Emre Balta will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Mark Benaharon will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Thomas Braun will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Byron has been with Infor for over 15 years as a leader in the Financial Services, Banking, and Insurance space. He supports Infor’s global financial services customers and ensures that Infor is meeting all their application needs. Mr. Byrd is active in the industry at global events including ACT, Eurofinance, Sibos, and AFP. Prior to Infor, Byron worked for Pega and several North American banks.

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.

Fernando Carbone is a Lead Specialist in Quantitative Analytics at the Office of Risk Management of the Inter-American Development Bank. Fernando has over 20 years of experience in risk management, specializing in the application of quantitative methods in risk measurement, model validation, risk guidelines, and the design, development and implementation of risk models and systems for Bank treasury and capital market portfolios. He has led projects in quantitative risk management and is currently leading efforts to prepare internal models and systems for LIBOR Transition. Prior to joining IDB, Fernando held positions in quantitative analysis and financial engineering at Bear Stearns and Reuters America. Fernando holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York.

Erjun Chen is a director of Internal Audit Department at CIT. His responsibilities include leading an audit team auditing the interest rate risk management, liquidity risk management, capital stress testing and other Treasury functions.

Before joining CIT, Erjun worked at Ernest & Young and KPMG as a Senior Audit Manager and an Audit Manager, respectively, focusing on the financial statements audits in the banking industry. Prior to that, he worked as a Foreign Exchange trader at one of Chinese Banks.

Erjun holds MBA in Finance from Fordham University Graduate School of Business. He is a CPA licensed in New York State. He obtained a certification of Data Analytics from eCornell.

Bill has worked in the financial services space for over 20 years in several senior roles, specifically within Product Management for more than 10 years. Bill is focused on delivering integrated finance, risk and regulatory compliance and reporting solutions to support regulated financial institutions in meeting their obligations to external regulators and their own board of directors.

Ashish Deccannawar will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Gennadiy Goldberg will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Bryan Greathouse, CFA, currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer for Centennial Bank, wholy owned subsidiary of Home Bancshares (NASDAQ – HOMB). Previously, Bryan held positions pertaining to Asset-Liability Management as well as Liquidity Stress Testing and Funds Management with Centennial Bank and Bank OZK. Bryan began his career with Arvest Wealth Management and Arvest Bank as a Fixed Income Analyst, where he progressed to managing taxable and tax-exempt bond portfolios for trust and wealth management clients in addition to co-managing the ABG-Municipal Bond Fund. Bryan graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Central Arkansas and earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2015.

Vineet Gumasta will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Michael Harmon will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Michael Huff will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Oliver Jakob will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Anthony joined Novo in 2017 as one of the first 10 global employees. In his current role as Head of Data & Risk, Anthony oversees Risk, Compliance, and Partner Bank Relationships. Anthony started working in the Fintech industry after graduating from Columbia University with a Masters of Science in Applied Analytics. Before working in fintech, Anthony served in the Australian Army, and then worked in corporate advisory with a focus on financial analysis of distressed mining assets in the Asia- Pacific region. Anthony completed an undergraduate degree majoring in Economics & Finance at the University of Western Australia.

Jay Johnson will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Yuhong Liu will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Mr. Charlie Peng is currently a Senior Vice President and Head of Treasury at Bank of China USA, primarily responsible for managing the banking book interest rate risk, liquidity risk and funding operations, investment management and other treasury functions .

Prior to that, he was also Head of Market Risk Management at Bank of China USA, and a director in Global Risk Oversight group at American Express, mainly responsible for financial & treasury risk modelling and market risk oversight. He also worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deloitte.

He is a CFA and holds MS Computer Science from State University of New York at Binghamton, MS Economics at Fudan University and Bachelor at Nankai University in China.

Jeff Prelle will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Hugo Ramirez is an experienced, awarded audit top executive with a demonstrated history of working 32 years at three countries in the banking industry (29 in auditing). Mr. Ramirez holds a Master in Finance and a Bachelor’s degree in International Trade. Skilled in Management, Risk Management, Financial Analysis, Forensic (Fraud) Investigations, Regulatory Compliance, Finance, Data Analytics, and Banking Operations, Hugo is a strong professional also graduated from The University of Texas at Austin- McCombs School of Business, and, the Tecnologico de Monterrey (Leadership and Top Executives Development programs). Mr. Ramirez is a CRMA (IIA) and is Certified as Regulatory Vendor Program Manager. During his time at BBVA (32 years) he has held several top senior audit positions at four entities including Chief Audit Executive at two of those. Mr. Ramirez was key during the implementation of several global multidisciplinary audit projects along his career (e.g. Compliance RA tools, Agile organization, Offsite-Audit, etc.). He is a long-established member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. College professor and conference speaker are also part of his professional practice background.

Melvin Ramirez will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Julio Rivera will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Oskar Rogg is Head of Treasury, Americas for Credit Agricole CIB. He joined the bank in 2006 after stints at Ernst & Young/Cap Gemini, a fin-tech boutique and 10 years running a startup consulting firm. Oskar began his career at First Boston (now Credit Suisse) where he developed software, worked in municipal finance and traded repo and municipal GICs. He has authored 15 books and articles, including chapters on repurchase agreements in the Handbook of Fixed Income Securities and the Handbook of Treasury Securities. He is a graduate of Cornell University and holds Series 7, 63, & 24 registrations and a PMP.

Armel Romeo Kouassi will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Santosh Shetty will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Fumi Shiba is Head of Market Risk of National Australia Bank, NY Branch overseeing the branch’s market risk and balance sheet and liquidity risk activities. Fumi joined National Australia Bank from Nikko Asset Management where she was the Regional Head of Risk overseeing a wide range of specialist risk areas in both investment risk and enterprise risk. Fumi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Kyoto University in Japan.

Steve Turner will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Tess Virmani is Associate General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Public Policy of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA).

Tess has a broad range of responsibilities at the LSTA. She leads the LSTA’s sustainable finance and ESG initiatives which seek to foster the development of sustainable lending as well as promote greater ESG disclosure in the loan markets. In addition, Tess engages in the LSTA’s policy initiatives, including market advocacy and spearheading industry solutions to market developments, such as the transition to replacement benchmarks. Tess focuses on maintaining and augmenting the LSTA’s extensive suite of documentation, which includes templates, market standards, and market and regulatory guidance. Finally, she is involved in the development and presentation of the LSTA’s robust education programs.

Prior to joining the LSTA, Tess practiced as a finance attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York. She received a B.S. in International Politics from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. She is admitted as an attorney in New York. Tess is an FSA Level II Candidate.

Jason Wang, CFA, is Chief Risk Officer at Synergy Credit Union, the fourth largest credit union in Saskatchewan, Canada. He also sits on the advisory board of Marble Financial, a Vancouver-based fintech. In the past two decades, Jason has had extensive risk management, analytics and compliance experience spanning across organizations in the banking industry, including Citigroup, American Express, and TransUnion. Jason has been frequently interviewed by major media outlets including Bloomberg, CBC, CTV, etc. Jason received his Master of Business Administration from New York University. In addition, Jason is a CFA charterholder.

Matthew Whaley will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.

Paige Wisdom will be presenting at Treasury & ALM.