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David joined USAA in October 2020 and currently leads Enterprise Risk Management, including Governance & Frameworks, Risk Appetite, Risk Identification, and Reporting. Prior to USAA, David was Senior Vice President at Citizens Bank where he held various roles including Head of Risk Strategy & Applied Analytics and Head of Integrated Stress Testing. Over the past 27 years, he has worked for several institutions as a practitioner, regulator and consultant (such as The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Fannie Mae, GE Capital and Quantitative Risk Management) and has covered Financial, Operational and Enterprise risks.
David graduated from the University of Toledo with a BBA in Finance and The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, specializing in Econometrics & Statistics.

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More than 25 years of experience in financial services, having held senior risk management positions with CIBC, Susquehanna Bancshares, Bank of America, LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO, JP Morgan Chase, and Bank One, and enhanced during the financial crisis by consulting for numerous large financial institutions with Deloitte and Touché. Current responsibilities at CIBC focus on Risk Management strategic & tactical decisioning from business, technology, operational and regulatory perspectives. Direct responsibilities, include; Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Private Wealth Management, Consumer Risk Management, Credit Review, Stress Testing, Conduct Risk and Cyber-Security. Progression of roles built on continuous learning, while delivering solutions to ever-increasing complexity and demands.

Mark Cabana is the head of US Rates Strategy at BofA Global Research, based in New York. In this role, he publishes research and trade recommendations covering US short-term interest rates and macro strategy. He also meets regularly with a broad range of clients to discuss the firm’s views on Fed policy, interest rates, and financial regulation. Cabana joined the firm in 2015. Before joining BofA Securities, Mark worked as an officer in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He spent nearly 9 years on the Open Markets Trading Desk which spanned the duration of the financial crisis. While at the NY Fed, Cabana was closely involved with the design and implementation for a number of asset purchase / QE programs and also managed a team focused on analyzing global macroeconomic conditions and financial markets. Cabana earned a bachelor’s degree from Furman University and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in finance and international relations. He is a CFA charterholder.

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Petr Chovanec is a Director of Business Modeling and Forecasting at UBS Global Wealth Management where he leads a team modeling and predicting balance sheet and income statement of America’s wealth management banking. In his position, he is involved in business forecasting, strategic planning, capital optimization, and various stress testing exercises (CCAR, CECL, LPA). Before the position with UBS, he spent four years in capital management group and in model validation of Citizens Bank (formerly RBS Citizens) and State Street. Before that he was a front office quant in fixed income, currency and commodities trading with State Street and ENGiE.

Hakan Danis is currently Director at U.S. Bank where he is managing teams that are responsible for expanding Baseline, CCAR and CECL scenarios, and developing/maintaining macroeconometric and operational risk models. Prior to his current role, he was Director at MUFG Union Bank where he was responsible for designing scenarios for CCAR/DFAST, RRP scenarios etc. Prior to that, he was Senior Economist in the Research Department at BBVA, where he was analysing and forecasting the U.S. economy for the BBVA Group. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Georgia and is expert in time series econometrics and monetary policy.

Over 35 years financial services experience primarily focused on treasury and risk functions.  Most recently served as the market and liquidity risk executive for Ally Financial. Prior to that, served as an executive within MBNA’s treasury group directing their securitization program and creating a treasury risk function.  Demonstrated record of managing relationships with external stakeholders such as rating agencies, investors, bankers and regulatory agencies (i.e. SEC, OCC and Fed).

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Shahab Khan currently works for HSBC Holdings Plc. as Head of Liquidity Policy in New York. Prior to this, he was at JP Morgan Chase & Co. in the Capital & Liquidity Policy Group as a subject matter expert. Before this, he worked at various financial institutions and was associated with one of the big four accounting firms in the financial advisory space at the beginning of his career. During his professional career, he has held various positions in Treasury, M&A and Finance groups. For the last several years, he has been dealing with regulations related to Capital, Liquidity, RWA, Market Risk etc. that are applicable in the U.S. In addition to MBA, he is also a certified Treasury Professional. He is an avid reader and loves to travel.

Henry Kwan is the SVP and Deputy Treasurer of East West Bank. He led the risk management over liquidity, interest rate, capital, and FX risks. He manages the Bank’s investment portfolio and executes liquidity, interest rate, and hedging strategies. He is an expert on quantitative analysis, including liquidity forecast, liquidity stress testing, ALM modeling, liquidity stress testing, and capital stress testing. Besides domestic Treasury functions, he oversees the treasury activities in the foreign branch in Hong Kong and its wholly-owned subsidiary in China.
He obtained his bachelor’s degree at UC Davis and is an MBA candidate at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a CFA Charterholder and is a mentor for the CFA Los Angeles Society members.

Ty Lambert joined Cadence Bank in 2006 and has served in a variety of roles including balance sheet management, credit risk management, corporate planning, business intelligence, and modeling and forecasting. In his current role as Chief Risk Officer, his team is responsible for risk analytics, enterprise risk and regulatory compliance, regulatory relations, vendor management, internal loan review, corporate security, and BSA/anti-money laundering, as well as the Company’s CRA, community lending and fair lending programs. Ty served as Chief Data Analytics Officer prior to becoming Chief Risk Officer for the Company. Prior to joining the Bank, Ty was an investment portfolio manager.

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 Frank joined China Construction Bank NY branch (CCB) in 2014 as SVP & Treasurer of. Was Treasurer for Dexia Credit Local US , where Frank launched the Dexia US operations as USD global competence center to USD 70 billion, following Treasurer of the National Bank of Kuwait US operations.
 Frank chaired the US Liquidity Contingency Committees of both Dexia & NBK; leading Dexia global USD liquidity management efforts during the crisis of 2008, 10 & 11; and NBK during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
 A forward thinking seasoned risk strategist and influential thought leader, Frank leverages a thorough understanding of the mechanics of treasury to manage the evolving regulations on treasury. Frank has worked as an independent advisor and consultant. Recent engagements included European, American, Asian and Middle Eastern banks, hedge funds and a private equity firm specifically focusing on Treasury Best Practices, Liquidity and FTP.
 Frank is a regular speaker at industry conferences, moderating the 2012 IIF (Institute of International Finance) Executive Program on Treasury Risk. Presented at the IQPC CFO Conference 2016. Chaired the Marcus Evans Annual 2013 & 2015, 16 Liquidity Conference and 2013, 14, 15, Annual Funds Transfer Pricing and BSM. Presented at 2015 Funds Mgt. Conference.

Dr. Veeramani is a Financial Services executive with a demonstrated history of successfully leading high visibility initiatives at global and midsize financial institutions. He is currently Chief Economist with Wintrust Financial Corporation. He leads the bank’s Liquidity, Market & Interest Rate Risk Oversight, Economic Analysis & Forecasting, and Risk Strategy & Analytics functions.

Dr. Veeramani is a published author and frequent speaker on topics related to risk & financial analytics, creation of data-driven business intelligence, and economic trends.

Dr. Veeramani earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Kentucky. He is a graduate of the Advanced Risk Management Program from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Wintrust Financial Corporation, he held various risk management positions at Morgan Stanley, Discover Financial Services and HSBC.

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Katherine Zhang is a MD and the head of Centralized Modelling & Analytics Team at State Street. She is currently leading this team within ERM & Compliance to provide either quantitative analysis or model development services to treasury and finance business units. She also led the model validation team for three years after she joined State Street in 2015.
Prior to joining State Street, Katherine Zhang has 20+ years of experience in model risk management, either in model development or model validation ares to support Basel II compliance, regulatory and economic capital, stress testing, allowance and pricing, and underwriting and equity/derivative trading experience in the early career. She worked for JPMorgan Chase and GE Capital before for 12 years. Katherine Zhang is a graduate of University of Chicago with a MBA with concentration in analytics, and has MSc in Finance and Economics in London School of Economics and Political Science and Mathematics bachelor degree.

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