Meet our Fintech Advisory Board
An essential component of our research methodology is to regularly engage with independent fintech experts and thought-leaders “The FinTech Advisory Board”. This is a team of carefully selected independent subject matter experts with expertise in one or more of the various fintech sub-categories (e.g. Regtech, Analytics, AI, Blockchain, Payments, Core Banking).
Cabinet Member
Tibor Bartels
Head of Transaction Services Americas
ING
Cabinet Member
Albert Chin
Head of Model Risk Management
Signature Bank
Cabinet Member
Brandon James Davies
Non Executive Board Director
Lintel Financial Services Limited & Obillex Limited,
Cabinet Member
Alessia Falsarone
Managing Director, Portfolio Strategy and Risk DMFI
PineBridge Investments
Cabinet Member
Shannon Kelly
SVP, Head of Model Risk Management
Zions Bancorp
Cabinet Member
Sabeena Ahmed Liconte
Deputy Chief Operating Officer & Chief Legal Officer
BOC International USA Holdings Inc.,
a member of the Bank of China Group
Cabinet Member
Stevan Maglic
SVP, Head of Quantitative Risk Analytics
Regions Bank
Cabinet Member
Frank Morisano
Chief Risk Officer
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Cabinet Member
Joe Posavec
Managing Director, Special Opportunities Group, Valuation & Advisory
Cushman & Wakefield
Cabinet Member
Craig Spielmann
CEO & Founder
RiskTao
Cabinet Member
Stan Yakoff
Head of Americas Supervision
Citadel Securities
Michael Berns
Director
PwC
Bradley Boercker
Business Intelligence
Harley Davidson Financial Services
Assad Bouayoun
XVA and Credit Derivative Quant
Daiwa Capital Markets
Lindsey Burik
Head of Technology and Infrastructure
Fort Street Asset Management
Enrico Cacciatore
Senior Quantitative Trader, Head of Market Structure & Trading Analytics
Voya Investment Management
Stefano Canossa
Global Head of Operational Risk and Head of Risk Luxembourg
GAM
Branan Cooper
Chief Risk Officer
Venminder
Pauline Cowan
Innovation Consultant
RBS
Hakan Danis
Macroeconomic Scenarios and OpRisk Stress Testing Models, Director
MUFG Union Bank
Dipanjan Das
Sr. Director, GM of Student Credit Cards
Capital One Financial Services
Roberto De Freitas
Managing Partner
Defactim BV
Chris Ekonomidis
Director, Transformation
BNY Mellon
Sunil Gangwani
Director Capital Budgeting
AVANGRID
Mariana Gomez de la Villa
Program Director Distributed Ledger Technology
ING
Jason Hill
Partner
PA Consulting Group
Donna Howe
Founder & CEO
Windbeam Risk Analytics
Rinse Jacobs
Head Of International Sales
SolarisBank AG
Saqib Jamshed
Senior Vice President – Head of Model Risk Governance
Options Clearing Corporation
Angela Johnson
Head of Risk for IT Change and New Technologies
Llyods Banking Group
Noah Kessler
Director
Protiviti
Martina Koehler
Innovation Lab Engagement Lead
Deutsche Bank AG
Joshua Kotok
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
First Savings
Armel Romeo Kouassi
Senior Vice President
Northern Trust
Marcela Londoño
Vice President – Anti-Financial Crime | Business Line AFC – Client Intelligence Unit
Deutsche Bank
Ido Lustig
Chief Risk Officer
BlueVine
Stephane Malrait
Head of Market Structure and Innovation, Financial Markets
ING
Bradley Mirkin
Managing Director
Berkeley Research Group
Michael Middleton
Head of Content Strategy
Markov Processes International
Melissa Murphy
Senior Manager of U.S. Regulatory Technology
Scotiabank
Ameer Naraynen
Head of Systems Development
Bordier & Cie UK PLC
Xiaoling (Sean) Yu
Director of Model Validation
KeyBank
Alfio Puglisi
Researcher
King’s College London
Allan Reid
Head of AML, Sanctions & CTF Operations/Nominated Officer (& Deputy MLRO)
Tesco Bank
Gabriele Sabato
CEO and Co-Founder
Wiserfunding
Gurraj Singh Sangha
Global Head of Data Science , Risk, and Market Intelligence
State Street Versus
Prateek Shrivastava
Associate Director – Technology Risk & Controls
Westpac Institutional Bank
Peter Smith
Director
Seneca Investment Management
Vivek Tyagi
Chief risk officer – institutional / Transaction Banking
Goldman Sachs
Venkat Vedam
Director, Data Engineering
John Hancock Investments
Venkat Veeramani
SVP Risk Strategy & Analytics
Wintrust Financial Corporation
Caitriona Whelan
Chief Strategy Officer
Former Payen
