness. Since joining Citizens in 2015, Steve has led several risk analytics functions, most recently heading the Risk Architecture Center of Excellence (covering loss forecasting model development for CCAR/DFAST and CECL, and PD, LGD, and EAD modeling for wholesale), as well as anti-money laundering modeling, macroeconomic scenario generation, and Data Science.  Steve also holds leadership roles in enterprise risk, ESG and Inflation/Stagflation scenario analysis, and artificial intelligence and machine learning governance.

Meenakshi Thanikachalam

Chief data and analytics officer

Popular Bank

Ron Whitworth

Chief privacy officer

Truist

Will Kinlaw
Will Kinlaw

Senior managing director, head of research

State Street Global Markets

Will is Senior managing director and Head of research at State Street Global Markets, the capital markets business at State Street, where he is responsible for a global team of 50 data scientists, quantitative researchers and macro investment strategists as well as managing partnerships with data science startups and academics. The team delivers proprietary investment indicators, data-driven trade ideas, and award-winning research to thousands of institutional investors around the world through its Insights platform.

Will’s personal research has focused on recession forecasting, private equity investing, asset allocation, inflation and risk measurement. He and his co-authors received “outstanding article” awards for their research in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2021. The second edition of his book, “Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond,” co-authored with Mark Kritzman and David Turkington, was published in 2021. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Alternative Investments. He holds an M.S. in finance from Boston College, a B.A. in economics from Tufts University, and a CFA designation.

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Evan Sekeris

Chief model risk officer

Capital One

  • Evan G. Sekeris is chief model risk officer with Capital One, based in Washington, D.C. His areas of focus are stress testing, operational risk, and cyber risk. Evan’s background is in the measurement and quantification of credit risk and operational risk.  His primary focus is currently on supporting institutions in building stress testing frameworks, developing their risk identification process and developing their model risk management frameworks.
  • His projects  include:
    • Supporting a wide range of large global and regional banks with their CCAR frameworks, with a particular emphasis on their non financial risks.
    • Developed a cyber risk quantification framework for a number of clients including a global financial institution and a fortune 250 industrial.
    • Assessment and redevelopment of risk operating models and of 3LoD frameworks for various large global and regional banks.
    • For a large internationally active US bank: supported major change of course in CCAR operational risk stress estimates a few months prior to submission in reaction to regulatory guidance.
    • Supported the development of operational risk models for capital and stress testing purposes at more than 20 institutions worldwide.
  • Previously, Evan was with MUFG, Oliver Wyman, and Aon in Columbia, Maryland, and assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he created the center of excellence for operational risk which served the system needs for operational risk related matters. The team was in charge of the supervision of all AMA and CCAR banks in the US and developed the Fed’s CCAR model for operational risk.
  • Evan earned a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
    • He has numerous publications in both academic and practitioner journals
    • Evan is an editor of the Journal of Operational Risk
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Judith Hilton

Head of non-financial risk management & programmes

DWS

Judith joined DWS (formerly known as Deutsche Asset Management) in 2005 following 8 years with JPMorgan Chase. Prior to her current role as head of non-financial risk management & programmes, Judith was the chief risk officer for DWS Americas, she served as the regional control officer for DWS Americas. Before that, she was the global chief operating officer for the DWS Alternatives and Fund Solutions business based in London.

Judith holds an MBA in Financial Management from Pace University, New York.

 

Roxana Baranowski

Deputy CRO

Payments Canada

George Soulellis

Enterprise model risk officer

Freddie Mac

George Soulellis currently serves as Enterprise Model Risk Officer for Freddie Mac with overall responsibility for model risk management in the firm. Previously, he served as Managing Director, Risk Analytics for Barclays Bank in the UK, overseeing risk model development and analytics. He has also held leadership positions in the risk management/modelling/analytics space at Citigroup, General Electric and JP Morgan Chase. His interests primarily lie in model uncertainty measurement, model risk under conditions of extrapolation, machine learning methods and modelling for capital requirements.

Badri Iyengar

Senior vice president, global technology compliance and operational risk

Bank of America

Badri is a forward-thinking operational risk executive with over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. As a senior vice president, operational risk executive, Badri is accountable for the effective execution of the bank’s operational risk programme for the global technology organisation. As part of this role, he and his team provide oversight of key operational risks including data risk, cybersecurity, resiliency, technical change across global technology CIO organisations. Badri has a proven track record of developing and implementing comprehensive risk management strategies that safeguard organisational assets, enhance regulatory compliance, and optimise operational efficiency. Prior to this role, Badri served as the operational risk lead for the consumer and small business organisation with a focus on implementing the operational risk programme and strategies across consumer products and services, including but not limited to, credit card, ATM/online banking, first mortgage and home equity. Badri joined Bank of America in 2010 in the global risk management organisation and has since then served on multiple credit and operational risk roles. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from VIT University, India and earned his Master’s degree in mathematical finance from University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Raj Narayan

Vice president, senior audit manager

Truist

Ria Thomas

Senior vice president, head of cyber organisational resilience

Truist

Ilieva Ageenko

Managing director, audit data analytics and technology innovation

(formerly) Truist

Ilieva Ageenko is an accomplished senior executive in Fortune 100 companies and trusted advisor to board of directors and CEOs of startups and private businesses on the strategic use of analytics and technology innovation.

Ilieva is formerly a managing director for Truist Financial Corporation. She oversaw data analytics and innovation function for audit services. Since being named to this position in February, 2020, Ageenko accelerated the use of enabling technologies and analytics for audit execution. With 30 years of banking experience, she previously served as national advisory practice leader for model risk management at Grant Thornton where she provided advisory services the largest global banks (2014-2019), head of quantitative credit risk technology at Bank of America (2010-2014), e-commerce mobile payments executive at Bank of America (2009-2010) and e-commerce executive at Wells Fargo (2003-2009).

Ilieva is on the board of directors at a Lake Norman Community Health Clinic that provides services to uninsured families and is on the advisory board for modal (an online learning platform). Ageenko earned a Master's in Economics Cybernetics from the State University of Management, Moscow and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Kiev, and a Certification in Corporate Governance from Wharton School.

Tanner Wickham

Vice president, operational risk governance

MUFG

Tripp Rex

Senior vice president, director of operational risk frameworks

U.S Bank

Tripp Rex is the operational risk framework executive at U.S. Bank, which encompasses the RCSA, internal control and control testing, product delivery risk, operational loss, scenario analysis and issue management.  Since joining U.S. Bank in 2014, Tripp has led functions within technology risk, control testing, and technology strategy for risk management. Prior to U.S. Bank, he held prior roles in risk and programne management at Bank of America. Prior to that, Tripp worked at Accenture in management consulting supporting various financial institutions. Tripp is an alumni of Clemson University and received his MBA from the University of South Carolina.

Han Zhang

‎Managing director, market and counterparty risk analytics

Wells Fargo

Han Zhang is a managing director in Market and Counterparty Risk Analytics at Wells Fargo Bank. He heads the Market Risk Analytics team.

The Market Risk Analytics team designs, implements and monitors all major market risk models used for regulatory capital and internal risk management. More recently the team is working on the Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB) implementation.

Han Zhang has been with Wells Fargo since 2004. He received his PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Materials Science, he also has three master degrees in Mathematics Finance, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.

Han Zhang is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. In his spare time, Han runs marathons with the goal of completing 50 marathons in 50 states.

Joseph Adams

Director of cybersecurity strategy, governance and risk

Duke Energy

Guy Gryspreedt

Vice president, global head of business resilience

Honeywell

Ashwin Nayak

Head of data product

Truist

Dean Scharnhorst

Senior counsel

United Community

Babette Reynolds

Head of enterprise compliance programme office

Truist

Evan Wheeler

Senior director, technology risk management

Capital One

Evan Wheeler, senior director, leads the risk identification and assessment team within technology risk management at Capital One. Evan got his start in cybersecurity working with the U.S. Department of Defense in a Security Operations Center (SOC) and has since held several executive level cybersecurity and operational risk management roles at global organizations such as MUFG Union Bank, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and various fintech firms. At MUFG, Evan designed and implemented a new second line information risk management programme, focusing on harmonising the tech/cyber assessments with the enterprise risk framework, and deploying a data driven methodology to quantify risk for IT processes. Evan originally joined the DTCC with responsibility for developing a risk framework for the cyber organisation, and later moved on to oversee second line operational risk management for 10 diverse lines of business, subsidiaries, and joint ventures. Along the way, he drove major initiatives such as a migration to AWS, implementing DDoS protection, dynamic application security testing, and privileged access control.  During his tenure at DTCC, Evan was actively involved with cross-sector initiatives through the FSSCC and FS-ISAC.

Zailong Wan

SVP, US head of model risk management

TD Bank

Eric Ferri

Enterprise resilience executive

Ally

Christian Hall

Chief privacy officer

Ally

Ramona Anderson

Chief risk officer

Horizon Bank

Krishna Kavuri

VP, senior AI/ML developer

Truist

Becky Drummond

Manager, ERM and payment product risk

Payments Canada

Mark Hofberg

Risk solutions executive

ServiceNow

Mark Hofberg is an accomplished risk management leader with over 20 years of industry experience.  He previously served as a leader in a variety of audit, risk and compliance management functions within retail, wealth, and investment banking at Bank of America.  Mark currently serves customers as Risk Solutions Executive within ServiceNow’s financial services division.  Prior to joining ServiceNow, Mark served as RSA Archer’s field risk officer for US and Canada.

Mark has held various senior leadership roles at Accenture, Bank of America, RSA and now guides customers on their integrated risk transformation journeys with ServiceNow.  He is passionate about the evolution of risk management, emerging risks, and the utilization of technology to optimize business outcomes.  Mark has co-authored white papers on impacts of technical debt, digital risk, and has a patent on optimization of technology decisions (US 8,321,363 · Issued Nov 27, 2012) along with a patent pending process risk prioritization model.  Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from North Carolina State University.

Chris Beck

Managing director

Milliman

Chris is a member of Milliman’s Cyber Risk Solutions (CRS) practice group.  The practice delivers a portfolio of risk consulting services, such as enterprise risk design, cyber risk assessment and quantification, test and build projects, operational risk assessments, enterprise risk management (ERM) education and training, and ERM technology evaluation. The CRS practice uses diagnostic consulting strategies to understand an organization’s enterprise risk goals and challenges and then customize solutions to deliver required business results. 

EXPERIENCE

Chris has 15 years of professional experience.  His experience includes work in the banking, insurance, capital markets and card sectors helping clients assess and mitigate risk. 

Prior to joining Milliman, Chris was a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Finance and Risk Management Consulting practice, delivering work for global financial service clients.   Additionally, Chris served as an active duty Naval Officer and has multiple overseas deployments. 

Professional experience and subject matter advisory includes: 

  • Cyber Security metrics and governance
  • Financial Service Regulatory and Compliance initiatives
  • Risk Management 
  • Corporate and Risk Governance
  • Surveillance 
  • Financial Services operating model and cost reduction
  • Regulatory remediation and responses
  • Legal department risk and optimization
  • Leading large cross functional projects and teams

EDUCATION

  • BS Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • MBA, University of Chicago – Booth School of Business
Valerie Fontaine-Aubry

Head of market risk practice

Murex Americas

Valerie Fontaine-Aubry is responsible for Murex's Market Risk practice in the Americas.  Valerie has over 20 years capital markets experience and runs the FRTB practice, a central role to design, implementation and presales activities for Murex Americas. Valerie has worked with Murex clients across Europe, North America and Latin America, implementing technology solutions to future-proof capital markets businesses. She started at Murex as an interest rate derivatives consultant before founding and heading the Murex emerging markets team in New York.

 

Ericka Kranitz

Professor

NC State University

Ericka F. Kranitz is a professor of practice in the Department of Accounting and the Director, Master of Management, Risk & Analytics Concentration in the Poole College of Management at NC State University working with the ERM Initiative and teaching accounting-related courses. Ms. Kranitz is also a lecturing fellow for the Fuqua School of Business teaching a risk management course as part of the Master of Science in Quantitative Management business analytics program. She previously worked for Duke University as an associate director of the Ethics and Compliance Program where she was responsible for compliance assurance reviews and managing ethical-related activities.

Previously, Ms. Kranitz was with the University of Missouri System where she was responsible for identifying, developing and delivering training for sponsored programs and other financial related compliance requirements for all four campuses. While at the System, she was an adjunct instructor in the Trulaske School of Accountancy and Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs on the University of Missouri campus. Prior to this, she was the director of internal audit for NC State University in Raleigh. In this role, she transformed the internal audit division into a consultative and value-added function and implemented best practices. During this time, she was also an adjunct instructor in the departments of accounting and public administration.

Ms. Kranitz received both her bachelor’s and master’s in accounting degrees from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Her professional experience also includes working at Ernst & Young LLP, Chiquita Brands International, a global pharmaceutical company and consulting with local nonprofit organizations in the areas of governance and financial management.

Mark Beasley

Alan T. Dickson Distinguished professor

NC State University

Mark S. Beasley is the Alan T. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Accounting and the Director of the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Initiative at NC State provides thought leadership about ERM practices and their integration with strategy and corporate governance. As founding director, Dr. Beasley leads the ERM Initiative’s efforts to help pioneer the development of this emergent discipline through outreach to business professionals, with its ongoing ERM Roundtable Series and ERM Executive Education for boards and senior executives; research, advancing knowledge and understanding of ERM issues; and undergraduate and graduate business education for the next generation of business executives (www.erm.ncsu.edu). He frequently works with boards of directors and senior management teams to assist them in strengthening their risk oversight processes.

 

Dr. Beasley served on the board for the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (widely known at COSO – see www.coso.org) for seven years and has participated in a number of other national level risk management initiatives. He served on the Advisory Council that helped develop COSO’s initial Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework issued in 2004, and he also worked with COSO on its 2017 revision of that framework. Currently, he is serving on the United Nations’ Internal Control Advisory Group that is advising the UN Controller on COSO-based best practices related to internal controls and he has conducted ERM training for management at the UN. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on ERM, internal controls, and corporate governance.

His teaching interests include courses related to enterprise risk management, risks and controls, auditing, and financial reporting. Dr. Beasley is a member of NC State’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers, the College of Management’s recipient of the Board of Governor’s Teaching Award for the Poole College of Management, and a member of NC State’s Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension.

He has actively conducted research related to enterprise risk management and corporate governance, including examinations of ERM implementation, audit committee practices, financial statement fraud, and auditor quality. He has authored over 100 articles, monographs, thought papers, and books, including his research which has appeared in numerous academic journals including Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and he is the recipient of the American Accounting Association’s Competitive Manuscript Award, the AAA’s Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, and the Auditing Section’s Notable Contributions to the Auditing Literature Award. Dr. Beasley also served as President of the AAA’s Auditing Section. In 2020, he was selected as the AAA Audit Section’s Outstanding Educator. He is the co-author of several education related materials, including an auditing-related textbook, casebook, practice reference manual, and CPE training materials.

Prior to beginning his career at NC State, Dr. Beasley served as a Technical Manager in the Audit and Attest Division of the AICPA. In that role he assisted the Auditing Standards Board in the development of professional auditing standards. Prior to joining the AICPA, he was an Audit Manager in the Nashville, Tennessee office of Ernst & Young.

Dr. Beasley is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the AAA as Vice President – Finance. Dr. Beasley received a BS in accounting from Auburn University and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

Matthew Leatherman

Managing director, research

FCLT GLobal

Matthew Leatherman joined FCLT Global from North Carolina Department of State Treasurer where he served as Policy Director. Matthew contributed to the Department adopting a policy on long-term stewardship for approximately $100 billion of assets under its management and to updating practices for how staff incorporate longer-term factors into the evaluation of debt issued by local governments. He also was staff director of the Department’s Corporate Governance Committee, a body responsible for conducting the Department’s engagement with regulators, dialogue with corporate issuers, and voting of proxy ballots.

Matthew’s earlier career focused on U.S. fiscal research, most recently at the Stimson Center in Washington D.C. His commentary in outlets like Bloomberg Government was influential for understanding government shutdown and budget sequestration the terms of fiscal impact, management process, and the governance relationship between executive and legislative branches. Matthew advised the Rivlin-Domenici Debt Reduction Commission on military budgeting and management, including the structure of retirement and health care benefits for U.S. service-members. His fiscal research has been published by Foreign Affairs, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, McClatchy-Tribune News Service, and other outlets.

Matthew is a Board member of the John Rex Endowment, a $75 million fund with a focus on improving mental health, preventing injury, and expanding access to healthy lifestyles for children in Wake County (NC). He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and Columbia University.

Eric Jacuzzi

VP, vehicle performance

NASCAR

Arthur Rabatin

Senior fellow and advisory board member

AI 2030

Arthur is senior fellow and advisory board member for AI 2030. He is the former Head of Markets Regulatory and Front Office Risk Technology, BNY Mellon.

David Lin

Founder and CEO

Linvest21.Ai

Mr. David Lin is the Founder and CEO of Linvest21.AI, a FinTech firm specialized in autonomous Investment Platform – AlphaCopilotTM, based of Vertical AI.
Prior to founding Linvest21, Mr. Lin was a Managing Director of JPMorgan Asset Management (AM) since 2001, and the Chief Technology Officer of its global Investment Platform. In addition to his AM-wide responsibilities, David was the head of Technology for Global Equities, Multi-Asset Solutions and Global Beta. Before that, Mr. Lin served as the Chief Technology Officer for Global Quantitative Research and Global Research Technology for Asset and Wealth Management. Prior to joining JPMorgan, David was the head of Software Development at CNBC.com.
Over the years, Mr. Lin led the teams won a significant number (24) of Industry Awards and Recognitions in the field of Financial Technology. He is also the author of 3 provisional patents in the field of Applied AI.
Mr. Lin holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from University of Toronto, and a MBA from Columbia University.

Tobias Krause

Senior managing director risk and capital optimization

State Street Global Markets

Tobias Krause, Senior Managing Director, is Head of Risk and Capital Optimization for State Street’s Global Markets division. Key areas of responsibilities include Market and Credit Risk management for State Street’s Foreign Exchange, Agency Lending, and Prime Services programs, along with Regulatory Affairs and Financial Resource Management for these businesses. Additionally, the team provides quantitative and qualitative support for financial resource management initiatives.

Mr. Krause joined State Street in early 2012. Before joining State Street, he served in the credit and collateral risk departments of Fidelity Investments’ Capital Markets division for eight years. Main focus areas included risk management for the firm’s prime brokerage and fixed income trading businesses.

Mr. Krause holds dual master’s degrees in finance and electrical engineering from the Technical University of Brunswick, Germany. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society, and the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Vinod Surendran

Expert associate partner

McKinsey & Company

Vinod is an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, based in Charlotte, where he is a member of the banking practice. He serves Financial Services firms and fintech on a broad range of data, risk, finance, operations, and technology-related issues.

Beju Rao

Founder, President, and CEO

Amruta Inc

Dr. Beju Rao, PhD, is a distinguished figure in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As the Founder, President, and CEO of Amruta Inc, he has been instrumental in designing and implementing Explainable AI (XAI) software and services. These solutions have been pivotal in enhancing revenue, profitability, safety, compliance, and reputation across various corporations, agencies, and organizations worldwide. Dr. Rao’s XAI-based solutions address the opacity and complexity of AI, yielding a remarkable 25-fold return on investment. His career, spanning over 36 years, is marked by a consultative approach that involves situation assessment, precise needs identification, organizational readiness preparation, and information-based strategies. This approach has empowered numerous enterprises to reap innovative and significant business benefits.

Before establishing Amruta Inc in June 2014, Dr. Rao held the position of Founding-Principal and Chief Scientist at Axtria, Inc. He also served in various risk management roles at Capital One, including as the Omnibus Model Risk Officer during the Great Recession. In addition to his corporate achievements, Dr. Rao has made significant contributions to academia as an Adjunct Professor at several universities. His research and innovation have been recognized with three patents and over 100 external and internal publications. Dr. Rao is a sought-after speaker and producer on topics such as innovating with AI without its risks, outsmarting AI, AI guardrails, and AI-based economic and digital transformations. He also serves on the advisory board of FinRegLab, among other community and volunteer activities. Dr. Rao holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Texas A&M University. His work continues to influence the field of AI, shaping its future while mitigating its risk.

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Amitabh Bhargava

Senior managing director, credit portfolio management

SRA Consulting

Amitabh Bhargava spearheads the Credit Portfolio Management practice at SRA Consulting (SRA). His expertise lies in creating value for both wholesale and consumer lending businesses.

Amitabh's role at SRA involves assisting clients in establishing, evaluating, and refining credit risk strategies, risk governance, portfolio structures, risk appetites, limit structures, and data strategies. Amitabh’s responsibilities include developing credit cycle dashboards, downturn preparedness strategies, portfolio risk mitigation tools, ESG/sustainability strategies, and model calibration processes that span risk rating, pricing, CECL, and stress testing models.

He leverages data analytics to advise credit investors on identifying forward-looking indicators within an economic, sectoral, and competitive analytical framework.

Amitabh oversaw credit analytics and research for Capital One's wholesale portfolio in his most recent role. He identified emerging risks and influenced critical risk acceptance and avoidance decisions. During his tenure at Capital One, he supervised executive credit risk assessment, Risk MIS development, rating agency communication, BOD communication, and portfolio modeling for wholesale and retail portfolios.

Amitabh began his career as a commercial underwriter and relationship manager at ICICI Bank, India. Here, he conducted techno-financial and economic appraisals and underwriting from an investment perspective and developed pricing and capital allocation tools.

He holds several certifications, including "Sustainability and Climate Risk professional" and "Financial Risk Manager" from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He is also a Credit Risk Certified (CRC) professional from RMA, a CFA Charter holder, and a Board member of RMA Richmond.

Amitabh has served as the past president of the Richmond Association of Business Economics and was a member of the Regulatory Steering Committee of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers. He holds a B-Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi (India), and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur (India).

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Phil Ohana

Executive director

UBS

Jing Zou
Jing Zou

Managing director, model risk management

Royal Bank of Canada

As Managing Director in Enterprise Model Risk Management (EMRM), Jing Zou is responsible for validating models in Securitized Products, Pre-Provision Net Revenue, Retail Credit models, and interest rate derivatives models. She also developed Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) model fragility analysis, which identifies the impact of model uncertainty on capital ratios. She is an invited speaker for many industry model risk management training courses.
Jing joined RBC in 2014 as a Director in local model risk manager, where she was responsible of engaging the business about model risks. Later on, she was promoted to a Senior Director and then a Managing Director and has expanded the scope to cover the validation of 40% of CCAR models. Prior to joining RBC, Jing worked at Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Fannie Mae in various quantitative analytics roles covering front office quant, market risk, and model risk areas.
Jing has a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University and a B.S. and M.S. in Computational Mathematics in Xi’an Jiaotong University.

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Wei Zhu

Managing director

Citi

Wei Zhu is a Managing Director and Global Head the Market Risk Analytics in Citi.  After joining Citi in 2001, he has worked in various risk modeling areas including market risk, counterparty credit risk, and risk capital.   Mr. Zhu has a Ph.D. in Physics from New York University and is a CFA charter holder since 2004.

Ronald Ratcliffe

Managing director, applied portfolio analysis

BlackRock

Ronald Ratcliffe, PhD, is a Managing Director in BlackRock’s Applied Portfolio Analysis practice area within the Analytics & Quantitative Solutions (AQS) group. He focuses on multi-asset portfolio risk, scenario analysis, and portfolio construction.

Dr. Ratcliffe's service with BlackRock dates back to 2004, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to joining AQS, he led the Market-Driven Scenarios (MDS) initiative as Head of Cross-Platform Scenario Analysis in the Risk & Quantitative Analysis (RQA) group. Previously in RQA, he was Head of Multi-Asset Investment Risk for the Americas West region. In the Portfolio Management Group (PMG), he was a portfolio manager and developed systematic macro trading strategies. Prior to joining BGI, Dr. Ratcliffe was a senior manager at KPMG in corporate valuation and international transfer pricing. Previously, he was the chief economist for Latin America at SG Cowen Securities, a subsidiary of Societe Generale. Before that he was with Bankers Trust Company (now part of Deutsche Bank) where he carried out country risk analysis.

Dr. Ratcliffe earned BA degrees in economics and in political science, with distinction and with departmental honors in economics, from Stanford University. He received a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Roxana Baranowski

Deputy CRO

Payments Canada

Banu Venkat

SVP, global head of risk, compliance, financial crimes, credit & audit technology

Truist

Jason Zehmke

Senior lead enterprise risk officer, AI risk management & governance

Wells Fargo

Jason is part of a team of Strategic Enterprise Risk Officers at Wells Fargo working on A.I. Risk Management and Governance. In his spare time, I am the President and Coach of the Charlotte Cardinals Rugby Club. A non-profit youth rugby club serving the greater Charlotte area. Jason studied law at the Nelson Mandela University, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He previously worked at Bank of America leading their Treasury New Products Governance Team and more recently led a team of Committee Liaisons in the Enterprise Risk at Wells Fargo.

Chris Beck

Managing director

Milliman

Chris is a member of Milliman’s Cyber Risk Solutions (CRS) practice group.  The practice delivers a portfolio of risk consulting services, such as enterprise risk design, cyber risk assessment and quantification, test and build projects, operational risk assessments, enterprise risk management (ERM) education and training, and ERM technology evaluation. The CRS practice uses diagnostic consulting strategies to understand an organization’s enterprise risk goals and challenges and then customize solutions to deliver required business results. 

EXPERIENCE

Chris has 15 years of professional experience.  His experience includes work in the banking, insurance, capital markets and card sectors helping clients assess and mitigate risk. 

Prior to joining Milliman, Chris was a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Finance and Risk Management Consulting practice, delivering work for global financial service clients.   Additionally, Chris served as an active duty Naval Officer and has multiple overseas deployments. 

Professional experience and subject matter advisory includes: 

  • Cyber Security metrics and governance
  • Financial Service Regulatory and Compliance initiatives
  • Risk Management 
  • Corporate and Risk Governance
  • Surveillance 
  • Financial Services operating model and cost reduction
  • Regulatory remediation and responses
  • Legal department risk and optimization
  • Leading large cross functional projects and teams

EDUCATION

  • BS Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • MBA, University of Chicago – Booth School of Business
Olga Baldwin

Lead of third party risk management

StoneX Group

Tripp Rex

SVP, director of operational risk frameworks

U.S. Bank

Tripp serves as a director of operational risk frameworks within the risk management and compliance organisation.  He has responsibilities for operational risk framework oversight including RCSA, internal controls, product delivery risk, operational loss, scenario analysis, quality assurance, taxonomies and issue management. Prior to joining U.S. Bank, Tripp served in various capacities at Bank of America and Accenture. 

Since joining U.S. Bank in 2014, Tripp has led functions within technology risk, control testing, and technology strategy for risk management. Tripp is an alumni of Clemson University and received his MBA from the University of South Carolina.

Ilieva Ageenko

Managing director, data analytics, technology innovation

Truist

Mark Hofberg

Risk solutions executive

ServiceNow

Mark Hofberg is an accomplished risk management leader with over 20 years of industry experience.  He previously served as a leader in a variety of audit, risk and compliance management functions within retail, wealth, and investment banking at Bank of America.  Mark currently serves customers as Risk Solutions Executive within ServiceNow’s financial services division.  Prior to joining ServiceNow, Mark served as RSA Archer’s field risk officer for US and Canada.

Mark has held various senior leadership roles at Accenture, Bank of America, RSA and now guides customers on their integrated risk transformation journeys with ServiceNow.  He is passionate about the evolution of risk management, emerging risks, and the utilization of technology to optimize business outcomes.  Mark has co-authored white papers on impacts of technical debt, digital risk, and has a patent on optimization of technology decisions (US 8,321,363 · Issued Nov 27, 2012) along with a patent pending process risk prioritization model.  Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from North Carolina State University.

Badri Iyengar

Senior vice president, global technology compliance and operational risk

Bank of America

Badri is a forward-thinking operational risk executive with over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. As a senior vice president, operational risk executive, Badri is accountable for the effective execution of the bank’s operational risk programme for the global technology organisation. As part of this role, he and his team provide oversight of key operational risks including data risk, cybersecurity, resiliency, technical change across global technology CIO organisations. Badri has a proven track record of developing and implementing comprehensive risk management strategies that safeguard organisational assets, enhance regulatory compliance, and optimise operational efficiency. Prior to this role, Badri served as the operational risk lead for the consumer and small business organisation with a focus on implementing the operational risk programme and strategies across consumer products and services, including but not limited to, credit card, ATM/online banking, first mortgage and home equity. Badri joined Bank of America in 2010 in the global risk management organisation and has since then served on multiple credit and operational risk roles. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from VIT University, India and earned his Master’s degree in mathematical finance from University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Ron Whitworth

Chief privacy officer

Truist

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Evan Sekeris

Head of non-financial risk - Americas

MUFG

Evan's background is in the measurement and quantification of credit risk and operational risk.  His primary focus is currently on supporting institutions in building operational risk modeling for stress testing, developing their risk identification process and developing their model risk management frameworks.
Some of his recent client engagements include:
For a foreign global bank, helped them develop a comprehensive operational risk framework for their US based IHC. Ensured both integration of the framework in their international framework as well as US regulatory compliance.
For a large internationally active US bank: supported major change of course in CCAR operational risk stress estimates a few months prior to submission in reaction to regulatory guidance.
For a large regional bank: built their CCAR loss projection model and wrote the documentation for the full CCAR operational risk submission.
For a global bank conducted a validation of their operational risk modeling framework for CCAR
  Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Evan was the Head of Risk Consulting for Financial Institutions for Aon in Columbia, Maryland. He was in charge of building Aon's risk consulting practice for financial institutions and managed multiple teams based in North America and Europe to deliver services to clients worldwide. Previously, Evan was an Assistant Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he created the center of excellence for operational risk which served the System needs for operational risk related matters. The team was in charge of the supervision of all AMA and CCAR banks in the US and developed the Fed's CCAR model for operational risk.
Evan earned a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He received an additional M.A. as well as his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Tanner Wickham

Vice president, operational risk governance

MUFG

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Judith Hilton

Head of non-financial risk management & programmes

DWS

Judith joined DWS (formerly known as Deutsche Asset Management) in 2005 following 8 years with JPMorgan Chase. Prior to her current role as head of non-financial risk management & programmes, Judith was the chief risk officer for DWS Americas, she served as the regional control officer for DWS Americas. Before that, she was the global chief operating officer for the DWS Alternatives and Fund Solutions business based in London.

Judith holds an MBA in Financial Management from Pace University, New York.