RISK LIVE - Key Persons
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- Deputy Head of Sales for Global Markets, Societe Generale
Risk Live North America is one of the few events where banks and buy side come together to thrash out the issues shaping the future of finance
Andrew Dillin is a seasoned security intelligence lead in the field of cyber security, with over a decade of experience in safeguarding digital environments from evolving threats. With a background in computer science and a passion for staying ahead of emerging cyber risks, he has dedicated his career to protecting organisations against cyber-attacks and security threats.
Throughout his career, Dillin has spearheaded numerous initiatives to enhance security postures, leveraging his expertise in threat intelligence, incident response, and vulnerability management. His insights have been instrumental in fortifying the defenses of a number of finance sector companies.
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- Lead Consultant
- Lead Consultant for Riskonnect
Andrew Morkot is a UK-based lead consultant for Riskonnect. He has worked in the resilience sector for over 25 years and specialises in the development and testing of highly effective, simple, meaningful, and flexible business continuity and incident management systems and solutions, tailored to align perfectly with operational resilience, organisational strategy, and meeting customer requirements.
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- Chief Risk Officer / Barclays
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- Publisher
- Publisher, Risk.Net / FX Markets / WatersTechnology
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- Chief Data Officer, Americas
Prior to joining SG, Bala was with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) for fourteen years in a range of positions in Toronto and New York. As Senior Vice President of the Wholesale North America Finance, he headed up the controllership function for CIBC's World Markets and Treasury & Risk Management Strategic Business Units within North America. With a global team across Toronto and New York, he was responsible for establishing a SOX-compliant industry-leading Finance control environment as well as supporting the efficient execution of business initiatives and managing the Finance related US regulatory relationships during a very demanding period. Prior to that, he also had stints as the business-line controller for the Bank's US origination businesses (Corporate Lending, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking, Structured Finance, and High Yield), as well as the 2/ic to the Chief Accountant, with responsibility for consolidated financial, management and regulatory reporting at the corporate level.
Born and brought up in Mumbai India, Bala has a degree in mathematics from the University of Mumbai and holds professional accounting qualifications from both India and the United States. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey is married with two children, and enjoys long-distance running.
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- Head of Group Security / Swedbank
- Head of Group Security at Swedbank
Björn Johansson is the head of group security at Swedbank. He is a former intelligence officer with the Swedish Military Intelligence Service. In his role as security chief at Swedbank, he has leaned on his experience from the intelligence service to establish an innovative corporate security unit that stands ready to meet an increasingly complex threat landscape.
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- Managing Director, Market Risk Europe / Bank of America
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- Member of the Amundi Asset Management Team
- Senior Manager, Operational Risk
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- Chief Risk Officer / Wise
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- Data and AI Ethics / Lloyds Banking Group
Chris Knight took the role of group chief risk officer in May 2021. For the previous three years he had been the chief executive of Legal and General's retail retirement business, where he led the expansion of annuity propositions, developed one of the leading providers of lifetime mortgages and launched their financial advice and care businesses. Knight also serves as Legal and General's customer champion, representing retail customers' interests across the whole product range, a perspective he brings to his chief risk officer role.
He has previously held positions at Legal and General of finance director of the international division, and chief financial officer of Legal & General Assurance Society. Knight has a first-class economics degree from King's College, Cambridge and has worked on four continents in a career spanning more than three decades. He is a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
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- Group Chief Risk Officer, UBS
Risk Live North America is a unique event that looks at the big picture and the impact on risk management and financial markets
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- Head of Marketing
- Marketing Enquiries
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director for UK Deposit Takers Supervision / Bank of England
David Bailey is executive director for UK deposit takers supervision, responsible for the supervision of the UK's banks, building societies and credit unions. He also represents the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) on the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.
Bailey joined the Bank of England (BoE) in 2014 as director of financial market infrastructure and has held roles as executive director of international banks supervision and executive director of financial markets infrastructure. His most recent role was executive director of authorisations, regtech and international supervision.
Prior to working at the BoE, Bailey was head of markets infrastructure and policy at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and at its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
He graduated from Durham University and began his career at JP Morgan.
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- Head
- Head of Operational Risk Management - Asset Management / Phoenix Group
Fazal Mohammed is the head of operational risk management - asset management at Phoenix Group. He has 15 years of financial services industry experience working across investment banking and insurance domains covering global businesses i.e., public and private markets. Focused on supporting first line functions in making sound business decisions on a risk adjusted basis is a key motivation for success.
In his spare time, Mohammed enjoys football, movies and the company of a good book.
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- CCO & Head of Enterprise Risk
The event brings a collective view on how we can better manage operational risk, not just for the firm but for the financial industry as a whole
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- VP, Operational Risk, Morgan Stanley
Jeff Simmons joined MUFG Bank in June 2014 as the head of enterprise risk, tasked with creating the function. He has been involved intensively with the enhancement of the risk management framework in MUFG Bank (Europe). This has involved him in the formation of an enterprise risk function in Amsterdam tasked with delivering the full range of regulatory submissions. In April 2018, Simmons transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the chief risk officer for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).
Prior to joining the bank, Simmons spent some 20 years specializing in best practice risk management including market risk, credit risk, risk model validation and regulatory risk consulting. As well as having line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing risk management frameworks from both a technical and operating model-based perspective.
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- Member of the Amundi Asset Management Team
- Vice President, Climate / Barclays
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- Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer / Admiral Group
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- Editor - in - Chief
- Editor - in - Chief of 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.
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- Global Head of ESG Advisory, Sustainable Finance / Standard Chartered Bank
Maria Lombardo heads the global ESG advisory team at Standard Chartered Bank, supporting the bank clients in their sustainability and transition strategies. She spent more than 25 years in investment banking as managing director, heading emerging market equities sales at Lazard, UBS, Sberbank and Unicredit.
Lombardo moved into sustainability in 2016 when she joined the non-profit CDP as head of their financial investor members. She then headed the ESG client strategies and climate change strategies at Invesco Global Asset Management in Emea, leading the growth of sustainability investment solutions and the set-up of the global asset manager's climate strategy. Authors of ESG thought leadership whitepapers, mentor, and contributor to industry initiatives in sustainable financing. Lombardo holds a CFA ESG, a diploma at Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership Institute, along with a CEMS Master and a bachelor's degree in financial intermediaries at Bocconi University. She is a member of the CFA UK Climate and Investing committee, and is a mentor of the acceleration programme at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.
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- Chartered Accountant and Member of the ICAEW
- Global Head of Global Markets Risk & Control
- Global Head of Global Markets Risk and Control Assessment / BNP Paribas
Marina Antoniou is the global head of global markets risk & control assessment at BNP Paribas. She specialises in global capital markets non - financial risks with a focus on conduct risk, rogue trading, financial crime and trade surveillance. Antoniou also has experience in risks and controls relating to artificial intelligence, large language models and data privacy.
She is an executive committee and board member at various institutions and participates in global capital market forums. Antoniou is very interested in technology. She is a founding member and vice-chair of the Hellenic Tech Network, participated in studies around the implementation of digital currencies, and reviewed the AI governance of a leading fintech academic centre in the UK. Antoniou takes part in global innovation forums and explores ways to use AI and other innovative technology to transform risk management practices.
She has extensive experience working with regulators globally. In the past, Antoniou acted as lead validator, at top tier banks, on regulatory conduct risk programmes sanctioned by the US Federal Reserve Bank and the US Department of Justice and also acted as head of audit for Citigroup where she received the global recognition award for her performance. Previously, she worked on due diligence projects and valuations during M&A transactions.
Antoniou is a qualified chartered accountant and member of the ICAEW. She completed a technology entrepreneurship course at Harvard and an ESG course at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. Antoniou also studied fintech at the University of Oxford Said Business School during which she developed a fintech innovation idea aiming at fundraising for people impacted by natural disasters. She studied investment management at the London Business School and has an MSc in Economics & Finance from Warwick Business School. Antoniou acts as guest lecturer at executive MBA courses and speaker at conferences globally covering conduct risk, digital transformation, digital assets, artificial intelligence, fintech and ESG.
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- Head of MosaiQ / Franklin Templeton Investment
Max is responsible for defining the next generation of multi-asset investment processes for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. Previously, he was president and chief investment officer of the start-up asset manager AlphaTrAI, where he harnessed artificial intelligence to build alternative strategies for traditional and digital assets. Before that, he was head of asset allocation at the asset management arm of Pacific Life Insurance for seven years. Prior to Pacific Life, Max was a portfolio manager with Mellon Capital's multi-asset group and a founding member of Coefficient Global, a quantitative macro hedge fund. Outside of work he's an amateur racecar driver.
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- Director, Compliance, and Operational Risk Manager / Bank of America
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- Risk Manager / European Bank for Reconstruction
- Risk Manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Merlin Linehan is a risk manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He is also a regular commentator and speaker on geopolitical and climate topics.
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Operational Risk / ICBC Standard Bank
Michael Grimwade is managing director, operational risk, at ICBC Standard Bank and has previously held senior op risk management roles at MUFG Securities, RBS and Lloyds. Prior to this, he held management consultant positions at PwC and Deloitte Consulting. Grimwade has been a director of the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR) and is currently the chair of the Association of Foreign Banks' Operational Risk Expert Panel. He has authored a number of articles on setting appetite for op risk; scenario analysis techniques; climate change; quantifying emerging risks; and modelling op risk capital. He received an award in 2014 from the IOR for his contribution to the profession. His second book, Ten laws of operational risk, was published in December 2021.
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- Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Issuer Services / BNY Mellon
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- Global Head of Operational Resilience
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- Chief Information Security Officer
Rory Stewart is a diplomat, author, explorer, academic, and politician - serving in successive Conservative governments as minister of state for international development, minister for environment, minister of state for Africa, and minister of state for prisons. He is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he teaches politics and international relations.
Stewart is an acclaimed author and co-host of the successful podcast, The Rest is Politics, alongside Alastair Campbell. He has been described by the New York Times as "living one of the most remarkable lives on record.". Stewart was the first man to walk across Afghanistan after the US-UK invasion, and served as deputy governor of two Iraqi provinces at the age of 29. He advised the US President and British Prime Minister on their Afghanistan and Middle East policy. Stewart is proficient in 11 languages.
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- Head of Geopolitical Risk, Financial Crime Compliance / ICBC Standard Bank
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- Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk / Metro Bank
In 2016 William Cooper became the head of risk for SEB Denmark with responsibility for protecting the banks financial results and reputation by preventing excessive risk taking and promoting a strong risk management culture. He has a key role in driving and contributing to risk related projects including the banks FRTB program.
Cooper has worked in the past for both buy and sell side firms, in roles ranging from trading at a large hedge fund to working as a quantitative analyst at a tier 1 investment bank, always with a focus on improving financial modelling and analytics to maximize risk management and market awareness. He holds a BSc in mathematics and economics from the LSE and a MSc in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen.
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- Executive Vice - President / Citizens Bank
- Head of Model Risk Management & Validation at 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.
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- Chief Risk Operating Officer & Global Head of Counterparty Risk / State Street Global Advisors
- Managing Director and Chief Risk Operating Officer at State Street Global Advisors
Suzanne is a Managing Director and Chief Risk Operating Officer at State Street Global Advisors as well as a member of the firm's Senior Leadership Team. She oversees Counterparty Credit Risk and Risk Infrastructure. She leads a team of analysts responsible for the management and development of credit risk policies and procedures, comprehensive trade exposure reporting, oversight and monitoring of counterparties, as well as regulatory deliverables and project management of key technology and platform initiatives.
Suzanne has deep credit experience in both front office and risk management. Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors in 2013, Suzanne worked at Fidelity as a senior analyst in Counterparty Research. Previously, she held fixed income analyst positions at Eaton Vance and Deutsche Asset Management covering a broad range of industries and debt instruments. Early in her career, Suzanne completed the credit training program at Bank of Boston and was a corporate relationship banker.
Suzanne earned her MBA from Boston University's Questrom Business School and BA from Hamilton College. She has been a speaker on fixed income and risk industry panels as well as a contributor to Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) publications. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the CFA Institute. She is also involved in the arts and serves as a board member for the Boston Ballet Volunteer Association.
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- Chief Risk Officer / Charity Bank
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- Head of Risk
- Head of Risk for SEB Denmark