Roderick Powell is Senior Vice President and Head of Model Risk Management at Ameris Bank in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining Ameris Bank, Powell was a Director at KPMG LLP where he specialized in model development, implementation, and validation for large Financial Institutions, including Banks, Insurance Companies, and Mutual Funds. He also worked at Bank of America where he was Senior Vice President and Head of Market Risk Management for the Mortgage Securities Trading Desk. Powell earned his MBA from Florida State University. He also earned a Certificate in Applied Machine Learning and Data Science with Python from Emory University. In addition, Powell is a Certified Financial Risk Manager (“FRM”). He is a frequent speaker on the use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation in the Financial Services industry.