9th Annual Risk EMEA 2020

Søren Agergaard Andersen is the Chief Risk Officer for Nordea Asset Management, the biggest asset manager in the Nordics with more than € 230bn AuM. Søren is responsible for the overall risk function, managing an international team of risk professionals in Denmark, Sweden and Luxembourg. Prior to this Søren was Head of Risk in SEB Denmark. One of Søren’s main priorities is the improvement of the governance and risk framework, as well as the overall risk culture. Søren is also heading the Data Protection Office in NAM, which links closely to the existing processes in Risk.

Fabrice Brossart is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for AIG General Insurance International and oversees AIG’s risk management function in entities outside of North America, ensuring these operations have a risk management system proportionate to their exposures and in line with local regulatory and corporate governance requirements. He also serves as CRO of AIG UK Limited.

Fabrice has led three Solvency II internal model approval projects and recently played a key role in AIG’s response to Brexit and the establishment of new companies in UK and Europe.

Fabrice joined AIG in February 2011 as Chief Actuary for the European region, subsequently taking additional responsibilities for risk management and leading the Solvency II program. Between 2014 and 2015 Fabrice worked in several risk management roles at the AIG head office in New York, enhancing significantly the Group capital model.

An alumnus of France’s Ecole Polytechnique, Fabrice holds actuarial qualifications in France and the UK as well as the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation. Previous employers include AXA Insurance UK and Willis Towers Watson. Fabrice has represented AIG at the CRO Forum and supported two AIG Group CEOs in their engagement with the Geneva Association. Fabrice was named CRO of the year by Insurance ERM in January 2018.

Mark is currently the CRO of Aviva’s UK Life business. Previous roles in Aviva have included CRO of the UK Insurance business, CRO of the UK General Insurance business, CRO of Aviva’s internal reinsurance entities and Group Enterprise Risk Director. Mark has also served four years on the board of Aviva Italia Holdings. Prior to joining Aviva, spent 16 years at Willis Towers Watson consulting on a wide range of risk management topics principally in the UK, Europe and North America.

Sophie is the Chief Risk Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for overseeing the overall risk culture in the company, working across risk and compliance disciplines. 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 the chairperson of the Investment Association’s Business & Enterprise Risk Committee and is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Andrew Edwards will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Anthony Ginn will be moderating at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Sedjwick is a seasoned Chief Risk Officer with over 20 years of experience across commercial, retail and business (SME) banking products. He has multifunction experience across credit risk management, Enterprise Risk Management, business management, marketing, financial analysis and advanced analytics.

He has experience across products and markets having worked across both developed markets (US, UK, Western Europe) as well as Emerging Markets (Asia, Middle East and Africa).

Sedjwick has a Masters Degree in Business and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering.

Outside of work, Sedjwick is an avid squash and tennis player.

Mr Koehler was appointed to his current role as Chief Risk Officer of Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH in November 2018 covering Legal, Risk and Compliance. He joined from TP ICAP where he was Chief Risk Officer EMEA and prior to that Global Head of Risk at ICAP.

Mr Koehler started his career with Deutsche Bank as a Chartered Banker and post-graduation went on to serve in the areas of Legal, Credit Risk and Operational Risk Management in New York, Frankfurt and Tokyo. Subsequently Mr Koehler extended his wide range of risk management related experience in trading & sales businesses with senior appointments at Barclays, RBS, Bank of America and Nomura in London.

Mr. Koehler studied economics and law and is admitted to the Bar in Germany.

Jeff Simmons joined MUFG Bank in June 2014 as the Head of Enterprise Risk, tasked with creating the function. He has been involved intensively with the enhancement of the Risk Management framework in MUFG Bank (Europe). This has involved him in the formation of an Enterprise Risk function in Amsterdam tasked with delivering the full range of regulatory submissions. In April 2018 he transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the CRO for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).
Prior to joining the bank he spent some 20 years some 20 years specialising in best practice Risk Management including Market Risk, Credit Risk, Risk Model Validation and Regulatory Risk consulting. As well as have line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing Risk Management frameworks from both a technical and operating model based perspective.

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.

Stew Cofer will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2020

Aishling Finnegan will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2020.

Sonya Hamad is the Business Development Manager for the Financial Services sector at Comarch. She has a proven track record around both Leadership and Sales Management. She has over 10 years of experience in the Banking Industry working with Top Tier Clients. Sonya obtained her degree in Finance at Illinois State University. She has gained a significant amount of experience around outside Business Development and new Client Acquisition with some of the Top financial institutions in the US; Including both JPMorgan Chase, and US Bank.

Angela works in Lloyds Banking Group’s Chief Risk Office and is responsible for managing risk across new Technology and Technology Change.
Before working at Lloyds Banking Group, Angela worked at Deutsche Bank as the Global Head of Security, Risk and Compliance for the Public Cloud, Global Head of Anti Financial Crime Analytics, Global Head of Data Quality People Change and Global Head of Money Markets Data Sourcing.
Before joining Deutsche Bank, Angela worked as a Senior Manager at EY within Financial Services across Asia Pacific and EMEIA focusing on Corporate Banking and Capital Markets, Transformation and Advisory programmes. Angela started her career at IBM in Australia working as a developer, tester, designer and then business analyst and project manager.
Angela has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics / Robotics) and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Aleksandra Jarosińska will be presenting at Risk EMEA 2020

Colin Last is the Director of Risk & Control at Nationwide Building Society, having joined the Society in 2015. During this time Colin has led the development of the Operational Resilience Strategy and is accountable for the Risk and Control Framework that enables operational resilience outcomes throughout the various business units of the Society. His work is key in ensuring the development, operation and delivery of products and services to Nationwide Building Society’s Members. Colin has over 15 years’ experience in the development of risk and control management systems, cross-sector to include utilities, nuclear and gaming as well as financial services. Colin has a technical specialism in Secure e-commerce, digital identities and payments for which he has a MSc.

Jack Leech is speaking at Risk EMEA 2020.

Maciej is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income, combined with experience of regulatory topics.

He joined NatWest Markets in June 2020 where he’s primarily responsible for setting up and managing risk hub to support investment banking of NatWest Group.

Before (since June 2014) he worked in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. As JST Coordinator, he led risk identification and implementation of risk-based and forward-looking Supervisory Examination Program. He took part in the start-up phase that included recruitment as well as fine-tuning of tools and processes.
Prior to the ECB, Maciej worked in various roles in a number of banks: PKO Bank Polski 2008-2014 (Head of Credit Risk Assessment Department, member of Bank’s Credit Committee, Advisor to CEO), HSBC 2008 (Head of Structured Finance) and Citi in Poland and Hungary 1996-2008 (Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives Sales, Financial Control).
Maciej has graduated from Warsaw School of Economics and holds a Master Degree in Banking and Finance.

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is responsible for following market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is leading innovation activities internal to ING and also external partnership and developments with Fintech companies. He actively contribute in industry working groups to represent ING Bank.

Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop on the financial market group’s cross-asset ecommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.

Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING Financial Market innovation strategy and also working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how the trading floor operates.

Stephane is also a board member for several Fintech market initiatives and trading associations. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association – an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. Here, he has chaired the ACI FX committee, representing the views of professionals in the FX sector. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group working on the BIS Global FX code of conduct working groups.

ING PROFILE

ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services through its operating company ING Bank. The purpose of ING Bank is empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. ING Bank’s more than 52,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.

ING Group shares are listed on the exchanges of Amsterdam (INGA AS, INGA.AS), Brussels and on the New York Stock Exchange (ADRs: ING US, ING.N).

Sustainability forms an integral part of ING’s strategy, evidenced by ING’s ranking as a leader in the banks industry group by Sustainalytics. ING Group shares are included in the FTSE4Good index and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (Europe and World), where ING is also among the leaders in the banks industry group.

Vikas Munshi will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Nida Sattar is a Vice President at J.P. Morgan, based in London within the firm’s Wholesale Payments business. In her current role as EMEA Head of Real-Time Payments, she is responsible for the end-to-end product strategy for Real-Time Payments including the product buildout, future roadmap, global connectivity and commercialisation. She has recently successfully launched SEPA Instant for J.P. Morgan, as the first US bank to be live in the scheme, and is in the process of implementing with multiple large clients as well as continuously adding new features and functionality. Nida is experienced in launching products and previously worked on J.P. Morgan’s proprietary Virtual Account Management solution.

Prior to Wholesale Payments, Nida worked in the Derivatives Clearing business for 3 years, managing the relationship for a portfolio of hedge fund clients, after successfully completing J.P. Morgan’s competitive graduate scheme.

Nida has a Master of Arts in Land Economy (Law, Economics and Environment) from the University of Cambridge.

Paul Brooks will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Alan Farrell will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Simon Gadd was appointed CRO of L&G Group in January 2013. As Group CRO he heads risk oversight for all risk types within L&G risk framework, including prudential, operational and conduct risks. He provides advice to the Board and Executives on risk matters across the Group, including both UK and overseas operations, and sits on the Group Executive Committee and Group Risk Committee.

Simon has had a varied career with Legal & General since completing a mathematics degree at Oxford University. He qualified as an actuary in 1991 and roles undertaken since have included defined benefit pension valuation, various pricing and marketing roles, general management roles, and leadership of the pensions review. Simon has led several different businesses within the Legal & General group, including the Retail Protection business, Group Protection business and as MD of Annuities from 2006 – 2012.

Isabelle Laurent will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2020.

Melissa joined Bank of Ireland in late 2017 from the German state agency FMS which was responsible for winding up the nationalised HRE Group. She has previously led operational market risk teams based in Munich, Dublin and New York from 2013. Prior to that, she worked for 7 years in Risk Consulting advisory in the UK, Germany and Asia (China). She holds an MBA from the University of Mannheim and a PhD in Astronomy (Space Physics) from the University of London, where her research focussed on space weather data from ESA and NASA missions.

As of August 2017 Dr. Ebbe Negenman is a member of the executive board and Chief Risk Officer of Aegon Bank in The Hague (The Netehralnds). In that he is responsible for the risk and compliancy functions of the bank. Previously he fulfilled the position of head of Regulatory Risk at ABN AMRO Bank where he was responsible for Model Risk, Model Validation, the Risk Policy setting, the Risk Governance Office, and for the 2nd line on the risk regulatory compliancy. Previously Ebbe hold senior management positions at various places within ING Group. In Hong Kong Ebbe was overlooking the investment risk of the ING Life entities in the Asia and Pacific region. Before that he was the senior managing director Market Risk of ING Real Estate, at that time one of the largest real estate companies in the world. Ebbe started his career in Asset and Liability Management at MeesPierson in Amsterdam. Ebbe has a PhD In Operation Research and a Masters’ in Mathematics as well as a Masters’ in Econometrics.

Mr. Noll studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg, Germany. From 2006 to 2012 he worked for Société Générale and Barclays Capital in Frankfurt, Paris and London.

Since 2012 Mr. Noll services and advices banks regarding all RSU-run credit risk management tools such as internal rating systems, stress testing tools, IFRS9, early warning systems and LGD-models.

Ozgur Ozel joined Morgan Stanley in June 2010 and is the central regulatory relationship manager for the Prudential Regulatory Authority. Prior to this role Ozgur worked in Internal Audit covering various reviews across the securities and investment banking businesses. Ozgur is a Certified Internal Auditor with 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, having worked at HSBC, Lehman Brothers and UBS.

Dr Ying Hu is the Head of Modelling Group for EMEA Region at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited (SMBCE). She is responsible for SMBCE’s Credit and Op risk modelling, ICAAP stress testing, RAROC and RWA calculations. Her latest project was to establish a Model Risk Management Framework for the bank. Prior to joining SMBCE she worked at Deutsche Bank in the Risk Analytics and Instruments Group, where she was responsible for managing and developing Deutsche’s RAROC pricing tool. Ying holds a PHD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Warwick.

Suresh Sankaran recently took over as the Head of Risk Governance at Metro Bank, where he oversees all aspects of model risk and other risk-related governance. He advises on factors that the Board should collectively consider when overseeing the bank’s risk management framework and policies.

Prior to this, he was with Kamakura Corporation as Chief Risk Officer, where he was responsible for driving forward key aspects of a niche advisory services function; developing a trusted advisor role and ensuring all work undertaken is of the highest quality; for winning new business; and for developing a talented and expanding team.

Before Kamakura, Suresh was the Principal Operations Officer for the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group, where he worked with the private sector and with governments of developing economies to develop risk infrastructure in these countries. Prior to that, he managed consulting services with Fiserv Inc., for Europe, Middle East, & Asia, was with ABN-AMRO as Regional Risk Manager, and with HSBC as Regional MIS Co-ordinator. He started his career with KPMG as a Consulting Manager.

Suresh has over 30 years’ experience in the realm of strategic consulting, compliance, audit, and risk management. He has held leadership roles managing several facets of risk management, most notably credit, liquidity, and balance sheet management.

Suresh has advised banks, governments, and other financial services organisations on all facets of risk management, and has acted as a second pair of eyes to assure the soundness and financial sustainability of client portfolios.

Suresh is a ranking Chartered Accountant, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance & Accountancy. He has diverse interests including Indian Classical Music, Skydiving, P G Wodehouse, and Pink Floyd.

Jacek Rzeznik will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Liv Watson is a Senior Director of Strategic Customer Initiatives at Workiva, with a primary focus on monitoring and evaluating new market opportunities globally. She helped found XBRL International and is one of the original developers for XBRL.

Louis Brown will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

James Costa will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Per Hansson will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Michalis Ioannides, Head of Credit and Market Risk, Europe: As Head of Credit and Market Risk Europe, Michalis is responsible for the design and effective execution of second line of defense oversight over the governance and processes of the system of credit and market risk management. Prior to this role, Michalis was the Head of Financial Risk at Just Group, with responsibility for the independent validation of the internal model and the oversight of financial risk management. Michalis has also spent a number of years with Willis Towers Watson, HSBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas in modelling, structuring and pricing different type of portfolios including securitisation and risk rating of variety of portfolios and other bespoke derivative solutions to transfer credit and market risks out of financial institutions balance sheets. Michalis holds a PhD in mathematical finance from Henley Business School, University of Reading, and a MSc from Warwick Business School. Michalis is also an associate member of the Charter Institute for Securities and Investment.

Diana Kapsa will be presenting at Virtual Risk EMEA 2020.

Maria Kostova has over 16 years of experience in Regulatory Risk with specific focus on Expected Credit Loss Methodologies and Internal Ratings Based Approach Valuation techniques. Her significant focus of expertise resides in Model Development, Validation, Risk Governance, Capital Allocation mechanisms and Financial Stability Frameworks across Pillar 2A and 2B types of risk- Credit, Market, Liquidity, Concentration, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book /IRRBB/ and Model Risk Management. During her career, she has been predominantly engaged in top tier Banking Groups in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain, allowing her to acquire a comprehensive IFRS9 and A-IRB Credit Risk Modelling expertise in PiT/TTC PD, LGD, EAD Development and excellent understanding of Internal Capital Adequacy requirements (ICAAP/ ILAAP) alongside Risk Weighted Asset adjustments, Liquidity Restructurings and Stress-testing techniques. She is specialized in Banking and Finance with strong emphasis on Statistics and Microeconomics in the United States, where this substantial exposure on logistic and linear regression methodologies in statistics for retail and corporate portfolios has been developed and practiced in accordance with Basel/ BIS/ ECB/EBA Regulatory Frameworks and the PRA Requirements in the UK.

Maciej is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income, combined with experience of regulatory topics.

He joined NatWest Markets in June 2020 where he’s primarily responsible for setting up and managing risk hub to support investment banking of NatWest Group.

Before (since June 2014) he worked in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. As JST Coordinator, he led risk identification and implementation of risk-based and forward-looking Supervisory Examination Program. He took part in the start-up phase that included recruitment as well as fine-tuning of tools and processes.
Prior to the ECB, Maciej worked in various roles in a number of banks: PKO Bank Polski 2008-2014 (Head of Credit Risk Assessment Department, member of Bank’s Credit Committee, Advisor to CEO), HSBC 2008 (Head of Structured Finance) and Citi in Poland and Hungary 1996-2008 (Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives Sales, Financial Control).
Maciej has graduated from Warsaw School of Economics and holds a Master Degree in Banking and Finance.

Mr. Noll studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg, Germany. From 2006 to 2012 he worked for Société Générale and Barclays Capital in Frankfurt, Paris and London.

Since 2012 Mr. Noll services and advices banks regarding all RSU-run credit risk management tools such as internal rating systems, stress testing tools, IFRS9, early warning systems and LGD-models.

Jeroen Van Doorsselaere joined Wolters Kluwer in 2004 and heads the firm’s risk and finance team globally. During his career he has acquired in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge about the financial industry. Through his expertise of International Accounting Standards (IAS)/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Van Doorsselaere has built and specified the IAS accounting templates and IAS 39/IFRS 9 calculators within the accounting team. In his career, he developed the credit risk and IFRS 9 requirements as part of the global rise of CECL and more forward-looking accounting standards. Furthermore, he has gained project experience to meet the growing requirements from the central or local regulators as well as the specific requirements and difficulties facing clients.

He began his career within the firm in Basel and credit risk calculators to fulfil the needs of the Basel II requirements, and he has evolved as an IFRS expert, supporting IAS 39 projects and providing advice to banks across Europe, Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Japan. He has gained experience in joining enterprise-wide stress test across risk domains to make this an integrated strategy in Risk, Finance and Regulatory Reporting. He was educated at The University of Ghent, Belgium and completed an internship with Deloitte in portfolio management and price verification within the capital market space.

Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at Risk EMEA 2020. For further information on this please contact alice.kelly@cefpro.com or call us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582.

All registered attendees will receive an email with access to documentation and speaker presentations after the Summit* We will work with our presenters to include as many presentations as possible on our Risk Insights App during the Summit. *Please note that our speakers often have to gain permission from their relevant compliance departments to release their presentations. On rare occasions compliance may not allow presentations to be distributed.

There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Summit, such as

• Roundtables
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After the virtual event we will create a post-event website where you can access some of the materials. The sharing of presentational material is subject to speaker approval.

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Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of Risk EMEA 2020 and our wider risk professionals community. At the event we can distribute your material to the attendees, offer you an exhibition booth, and provide speaking opportunities so that you may enjoy a more prominent presence at the Summit. Visit the Sponsor tab for further information or contact sales@cefpro.com / +44 (0) 207 164 6582. Risk Insights Feature your content on our Risk Insights website and supporting Risk Insights monthly newsletter. For further information please download our media pack here.

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