TRELIANT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chartered Financial Analyst
- Engagement Director
Alex Plavnik, an Engagement Director on Treliant's Data Solutions team, has over 15 years of experience in front and middle office roles within the Financial Services industry. Alex is a banking executive, leading trading operations, capital markets system upgrades, cloud migrations, and regulatory projects for derivatives applications such as Murex, Summit, and Bloomberg. Alex is passionate about mentoring highly accountable, top-performing teams that deliver on creative, transformative projects to improve profitability while achieving client satisfaction.
Prior to Treliant, Alex spent six years as a director for Capital One. In this role, Alex added CDX Index Options and Inflation Swaps while enhancing existing products such as Cross Currency Swaps and NDFs. He also ran Summit 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade implementation, which included budgeting, scope of work negotiation, configuration, and testing. He assisted in complying with Volcker and Swap Dealer regulation by separating Murex trading desks, automating back-to-back trades, adding the MarkitWire Dealer API, along with integration to multiple SEFs. Alex also held various roles with Point 72, Dart Management, MetLife, TIAA, and Morgan Stanley.
Alex has a BA in Economics and a BSc in Computer Science from Rutgers University. Alex is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and holds The Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM®)
Areas of Specialization
Cloud Migration
Collateral / Margin Management
Data Architecture
Data Governance
Data Strategy
Dodd-Frank Reform
ISDA Documentation
Listed Derivatives
Market Risk
OTC Derivatives
Program Management
Regulatory Reporting
Securities Trading
Security-Based Swap Dealer
Settlement & Clearing
Volcker Rule
Job Titles:
- Senior Director
- Senior Director With
Allan Llarena, Senior Director with Treliant, has over 15 years of experience helping various sized financial institutions in the U.S., Canada, and Europe to identify, investigate, and mitigate financial crime risk. With a heavy focus on complex international money laundering and fraud investigations, "know your customer" (KYC), and enhanced due diligence (EDD), as well as anti-money laundering (AML) risk assessments, Allan's years of experience were gained in-house from working in AML compliance departments of large global financial institutions as well as from being a client-centric practitioner in the professional services industry.
Allan has worked with top U.S. and global banks, foreign banking organizations, regional banks, and federal agencies, managing project teams of over 100 personnel including highly experienced AML and fraud professionals. His most recent projects have included assisting a top U.S. bank in assessing its transaction monitoring program to identify how personnel, processes, and technologies could be enhanced to achieve efficiencies, and assisting a client in identifying fraud, waste, and abuse in a federal pandemic relief program by standing up an "aggregate review" team tasked with uncovering and investigating networks of related or linked fraudulent borrowers and loans.
In addition, Allan has worked on various comprehensive AML compliance program assessments, AML program remediations including process enhancements and policy and procedure development, transaction monitoring lookbacks, KYC file reviews and uplifts, EDD reviews, enterprise BSA/AML and sanctions risk assessments, horizontal (i.e., client population, product, or activity-specific) AML risk assessments, and comprehensive BSA/AML program audits.
Prior to joining Treliant, Allan was an Associate Director at two other consulting firms, Guidehouse and Protiviti, specializing in financial crimes compliance. He has also held roles as a Compliance Officer and Vice President at Citibank and as a Senior Analyst/Analyst at MUFG Union Bank (now part of U.S. Bank) and Wells Fargo.
Allan has a BA in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
Job Titles:
- Business Analytics and Sales Support Senior Manager
- Senior Manager, Business Analytics and Sales Support
Ashley Hammond is a Senior Manager, Business Analytics and Sales Support for Treliant. Her professional experience includes event planning, meeting management, project management, public relations, and database management.
Prior to joining Treliant, Ashley worked for a boutique communications firm where she led event management, coordinating all aspects of scientific educational conferences, symposia, board meetings, and media tours for non-profit and for-profit clients.
Ashley graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in Biological Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director
- Senior Director in Treliant 's Data Solutions
Bala Rani, a Senior Director in Treliant's Data Solutions practice, is a senior technology program executive with over twenty years of advanced experience directing and driving transformational banking programs from concept through post-implementation. He has extensive expertise in developing, governing, and executing strategic roadmaps to deliver critical applications and data-centric programs to meet challenging organizational goals.
Prior to Treliant, Bala was Executive Director in the Corporate Technology division at JP Morgan Chase, where he was responsible for sourcing, hosting, distributing, and controlling data from the global systems of record for multiple asset classes. This work supported the bank's corporate risk and finance groups that manage credit, capital, liquidity, and market risk, including delivering major regulatory initiatives like non-cleared margin rules and clearinghouse risk.
Before his role in Corporate Technology, Bala worked in Chase Home Lending, where he led many transformational programs in support of capital markets, secondary marketing, and mortgage operations functions. He was also instrumental in leading the Chase-WaMu merger initiatives related to Chase Home Lending and delivering many GSE-mandated programs , such as compliance with MISMO data standards and ULDD implementation.
Bala has a bachelor's degree from Osmania University and a master's degree in Physics from Andhra University and master's degree in Data Analytics from WGU. He is also a certified scrum master (Scrum Alliance) and PMP (PMI) pursing Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from UT Austin.
Areas of Specialization
Data Architecture
Data Governance
Data Strategy
OTC Derivatives
Program Management
Regulatory Reporting
SA-CCR
Ben Peterson, Treliant's Data Lead for EMEA, is a technology leader with more than 20 years' experience in Financial Services and fintech. He understands the role that strong data management plays in increasing revenue and reducing risk, and believes that data management can have a compelling RoI at both program and organization level. He is a tireless advocate of the power of data governance to create organizational transparency, leading to better compliance and decision making.
Ben's delivery track record spans systems development, regulatory delivery, and data strategy. His systems development achievements range from DART, a derivatives trading platform for Goldman Sachs, to complete IT estate builds for enterprises such as Elgin Capital LLP. On the regulatory side, Ben has delivered BCBS239, GDPR, and CCAR outcomes for several major banks, and on the strategy side he has held roles including Head of Data Architecture at RSA Group and CTO at RiskCare Ltd.
Ben is a Google Certified Cloud Architect and an accredited Cloud Data Management Capabilities practitioner.
Brian Weintraub is a Senior Consultant at Treliant. He has over five years of experience in financial compliance consulting, specializing in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws and regulations.
Prior to joining Treliant, Brian worked at K2 Integrity on numerous projects for financial services companies, serving in a variety of roles and functions including case investigations, suspicious activity report (SAR) writing, request for information (RFI) coordination, and user acceptance testing (UAT). His financial compliance career began at EY, after having served there as a document review attorney for numerous litigation-related projects. At EY, he was brought onto his first AML project, initially as a transaction monitoring and trade surveillance analyst. Eventually, he would serve there as a team lead.
Brian has a BA from Rutgers University and a JD from Albany Law School. He has also obtained his Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant With
Caoimhe Murphy, a Senior Consultant with Treliant, has seven years' experience in the financial services industry, including work for two Tier 1 investment banks in documentation negotiation and legal entity management roles.
Prior to joining Treliant, Caoimhe has engaged in a number of regulatory-driven projects and most recently worked for a legal service provider, where she gained significant experience in the negotiation of day-to-day trading documentation, including, but not limited to, ISDA, GMRA, GMSLA, and CDEA.
Caoimhe is a qualified Chartered Governance Professional. She holds an MSC in Management and Corporate Governance from Ulster University and an LLB in Law from Queen's University Belfast.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor
- Regulatory Advisor, Former Federal Reserve Bank
- Senior Advisor With
Cathy Lemieux Ph.D. a Senior Advisor with Treliant, has over 30 years of experience in financial services regulation, corporate governance/enterprise risk management, international banking regulation, and the Community Reinvestment Act.
Cathy has helped banks of all sizes aligning their internal controls with their regulatory obligations, assessing their compliance and enterprise risk management frameworks, and their associated policies and procedures. Cathy has helped develop applications for new bank charters and authored strategic plans for banks with nationwide digital platforms. Cathy has worked with non-banks to obtain approval of their CRA investments products from the OCC. Finally, Cathy was worked with a variety of different sized organizations respond to regulatory criticisms.
Before joining Treliant, Cathy was the Executive Vice President of Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the second largest supervision group in the Federal Reserve System. She led a staff of 540 examiners and risk specialists and supervised over 600 banking organizations. She was responsible for supervising community, regional and large banks located in the Midwest including the U.S. operations of three large international firms and has worked with foreign regulators in the UK, Canada, the Nordic Countries, the Netherlands, and China. In the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis, Cathy was involved in the Federal Reserve's efforts to revamp bank supervision focusing on large and regional banking organizations. Cathy's published research focuses on the impact of FinTech lending on underserved areas, how artificial intelligence can benefit consumers, and how FinTech lending is impacting the community banking arena. Other research covers banking conditions, agricultural finance, credit and operational risk as well as the role of bank directors.
Cathy taught Macroeconomic Principles, Graduate Econometrics, and Research Methods at Indiana State University and Money and Banking at DePaul University. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in agricultural economics.
In the community, Cathy has worked on the building and sustaining of schools and orphanages in Uganda and served on the Village of Lake Bluff Police Pension Board.
Areas of Specialization
Bank Applications
Bank Holding Company Supervision
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Consumer Protection
Design and Implementation of Remedial Activities
Financial Crimes Compliance Programs
Fintech Compliance
Pre-exam Work
Regulatory Policy
Risk Management Expectations
Safety and Soundness of Financial Institutions
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager in Treliant 's Capital Markets Regulatory Change Management
Cheyanne Lui is a Senior Manager in Treliant's Capital Markets Regulatory Change Management practice with an international background. She has over 16 years of experience and specializes in leading regulatory reform, remediation and transformation projects across the financial sector.
Prior to joining Treliant, Cheyanne was a Manager in a top tier consulting firm and led workstreams across large scale remediation projects as well as initiatives such as LIBOR transition, KYC, BASEL II data remediation, COVID Loan operations for large banks and pension funds.
Cheyanne has a MSc and BSc in Business Economics and Finance from the University of Surrey.
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- Client Relationship Executive With
Christopher Riti, a Client Relationship Executive with Treliant, has more than a decade of experience working with a range of financial services institutions on regulatory, transformation, and risk management matters, with a focus on financial crimes, OFAC sanctions, and consumer compliance. He leverages a deep working knowledge of the regulatory compliance environment, operational best practices, and emerging market trends - as well as Treliant's exceptional team of experts - to exceed clients' evolving expectations of an essential partner.
Chris has an extensive history in consultative support, regularly assisting clients through regulatory enforcement actions, forensic file reviews, transactional lookbacks, customer remediations, and other critical efforts. Prior to joining Treliant, Chris was a Senior Principal with Promontory focusing on transformational managed solutions. He has worked in a variety of different capacities, including in project management roles, strategic business development, climate risk analysis, and as a trusted advisor consistently providing practical advice on how to achieve meaningful program transformation.
Prior to his consulting roles, Christopher focused on clean energy implementation, innovation, and sustainability, including energy and environmental legal and policy analysis, energy regulatory compliance and systems transformation. He previously served as a Climate and Energy Advisor to the Ambassador of Grenada at the United Nations and as an independent energy consultant to a multinational solar energy developer.
He earned a J.D. and a Master of Laws (Climate Change & Sustainable Development) from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University (formerly Pace Law School); an M.A. in American History from Fordham University; and a B.A. in Italian Renaissance Literature from Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Member of the Board
Colin Dyer is an accomplished international executive with decades of experience across varied industries in the US and Europe. After beginning his career at McKinsey, he bought, built, and sold a Dutch retail chain; was CEO at an international textile manufacturing company; founded and built a technology startup in DC; and ran NYSE-listed Jones Lang LaSalle from 2004 until his retirement in 2016. Since then, he has served on public and private boards.
Colin Reid - Chief Strategy Officer, CTO
Job Titles:
- Chief Strategy Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
Colin Reid is the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Treliant, where he is responsible for shaping and executing key initiatives for the firm. Previously, Colin was the Chief Technology Officer for Vox Financial Partners responsible for building a software product to automate the production of complex documents.
Previously, Colin was the Chief Operating Officer for Redkite, a fast-growing Salesforce consulting firm, where he was responsible for all aspects of HR, finance, legal, and information risk. He built the firm's multi-year strategic plan and subsequently managed the acquisition and integration process when Redkite was acquired.
Colin also spent 17 years at JPMorgan running global technology teams to build and operate systems for trading and managing risk. His teams worked on major initiatives across all asset classes including algorithmic trading, cash equities re-engineering, client connectivity, market access, swaps e-trading, and derivatives risk system migrations. He worked in London, New York, and Hong Kong; his final role at JPMorgan was leading Equity Derivatives IT for Asia-Pacific, where he was the technology point of contact for executive stakeholders in the region including business heads, quants, risk managers, industry regulators, compliance, audit, and HR.
Colin has a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Master's in Journalism from the University of Hong Kong.
Colin Walsh is a Senior Vice President at Treliant, responsible for the operation of the Service Delivery Centers in EMEA, the largest of which is located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Colin is a qualified England & Wales solicitor and has worked both in private practice and in-house (Big 4 experience) gaining significant experience in commercial and corporate transactional work. He subsequently turned to operational roles, managing global legal delivery teams in the telecoms and publishing sectors before moving into the UK Regional Lead role with his previous employer. He brings his acquired operational expertise to his current role at Treliant.
Colin has a bachelor's degree in Law and Economics from the University of Ulster.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager in Treliant 's Financial Crimes
Conor Stanhope is a Senior Manager in Treliant's Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions practice. He has close to seven years of experience in managing financial crime risks in the financial services industry, having helped design and improve anti-money laundering (AML) programs for large and midsized banks, payment processors, cryptocurrency exchanges, and FinTech companies.
Prior to joining Treliant, Conor worked as a Consultant with Berkeley Research Group, advising clients in a variety of financial crimes compliance areas, such as leading the strategic approach to remediation of a formal agreement issued to a FinTech-focused bank by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), performing a coverage assessment of suspicious activity monitoring for a digital financial services company to ensure money laundering risks were appropriately addressed, and designing and implementing a customer risk rating model for an international bank. Additionally, he spent over four years with US Bank assisting in the remediation of an OCC consent order and managing teams responsible for performing enhanced due diligence on customers posing increased money laundering risk.
At Treliant, Conor provides clients with key insights to help manage financial crime risks, through AML and sanctions risk assessments, regulatory remediation, process improvement, and other methods. He delivers significant value to diverse clients facing complex risks, based on his subject matter expertise, technical skills in SQL and R, and end-to-end experience in designing, managing, and implementing financial crimes compliance programs.
Conor graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Economics from Saint John Fisher University, and he is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director, Fair & Responsible Banking
Daniel Johnson is a Managing Director at Treliant. He is an experienced regulatory compliance and data science professional with comprehensive financial services experience in regulatory compliance, risk management, internal audit, fair lending, statistical analysis, operations management, enterprise program administration, and compliance training. Daniel has notably innovated in the field of data research, specifically in the areas of predictive data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistical modeling, and data mining. He has a wide range of divisional compliance risk experience including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, mortgage securitization, traditional banking, commercial banking, mortgage originations, mortgage servicing, trust, and private banking.
Prior to joining Treliant, Daniel was Director of Fair Lending for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (commonly known as Freddie Mac), a publicly traded, government-sponsored enterprise with over $3 trillion in assets under management. In this role he established and maintained compliance risk management related to fair lending, including oversight of third parties such as sellers and servicers. His role spanned across Freddie Mac's three operating divisions-Single-Family, Multi-Family, and Investments & Capital Markets-among others.
Prior to joining Freddie Mac, Daniel was a Director of Regulatory Compliance, Fair Lending, and Internal Audit practices at a leading regulatory compliance consulting firm. In this role, Daniel directed client engagements for financial institutions ranging from $500 million to over $200 billion in assets and leveraged the use of statistical analysis and research for representative engagements with mortgage companies, mortgage servicers, banks, and credit unions. Additionally, he has held numerous senior management roles in regulatory compliance at leading mid-size and large banks in the United States. His regulatory affairs experience includes the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Bank (FRB), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Department of Justice (DOJ).
Daniel has a BBA with legal studies specialization from the University of Central Oklahoma, and an MBA with a data analytics specialization from Southeastern Oklahoma State University (graduation Spring 2024). Additionally, he is certified in Google Analytics and holds numerous statistics and data science credentials.
Daniel has been an active volunteer and participant in industry trade associations including serving as a committee member of the Community Bankers Association (CBA), a fair lending and UDAAP working group member of the American Bankers Association (ABA), and a compliance working group member of the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America (MBCA). He has presented at numerous trade organizations and industry thought-leadership conferences, including the annual CRA and Fair Lending Colloquium, California Mortgage Bankers Association (CMBA), Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL), National Association of Industrial Bankers (NAIB), Utah Association of Financial Services (NAFS), Texas Bankers Association (TBA), Southwest Association of Bank Counsel (SWABC), and Oklahoma Bankers Association (OBA). Additionally, Daniel is a published author with the ABA in the area of fair lending compliance risk management.
Areas of Specialization
Commercial Banking
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Compliance Audits
Compliance Programs
Conduct Risk
Consumer Laws / Regulations
Corporate Governance
Credit Card / Payments
Credit Risk (Business)
Credit Risk (Consumer)
Data Privacy
Data Risk Management / Data Science
Due Diligence
Ethics Programs
Fair Lending
Fintech Compliance
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)
Model Validation
Mortgage Law / Regulations
Mortgage Originations and Servicing
Operational Risk
Regulatory Exam / Management
Regulatory Relations
Remediation Plans / Implementation and Effectiveness Testing
Retail Sales Incentive Practices
Risk Assessments
Third-Party Risk Mitigation
Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) Readiness
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant With
Daniel Lam is a Consultant with Treliant whose skills include KDB+ development, experience building programs for data loading across exchanges, and knowledge of AWS, Python, and Linux.
As a consultant at a hedge fund, Daniel has worked to accommodate the needs of multiple portfolio managers. He managed the KDB+ support process for escalated tickets, decommissioned old AWS infrastructure, and optimized setup and configuration of financial data management. He also decommissioned legacy KDB+ code, and documented and organized information regarding past and existing infrastructure of the KDB+ setup for new hires.
Prior to being a consultant, Daniel trained under experienced developers and integrated new processes into an open source KDB+ tick code base. As a college student, he worked as an intern for companies including General Electric and Johnson & Johnson.
Daniel received a BE from Stevens Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering. He is also an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and he has received training in basic financial concepts, including certification in Bloomberg Market Concepts courses.
Dan Lane, a Director with Treliant, is an accomplished professional in corporate accounting, financial auditing, forensic accounting, regulator-directed monitorship, and financial crimes compliance. He has worked with financial institutions, publicly-traded companies, and state government agencies.
Dan has a history in financial crimes compliance stemming from his experience at the global consulting and financial advisory firms of AlixPartners/Freeh Group, Guidehouse, and KPMG. His expertise includes conducting sensitive investigations related to professional misconduct, bribery and corruption, fraud, economic sanctions, and money laundering. He has also conducted extensive financial and risk control audits for financial institutions, energy providers, and publicly traded companies.
Dan is a member of Treliant's Global Financial Crimes Compliance practice. His past engagements in this field include an assessment and lookback investigation of a Northeast U.S. correspondent bank's program for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). The review of international wire transactions identified nearly $145 million in suspicious transactions from high-risk jurisdictions in the Middle East, East Asia, and Central America. The transactions were reported to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) via suspicious activity reports (SAR) for possible violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Office of Foreign Assets Control's (OFAC's) Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN).
Job Titles:
- Managing Director, Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions
Darcy Allen has over 25 years of financial crimes compliance experience spanning government, consulting, banking, and retail. Darcy started his career with the Canadian government, working within the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), which included leading a national team of customs intelligence and investigations officers working as part of the Integrated Proceeds of Crime (IPOC) joint force operation with several government organizations, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). In this role, he participated in the creation and implementation of the Canadian government's Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. This act established the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) as well as the cross-border reporting of currency, for which he was instrumental in securing funding for the currency detector dog (K-9) program.
Darcy has also worked as an AML compliance officer within FINTRAC, Capital One, and Citibank, as well as a senior advisor with the New York office of Promontory Financial Group. He most recently led a global team at Walmart responsible for overseeing the anti-money laundering and financial services compliance program.
Darcy has spoken at conferences in both Canada and the U.S. on consumer fraud, risk assessment, and know your customer practices. He holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Winnipeg.
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- Managing Director, Data Solutions
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- Senior Vice President, Finance
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Board
- Senior Advisor - the Vistria Group
- Senior Advisor to Vistria
David Samuels, Treliant's Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Advisor to Vistria, the company's primary shareholder, is responsible for setting and executing the firm's long-term strategy and creating value for stakeholders.
David is an expert in managing global businesses that supply transformational risk and compliance solutions to organizations serving the financial services industry, with deep knowledge of bringing software, consulting, data driven analytics, and staffing offerings to market.
Dmitri Stockton's career spanned a total of 30 years with GE Company where he was one of 20 Senior Vice Presidents and a member of the Corporate Executive Council. After spending over five years as Chairman, President, and CEO of GE's $120 billion asset management arm, he sold the business in 2016 and became a Special Advisor within GE until his retirement in 2017.
Ellen Zimiles brings more than 30 years of professional services and legal expertise, including numerous leadership and managerial roles. Her accomplishments have included founding a startup with private equity backing, which she successfully sold to a publicly traded company, and serving on the deal teams for several other transactions.
Ellen served as the Financial Services Segment Leader and led the Financial Crime, Fraud, and Investigative Services Practice at Guidehouse Consulting and its predecessor organizations, reporting directly to the CEO. She is a proven leader with extensive experience in regulated industries, domestically and internationally.
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- Chief Legal Officer
- General Counsel
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
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- Client Relationship Executive
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- Senior Managing Director, Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions
John O. Brennan served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 until January 2017. As director, he was responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, covert action, counterintelligence, and liaison relationships with foreign intelligence services. From January 2009 to March 2013, Mr. Brennan was Deputy National Security Advisor and Assistant to President Obama for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, shaping and coordinating Obama administration policies on counterterrorism, homeland security, pandemics, cyberattacks, and natural disasters.
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- Strategic Advisor and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer
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- Chairman of the Board
- Retired Chief Executive Officer of Riveron
Julie Howard brings more than 30 years of professional services experience, including numerous leadership positions where she was responsible for creating and executing growth strategies across services, industries, and global geographies.
Julie is the retired chief executive officer of Riveron, following the successful sale of Riveron to Kohlberg and Company in July 2023. She joined Riveron in October 2020 as a board member and became CEO in March of 2021. She is also the former chairman and chief executive officer of Navigant Consulting.
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- Senior Managing Director, Regulatory Compliance, Mortgage, and Operations Solutions
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- Managing Director, Capital Markets Solutions
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- Managing Director, Regulatory Compliance, Mortgage, and Operations Solutions
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- Member of the Board
- Co - Founder and Co - CEO of the Vistria Group
Marty Nesbitt is the co-founder and co-CEO of The Vistria Group, a middle-market private investment firm with approximately $6.5 billion of assets under management. From 1998 to 2012, Marty served as President and CEO of TPS Parking Management, LLC (dba The Parking Spot), an owner and operator of off-airport parking facilities. He conceptualized and co-founded The Parking Spot with Penny Pritzker and was responsible for running all strategic and operating aspects of the Company.
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- Director, Marketing and Communications
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- Senior Corporate Counsel and Deputy Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer
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- Member of the Board
- Co - Head of Financial Services at the Vistria Group
Michael Castleforte is Partner and Co-Head of Financial Services at The Vistria Group. Prior to joining Vistria, Mr. Castleforte was the General Counsel and Head of Business Development at United Shore Financial Services ("USFS"). At USFS, Mr. Castleforte was part of the senior team that transformed the company from a regional, independent lender to one of the nation's leading independent mortgage lenders with an emphasis on sustained growth through systematic risk management.
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- Managing Director, Regulatory Compliance, Mortgage, and Operations Solutions
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- Senior Managing Director, Risk Management Solutions
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick Group
Neal Wolin is Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick Group, based in Washington, D.C. He leads the firm's operations across 27 offices in 18 countries and advises clients across industries on significant financial, M&A, regulatory and public affairs issues.
Neal has spent his entire professional career - in both the private and public sectors - at the intersection of public policy, business, law and communications. Prior to joining Brunswick, he was Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from May 2009 until September 2013 - the longest serving in U.S. history - and Acting Secretary of the Treasury in January and February 2013.
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- Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets Solutions
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- Consulting Sales Lead, Capital Markets
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- Managing Director, Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions
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- Managing Director, Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions
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- Client Relationship Executive
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- Managing Director, Capital Markets Solutions
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- Managing Director, Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions
Vicki Fuller has served in a progression of leadership roles, including serving on the board of directors, board of trustees and key committees for eight for-profit companies. She was Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of a $207B public pension fund (New York State Common Retirement Fund); in senior management operational positions for a $500B AUM global investment management firm; and held earlier roles at financial firms such as Standard and Poor's and Morgan Stanley.
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- Board Member and Strategic Advisor
- Strategic Advisor and Board Member
- Strategic Advisor and Member of the Board of Directors
Waldo Abbot, a Strategic Advisor and Member of the Board of Directors at Treliant, is an international executive with over 35 years of global experience in finance and banking. During his career, he has been the senior U.S. executive for two Fortune 500 foreign banks. Prior to serving as a Senior Advisor, Waldo was General Manager and Head of Treliant's New York office. Previously, Waldo was the Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Fortis in New York.
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Advisor
- New York Fed in 2007 As Executive Vice President of the Markets Group
- President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Regulatory Advisor, Former Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Bill Dudley has over forty years of industry and regulatory experience. He is an expert on financial services regulation, fiscal policy, tax reform, macroeconomics, global trade, and banking culture and conduct.
From 2009 to 2018, Bill was the tenth President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. He played a key role in America's recovery from the 2008 financial crisis, developing monetary policy and implementing emergency lending facilities to help nurse the U.S. economy back to health. As President and CEO, he also:
Oversaw bank supervision and regulation.
Oversaw payments services.
Normalized the Fed's monetary policy and balance sheet post-crisis.
Advocated for strengthening the nation's payments infrastructure.
Supported an international effort to improve reference rates, including creating a new set of rates administered by the New York Fed.
Bill joined the New York Fed in 2007 as Executive Vice President of the Markets Group, overseeing open-market and forex trading operations. He also managed the System Open Market Account for the FOMC. Concurrent to his tenure at the New York Fed, Bill served on the board of the Bank for International Settlements, where he was chairman of both the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the Committee on the Global Financial System. In addition, he helped develop and drive the adoption of the BIS' Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures.
Previously, Bill enjoyed a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he made partner and served as the firm's chief U.S. economist for a decade. He worked on an array of macroeconomic topics, including fiscal policy, health care reform, the thrift crisis, the less-developed-country debt crisis, and social security reform. Prior to joining Goldman, he was a vice president and regulatory economist at the former Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Bill began his career at the Federal Reserve Board in 1981.
Bill holds a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a bachelor's degree from the New College of Florida. He is a member of the Group of Thirty and the Council on Foreign Relations and an active community volunteer in his home state of New Jersey.