Vendor & Third Party Risk USA 2021 – Agenda & Speakers

Agenda

DAY ONE OCTOBER 7

08:00 Breakfast and registration

08:50 Chair’s opening remarks

COVID-19 – PANEL DISCUSSION
9:00 Reviewing the impact of COVID-19 on vendor and third party risk programs and future of working environments

  • Future of working from home vs. hybrid models
    • Identifying gaps in controls and changes to work environment post COVID
  • Security controls of vendors with remote teams and use of mobile devices
    • Redefining data security in a new working environment
  • Criticality of intelligence and monitoring
  • Managing expenses vs. risk of working remotely
  • Protecting confidential data and sensitive information in a remote environment
  • Understanding vendor plans for hybrid workforces
    • Adapting contracts and controls and Impact to service, functionality and response time
  • Ability to meet SLAs in a pandemic and remote environment

Roxane Romulus, Director, Third Party Risk Management, Voya Financial
Brian Shaw, Senior Account Director, Financial Services, Coupa 

REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
9:40 Managing regulatory expectations across jurisdictions for a full end to end approach to risk

  • Managing regulatory change across jurisdictions
  • Risk mitigation approaches to demonstrate to regulators
  • Managing a digital business as a result of COVID-19
  • Connecting infrastructure and systems digitally
  • Regulatory guidance on WFH and hybrid models
  • Ingraining into culture of an institution
  • Geopolitical environment: BSA and AML considerations

Ryan Spelman, Senior Manager, CyberClarity 360

RESILIENCE
10:15 Understanding and developing resilience plans and identifying critical service providers to monitor risk

  • Understanding what it means to be resilient
  • Incorporating testing exercises and adapting to changing environments
  • Identifying key business functions and supply chain
    • Tracing through affiliates and third parties
  • Incorporating resilience programs with third party programs
  • Aligning ability to deliver service with ability to manage resiliency
  • Managing resilience in different structured work environments

Michael Casey, Americas Head of Outsourcing and Supplier Risk, UBS 

10:50 Morning refreshment break and networking

BCM & DR – PANEL DISCUSSION
11:20 Maintaining resilience programs in a volatile environment and maintaining controls and oversight of outsourced services

  • Managing vendors in business recovery mode
  • Understanding which vendors are able to recover from stress events
  • Approaches to analyze and assess recovery capabilities
  • Reviewing changes in expectations as a result of the pandemic
  • Regulatory drive for resiliency in critical third parties
  • Adapting programs around security events in the industry
    • Solar Winds and COVID-19 impacts
  • Unwinding changes as a result of the pandemic without damaging resiliency

Preety Tulsian, Head of TPRM, Scotiabank
Justin K. Boehm, Senior Manager, Third Party Risk Banking and Capital Markets Leader, EY
Saqib Jamshed, MD, Model Risk Management, The OCC 

CYBER SECURITY
12:00 Reviewing advances in the cyber threat landscape and lessons learnt from recent events

  • Solar winds breach impact across the industry
  • Reviewing maturity of hacks and capabilities of criminals
  • Testing responses to cyber attacks
  • Evolution of integrity attacks and defending against them
  • Managing third party governance processes to mitigate the risk
  • Contract terms to include notification of incidents
  • Understanding exposure to breaches
  • Increased attacks as a result of remote working and limited IT resources

Jeffrey Batt, Cyber Insurance Practice Leader, M&T Bank 

12:35 Lunch break and luncheon roundtable discussions

1 – Diversity and inclusion across the supply chain

2 – Future outlook after COVID-19: Managing remote and hybrid environments
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3 – Resilience: Regulatory expectations and objective
Michael Casey, Americas Head of Outsourcing and Supplier Risk, UBS 

4 – Managing increase in ransomware and response strategies

5 – External data providers: Integrating into program methodologies
Preety Tulsian, Head of TPRM, Scotiabank 

NTH PARTY – SECURITY AND DATA
1:45 Managing and tracking data access across supply chain to maintain security and identify vulnerabilities

  • Concentration risks of third parties outsourcing
  • Privacy and confidentiality considerations across supply chain
  • Increased incidents and breaches as a result of the pandemic
  • Ensuring vendors and subcontractors are protecting data and aligning with cybersecurity standards
  • Reviewing access to data requirements to fulfill contract provisions

NTH PARTY – REGULATION AND CONTROLS
2:20 Identifying fourth parties and beyond to track dependencies and mitigate risk of service failure

  • Regulatory guidance on outsourcing and global variations
  • Tracking incidents like Solar Winds to understand impact on supply chain
  • Understanding supply chain and impact to services
  • Changing contract language to incorporate critical outsourcing
  • Contractual limitations to assess 4th parties
  • Identifying fourth parties and determining location domestically or internationally
    • Protecting data in the cloud or overseas to the same level as locally
  • Treatment of too big to fail vendors
    • Identifying those with systemic risks

CONCENTRATION RISK
2:55 Monitoring risks of concentration of vendors both across the industry and internal reliance across functions

  • Reviewing types of concentration risk
    • 4th parties, geographic, internal etc…
  • Aggregating data to identify critical vendors and uses across different business groups
  • Balancing concentration risk with quality of vendor and controls
  • Systemic impact of some vendor failures
  • Limited number of core vendors providing key services
  • Risk of stress events to the industry

Olga Voytenko, MD, Third Party Risk Management, State Street 

3:30 Afternoon refreshment break and networking

RISK ASSESSMENTS & DUE DILIGENCE
4:00 Developing real time insight for continuous monitoring of third parties

  • Accuracy of data received from assessments
  • Validating questionnaires with objective evidence
  • Continuous monitoring between questionnaires
  • Developing real time risk management and control processes
  • Documentation for effective collaboration with third parties
  • Obtaining due diligence documentation
  • Enhancing questionnaires to capture risks of remote working

Alpa Inamdar, Head of Third Party Governance Advisory, BNY Mellon 

FINANCIAL HEALTH
4:35 Approaches to monitor financial health of critical suppliers to mitigate risks of business disruption

  • Approaches to accurately and effectively monitor the financial health
  • Impact of COVID-19 on suppliers business model
  • Ensuring critical suppliers are financially viable to survive pandemic and future events
  • Contractual rights to current suppliers financials
  • Trend analysis to understand financial viability
  • Impact of mergers and acquisitions

BUSINESS APPETITE
5:10 Balancing increased appetite to outsource services whilst maintaining security and due diligence processes

  • Appetite for faster approvals when onboarding
  • Business accepting risk as business value is justified
  • Streamlining processes to onboard critical service vendors faster
  • Categorizing vendors based on risk
  • Aligning processes with business objectives and appetite
  • Increased demand as a result of COVID-19

Gregory Goldstein, VP, Head of Third Party Risk Management, Prudential Financial 

5:45 Chair’s closing remarks

5:55 End of Congress

DAY TWO OCTOBER 8

08:00 Breakfast and registration

08:50 Chair’s opening remarks

SYSTEM EFFICIENCY – PANEL DISCUSSION
9:00 Developing efficiencies to better manage the vendor life cycle from end to end

  • Building a holistic view of data and risk
  • Aligning business planning with risk and due diligence processes
  • Collecting good data to drive decision making
    • Feeding back into risk management processes
  • Leveraging data to identify level of risk each vendor exposes the business to
    • Identifying inherent risk in the relationship and residual risk after controls are in place
  • Developing a centralized process to track inventory
    • Identifying subsidiaries and multiple uses of one company

Melissa Mellen, Officer & Department Head of Policy, Analytics & Vendor Strategy, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Brown, Senior Product Manager, Riskonnect, Inc. 

ESG – ENVIRONMENTAL
9:40 Developing sustainability agendas and monitoring third parties to align strategic objectives

  • Developing sustainable environmental practices
    • Practical application across relationships
  • Reviewing third party environmental sustainability and carbon footprint
  • Managing reputation risks as a result of third parties
  • Incorporating climate change into strategy and current resilience programs
  • Demonstrating environmental friendliness across supply chain
  • Developing a climate financial risk road map

ESG – SOCIAL
10:15 Implementing transparency in supply chains to monitor social inclusion and regulations

  • Social justice and inclusion agendas
  • Managing chains from an operational, governance and compliance perspective
    • Developing controls to identify a deterioration
  • Measuring ESG data, metrics and scorecard
    • Developing an industry scorecard to measure and compare
    • Demonstrating transparency and reporting
  • Monitoring for compliance with modern slavery and child labor forces
  • Identifying diversity in supply chain – availability of information

Kenneth Wolckenhauer, VP, Vendor Management, Nordea Bank New York Branch 

10:50 Morning refreshment break and networking

FINTECH
11:20 Assessing risk and managing treatment of fintech’s as a third party service provider

  • Evaluating fintech third parties
  • Fintech’s supplying technology with bank to committing transaction
  • Developing a program for hybrid vendors
  • Monitoring fintech relationships
  • Exiting relationships with fintech’s if they are acquired
  • Managing regulatory expectations for un-regulated institutions

George Kaniarasseril, VP, Third Party Risk Management, BNY Mellon 

FINTECH CONTINUED
11:55 Assessing risk and managing treatment of fintech as a third party service provider 

  • How to address emerging privacy and cybersecurity risks in fintech services and technologies
  • Best practices for limited use or pilot programs with fintech companies
  • Developing a program for hybrid vendors
  • Managing regulatory expectations for un-regulated institutions
  • Contractual considerations to mitigate risk
  • Identifying pitfalls in acquisitions

Erin Jane Illman, Partner and Fintech Practice Lead, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (Bradley)
Leah M. Campbell, Senior Attorney, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (Bradley) 

12:30 Lunch break and luncheon roundtable discussions

1 – Alternative ways to manage TPRM programs and increasing efficiency

2 – Technology advances in TPRM

3 – Steps to build a TPRM program and third party inventory
Madiha Fatima, Director, Third Party Risk Management, Angelo Gordon

4 – Reporting to the Board – Granularity and language

5 – Managing inter entity and affiliate relationships

INNOVATION
1:45 Leveraging innovative solutions to increased risk through technology and automation

  • Increased risk with IoT home devices and remote working
  • Onboarding technology related engagements
  • Adapting mindsets to incorporate new technologies
  • Leveraging AI to drive efficiency and effectiveness
  • Developing agility to keep up with advances
  • Balancing risk with opportunity
  • Assessing vendors use of technology including blockchain
  • Assessing vendors that manage cryptocurrency

Bassel Korkor, MD, Head of Third Party Risk, Charles Schwab

INTER-ENTITY & AFFILIATE RELATIONSHIPS
2:20 Implementing effective due diligence and risk ranking processes for inter-entity and affiliates

  • Segmentation and application of controls based on criticality of service
  • Implementing effective oversight and monitoring processes
  • Regulatory approach across regions
  • Identifying risk and implementing controls to manage risk

2:55 Afternoon refreshment break and networking

PRIVACY & CLOUD
3:25 Assessing and allocating risk in the contract for the new ‘normal’ 

  • Hybrid arrangements
  • Privacy laws
  • The cloud
  • Force majeure
  • Regulatory expectations

James McPherson, Director & Counsel, Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank 

ON-SITE ASSESSMENTS – PANEL DISCUSSION
4:15 The future of on-site assessments: Balancing cost vs. effectiveness to satisfy on-site assessment requirements

  • Measuring risk and satisfying due diligence
  • Investment vs. benefit of onsite assessments
  • Consortium models for onsite due diligence
  • Reliability of on-site assessment when events can change very quickly
  • Regulatory expectations for on-site reviews and assessments after COVID-19
  • Reviewing effectiveness of remote assessments

Olga Baldwin, Director, Vendor Risk Management, Sterling National Bank
Madiha Fatima, Director, Third Party Risk Management, Angelo Gordon 

5:00 Chair’s closing remarks and end of Congress

Speakers

DAY ONE OCTOBER 7
Olga Baldwin

Olga Baldwin
Director, Vendor Risk Management
Sterling National Bank

Michael Casey

Michael Casey
Americas Head of Outsourcing and Supplier Risk
UBS

Gregory Goldstein

Gregory Goldstein
VP, Head of Third Party Risk Management
Prudential Financial

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Alpa Inamdar
Head of Third Party Governance Advisory
BNY Mellon

Madiha

Madiha Fatima
Director, Third Party Risk Management
Angelo Gordon

Melissa Mellen

Melissa Mellen
Officer & Department Head of Policy, Analytics & Vendor Strategy
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Roxane Romulus

Roxane Romulus
Director, Third Party Risk Management
Voya Financial

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Preety Tulsian
Head of TPRM
Scotiabank

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Jeremy is NatWest Markets’ Chief Risk Officer, having joined the bank in 2018. He has an extensive experience as a trader and risk manager. His roles in risk management include running regional and global market risk teams at a variety of firms including Commerzbank, UBS, Investec and Nomura, and the role of Chief Risk Officer, EMEA at Nomura since 2015. Jeremy holds a Masters in Economics Cambridge University.
Jeremy is NatWest Markets’ Chief Risk Officer, having joined the bank in 2018. He has an extensive experience as a trader and risk manager. His roles in risk management include running regional and global market risk teams at a variety of firms including Commerzbank, UBS, Investec and Nomura, and the role of Chief Risk Officer, EMEA at Nomura since 2015. Jeremy holds a Masters in Economics Cambridge University.
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.
Kimberley brings more than a decade of executive leadership experience in the Governance, Risk and Compliance space, building brand recognition, thought-leadership and revenue-accelerating marketing programs at companies including Thomson Reuters, SAI Global, the Global Association of Risk Professionals, Practical Law Company and Compliant. As part of her role at Aravo, Kimberley develops thought leadership content designed to help third party risk professionals benchmark their programs, share best practice, elevate their conversations to the Board, and build the business case for investment in the development of their programs. Kimberley is originally from New Zealand, and has also lived and worked in London and New York. She now lives in San Francisco, and in her spare time enjoys exploring and al fresco dining with her husband and bulldog.
Louise Waite is the Supply Chain Management & Assurance Director at Lloyds Banking Group. She leads a team of 50, delivering a group-wide approach to supplier risk assessment, supplier assurance and supplier management. Louise and her team maintain an effective Supply Chain Management framework, run a Centre of Excellence for Supplier Management and conduct hundreds of assurance reviews every year. Having spent several years in the IT and Pharmaceutical industries, Louise is enjoying her return to Financial Services where she started her Procurement career.
Jean-Francois Valette is leading Global Third Party Compliance & Risk management at eBay. Jean-Francois is responsible for enhancing eBay’s legal, risk and compliance program around all third parties impacting eBay’s operations and business activities directly or indirectly. He oversees the development and management of a third-party risk management program across the business units; engaging and supporting the management of the controls functions for the company, including Business Ethics Office, Information Security, Resiliency, Compliance investigations and reporting amongst others. Prior to joining eBay, Jean-Francois worked as the Head of Operations for Volkswagen Payments and held the roles of Head of Outsourcing and Global Third Party Compliance and Risk management for PayPal. He also held different positions in the Banking & Asset Management industry, and holds his Law and Investment Management certifications, specializing in regulatory compliance and outsourcing.
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Alex is Head of Supply Chain Risk for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), responsible for ensuring that the supplier onboarding & management frameworks drive effective risk management and regulatory compliance. Alex has worked with LBG for 10 years, and has over 20 year experience in Sourcing and Supply Chain Risk.
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Dilbagh is a Partner at Fintegral and leads the firm’s UK practice. He specialises in the areas of traded risk and climate risk, helping banks to enhance their analytics capabilities to better identify, quantify and manage current and emerging risks. He has over 20 years of experience in trading, risk management and quantitative modelling at banks and hedge funds, including Credit Suisse, Man AHL and Nomura. Dilbagh holds a degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge.
Vishwas has deep international FS consulting and risk management experience across Europe, US, Middle East and SE Asia.Vishwas has led complex risk transformations for G-SIBS, challenger banks and fintechs in the UK and EMEA, focusing on prudential regulation, capital and stress testing. Vishwas has also led a number of banking authorisations, fintech and Brexit applications and has experience of helping clients deliver to regulatory expectations and their internal performance targets. Vishwas also has experience in thought leadership and eminence, having led a number of conferences, speaker sessions and panel discussions with regulators and industry participants
Charis is a Risk Management generalist with 13+ years of experience in investment and retail banking. He is currently the Chief Risk Officer of SIB (Cyprus) Ltd, Sberbank Group, where he is responsible for developing the Risk Management framework, overseeing regulatory initiatives and driving strategic projects related to risk. His interests include Fintech and innovation in Risk Management. He holds an MBA and a Master’s in Financial Mathematics. He is also a CFA charterholder and a certified Financial Risk Manager.
Stuart Burns currently has the role of Senior Technical Specialist at the PRA, working in the team reviewing and approving IRB models. He has responsibility for aspiring IRB firms. He previously ran the IRB risk weight analysis in the Annual Cyclical Scenario (ACS) stress test, challenging firms’ stressed projections and recommending capital responses. Stuart has over 20 years experience delivering credit risk, stress testing and economic capital models. This includes roles as: Head of Model Validation for S&P Europe. Head of Models for the Rainbow Business at Royal Bank of Scotland. Head of Credit Risk Methodology at Barclays Capital, where he rebuilt the team following the departure of the previous head, and managed all IRB related regulatory issues. Head of Corporate Analytics at HSBC, where he was responsible for Credit Risk Modelling and saw the bank achieve Advanced IRB status. He also introduced credit risk stress testing and economic capital. Head of Economic Capital and Model Risk Management at Standard Chartered Bank, where his responsibilities included building an offshore validation team, and coordination of stress testing across portfolios and risk types. Advanced IRB status was delivered on the strength of these areas.
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Rob is responsible for New Business Sales and Account Management in EMEA. Based out of our London office, Rob helps guide organisations through the vendor evaluation process, remaining a key point of contact through the implementation process and throughout the ongoing relationship. Rob joined Riskonnect in September 2017 and has over 7 years experience in Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions helping a range or organisations from different industries including Telecommunications, Financial Services, Maritime and Infrastructure Projects, and more, evaluate, select and implement highly successful solutions.
David Cassonnet is Director of Business Development at ActiveViam, leading the creation of new solutons and use cases for the company.In his role, David ensures that the new product features developed by the company's R&D team translate into innovative and actionable use cases that deliver tangible value to the clients' business.With over twenty years of experience in financial markets, David has a double expertise in business development and solutions implementation. Previously he was Managing Director of ActiveViam in APAC where he and his consulting team were involved in several front-office and risk management projects with large local and international banks. David also held several roles at Mysis and Summit Systems.
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Nigel Milbank is a Cambridge University graduate and Chartered Accountant having trained with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Nigel has held audit positions in Schroders and Credit Suisse as an Audit Director, following which he helped set up the Operational risk function and Product Control global assurance at Credit Suisse.Nigel was Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Santander UK from 2006 to 2011 and joined RBS in 2012 to run the Group ICAAP function. He has held various stress testing delivery and improvement roles at RBS/ Natwest Group and since 2020 has been Programme Manager on the Climate Programme building climate stress capability and embedding climate financial risk management.
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Pradyumna specializes in Market Risk and Counterparty Risk with experience spanning both the Front Office and Risk Management functions at two of the largest global investment banks. In his current multi-dimensional role he is the market risk manager for JPM’s differential discounting desk, the banking book loan portfolio and also is the head of CVA stress testing. He is also involved in developing a climate risk management framework for JPM’s trading book. Outside of work, he is a bit of a musician and is working on his first album.
Jérôme Henry is Principal Adviser at the ECB, in the financial stability area. He led Quality Assurance for SSM stress tests and was a BIS fellow. Originally from the Banque de France, Mr Henry started at the ECB leading its modelling team and thereafter its projection exercise. Mr Henry has a number of research publications, eg the ECB STAMP€ e-book. An ENSAE graduate, he holds an Economics PhD and a History BA from Paris Sorbonne.
Per Hansson is a Director and Head of CCR Exposure Management within Credit Risk Management at Deutsche Bank, responsible for the bank’s IMM and pre-deal exposure models for counterparty credit risk. Per is additionally responsible for capital planning and the bank’s Pillar 2 capital model for credit risk. Previously, Per worked in Market Risk Management for Credit Trading and CVA at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan and was also a risk manager in JP Morgan’s prime finance business. Per has an MSc in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden.
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Ashish Bansal, a certified Chartered Accountant from India, is the Head of Finance & Regulatory Reporting in Union Bank of India (UK) Limited. In his 8 years of industry know-how, his range of experiences span from application of operational aspect of conventions at grassroot, to administering and formulating policy blueprints at the executive stratum. His in-depth technical understanding of banking products and demonstrated cognizance of RBI’s as well as Bank of England’s regulatory governance, adds to his industry’s proficiency.
Yingbo Bai currently heads up the global valuation methodologies team at UBS, where he is also a D&I ambassador . Previously, he worked in a number of quantitative roles at Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, after starting his career at CICC. Yingbo graduated from Oxford University with MSc in Mathematical Finance and London Business School with Masters in Finance, with undergraduate at Tsinghua University.
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Member of the Fraud Leadership Team across Natwest for 5 years; previous fraud prevention responsibilities have covered various products, customer journeys and fraud typologies. Currently accountable for the overall prevention and strategy of First Party Fraud (covering onbook, mules and application fraud)Previous roles include Operations Manager for Debt Management and Head of Customer Experience for Ulster Bank.
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Gary Savill is Head of Enterprise Risk for Saga Group and has over 12 years of extensive risk management expertise, working previously in general and medical insurance for AXA UK for 10 years and as Deputy Head of Operations for Sanlam Investment Management for 4 years. Gary is a Chartered Management Accountant, qualifying whilst working for Nestle UK and is also a Specialist member of the IRM and member of the Institute of Management.
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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 and passion for tackling the climate transformation. 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. In 2020 he graduated from University of Edinburgh Climate Change Transformation Program. He is a speaker and panelist at conferences on risk and regulatory outlook topics.
Amit Lakhani has varied experiences in managing operational risks at organisations of all sizes. He started his career working as a consultant with Accenture where he developed and deployed multi-million dollar programmes involving compliance and risk elements, especially information security and cyber risks. Further, Amit worked at large multinational organisations in his role at KPMG driving strategic decision-making, investments and risk reduction programmes.
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Beate Born has 17 years of experience in the financial services industry in Switzerland, Europe and Asia and has run her own consulting practice. She is currently Head of Strategic Projects at UBS Wealth Management in Zürich. Many of her 13 years at UBS she spent in Operational Risk and Capital Markets running global regulatory initiatives such as MiFID I&II as well as large initiatives such as Brexit and platform programs for Wealth Management. She is member of the leadership team of the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC) Women in Data Network as well as the EDMC ESG Committee. In September 2021 Beate will complete a Master’s Degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge with a focus on ESG data reporting and carbon disclosure comparability. Further Academic degrees include an MBA from Clark University, a DESS from the Sorbonne, an executive MBA from the Swiss Finance Institute and a certificate of advanced studies in Financial Market Regulation from the University of Zürich.
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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.
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Julie is an experienced risk manager with 25 years at UBS and specialises in outsourcing and procurement and, more widely operational resilience. She advises senior management on risk management and control globally and on how to improve communications to staff throughout the organisation with respect to her specialisation. Julie leads global investigations on breaches to the firm's policies with respect to outsourcing and procurement and advises the firm on their root cause remediation.
Chris Sparks is Atom banks Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Atom Chris had spent over twenty years in financial services working both in the UK and abroad, holding senior positions in Risk and Finance in HSBC, RBS, GE and Virgin Money. His experience has covered a range of risk disciplines with a particular focus on Credit and Data. Chris is a member of the Research Advisory Board at the Credit Research Centre at Edinburgh University Business School. He also holds the title of Professor in Practice in the Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science at Durham University.
Laura has extensive experience withthin procurement and supply chain, including several years heading up a third party ESG function for a global company. During this time, she established a third party risk programme from the ground up, initiated a Green Supplier programme to drive sustainability throughout the supply chain.Laura is passionate about, and committed to developing new tools and techniques to better manage risk and drive all aspects of ESG with third parties. She is looking forward to continuing to learn from peers, as well as providing her expertise and experience to benefit others.
Orlando Fernández is a Senior Technical Specialist in the Governance, Remuneration & Controls team in the Bank of England’s Prudential Policy Directorate. Over the past two and half years, he has been leading the PRA’s policy on outsourcing and third-party risk management, with a focus on technologies such as cloud. Orlando was one of the authors of the PRA’s Consultation Paper on ‘Outsourcing and third-party risk management’. He also represented the Bank of England at the EBA group that produced the 2019 Guidelines on Outsourcing and contributed to the FSB’s report on third-party dependencies in cloud services that was published in December 2019. Prior to working in this areas, Orlando also played a leading role in the development of the PRA’s policy on the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR).
Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) Jensen Penalosa has been a Special Agent with the FBI since 2005. ALAT Penalosa is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Prior to entering on duty with the FBI, ALAT Penalosa was employed as a software engineer. From 2012 to 2017, ALAT Penalosa supervised Cyber Crime Squads responsible for conducting counterintelligence and criminal cyber investigations in the Los Angeles area. In 2017 ALAT Penalosa was named the FBI Liaison Officer to Department of Defense partners in Hawaii. ALAT Penalosa is currently assigned to the FBI Legal Attaché office in London where he coordinates the investigative and intelligence activities between the FBI and international partners.
Alastair Parr is responsible for ensuring that the demands of the market space are considered and applied innovatively within the Prevalent portfolio. He joined Prevalent from 3GRC, where he served as one of the founders, and was responsible for and instrumental in defining products and services. He comes from a governance, risk and compliance background; developing and driving solutions to the ever-complex risk management space. He brings over 12 years’ experience in product management, consultancy and operations deliverables. Earlier in his career, he served as the Operations Director for a global managed service provider, InteliSecure, where he was responsible for overseeing effective data protection and risk management programs for clients. Alastair holds a university degree in Politics and International Relations, as well as several information security certifications.
Sean Miles is 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.
Martina Macpherson is Head of ESG Strategy and an ExCo Member for ODDO BHF Asset Management & Private Equity. Martina has held several global leadership roles in ESG strategy, product development and innovation including Senior Vice President, ESG and Engagement Strategy at Moody’s, Global Head of ESG Index Products and Research at S&P DJI, Managing Director of Sustainable Investments Partners Ltd. and Vice President of ESG Solutions at MSCI. Prior to this, she worked in (ESG) product, research and engagement roles at Insight Investment, F&C AM and at Deutsche Bank AG. Martina has been a member of multiple sustainable finance associations and policy working groups at an EU and an international level. Currently, Martina is part of The Global ESG Leaders Forum – UK/EU/China, the European Law Institute's Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee, and the Enterprise Data Management Council’s Working Group on ESG Data, Innovation, Technology and Metrics. Martina is a visiting fellow in sustainable finance at University of Zurich and Henley Business School. She has an MBA certificate in finance and business from LSBF / UK, and a MA in Law and Human Sciences from University of Frankfurt in Germany. She is a fellow member of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS) UK, a honorary doctoral fellow of the Institute for Certified Risk Management Professionals (ICRMP) UK, and an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). Martina is a public speaker in sustainable investing and has co-authored a range of ESG and Fintech books, including “The AI Book” (2020), “The Routledge Handbook on Biodiversity” (2021) and the RiskBook on “ESG in Portfolio Construction” (in process, 2022).
Quantitative leader, specialist in machine learning, numerical methods and algorithm development: most applications based on applied math for valuation of financial products, risk model building and risk measurement. Trained to apply techniques and tools for enhancement of financial analysis and decision making.I love to work with teams from different disciplines, it’s the best way to really develop new powerful ideas.