New Generation Operational Risk Europe Summit 2023

Søren Agergaard Andersen is the Chief Risk Officer for Nordea Asset Management, the biggest asset manager in the Nordics with more than € 250bn AuM. Søren is responsible for the overall enterprise risk function, managing an international team of risk professionals in Denmark, Sweden and Luxembourg. Before joining the asset management industry, Søren held leading positions within risk in banking and pension/life insurance. One of his main priorities is to define and uphold a strong and yet flexible governance and risk framework, which can support a sound overall risk culture. Søren holds a M.A. in Mathematics and Economics and a PRM certification.

Jenny has been with HSBC for over 25 years, having joined the Group through Forward Trust (also located in Birmingham) in 1993. She is currently the Head of Operational Risk and Risk Strategy for the UK ring-fenced bank, having been appointed to this double-hatted role in April 2018.  She was previously the Head of Three Lines of Defence Execution for Operational Risk.

Jenny has spent nearly a decade in various roles in Operational Risk, interspersed with significant experience in Internal Audit (over 10 years’ experience) and IT, including a one-year secondment to Vietnam.

Stefana is speaking at New Generation Operational Risk Europe 2022.

Liam is an experienced consultant who specialises in Non-Financial Risk transformation. Liam has worked across the breadth of the project delivery lifecycle, taking leading roles in the design and implementation of risk and control frameworks for a variety of clients.

Nicola is speaking at New Generation Operational Risk Europe 2022.

Rob has spent over 13 years working in the financial services sector, and the last 8 years with BCS Consulting where, as a Managing Consultant, he now leads the firm’s Non-Financial Risk propositions. Rob’s experience ranges from tier 1 global banks to insurance companies and smaller financial institutions, helping them address a range of complex challenges with particular focus on operational risk, conduct and regulatory change. He has supported framework development and implementation, operating model and process improvement, risk and control assessment, and the enhancement of management information and reporting.

Laura is speaking at New Generation Operational Risk Europe

Dan Davis, Chief Risk Officer at Nest is a Certified member of the Institute of Risk Management. With 10 years senior experience leading risk and compliance teams within pensions and prior to this in high profile civil engineering projects. Dan has also supported the World Bank with their engagements in Georgia and Bulgaria to set up and improve the risk and governance structures of their national pension providers.

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.

Sophie is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, designing the risk and compliance frameworks and overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance practices. Sophie joined GIB UK with extensive experience in the field, having previously served as Executive Director for Compliance and Operational Risk Control at UBS Asset Management. Before this, she was Global Head of Operational Risk at Barings, and non-Executive Director of the Baring-Coller Secondaries Fund. Sophie was also an Operational Risk Manager and the Group Head of Investment Risk Framework at Schroders.

Sophie graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance. She is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Karen is speaking at New Generation Operational Risk Europe 2022.

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.

Abhishek Khare is responsible for managing outsourcing risks for Societe Generale EMEA. He joined SGCIB in 2011 where he held various senior management roles in CIB Operations at Bangalore and Hong Kong before coming to London team in October 2016. His previous employers include Nomura, Lehman Brothers, Wipro, Franklin Templeton and Deloitte consulting. With several years of experience in managing operations in capital markets, mutual funds, vendors & audit firms, his key competence is a combination of operational risk, off-shoring and outsourcing oversight.

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

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.

A highly experienced risk management practitioner with a focus in Enterprise and Operational Risk Management.

Gary has a strong track record delivering large scale and complex engagements across the Financial Services industry specialising in risk and compliance solutions.

Gary has a MSc. in Finance and Capital Markets and is a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Gary has over 10 years’ experience consulting and providing advisory services to a wide range of global clients.

Prior to Protecht, Gary spent time with three global banks consulting on risk and strategic change. He started his career in Risk Advisory at KPMG.

Carlos Martin FRM Msc BBA is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Global Operational Risk Head for Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities & Emerging Markets in Corporate and Investment Banking. He has dedicated 25 years to Morgan Stanley, CIBC, BNP Paribas, UBS, RBS NatWest Markets and EY in roles across Trading, Technology, Finance, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Audit.

Carlos collaborates with the Council for International Securities and Investment (CISI), the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA) and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).   He is a certified Financial Risk Manager, holds a Master of Science in Finance by the University of Syracuse, New York, a Bachelor of Business Administration by the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, and Academic Qualifications in Economics, Computer Programming, Market Risk and Operational Risk.

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.

I’m the Head of the Risk for the Motor Insurers Bureau responsible for implementing and overseeing the risk and control compliance plan for MIB. Previously I’ve held Head of Risk roles at Pay.UK, Santander and Barclaycard.

Ali brings with him more than 20 years of experience in supporting high growth companies. Before joining the Uptime Institute Ali served at Workshare as CMO. In his previous roles he has driven sales and marketing initiatives for high growth companies and served as CMOat SkyDox, Director of Marketing at Interxion (NYSE:INXN), Director of Marketing EMEA for SPL WorldGroup (now a part of Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), and Marketing Manager EMEA and Asia-Pacific at Kana (NASDAQ: KANA).

Rob has over twenty years’ experience working within the financial services sector as both an industry professional and management consultant. Having worked with NatWest Markets, Capco and Ernst & Young, Rob is now a Managing Director at BCS Consulting where he leads their Risk and Finance Service Line. Specialising in Non-Financial Risk Management, he has worked for many tier 1 FS institutions, managing transformation programmes focused on risk management policies, processes and systems. Recently Rob has worked closely with clients developing risk and control frameworks with appropriate characteristics, testing and alignment to 3 LoD responsibilities. He is currently the interim Head of Operational Risk for MUFG.

Andy Natesan, Founder & Director at Levizo with over 17 years of extensive experience in Risk & Control Frameworks, Third Party Risk /Vendor Risk Management (VRM / TPRM), Information Risk Management (IRM), Third-party Risk Oversight, Legal, Regulatory & Contract Compliance. He has worked with Admiral Group, Shell, Euroclear, BP, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, HSBC in a variety of roles across third-party risk / supply chain risk, operational risk, information risk management.

Jonnah Pragt is a Senior Auditor at LeasePlan Corporation. She joined LeasePlan Corporation in 2018 as an HR Advisor at the Global HR department, implementing and advising on various HR processes. After two years, Jonnah made the move to the Global Audit department. In her role as Senior Auditor, the focus is mainly on Cultural and Behavioural aspects within the organisation, by doing C&B assessments in 30 different Leaseplan entities. Her passion lies in studying and understanding human behaviour (within organisations), which is well reflected in her current role. Before joining LeasePlan, Jonnah worked as a Research Consultant at the executive search firm Odgers Berndtson, the Netherlands. Jonnah graduated with an MSc in Business Administration, Human Resource Management from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a BSc in Psychology from the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She is currently pursuing the Certified Internal Auditor degree, which is expected to complete in 2022.

Wendy joined Investec Bank plc as Head of Operational Risk in 2018.  She has been in Financial Services for over 20 years covering various roles across Finance, Prudential Advisory, Credit Risk, Stress Testing, and for the last eight years, Operational Risk.  Recently, Wendy has been working alongside the first line of defence to embed enhanced Third Party Management and Operational Resilience practices in response to Regulatory developments.

Lorraine joined Nest as Head of Risk in 2021.  She has worked across various sectors but is strongly established in Financial Services, having worked in a global risk role for Zurich and, prior to that, in similar roles for Nationwide Buidling Society.  Before joining Nationwide Lorraine worked for KPMG in their IARCS (Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services) team.

Lorraine has nearly 20 years experience of risk and controls alongside a Masters degree in Risk Management and post graduate qualifications in audit and accounting.  She has presented on a number of topics for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, sharing her passion with both peers and the next generation of risk, compliance and audit professionals.

Michael is the Chief Risk Officer for BNY Mellon’s Issuer Services businesses.  Michael joined BNY Mellon in 2000 and has 25 years of industry experience covering global custody operations, on exchange and OTC clearing and settlement operations, debt and equity capital markets servicing, equity and FX trading, transaction banking and private client stockbroking.

Resident technical practitioner for the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment’s Risk in Financial Services syllabus panel and member of the Association of Foreign Banks Risk Advisory Committee.

Nikki Stoy serves as a Third-Party Risk Consultant for OneTrust Vendorpedia^TM – a purpose-built software designed to operationalize third-party risk management. In her role, Stoy advises companies throughout their third-party risk management implementations to help meet requirements relating to relevant standards, frameworks, and laws (e.g. ISO, NIST, SIG, GDPR and CCPA).Stoy works with clients to centralize their third-party information across business units, assess risks and performance, and monitor threats throughout the entire third-party relationship, from onboarding to offboarding.

Sean has over 25 years of experience in Risk Management across disciplines, including Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Strategic Risk and Front Office Supervision.   He is a passionate advocate for the furtherance of Operational Risk as a discipline, co-authoring papers and acting as a speaker and panellist at many external events.

Sean has held Director level roles at a number of organisations, both on a consultancy and permanent basis.  He is currently Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Metro Bank, running a team responsible for the Bank’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework and approach to Operational Risk from a second line perspective.

Sean is also a member of the IOR/IRM Operational Risk Advisory Committee, providing advice on the organisation’s approach to Operational Risk and running the IOR’s Chapters across the globe.

Henry is Managing Director GRC at Mitratech and joined Mitratech as part of the ClusterSeven acquisition in 2020. Henry joined ClusterSeven in 2006 and for over 10 years was responsible for the commercial operations of ClusterSeven, overseeing globally all Sales and Client activity as well as Partner engagements before being appointed CEO. Henry has over 30 years of experience and expertise from the financial service and technology sectors and prior to ClusterSeven, he held the position of sales director in Microgen, London and various sales management positions in AFA Systems and ICAP, both in the UK and Asia.

Freek van Velsen is Chief Audit Executive at LeasePlan Corporation since September 2019. In this role Freek is responsible for providing global audit assurance over all activities of LeasePlan.  Before joining LeasePlan Freek was Head of ORM Retail and Private Banking at ABN AMRO Bank. In this role Freek was responsible for operational risk management for the Retail and Private Banking activities, including Retail subsidiaries and Private Bank international network. Prior to rejoining ABN AMRO Bank, Freek was Chief Financial and Risk Officer of a local member bank at Rabobank where he was responsible for Finance, Risk Management and Corporate Recovery. Freek was previously the Audit Partner for Regional Markets Asia at Royal Bank of Scotland based in Singapore. Prior to joining RBS, Freek was the Regional Head of Audit Asia Pacific for ABN AMRO Bank. Before moving to Asia Freek was based at ABN AMRO’s Head Office responsible for the global audit coordination and reporting of various Investment Banking lines of businesses. Freek started his career as an officer at the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Freek graduated with a MSc in Business Economics from the University of Tilburg and an Executive Master of Finance and Control from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Freek is a Certified Internal Auditor.

David Vose is Vice President for Risk Management at Archer. He is responsible for bringing quantitative risk management capabilities to Archer in order to create a fully integrated risk management system. David also advises on the training and deliverables of Archer’s professional services team for risk management.

Prior to joining Archer in 2021, David was an independent risk analysis consultant for over thirty years, specialising in the quantification of risk. He has consulted in a very wide range of fields and problems using risk analysis techniques to help organisations make more informed decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty.

David has published three books and over twenty peer-reviewed scientific papers. His textbook Risk Analysis is widely considered the leading text of its field. David is one of the most influential practitioners in risk analysis from developing and popularising statistical methods and modelling techniques to the authoring of international guidelines. He has lectured in post-graduate courses at around a dozen universities including Harvard, provided over 200 professional development courses in more than thirty countries, and appeared as expert witness in several federal and international court cases.

David is British and based in Belgium.

Zuzana is speaking at New Generation Operational Risk Europe 2022.

Mathew is a senior management consultant with over 15 years’ experience helping financial institutions create the best outcomes in a fast-changing digital world and increasingly complex regulatory change landscape. Mathew has extensive experience in the provision of consulting services, including operational resilience, CRO advisory, IT risk & assurance, and risk transformation.