Vasiliki Basiou is a VP with 7+ years of experience in Operational Risk Capital Modelling at Credit Suisse, where she is currently leading the climate-related efforts within the Operational Risk Management (ORM) group. Before that, she was the Global OpRisk capital models manager, managing the quant team responsible for regulatory and internal capital models across the bank within the ORM department. Vasiliki holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Athens University of Economics & Business and a M.S. in Financial Risk Management from University College of London (UCL). She recently acquired the Certificate in ESG investing from the CFA Institute as per her interest in climate risk management and overall ESG.

Stefana is the recently appointed CRO for L&G Protection and Fintech, she also has wider responsibility for IT and Data Risk across L&G’s Retail division (of which Protection is part of). Stefana is an experienced Risk Professional with over 18 years in the financial services industry (15 in risk). She has worked for organisations across the financial services industry, which has given her a broad exposure to banking, asset management and more recently insurance. Stefana is passionate about delivering diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and creating opportunities for others to realise their full potential.

Phil is co-chair of the CFRF (FCA) project to develop best practice in scenario modelling for asset managers. He devised and led the climate transition plan for M&G Investments including: joining NZAMi as a founder member (Dec 2020); portfolio emissions reduction targets; setting the Thermal coal transition plan; Portfolio manager Toolsets supporting the Net Zero Investment framework; the climate risk scenario modelling; the CBES stress test as an SME; and evidencing the plan in the latest M&G Plc sustainability report.

Keith is currently Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer (CRCO) of Admiral Group Plc, having previously been a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Risk & Audit Committee for two entities within the Admiral Group.

He has extensive experience in risk management and governance, having worked in insurance, asset management and banking for 25 years. Prior to joining Admiral,  Keith was previously CRCO at Federated Hermes Limited – the fund management company that has been at the forefront of sustainability investing and global stewardship since 1983. Before that, Keith held a number of senior roles at Prudential and M&G Plc (M&G) – being the first Chief Risk Officer at M&G having helped the company de-merge from Prudential Plc. He was previously Group-wide Chief Internal Audit Executive for all Prudential’s insurance and asset management companies. He has also held senior roles in risk management and audit at Standard Chartered and Deutsche Bank and spent two years within the Policy team at the Financial Services Authority. In addition to his NED role at Admiral, Keith is also a Trustee for the International House Trust Charity and on the Risk and Audit Committee at Glamorgan CCC and can therefore give a perspective of governance from both an Executive and independent viewpoint. Keith has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Bristol, has certifications on ESG Investing and Sustainability & Climate Risk, and helped write the ESG Investment Handbook.

Anit is with the Divisional Control Office in the Investment Bank. Prior to that he spent several years in the Non-Financial Risk department on framework topics.

Alex’s current responsibilities include leading the financial crime intelligence and data development strategies for Standard Chartered Bank’s High Risk Client Unit. With the support of HRCU colleagues, he leads intelligence projects and proactive investigations to build bank-wide understanding of the financial crime threats. This work supports our colleagues and clients to manage financial crime risks and to protect our customers and the bank. Alex has spent his career collaborating with and within a range of cross-sector organisations and law enforcement, on initiatives that support our collective ability to access the right information and infrastructure to minimise the harmful impact of crime on economies and societies. In addition to pursuing a geeky personal interest in Cyberpsychology, he is a member of the Institute of Leadership, holds a master’s degree in Intelligence and International Security and a diploma in Anti-Money Laundering, and is currently working towards a diploma in Data Analytics.

Damian joined Acin as an Innovation Specialist in 2020, and built the world’s first climate risk inventory for financial institutions.  Today, the firm has extended its network-driven, peer-to-peer operational risk platform to include climate risk.  Damian’s role has now grown to include IB operational risk expertise.  Prior to joining Acin, Damian had 15 years’ experience in operational risk & control roles at Société Générale, HSBC, RBS and Lehman Brothers.  Previously, Damian was a soldier for 19 years.

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.

Ameet Jugnauth is an experienced Cyber and Technology leader within the Financial Services sector. With over 15 years of experience across insurance and banking, Ameet has led global information security initiatives, large scale risk and control transformation programmes and recently led risk oversight for strategic transformation at a large banking group. Ameet joined Capital One in 2022 as the Cyber Governance and Risk Director, responsible for third party management, cyber risk and compliance, developing thought leadership across both UK and US teams. Appearing at events regularly in the UK and Europe, he shares his insights into resilience best practices, innovation and is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion as a lever to organisational success.

Michelle draws on a range of business experience from an early career as entrepreneur, business consultant and academic, to most recently working as a Group Director of Organisational Risk & Resilience at a FTSE-100. With oversight of Sustainability and Reputational Risk globally across a multi-entity business, she launched the first group Reputational and ESG Risk frameworks, policies and controls across a complex asset management, insurance and savings business. Michelle also featured in ‘Midlands Sport Power 50’ for her role as Senior Independent Director at Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Edgbaston, host venue for Commonwealth Games 2022 and currently studying for her certificate in Sustainability Management with University of Cambridge (CISL).

Catherine has worked within financial services for over 37 years with nearly 19 year’s experience in Compliance and Risk. She is the former Group Head of Compliance Risk Framework for HSBC a Chartered FCSI and is the current Chair of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments Compliance Forum.

Catherine has held senior compliance and risk management roles across a number of global financial services firms including Citigroup, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS and for the last 8 years at HSBC. She has extensive experience leading regulatory and operational risk change programmes, all areas of Compliance risk including the development of monitoring methodologies and functions, managing relationships with regulators both UK and Internationally and has a keen interest in the development and usage of data for managing compliance risk.

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

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Javier is the Group Head of Operational Resilience at the Bank of Ireland. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector including Risk Management, Finance and IT. 

Prior to Bank of Ireland, Javier worked at different banks including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Nomura and, most recently, at the Bank of England where he was the Head of Operational Risk and Resilience for UKDT.

I am currently heading the Operational Risk Function at the National Bank of Kuwait International.

I have spent the last 10 years or so designing, implementing, and embedding Operational Risk frameworks across various sectors of Financial Services, including Retail Banking Payments and Financial Technology.

I also sit on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Operational Risk as Head of Membership for England and Wales.

Aoife has been part of the Wolters Kluwer, OneSumX team for almost a decade and has held various positions across the Go-to-Market function. In her current role, Aoife helps our customers gain efficiencies through automating the manual and simplifying the complex. Aoife has experience implementing Operational Risk and Regulatory Change frameworks globally ranging from Tier 1 Global Banks, Systemic Insurance Companies to smaller financial institutions. She has a keen interest in emerging technologies and the efficiencies Artificial Intelligence can yield.

Lisa has been with Lloyds Banking Group for 22 years, working across a range of business disciplines in that time. She spent 15 years in various 1LOD risk roles, building a breadth of capability from experiences such as Bank of Scotland’s exit from Ireland, LBG’s regulatory ring-fence programme and the stand-up of LBCM (Non-ring-fence bank) 1LOD risk function.  Since joining Conduct Compliance & Operational Risk in 2019, Lisa has led several non-financial risk strategic initiatives, together with work to strengthen risk culture and capability Group-wide. Lisa lives in Musselburgh with her husband, David and their two sons.

Sean is currently the Head of Operational Risk at Shawbrook Bank; having previously held senior risk roles at Barclays, Santander and Pay.UK Sean is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Bank’s Operational Risk Framework including Third Party Risk Management, Stress testing, ICAAP process as well as developing associated policies and procedures. Sean is driving data-driven risk assessment, taking an intelligence driven approach to change risk management

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With over 20 years of consulting experience for banks, insurance and energy companies in Europe, UK and North America, Patrick is widely recognized as an expert in operational risk modeling and quantification.
He is the designer of the award-winning quantitative and analytical framework known as XOI, a unique approach to operational risk quantification that has been widely adopted by leading financial institutions.
Patrick graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris with a Master of Science degree in Economics and Applied Mathematics. He is also an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) certified.

Chika helps organisations to address GRC mandates and broader requirements with technology. Drawing on his experience across Fintech, AML/KYC Regtech, TPRM and GRC technology, he is currently preparing financial institutions in EMEA for the upcoming operational resilience legislations and the evolving risk context.Making digital transformation tangible – in part through publications and interviews – has been a constant in Chika’s career. As a result, he has been invited to speak at technology missions with the UK Department of Trade in the DACH region to make an even broader case for investing in digital transformation (Made in the UK).

Financial professional with over 20 years’ experience in Investment Banking (IB) Industry. Career started in Audit where I qualified as Chartered Accountant before moving into IB.

Worked across a number of functions covering Finance Product Control, Treasury, Operations and most recently Operational Risk.  With such breath of experience has provided me the ability to critically assess Op Risk across the front to bank processes within banking.

With evolving Operational Risk landscape have been a thought leader in strategically leading team requiring recalibration of skills.

Ian joined the FCA in the summer of 2021 as Director of the Intelligence & Digital division.  He is helping set up a cross-FCA centre of excellence to ensure the organisation utilises the range of intelligence it receives and to maximise the exploitation of digital opportunities.

Prior to his current role, Ian was most recently Director of Citizens’ Health Technology at NHS Digital, helping lead its response to COVID-19. Ian has also worked at the Home Office, overseeing the world’s largest migration to Amazon Web Services, as well as transforming immigration platforms at the height of Brexit.

Ian has spent over a decade in National Security with strong expertise in data exploitation, in addition to holding senior technology roles at Visa, Citibank and American Express.

Gary Savill is Head of ERM Programme Delivery for Starr Insurance  since 2022 working previously in SAGA and AXA UK for 10 years as Head of Operational Risk and as Deputy Head of Operations for Sanlam Investment Management prior to that.  Gary is a Chartered Management Accountant and is also a Specialist member of the IRM and member of the Institute of Management.

Gary has extensive experience of risk management frameworks, people risk, Solvency II, control assurance, risk appetite, conduct risk, risk culture, third party risk oversight and building high performance teams.  He has a particular interest in psychology and decision making.

Shabbir is an Operational Risk Control professional with a blend of Risk management and Digital Transformation experience. He currently leads the second line’ oversight of Technology, Information Security Risk and Third-party Risk at Handesbanken plc. Prior to Handelsbanken, he worked with KPMG , Infosys and HCL Technologies in various roles across UK, India and Southern Africa. Shabbir is an IT Engineer by qualification, completed MBA programme in Advanced IT and holds professional certifications such as Certified in Operational Risk Management (CORM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), ISO 27001, Privacy Lead Auditor and PRINCE2 professional.
He is passionate about simplifying risk management and actively champions use of technology to enhance risk processes within the organisation using GRC and advanced technologies.

Andrew is best know for the 8 years he spent at the UK regulator, firstly in the FSA and subsequently at the PRA. During his time at the regulator, Andrew managed the Operational Risk Review team and represented the UK on the BCBS’ and EBA’s Operational Risk working groups. After life at the regulator Andrew joint HSBC and then Credit Suisse before retiring in 2019 and setting up a consultancy to provide assistance and training in Operational Risk, Operational Resilience and Consumer Duty. Andrew actively promotes the development and discipline of Operational Risk.

Mikil has more than eighteen years of experience in IT, IS and Cybersecurity operational risk and controls roles. He has worked in 1^st and 2^nd Lines of defence roles and a very good understanding of the technology and processes supporting investment banking services and activities. Mikil, in his current role, is responsible for developing and embedding operational risk framework tools and methodologies; maintain an effective 2LoD oversight of the controls environment and ensuring regulatory requirements and expectations are met; and provide a holistic picture of the technology risk for SOCIETE GENERALE Corporate and Investment Banking. Mikil has very good understanding of regulations different jurisdictions and is an active member of various industry bodies.

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 growing team responsible for the Bank’s overall risk management framework and approach to Operational Risk from a second line perspective. This includes liaison with the PRA and FCA and making ongoing enhancements to the Bank’s approach to risk appetite, governance and embedding a strong risk culture across the three lines of defence. Sean has been integral to a transformation in the Bank’s approach, including putting in place a new Risk Taxonomy, Bank Risk Report, approach to RCSA, Control Testing, Operational Risk losses and Scenario Analysis as well as setting up a new Operational Risk Oversight Committee, which he chairs. His team is working closely with the first line on approaches to Operational Resilience, Third Party Risk Management and the management of People, Change, Data, Information Security and Technology Risks.

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

Sanjeev is a commercially focused risk and finance leadership professional, with broad experience across Retail and Wholesale businesses.  A delivery focused high-performing senior risk management professional with broad experience gained across Internal Audit and Non-Financial and Financial Risks.  Proven expertise includes;

• Representing Group Internal Audit on key divisional and Group Governance Forums including Risk and Control Committees.
• Simplifying enterprise-wide and operational risk management to ensure business areas utilise risk management tools to manage both Financial Risk and Non-Financial risk profiles within Appetite.
• Demonstrating proactivity and adaptability in challenging and evolving regulatory requirements in delivering and auditing Global Non-Financial Risk Programmes of work across multiple entities/locations across Group-wide Tier 1 Banks.

Jonny Weare is a leader in conduct, culture and compliance with experience across transformation initiatives, in providing advice and challenge to business, compliance oversight and the effective leadership of second line compliance teams. Having designed and implemented governance frameworks at the Group level including for both Board and Executive Management teams, he has developed capabilities for regulatory compliance and change, conduct and culture, and reporting for effective governance and decision-making. He advises and support businesses in navigating good outcomes and in building capabilities and culture to manage and solve complex governance, risk and compliance issues.

Lee has over 20 years’ experience in business continuity recovery and resilience and is currently Group Head of Operational Resilience at Aviva Plc. Before recently joining Aviva Plc, Lee held several recovery and resilience roles at Barclays Bank Plc which, for 15 years these, ranged from supporting recovery and resilience for UK Banking, leading the global crisis and near miss function and playing a prominent role in the definition and delivery of the global resilience transformation programme. Lee is currently co-Chair of the Operational Resilience Collaboration Group (ORCG).

Lee has also held roles for a number of organisations in both the public and private sector; small independent operations to large multi-national corporations. He spent six years in Hong Kong, as a Director at Credit Suisse, during which time he was responsible for the roll-out of the Asia Pacific segment of a global Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery remediation programme. Prior to moving into Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Lee worked as a systems auditor and IT security consultant. Lee has previously been a representative on the Prince of Wales Trust Business Emergency Resilience Group (BERG) Leadership Team, Chair of the IBM Resilience Community and Chair of the SunGard AS European Client Advisory Board.

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ELSEWARE is a leading risk analysis company that specializes in scenario modeling.
We offer clients a unique solution to assess risks when relevant data is scarce, and available knowledge is uncertain.
Our expert team helps financial institutions develop structured assessments for key operational risk scenarios, including cyber threats, conduct, disruption, fraud, and more.
Additionally, we help assessing the impact of climate change on operations and risks to equip our clients with the necessary tools to face the future with confidence.

Founded in 2018, Acin has built the defining data network for operational risk control, for leading financial institutions.

Acin’s award-winning Risk Control Diagnostics platform digitizes and assures operational risk controls in a connected data network across the financial services industry.  Backed by Fitch Ratings, and trusted by JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered and other pioneers. Acin assures operational risk controls are complete, efficient and calibrated to the market.

Using technology and data science Acin is equipping financial institutions to quantify, calibrate, and visualize their operational risk control data – transforming operational risk control from a manual, qualitative and subjective discipline into one that is automated, quantitative, and robust.

Ideagen help the quiet voices and safe hands that protect organisations to minimise risk, strengthen compliance and keep people safe. We are the name trusted by organisations globally to deliver world-class, innovative software solutions in regulated or high-compliance industries such as aviation, financial services, life sciences, healthcare and manufacturing.

Whether you’re a large global corporation or a small to medium business, our solutions and services will help you solve complex quality, health and safety risk, audit and collaboration challenges. Over 11,400 companies, from SMEs to large global corporations, use our solutions to help protect their organisations.

Wolters Kluwer is a market leader and trusted provider of risk management and regulatory compliance solutions and services to insurers, banks, and securities firms worldwide. More than 15,000 financial organizations trust Wolters Kluwer to provide them with solutions that help them effectively manage risk across their businesses, whether it’s ensuring compliance with multiple regulatory changes, increasing operational effectiveness or providing an enterprise-wide view of a financial organizations risk.

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