Why should you attend?
Over the years, the understanding of operational risk – of people, processes, and systems – has altered and adapted to the changing times and climate. A more contemporary view is for professionals to view this as non-financial and operational risks, which better outlines the aspects that are not specifically financial risk.
The ever-changing role and responsibility of the risk professional, especially during the challenging and unprecedented times, requires new thinking, stringent processes, and greater understanding of the diversity of systems. CeFPro’s Non-Financial and Operational Risk Congress provides a clear path on the current challenges, and future path and opportunities.
Key highlights from the 2023 Congress
- REGULATION:
Managing regulatory requirements to manage disparities in an everchanging landscape
- LINES OF DEFENCE:
Coordinating risk silos across the three lines of defences whilst increasing collaboration for full risk oversight
- CYBERSECURITY:
Managing evolution of cybersecurity and developing defence strategies to mitigate risk
- THIRD PARTY RISK:
Controlling and managing third party risk to manage risk exposure
- RCSA:
Developing tangible outcomes by leveraging benefits of RCSA beyond a tick box exercise
- RESILIENCE:
The implementation of an overarching resilience framework to capture all risks
- FINANCIAL CRIME:
Exploring the ever-changing landscape and adapting new techniques to avoid fraud and financial crime.
- CONVERGENCE:
Covering the integration of compliance, operational risk, and enterprise risk under one framework
An engaging and interactive agenda spread across 2-days
Participate in a comprehensive exploration of the topics at hand via presentations, panel discussions, and live Q&As to facilitate learning and engagement.
Subject matter experts share their knowledge and experiences
30+ senior risk professionals presenting on the critical challenges, providing insight and case studies, and offering fresh perspectives to new and long-standing challenges.
7+ hours of available networking opportunities
Continue conversations from inside the auditorium over coffee, lunch, and at our complimentary drinks reception. Make meaningful career-long industry connections to use to your professional advantage.
Key speakers from the 2023 Congress
Michael Steinhoefel
Director, Operational Risk Management
Barclays
Madiha Fatima
Executive Director, Operational & Outsourcing Risk
J.P.Morgan
Dominique Benz
Managing Director, Americas Head of Business Controls
Mizuho
Sabeena Liconte
Chief of Compliance
ICBC
Daniel E Worrell
Head of Non-Financial Risk Department
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Zhi Chung
Director, Non-Financial Risk Management
Credit Suisse
Sonia Jarvis
Director, Quantitative Modelling
Fannie Mae
Gustavo Ortega
Head of Technology, Innovation and Operations Risk Management
Voya Financial
Patricia Catharino
US Head of Internal Controls and Risk Management
Banco Itau International
Melissa Mellen
Director, Third Party Risk Management
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
I found [Operational Risk Management USA] to be exceptional, the topics, the experience of the speakers, the interaction with the audience, I have a lot of great examples to bring back to my own firm that can hopefully help us manage risk better.
I’ve been to this conference several times and what I’ve always liked is the size of the conference… It’s smaller in size and as a result, my communication and interaction with my peers are more which is something that I like… There’s a lot of interaction within the sessions, a lot of takeaways.
I came away from [Operational Risk Management USA] with some new and different ways to think about operational resiliency and how to properly account for and manage non-financial risks in an ever changing monitoring and control environment.
It was a great series of discussions. I was very happy that I had the opportunity to participate.
Great conference with a variety of operational risk topics. Learned a lot and exchanged some valuable ideas.
I’ve attended 6 of the 7 Operational Risk USA conferences over the years and always find engaging dialogue and breakout sessions on a variety of emerging risks.
Fun and engaging conversation [at Operational Risk USA]. Thanks CeFPro and all the participants for a great show.
Session previews and related insights
Get an insight of what to expect from the Congress with our past and present speaker session previews.
The future of operational risk: Technology integration for effective risk management in an evolving landscape
The future of operational risk: Technology integration for effective risk management in an evolving landscape Nick Woods, Chief Auditor, NatWest Below is an insight into what can be expected from Nick's session at Risk Evolve 2024. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+CeFPro%27s+Risk+Evolve+2024&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-evolve%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual,
Consumer duty: Benchmarking progress and embedding best practices for compliance
Consumer duty: Benchmarking progress and embedding best practices for compliance Paul Gill, Chief Risk Officer, Mortgage Advice Bureau Below is an insight into what can be expected from Paul's session at Risk Evolve 2024. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+CeFPro%27s+Risk+Evolve+2024&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-evolve%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not
Reviewing the changing FFC landscape
Reviewing the changing FFC landscape Thomas Mangine, former Director, AML and MLRO, BMO Below is an insight into what can be expected from Thomas's session at Non-Financial & Operational Risk USA 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Non-Financial+%26amp%3B+Operational+Risk+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fnon-financial-and-operational-risk-usa%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed
Regulations around AI and machine learning
Regulations around AI and machine learning Sandeep Maira, former Head of Strategic Systems, The OCC Below is an insight into what can be expected from Sandeep's session at Non-Financial & Operational Risk USA 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Non-Financial+%26amp%3B+Operational+Risk+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fnon-financial-and-operational-risk-usa%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are
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Varun Agarwal
Director, Enterprise Risk Management
Western Alliance Bank
Varun Agarwal
Varun has worked in the Enterprise Risk, ESG, and Strategic Risk Management space in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He brings experience both as a practitioner and a provider of consulting services to global banking organizations. He is currently a leader in the Enterprise Risk Management function at Western Alliance Bank, an innovative and fast-paced growing bank based in Phoenix, AZ. He has previously worked for HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, and Deloitte in the US, Canada, and Europe.
Varun is a published author on varied topics in finance and risk management across the US and Europe. He has a Ph.D. in Economics, an MS in Financial Economics, and BS in Engineering, and a CFA Charter.
Dominique Benz
Managing Director, Head of Business Controls
Mizuho
Dominique Benz
Dominique has over 25 years of financial services experience and deep expertise in Business Controls, Risk Management, Technology, and Process Transformation. He is a Managing Director at Mizuho Americas providing first line enterprise control services to the Americas region. His responsibilities include Business Continuity Planning, Third Party Risk Management, Data Management Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and Business Risk & Control Services, and a number of other important risk disciplines. Dominique has worked in similar capacities for some of the world’s leading global financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibroup and Deutsche Bank. Dominique holds an MBA and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers University.
Leading a team of first line of defense risk and control professionals performing essential enterprise control functions across the company including Third Party Services, Business Continuity Planning, Data Management Operations, Data Loss Prevention, Strategic Souring and Business Risk and Control Services. The functions performed span all lines of business and corporate functions across the Americas region. The department is also accountable for spearheading the company’s efforts to understand and manage data privacy, fraud, conduct, reputational, and strategic risk.
Influential decision-maker with the gravitas and experience to develop robust risk management frameworks, lead enterprise-wide control functions, and drive business process transformation initiatives resulting in reduced risk exposure, improved internal controls, substantial cost savings, and accelerated time to market. Creates a winning culture by building extraordinary teams who work seamlessly together.
Chris Brozenick
VP Product Marketing
Dataminr
Chris Brozenick
Chris Brozenick is Vice President of Product Marketing at Dataminr, where he leads go-to-market efforts for Dataminr Pulse and Dataminr for News. Prior to Dataminr, Chris was the vice president of product strategy for WorldAware and vice president of product for WeatherBug / Earth Networks. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
Patricia Catharino
Head of Risk Management & Internal Controls, U.S. and Caribbean, SVP
Banco Itau International
Patricia Catharino
Patricia has over 25 years of Corporate Level experience in the Legal, Auditing, Risk and Compliance departments. Patricia began her career working as a Lawyer and Auditor for Serv Cadastro e Cobranca Ltda responsible for legal coordination and implementing internal auditing in its departments in Brazil. She joined Itaύ Unibanco in 2000 starting in Audit and moving to areas such as Compliance and Internal Controls. Patricia has led teams and implemented new methodologies to mitigate risk and increase innovation and efficiency. In 2014, Patricia began her International experience with Itaύ working with Itaύ Caribbean and Miami responsible for the Internal Controls department. In 2017, Patricia became the Head of Risk and Internal Controls for Itaύ U.S overseeing Financial & Operational Risk and Internal Controls, working with several jurisdictions as USA, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Chile and Mexico. In 2021, Fiduciary Risk in Asset Management was included in her activities, as well as oversight of Client Risk. In 2023, she was nominated Chief Compliance Officer for Nassau Branch.
Following her graduation with a Law Degree from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Patricia obtained a Corporate and Economic Law Post graduation Degree from Fundacao Getulio Vargas in SP. In addition, Patricia attained an LLM in Financial and Capital Markets Law from IBMEC/Insper, and an LLM in Corporate Law. Patricia is also a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Control Self Assessment (CCSA).
Kerry Chambers
CEO
Acuity Risk Management
Kerry Chambers
Kerry Chambers has 25 years’ experience with business-to-business technology working for IT vendors and large blue chip global organisations in the capacity of senior leadership and sales leader roles. As newly appointed CEO of Acuity Risk Management, Kerry brings with her extensive experience in growing Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. Her commitment to driving innovation, delivering exceptional results, and fostering strong client relationships has been instrumental in Acuity’s recent growth. In her previous roles as COO and Commercial Director at Acuity, Kerry built and managed high performing sales teams in both UK and international markets, accelerating revenue growth through the development of strategic plans and driving operational efficiency. Since Kerry joined Acuity, the company has shown significant growth and received recognition from prestigious industry schemes (such as the National Technology Awards 2021 ‘Cyber Security Solution of the Year’ award for which our software STREAM was shortlisted), as well as from peers and customers (Acuity has a rating of 4.8 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights, and has recently received Best Support, Easiest To Do Business With, Leader and High Performer badges on G2).
Zhi Chung
Director, Head of Non-Financial Risk Analytics
Credit Suisse AG, A UBS Company
Zhi Chung
Zhi Chung is the head of Non-Financial Risk Analytics for Credit Suisse AG, a company of UBS. Zhi joined Credit Suisse in early 2000 and held various positions in Global Markets Business Management and Client Strategy, Finance, Compliance, and Non-Financial Risk Management. Zhi has led the development of multiple high-impact data solutions that help the bank achieve complex regulatory initiatives. Recently she led a team, which designed and developed an industry-leading Non-Financial Risk analytics platform that received the “Innovative Risk Management Award” from Risk.Net in 2021. Prior to Credit Suisse, Zhi worked in Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Zhi holds an MBA in Finance from CUNY Baruch College and a BS in Material Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Nick Diiseo
Managing Director, Global Head of Operational Risk, ICG OPS, Markets and Securities Services
Citi
Nick Diiseo
Nick Diieso is a Director at Citigroup where he heads global Operational Risk business coverage for Markets and Securities Services and serves as the Head of Operational Risk for Citi Global Markets, Inc (the US broker-dealer). Prior to Citi, Nick was globally responsible for Operational Risk for the infrastructure functions at Deutsche Bank, served as a first line risk director and business CAO for the Specialty Commercial arm of Santander Bank, and served in corporate finance and audit capacities at GE Capital, MathWorks, and TJX.
Mark Ellis
Executive Director, Field Risk Coverage Officer
Morgan Stanely
Madiha Fatima
Madiha Fatima is an Executive Director – Operational and Outsourcing Risk Management at JP Morgan, where she leads the second line of defense function for operational and outsourcing risk overseeing Third Party Risk Management, Sourcing, Procurement and Inter-Affiliate Management. Previously, Madiha was the Head of Third Party Risk Management Department at Angelo Gordon where she was responsible for development of Third Party Risk Management Framework while enabling businesses to achieve their strategic objectives from utilizing vendors. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon, Madiha Fatima served as the Third Party Risk Governance & Oversight Lead at DTCC. Madiha is a Certified Third Party Risk Professional (CTPRP). Madiha earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Financial and Capital Markets from Rutgers Business School.
Madiha Fatima
Executive Director, Operational & Outsourcing Risk
J.P.Morgan
Madiha Fatima
Madiha Fatima is an Executive Director – Operational and Outsourcing Risk Management at JP Morgan, where she leads the second line of defense function for operational and outsourcing risk overseeing Third Party Risk Management, Sourcing, Procurement and Inter-Affiliate Management. Previously, Madiha was the Head of Third Party Risk Management Department at Angelo Gordon where she was responsible for development of Third Party Risk Management Framework while enabling businesses to achieve their strategic objectives from utilizing vendors. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon, Madiha Fatima served as the Third Party Risk Governance & Oversight Lead at DTCC. Madiha is a Certified Third Party Risk Professional (CTPRP). Madiha earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Financial and Capital Markets from Rutgers Business School.
Hafsteinn Gislason
SVP- Operational Risk Director
M&T Bank
Hafsteinn Gislason
Hafsteinn Gislason goes by Haffi
Haffi leads a team of risk advisors at M&T Bank’s second-line operational risk that provide oversight for the core bank. He has 15+ years of experience in non-financial risk management in financial institutions, focusing on the development, implementation, oversight ,and execution of Operational Risk and Enterprise Risk programs.
Haffi, led several workstream in a enterprise risk convergence project in a mid-sized us bank and the topic of shared taxonomies, elements and methodologies is something he believes can be rewarding for risk management as a whole.
Gislason has had several speaking engagements at non-financial risk conferences focusing on shared taxonomies, frameworks, and increased utility of the Operational and Enterprise Risk programs. He has also had the opportunity to lecture in the ERM program at Columbia University and is a member of the Non-Financial Risk Advisory Board at CeFPro.
Gislason is a GARP-certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
Education:
M.S. Internaltional Economics and Finance, Newcastle University, UK
B.S. Industrial Engineering, Technical University of Iceland
Sonia Jarvis
Director, Quantitative Modelling
Fannie Mae
Sonia Jarvis
Sonia Jarvis leads model validation of third-party products at Fannie Mae. Previously, Sonia led model validation teams for commercial risk scoring and PPNR at Bank of America. She also represented the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at the Basel Working Group on Operational Risk and assessed bank performance as an examiner for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Sonia has diverse consulting and model development experience in commercial and non-profit applications, including fraud detection, law enforcement, market research, human resources, and natural resource management. Sonia holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics from the University of Maryland.
Sabeena Liconte
Head of Legal & Chief Compliance Officer, Americas
ICBC Standard Bank Group
Sabeena Liconte
Sabeena Ahmed Liconte serves as Chief Compliance Officer, Americas to ICBC Standard Bank Group (“ICBC Standard”), including its SEC-registered broker-dealer, ICBC Standard Securities Inc., and its CFTC-registered introducing broker, ICBC Standard Resources (America) Inc.
Prior to joining ICBC Standard, Sabeena’s previous professional experience included serving as Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer to the US investment banking division of Bank of China International. She also served as Futures & Derivatives Counsel to E*TRADE Financial Corp., including E*TRADE Clearing Corp. and E*TRADE Securities Corp.; and worked for the Office of General Counsel at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated, the Division of Enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Bank of New York Mellon’s Legal Division and the Securities Fraud Prosecution division of the Attorney General’s Office for the State of New Jersey.
Sabeena is a licensed attorney with a Juris Doctor from the St. John’s University School of Law. She also completed a visiting year at Fordham University School of Law. In addition to her law degree, she holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Columbia University and, paying homage to her Canadian roots, a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Political Science from the University of Toronto.
She also serves as a member of the Executive Committee to the Futures Industry Association’s Law and Compliance Division; advisory board member of the Center for Financial Professionals FinTech Advisory Group; Diversity Chair of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Committee – Futures and Derivatives Law Subcommittee; and member of the New York City Bar Association’s Foreign and Comparative Law Committee, and Derivatives and Futures Committees.
Sandeep Maira
former Head of Strategic Systems
The OCC
Sandeep Maira
Sandeep Maira is a leader in the practical application of technology innovation, product development and in driving business transformation. With extensive experience in financial services, he has a deep background in high performance computing, large scale systems, data, and analytics, along with cloud technologies and machine learning.
He is founder and CTO of SunflowerLabs AI, an artificial intelligence venture that seeks to revolutionize and optimize financial risk management through the use of machine learning.
Prior to this, Mr. Maira served as Managing Director of Strategic Systems at Options Clearing
Corporation from 2019 – 2023.. He designed a framework replacing all processing with a new highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud native technology stack. Previously he was Head of Risk and Compliance technology for BNY Mellon, leading a successful transformation effort. Earlier he was Head of Risk Technology from 2007-2015 for various businesses in JP Morgan, including Asset Management and within Capital Markets. Earlier in his career he worked at Citigroup and Lehman Brothers.
Mr. Maira helped develop the first banking crypto asset initiative while at Citigroup. In addition, he designed and executed the first and only USD digital currency pilot with the U.S. Treasury Department and performed the world’s first multimillion dollar cryptocurrency transaction. He is a noted expert on technology innovation and is a frequent industry speaker on risk, data, and machine learning.
Mr. Maira holds a Master of Engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is certified in machine learning from Stanford University.
Thomas Mangine
former Director, AML & MLRO
BMO
Thomas Mangine
Tom Mangine is a Director at DAG where he specializes in Due Diligence, Cybersecurity and Risk Assessment. An experienced Military leader and former Diplomat, Tom is also an instructor both with the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), part of the US Government’s National Defense University system, as well as the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS), where he teaches classes on terrorist-financing, financial crime, the investigative process and cybersecurity. He previously worked at the Bank of Montreal where he held positions as Vice President, Capital Markets AML (Global Risk & Special Investigations), the Money-Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for the US and Director for Cyber Resilience. Tom entered the private sector after serving 20 years as an Army officer.
Philip Masquelette
Chief Risk Officer
Ulster Savings Bank
Philip Masquelette
As Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer for Ulster Savings Bank, located in Kingston, NY, I am responsible for oversight of all Bank risk management functions, including the Bank’s Legal and Compliance departments; I also serve as the Chief Information Security Officer. I previously served as Vice President and Risk Manager at Bankwell in Bridgeport, CT, as First Vice President and Audit/Compliance Officer at Naugatuck Valley Savings and Loan in Naugatuck, CT, and as Senior Attorney with the FDIC. I hold a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Rhode Island, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University.
Colleen Milazzo
SVP, Third Party Risk Management Software Products
Shared Assessments
Colleen Milazzo
Colleen is the Senior Vice President of Third-Party Risk Software Products at Shared Assessments, where she leads the TPRM software team in the development of the software products/tools for third party risk assurance.
Colleen has over 20 years of experience within the financial services industry and consulting. She has led programs associated with risk management, procurement/contract negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, and business process reengineering. She has regulatory and global experience executing portfolios to meet the corporate strategy.
Recently, Colleen managed the Third-Party Security Risk Assurance team for a bank where she reported to the CSO and ensured all due diligence, continuous monitoring, and privacy requirements were met for the third-party inventory. She also was the Chair for the BITS Third Party Risk Committee with representation from multiple firms addressing the best practices and increased regulatory focus on fourth parties. She also managed the Cyber Delivery Management team executing the projects including third parties.
Yogesh Mudgal
Head of Risk, Runtime Compute
JP Morgan Chase
Yogesh Mudgal
Yogesh will be speaking at CeFPro’s Non-Financial and Operational Risk Management USA Congress.
Melissa Mellen
Director, Third Party Risk Management
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Melissa Mellen
Melissa Mellen is the Director of Third-Party Risk Management within the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In this capacity, Melissa manages Bank wide strategic priorities, such as the Third-Party Risk Management Risk and Control Unit, Policy, Governance, and Compliance across TPRM & Procurement, and Supplier Diversity.
Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ms. Mellen spent fifteen years in the private sector, specializing in Third Party Risk Management program design, development implementation, and oversight for firms such as: MUFG Union Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Oppenheimer Funds, and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Ms. Mellen received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from SUNY Albany, and holds a MBA with a concentration in Risk Management from Saint Peter’s University. She is a Certified Third-Party Risk Professional (CTPRP) and holds a Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion from Cornell University.
Melissa lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband Kevin, and Pitbull Viggo. She is a certified yoga instructor affiliated with both the Dharma Yoga Center of New York City, as well as Yoga Alliance.
Miguel Navarro
SVP, Business Technology Executive – Conversational AI Enterprise Delivery
KeyBank
Miguel Navarro
Born and raised in Philippines, I first started developing in the 5th Grade, thanks to Ramon (my brother) for teaching me Turbo Pascal to create our first game together. From there, he started teaching me Visual Basic and PowerBuilder. Moved to the US in 2001 and from there, I started learning C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc. When Apple announced that people will be able to develop and publish their own Mobile Apps, I downloaded XCode and got my hands dirty with Objective-C and then Swift. I started NMigMa Entertainment and created a few apps for both iOS and Android because it was fun and started monetizing my love for End to End Mobile app Development and Product Management. My past role in TD Bank was the Head of Voice and Emerging Platforms and currently a Business Technology Executive, Conversational AI External Delivery in KeyBank. Outside of work, I am swimming in everything Conversational AI and Web3 (more NFTs and metaverse) while I experience as much awesome times with my family.
Gustavo Ortega
Head of Technology, Innovation and Operations Risk Management
Voya Financial
Gustavo Ortega
Accomplished risk management executive for multi-national global financial institutions with broad knowledge across Enterprise Risk Management, in particular Operational Risk, including Third-Party & Outsourcing Risk, Business Resilience & IT Risk, Business Controls Management, and Risk Strategy. Experienced in risk management program design, implementation and execution. Specialist in risk assessments (RCSA, Fraud Risk Assessments (FRA), Third-Party Risk Assessments, ORSA, etc.), Internal and External Operational Risk Loss Data / Event Reporting and Investigations, Key Risk Indicators, Issue Management, Controls Testing, Risk Treatment, Data Management, and Operational Risk Technology (GRC tools) solutions. Experienced with leading strategic and change initiatives in Risk Governance & Oversight, and Operational Controls, including Business Accountability models, Conduct and Risk Culture programs. Regulatory focused with foreign bank supervision and systemically important financial institution (SIFI) compliance knowledge. Work experience includes international risk and control projects across foreign markets including Latin America, Europe, Japan and Australia.
Alice Rojas
Director, Americas Head of Sanctions Compliance
Societe Generale
Alice Rojas
Alice Rojas is the Head of Sanctions Compliance for the Americas at Société Générale (New York, NY) where she is responsible for managing a team working on sanctions compliance issues. Ms. Rojas also previously worked at Standard Chartered Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ where she led teams working on sanctions related matters. In addition, Ms. Rojas served as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Michigan and worked for 10 years in the federal government on sanctions and export control related issues at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Department of State, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Ms. Rojas holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, an MA in International Affairs from George Washington University, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Brandon Smith
Director, FCC Americas Head of Economic Sanctions
Credit Suisse
Brandon Smith
Brandon C. Smith is the Americas Head of Economic Sanctions at Credit Suisse, where he oversees the Americas Sanctions Compliance program. In the three years before this, Brandon was the Deputy Americas Head of Sanctions at UBS AG. Prior to his role with UBS, Brandon was a Vice President with the Financial Crime Department at Barclays Bank Plc and an Assistant District Attorney with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, NY. Brandon possesses a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Southern California. Outside of work, Brandon is the Co-Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Financial Crime Subcommittee within the Compliance Committee. He is admitted in good standing to practice law in New York State.
Michael Steinhoefel
Director, Operational Risk Management
Barclays
Michael Steinhoefel
Michael Steinhoefel is a Director of Operational Risk Management at Barclays responsible for Connecting Risk in the Supply Chain. Prior to this Michael was at BNY Mellon Global Markets and 20 years with Citi, the Swiss Stock Exchange, and Credit Suisse in roles in Internal Audit and in first line Risk & Control and Business Process Reengineering in the US, LATAM and EMEA. Michael worked several years as external auditor. He holds a Master of Political Science from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany and an MBA from the Institute of Management Development (IMD)
Michael Tzitzikalakis
Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the El Dorado Task Force – Cyber
Homeland Security Investigations – New York
Michael Tzitzikalakis
Michael G. Tzitzikalakis currently serves as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York – El Dorado Task Force (EDTF) Cyber Division. In this executive level position, Mr. Tzitzikalakis leads an HSI investigative task force comprised of agents, Task Force Officers, and analysts from over eight law enforcement agencies focused on combatting transnational criminal organizations operating in cyberspace. The HSI New York EDTF Cyber Division is comprised of four highly specialized groups: the Cyber Intrusion Investigations Group; the Dark Web/Cryptocurrency Task Force; the Child Exploitation Investigations Team; and Computer Forensics/Technical Operations.
Prior to this assignment, Mr. Tzitzikalakis served as the Supervisory Special Agent of the Cyber Intrusion Investigations Group, where he oversaw several high-profile investigations relating to breaches of computer networks, many of which often received international and congressional attention. Previously, Mr. Tzitzikalakis was the Supervisory Special Agent of the Child Exploitation Investigations Team, managing a team of investigative agents/officers dedicated to identifying and rescuing victims of child sexual exploitation and pursuing those seeking to produce and distribute child sexual exploitative material on the Internet. In 2016, Mr. Tzitzikalakis was a founding member of the HSI New York Cyber Division and assisted in its original conceptualization, resourcing, and staffing
Mr. Tzitzikalakis has served as a Program Manager at HSI Headquarters, where his responsibilities included oversight of the systems and programs that support law enforcement databases and emerging technologies for agents and analysts around the world. In that role Mr. Tzitzikalakis served as a core member of the team responsible for the deployment of HSI’s $800M case management system modernization, where he leveraged both his law enforcement and technical experience to ensure that the needs of the field were met while ensuring development resources were prioritized effectively
Before his assignment to HSI Headquarters, Mr. Tzitzikalakis was assigned to the HSI New York Computer Forensics Unit where he designed, planned, and oversaw the construction of a $5.5M Computer Forensics Laboratory, the first of its kind in agency history to be equipped with the ability to perform chip-off forensic examinations on mobile devices, and a 2,000 Terabyte (TB) digital evidence repository. The project was funded entirely through asset forfeiture funds, and was completed under the estimated budget, all while maintaining operation of the existing forensics laboratory.
Mr. Tzitzikalakis holds a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Leadership and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, both from St. John’s University in Queens, NY.
Daniel E Worrell
Head of Non-Financial Risk Department
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Daniel E Worrell
Daniel E. Worrell, MPA, CFE, CRMA, has over twenty-five years of progressive experience in audit, compliance, internal controls, and risk management and has worked for such organizations as the Office of the New York State Comptroller, a local public accounting firm, Avon Products, Time Warner, AIG and the NYS Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Daniel’s current role is with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as Head for Non-Financial Risk for Foreign Large Banking Organizations overseeing risk teams for BSA/AML, Compliance, Cyber, Internal Audit, Operational Risk and Third-Party Risk Management. In this capacity, Daniel synthesizes portfolio assessments, develops, and implements supervisory actions and strategies in areas that require improvements. Prior to that, Daniel served as the Deputy Chief Risk Officer for the MTA.
Daniel’s educational credentials include an A.S. in Business and a B.S. in Accounting from Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and a Master of Public Administration in Financial Management from Marist College. Additionally, Daniel is a Certified Fraud Examiner and holds a Certification in Risk Management Assurance. He has also served as a FINRA Dispute Resolution Arbitrator.
Daniel has served(s) on non-profit boards and business schools advisory boards: The Possibility Project; National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. (NABA); Charles T. Davidson Scholarship Fund, Alumni Association of Medgar Evers College, Inc.; Marist College; Medgar Evers College; and Merrimack College.
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Phyton Consulting
Phyton Consulting focuses on the most complex initiatives facing our clients and strives to be the best subject matter-led, execution-focused group on the street. Our services are conceived to address your industry-specific business and data challenges with the right blend of tactical and strategic execution. Phyton excels at enhancing the way organizations approach change across people, culture, processes, and technology. Our cross-industry understanding of Data Management best practices is our core strength. By integrating Phyton’s refined data framework and the core governance pillars that support it with subject-matter expertise, we are driving the harmonization of best practices across industries.
Associate sponsors
Accuity
Acuity Risk Management helps businesses worldwide effectively manage, prioritize and report on their risks to inform strategic decision-making and build long-term resilience. Its powerful STREAM platform provides rapid time-to-value to reassure stakeholders that risks are under control and compliance is maintained with increasingly complex standards and regulations. With STREAM, Acuity eliminates the guesswork around risk to support strategic decision-making, prioritization of resources and justification of expenditure to maximize ROI.
With customers worldwide, Acuity has proven success supporting customers in highly regulated and targeted industries such as finance, IT, telecommunications, healthcare, defence and government.
Dataminr
Dataminr delivers the earliest warnings on high impact events and critical information far in advance of other sources. Recognized as one of the world’s leading AI businesses, Dataminr enables faster response, more effective risk mitigation and stronger crisis management for public and private sector organizations spanning global corporations, first responders, NGOs, and newsrooms. Most recently valued at $4.1B, Dataminr is one of New York’s top private technology companies, with 800+ employees across eight global offices.
Since its founding, Dataminr has created the world’s leading real-time information discovery platform, which detects digital patterns of emerging events and critical information from public data signals. Today, Dataminr’s advanced AI platform performs trillions of daily computations across billions of public data inputs from over 500,000 unique public data sources. The Company has been recognized for its ground-breaking AI platform and rapid revenue growth by Forbes AI 50 and Deloitte Fast 500, and has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years.
Alongside Dataminr’s corporate product, Dataminr Pulse, the Company provides its First Alert product for first response to public sector organizations, including the United Nations, which relies on First Alert in over 100 countries. Dataminr for News is used by more than 650 newsrooms and over 30,000 journalists worldwide.
Content and media partners
CeFPro Connect
CeFPro Connect aims to connect industry experts through thought leadership content and timely news, written for the industry, by the industry. Gain unlimited access to CeFPro’s unparalleled library of resources including iNFRont Magazine, market intelligence reports, filmed presentations, insights Q&A’s, and much more.
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iNFRont Magazine
iNFRont Magazine is a unique publication providing regular insight on the operational and non-financial risk (NFR) sector. Featuring contributions provided by leading industry figures and experts from around the world, iNFRont Magazine touches on the most critical themes and challenges currently affecting financial professionals.
Available to download for free.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I share my thought leadership at Non-Financial & Operational Risk USA?
Will there be opportunities to network with other attendees?
- Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
- Drinks reception at the end of day-1
- Q&A, panel discussions and audience participation technology
What is included within the registration fee?
Where can I find the Congress documentation and speaker presentations?
* 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.
Will breakfast, lunch and refreshment be provided?
Are CPE Credits available?
Are there any rules on dress code?
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