New Generation Operational Risk Europe draft

Sucharita Banerjee Lodha is the Head of General Insurance International Operational Risk and Governance, ERM . She has held various operational risk management positions within GI International supporting effective roll out of operational risk management tools and concepts within Claims, Finance, Operations and shared service centres. She has led teams across Business Consulting, Outsourcing Risk management, Offshore Development Centers, Technology and Risk Management. She has a proven track record of managing global teams and leading regulatory change initiatives. Sucharita holds an MBA from London Business School and an MS in Quality Management from Birla Institute of technology. She is also a six sigma Black belt and has a B.tech in Information Technology. She chose non-financial risk management as a career to pursue her passion for healthy risk culture in organizations. She has worked with Deloitte, American Express, Tata Consultancy Services in her professional career. She has worked with consulting and Financial services firms in India, the US and is currently based in London, UK.  Sucharita is also the chair of Gender Equality Matters Employee resource group in AIG.

Vasiliki Basiou is a VP with 7+ years of experience in Operational Risk Capital Modelling at Credit Suisse, where she is currently leading the climate-related efforts within the Operational Risk Management (ORM) group. Before that, she was the Global OpRisk capital models manager, managing the quant team responsible for regulatory and internal capital models across the bank within the ORM department. Vasiliki holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Athens University of Economics & Business and a M.S. in Financial Risk Management from University College of London (UCL). She recently acquired the Certificate in ESG investing from the CFA Institute as per her interest in climate risk management and overall ESG.

Dean Berney is a highly accomplished Risk and Resilience practitioner with a proven history of success in pioneering framework enhancements, which has improved operational resilience and risk profiles across international jurisdictional.

With over 22 years of industry insight and a track record in building, running and enhancing resilience and risk within highly regulated environments, leveraging industry best practices and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements globally. This is coupled with strong knowledge and experience of working with Investment Banking products (M&A, ECMG, DCMG, Equities & Fixed Income), Financial Market Infrastructure firms and IT (ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT).

Dean brings with him experience gained from leading financial institutions such as Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS Investment Bank, HSBC, London Stock Exchange / Clearing House, Euroclear and most recently Legal & General Investment Management. Beyond operational resilience, Dean also has experience in enterprise risk management, regulatory filings/licences, change management, vendor & outsourcing, business continuity and business/risk transformation.

Stefana is the recently appointed CRO for L&G Protection and Fintech, she also has wider responsibility for IT and Data Risk across L&G’s Retail division (of which Protection is part of). Stefana is an experienced Risk Professional with over 18 years in the financial services industry (15 in risk). She has worked for organisations across the financial services industry, which has given her a broad exposure to banking, asset management and more recently insurance. Stefana is passionate about delivering diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and creating opportunities for others to realise their full potential.

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Anit Deb is Head of External Industry Coverage within the Non-Financial Risk Management department of Deutsche Bank. In his current role, he focuses on gathering external industry intelligence. Prior to his current role, he was the Deputy Head of Operational Risk Capital. He is with Deutsche Bank for three years and prior to this, he has spent seven years in management consulting.

Adrian is a Head of Risk in the Conduct, Compliance and Operational risk division at Lloyds Banking Group. He’s spent 17 years working across different roles in the firm, the last five of which have been leading 2nd line risk functions looking at Payments, Technology, Transformation, Data, Governance and Planning. He’s driven by a desire to help tackle the challenges faced by financial services firms’ now and in the future especially related to societal change, new technology and sustainability

Michael Grimwade first worked in Operational Risk Management over 25 years ago. He is Head of Operational Risk for ICBC Standard Bank and has previously held senior Op Risk management roles at MUFG Securities, RBS and Lloyds TSB. Michael has also been a Director of the Institute of Operational Risk, and is currently the Chair of the AFB’s Operational Risk Expert Panel. He is the author of a number of articles on Op Risk regarding setting appetite; scenario analysis; Climate Change; quantifying emerging risks; and modelling capital. His second book, “Ten Laws of Operational Risk”, was published in December 2021.

Ameet Jugnauth is an experienced Cyber and Technology leader within the Financial Services sector. With over 15 years of experience across insurance and banking, Ameet has led global information security initiatives, large scale risk and control transformation programmes and recently led risk oversight for strategic transformation at a large banking group. Ameet joined Capital One in 2022 as the Cyber Governance and Risk Director, responsible for third party management, cyber risk and compliance, developing thought leadership across both UK and US teams. Appearing at events regularly in the UK and Europe, he shares his insights into resilience best practices, innovation and is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion as a lever to organisational success.

Ecem Karaman is a Cybersecurity Vice President at JPMorgan. She has extensive background in
Cloud, SIEM Operations, Active Directory, Office 365, Compromise Recovery and Incident
Response as well as M&A Assessments, through her previous work experience across multiple
continents. Ecem is currently responsible for SIEM Operations and Cloud Security at JPMorgan.
She is playing a crucial role in implementing the multi-cloud strategy across the firm. She’s an
advocate for diversity & inclusion at work and is heavily involved in initiatives supporting women
in tech

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Merlin Linehan is a Risk Manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), working across Crisis management and business resilience. Merlin has supported the Bank through a number of major geopolitical and IT events including Covid, Ukraine and Log4j. Merlin is also a regular contributor to publications such as Frontera, PRMIA and Risk Screen and others covering geopolitics, risk and technology. He has also appeared in various media outlets including the FT, BBC and Global Capital commenting on China’s global role and emerging markets

Javier is the head of the Operational Risk and Resilience hub for UK Deposit Takers in the PRA. Javier joined the Bank of England in September 2015 as a Senior Risk Specialist in the Risk Infrastructure and Operating Models providing technical support on Business and Booking Models Analysis, Operational Risk, Solvent Wind Down and OCiR. Prior to that, Javier spent more than 14 years in investment banks including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Nomura in the areas of finance, operations and risk management

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Sean is currently the Head of Operational Risk at Shawbrook Bank; having previously held senior risk roles at Barclays, Santander and Pay.UK Sean is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Bank’s Operational Risk Framework including Third Party Risk Management, Stress testing, ICAAP process as well as developing associated policies and procedures. Sean is driving data-driven risk assessment, taking an intelligence driven approach to change risk management

Primary Industry: Banking, Payments
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Gary Savill is Head of ERM Programme Delivery for Starr Insurance  since 2022 working previously in SAGA and AXA UK for 10 years as Head of Operational Risk and as Deputy Head of Operations for Sanlam Investment Management prior to that.  Gary is a Chartered Management Accountant and is also a Specialist member of the IRM and member of the Institute of Management.

Gary has extensive experience of risk management frameworks, people risk, Solvency II, control assurance, risk appetite, conduct risk, risk culture, third party risk oversight and building high performance teams.  He has a particular interest in psychology and decision making.

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Sanjeev is a commercially focused risk and finance leadership professional, with broad experience across Retail and Wholesale businesses.  A delivery focused high-performing senior risk management professional with broad experience gained across Internal Audit and Non-Financial and Financial Risks.  Proven expertise includes;

• Representing Group Internal Audit on key divisional and Group Governance Forums including Risk and Control Committees.
• Simplifying enterprise-wide and operational risk management to ensure business areas utilise risk management tools to manage both Financial Risk and Non-Financial risk profiles within Appetite.
• Demonstrating proactivity and adaptability in challenging and evolving regulatory requirements in delivering and auditing Global Non-Financial Risk Programmes of work across multiple entities/locations across Group-wide Tier 1 Banks.

Jonny Weare is a leader in conduct, culture and compliance with experience across transformation initiatives, in providing advice and challenge to business, compliance oversight and the effective leadership of second line compliance teams. Having designed and implemented governance frameworks at the Group level including for both Board and Executive Management teams, he has developed capabilities for regulatory compliance and change, conduct and culture, and reporting for effective governance and decision-making. He advises and support businesses in navigating good outcomes and in building capabilities and culture to manage and solve complex governance, risk and compliance issues.

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