Risk Americas 2024 | Center for Financial Professionals (CeFPro) | 21 May 2024 | etc.venues 360 Madison, 360 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA

Americas premier risk and innovation convention and the only event of its kind, this event expanses over 4 targeted streams to enable delegates to obtain a holistic overview of risk, as well as the opportunity to deep dive into one area as they learn from industry experts and advance their professional development.

This event addresses critical themes across 2 intensive and interactive pre-event Forums, 5 keynote sessions, and 4 simultaneous streams. With 80+ sessions to choose from, more than 20 panel discussions, and 100+ speakers, attendees can delve into their area of expertise, or broaden their risk horizon. In addition, Risk Americas is an opportunity to engage with like-minded industry professionals, as well as advance your professional development.  

2024 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Mitchell Button
SVP, Head of Financial Model Validation, US Bank

Lorenzo Cupido
Chief Investment Risk Officer, Prudential Financial

Paul Diouri
Chief Risk Officer, Barings

Carl Groth
Chief Risk Officer, Legal & General Retirement

Aengus Hallinan
Chief Operational Risk Officer; and CRO For Securities Services & Digital, BNY Mellon

Jie Hua
Head of Corporate Treasury Department, Americas Division, SMBC

Tendayi Kapfidze
Chief Economist, Wells Fargo

Saad Khan
Managing Director – Corporate Treasury, Morgan Stanley tbc

Cyril Korenbeusser
Chief Operational Resilience Officer, BNP Paribas

Markus Lammer
COO, Investment Banking and Capital Markets America, UBS

Sabeena Ahmed Liconte
Head of Legal & Chief Compliance Officer, Americas, ICBC Standard Bank Group Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Ross Marrazzo
EVP – Enterprise Chief Compliance Officer, Flagstar Bank

Emily Nachlas
Chief Risk Officer, Western Alliance Bancorporation

Charles A. Richard III
Senior Vice President, Co-Founder, QRM

Melissa Sexton
Chief Risk Officer, BNY Mellon Wealth Management

Michael Soccio
Treasurer, Citizens Bank

Paul Tava
Chief Risk Officer – Advice & Wealth Management, Ameriprise Financial

Howard Whyte
Chief Information Security Officer, Truist tbc

SPEAKERS:

Rezarta Aliaj
Executive Director – Global Banking & Markets, Treasury & Swap Dealer Compliance, Scotiabank

Kayvan Alikhani
VP, Product Development Engineering- Compliance.ai, Archer

Imir Arifi
Former Executive Director, Models and Methodologies, UBS

Terrence Barrett
First Vice President, Analytics, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Axos Financial

Andries Berendsen
Head of FP&A and Capital Planning, Rabobank

James Berrocales
Manager, Solutions Engineering, iGrafx

Stacey Bolton
Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, Asset Servicing, Northern Trust

C. Robin Castelli
Author – Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance

Yannick De Ceulaer
Financial Controller & Intrapreneurship Program Manager, Arrayo

Mehdi Esmail
Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, ValidMind

Will Heffernan
Director of Field Operations, CIMCON

Vall Herard
CEO and Founder, Saifr

Tarun Joshi
Executive Director NLP/GenAI Model Validation, Wells Fargo

Derek Jun
Managing Director, Head of Climate Risk Oversight, Nuveen, a TIAA Company

Olivier Lachaud
Former Director – Office of the COO, Scotiabank

Sabeena Ahmed Liconte
Head of Legal & Chief Compliance Officer, Americas, ICBC Standard Bank Group Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Philip Masquelette
SVP, CRO, Ulster Savings Bank NFR Advisory Board member CeFPro

Ira McKey
Director of Product Management, iGrafx

Lee Medoff
Head of Model Governance, Fifth Third Bank

Santosh Mishra
Group Head – Quantitative Modeling & Advanced Analytics, KeyBank

Arpit Narain
Global Head of Financial Solutions, MathWorks

Yu Pan
EVP, Chief Model Risk Officer, US Bank

Alex Roumi
Senior Product Manager, Mathworks

Alberto Ramirez
Partner – Risk Analytics, Solytics Partners

Rajeev Sambyal
MD, Head of Digital Assets Platform, BNY Mellon

Craig Spielmann
Risk Intelligence Leader, CNM LLP

Chris Smigielski
Director of Model Risk Management, Arvest Bank NFR Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Thomas Sullivan
Managing Director, Societe Generale – FORGE

Charles Tao
Director, Head of Market Risk Modelling, Citi

Stephen Woitsky
SVP, Operational Risk Business Oversight, Wells Fargo NFR Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Yun Zheng
Head of ST and ESG Analytics, Global Risk Analytics, HSBC USA

Susan Adibi
Director, MUFG

Tibor Bartels
Managing Director/Head of Transaction Services Americas, ING Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Tamara Culler
Director for Governance and Operational Risk Policy, OCC

Kelly Feili
Director – Risk Policy and Advocacy, DTCC

Madiha Fatima
Executive Director, JP Morgan Third Party Risk Management Advisory Board member CeFPro

John Groetch
Head of Partners Program, NAM, ActiveViam

Chris Harner
Managing Director, Cybersecurity, Sia Partners

Anand Hingway
Executive Director, Environmental & Social Risk Management, US Region, CIBC US

Cyril Korenbeusser
Chief Operational Resilience Officer, BNP Paribas

Tausif Khan
Director, Third Party Risk Management, DTCC Third Party Risk Management Advisory Board member CeFPro

Srini Masanam
Global Head of Surveillance Data Quality, Citi

Wei Ma
Managing Director, Head of Model Risk and Validation, SMBC

Matthew Moore
Director, US Head of Operational Risk for Markets, Banking, Treasury, Barclays

Ross Marrazzo
EVP – Enterprise Chief Compliance Officer, Flagship Bank

Emily Nachlas
Chief Risk Officer, Western Alliance Bancorporation

Anita Nandakumar
Head of Operational Resilience – Global Markets, Goldman Sachs

Monisha Nariani
Head of Sales Enablement and Strategy, Retail and Small Business Banking, US Bank

Jascha Prosiegel
Market Lead North America, AI Risks, Munich Re

Marta Palanques
Director, Assessment Methodology, Technology Risk Management, Capital One

Charles Shen
Managing Director, Head of Model Risk Management, Societe Generale

Sara Ricci
Former Head of Information Risk Governance and Resilience, HBC

Robert Shearman
Product Manager, SaaS Application Lead, Aravo

Dalit Stern
Managing Director, Enterprise Fraud Risk Officer, TIAA

Patrick Simonnet
Managing Director – Chief Audit Executive, Bank of China

Ian Broff
Head of Market Risk, USAA

P.J. Cole
Senior Sales Executive, Empyrean Solutions

Roger Coroas
Head of Solutions Engineering, NAM, ActiveViam

Lorenzo Cupido
Chief Investment Risk Officer, Prudential Financial

Nabil Ez-zaoui
Managing Director, Head of Markets Advisory, Mizuho

Asha Gowda
Director – Market Risk Governance, KeyBank

Vineet Gumasta
Head of Balance Sheet Management – Rural Business, Rabobank

Mike Guglielmo
Managing Director, Darling Consulting Group

Bernhard Hientzsch
Head of Market Modeling Techniques (for Corporate Model Risk), Wells Fargo

Sandeep Jain
Director & Market Risk Executive, Bank of America

Shahab Khan
Head of Liquidity Policy, HSBC

Sudhir Kumar
Head of Capital Management Oversight, US Bank

Sean Keenan
Executive Director, RMDAD – Stress Testing, SMBC

Judah Kaplan
Director – Independent Liquidity Risk – Legal Entities, BNY Mellon

Markus Lammer
COO, Investment Banking and Capital Markets Americas, UBS

Ernest Lang
Head of ALM Analytic Solutions, Transamerica

Andrew Lakin
Head of Client Management North America, QRM

Kai-Ching Lin
Head of Model/Market Risk, Valley National Bank

Arun Polala
Senior Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo

Phil Ohana
Global Head of Market Risk Audit, UBS

Erdni Okonov
Business Intelligence Practice Director, Arrayo

Oskar Rogg
Managing Director, Head of Treasury, Credit Agricole Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Ronald Ratcliffe, PhD
Managing Director in Applied Portfolio Analysis, BlackRock

Jorge Segura
Senior Director, Head of IRBBB/ALM Risk Oversight, Santander

Shawn Snyder
Global Investment Strategist, Executive Director, JP Morgan

Katya Ternyayeva
Director, Americas Head of Funding & Liquidity Management, Barclays

Ashutosh Tripathi
Managing Director, Mizuho

Gavin Xu
Global Head of Markets Model Validation, HSBC US

David Adcock
SVP/Director of Credit Risk, Cadence Bank

Erdem Aktug
Head of Model Risk – Retail, Securitization & FSL, Morgan Stanley

George Bezerianos
Managing Director, Global Head of Fixed Income and Wealth Management Valuation Control, Morgan Stanley

Mitchell Chad
Senior (Managing) Director Stress and Impairment – Modeling and Analytics, RBC

Petr Chovanec
Director, UBS

Grace Duggar
SVP Model Risk, China Construction Bank

Paul Diouri
Chief Risk Officer, Barings

Fabrice Fiol
Managing Director, Head of Risk Management, Kuvare Asset Management

Seyhun Hepdogan
Director of Analytics, Fifth Third Bank Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member CeFPro

Mike Guglielmo
Managing Director, Darling Consulting Group

Xiaowei Han
VP, Head of ALM, TIAA

Haibo Huang
Managing Director, Global Head of Credit Stress and Portfolio Analytics, Morgan Stanley

Aleksey Leksanov
Managing Director, Head of Model Risk Management, Mizuho

Fabien Lemoine
Director, Senior Credit Officer, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Bank

Jonathan Liu
Risk and Treasury Professional, RBC

Bernardo Mandri
Executive Director, Head of Credit Risk Review, ICBC

Naresh Malhotra
Director, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking

Theresa Meawed
Senior Director & Head of Solutions Consulting, SS&C

Arsa Oemar
Director, Model Risk Management, US Bank

Jascha Prosiegel
Market Lead North America, AI Risks, Munich Re

Sal Rehmetullah
Founder & CEO, WorthAI

Alisa Rusanoff
Head of Credit/Trade Finance, Crescendo Asset Management

Heather Russell
Director – Quantitative Finance Manager, Bank of America

Shahed Shafi
Head of Counterparty Risk/Credit Products, US Bank

Devon Wijesinghe
President, Worth AI

2024 Sponsors and Partners

CO-SPONSORS:
• ActiveViam
• Appian
• Aravo
• Arrayo
• CIMCON
• Darling Consulting Group
• iGrafx
• LSEG Data & Analytics
• MathWorks
• Solytics Partners
• ValidMind
• Worth AI

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• Archer
• Empyrean Solutions
• SS&C
• SIA Partners
• SAIFR

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• Quantitative Risk Management