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Antonio Gonzalez
Former National Bank Examiner
OCC
Biography coming soon…
Erin Amerlan
Managing Director, Enterprise & Operational Risk Management
Charles Schwab
Biography coming soon…
Fusako Nitta
Director, Operational and Third Party Risk Manager
Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc
Fusako Nitta is a Director of Operational and Third-Party Risk Management with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. She has led the design and implementation of enterprise-wide operational and vendor risk management frameworks at global institutions, including Daiwa Capital Markets, Rabobank, and MUFG. Her work includes risk-based vendor prioritization, assessment of critical third parties, regulatory remediation, and GRC platform implementation. Fusako holds a Master of Laws from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws from Aoyama Gakuin University, is admitted to the New York State Bar, and holds professional certifications including PRM, CRISC, and CTPRP.
Ine Lolomari
Managing Director – Head of Capital Markets Operational Non-Financial Risk
BMO
Biography coming soon…
John Sayers
Global ISG Coverage Lead – Operational Risk
Morgan Stanley
Biography coming soon…
Julie Pombert
Senior Director, Operational, Fraud and Third-Party Risk Management
National Bank of Canada
Biography coming soon…
Lee Marks
Global Head of Operational Risk Management
Prudential Financial
Biography coming soon…
Maggie Bin Lai
VP Enterprise Risk
American Express
Maggie is an executive director with 15+ years of experience in the financial industry specialized in risk governance regulatory compliance and change management in non-financial risk domains.
Maggie was most recently with Citi as the Chief Administration Officer for Operational Risk Management and Head of Human Capital Risk driving work in governance and control business management and human capital risk oversight.
Prior to Citi Maggie was the Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Bank of China USA overseeing risk governance and bank-wide regulatory compliance efforts including enterprise risk assessment model risk risk data and reporting strategic risk and reputation risk.
Before joining BOCUSA Maggie was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. In her 10 years of tenure at MS Maggie has held various leadership positions in IT and Risk. Her last role was the Chief Administration Officer for Risk Analytics where she led changes in governance structure regulatory oversight financial and talent management in the risk model development area.
Maggie holds a M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from University of Sci. and Tech. of China and B.S. in Information Science from Anhui University. She is a Ph.D. candidate from Stevens Institute of Tech.
Mandar Rege
Senior Managing Director – Technology, Cybersecurity, Resilience
State Street
Mandar has over 25 years of engineering and risk management experience across Technology Operations Governance and Audit. At Citi Mandar focuses on Operational Risk and Compliance for Personal Banking and Wealth Management divisions. In his prior career Mandar has had leadership roles in global organizations like TD Bank the Bank of Montreal Cisco Systems Inc. Accenture LLC and KPMG LLP.
Mandar is an active member of the professional community and has presented at industry forums like Risk.Net RSA and IAPP Conferences. Additionally he has served as the Chair of the Canadian Banking Associations CISO organization and holds the CISSP CIPP CISA and PMP certifications.
Martin Liljeblad
Head of Operational Risk
Revolut
Martin Liljeblad is a senior fintech and banking executive with more than 20 years of experience across operational risk, enterprise risk management, governance, and regulatory transformation. He currently serves in a senior leadership role at Revolut, where he has been involved in building and scaling risk frameworks, supporting U.S. bank charter initiatives, and navigating the intersection of innovation and regulation.
Prior to Revolut, Martin held leadership positions across financial services and technology-driven organizations, specializing in risk management, controls, resilience, and growth-stage scaling. He is particularly passionate about the future of digital banking, fintech regulation, AI-enabled financial services, and how firms can balance rapid innovation with strong governance and customer protection.
Matthew Moore
Director, US Head of Operational Risk for Markets
Barclays
Senior operational risk leader with 25+ years in global banking, currently serving as U.S. Head of Investment Banking Operational Risk at Barclays. Expert in translating complex risk themes across trading, resilience, and regulatory change into clear, data-driven strategies for executive decision-making. Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders, regulators, and industry bodies without direct authority. Led global teams, delivered enterprise risk frameworks, and implemented scalable, technology-enabled oversight models. Prior leadership roles at Deutsche Bank and JPMorganChase span risk, finance, and product control, with deep expertise in markets, governance, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
Phil Gledhill
Supervising Examiner, Operational Risk and Resilience
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Phil has over 40 years of broad experience in bank operational risk management, financial control and treasury/capital market operations management. Since joining the NY Fed in September 2011, Phil has been heavily involved in examining banks for safe and sound operational, third-party and internal audit risk management practices. As a former international banking industry consultant and as a practitioner, Phil brings extensive hands-on experience in banking and bank operations. In addition to his role at the NY Fed, Phil serves as an instructor at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, training international students in supervisory approaches for examining bank risk management practices.
Prakash Sharma
SVP – Head of Technology Controls Environment
Northern Trust
Biography coming soon…
Prasad Kodali
MD – Head of Non-financial Risk Management
SMBC
Biography coming soon…
Preety Tulsian
Head of Third Party/IT Risk/Resilience
Scotiabank
Biography coming soon…
Ramon Flueckiger
Head Operational Risk Control UBS Bank USA | Executive Director
UBS
Ramon Flueckiger is the Head of Operational Risk for UBS Bank USA, where he is responsible for the operational risk strategy, governance, and framework execution. Based in New York, he leads efforts to strengthen the bank’s resilience across business lines, driving forward-looking risk practices and regulatory alignment. He partners with senior leadership to embed robust risk management capabilities that support sustainable growth in an evolving and highly regulated environment.
Ron Eisenberg
Head of Operational Risk Management
Citi
Ron Eisenberg is a Senior Global Risk Executive with over 20 years of experience designing and maturing unified Second Line of Defense frameworks within Tier-1 financial institutions and tech-driven environments. Currently serving as the Head of Operational Risk Management (ORM) for Citibank Canada, he successfully led the Operational Risk challenge of the Operational Risk and Resiliency framework across all Canadian business lines to secure critical operations against systemic disruption. A proven “builder” and former GRC software startup founder , Ron specializes in translating rigorous regulatory expectations into scalable corporate controls, establishing cross-functional resilience governance, and driving enterprise-wide risk strategy safely.
Sara Ricci
Former Global Head of Oversight and Control-Strategic Sourcing
JP Morgan
Sara Ricci is an internationally sought after speaker, mentor and C-suite advisor with proven expertise in Risk Management and Technology enablement in highly regulated financial and energy sectors, information technology services and retail. She specializes in global leadership of strategic initiatives in Enterprise Risk, Resilience, Operational Risk, IT Risk/Information Security, including Cybersecurity and Third Party Risk Management.
Her role as Global Head of Oversight and Control, Strategic Sourcing at JPMorgan Chase followed similar, wide ranging and impactful positions at Citi, Bank of America and UBS. Sara also leverages experience as Head of Information Risk Governance and Resilience at HBC and executive roles at HCL Technologies and New York Power Authority. She helped develop guidance for the financial and energy sectors, including maturity models in Resilience and Cybersecurity, whitepapers and benchmarking studies in Risk Appetite and Resilience.
Shirley Jiang
Managing Director & Chief Operational Risk Officer
Bank of China USA
Biography coming soon…
Spruille Braden
Head of Enterprise Resilience
MassMutual
Spruille Braden is a seasoned profession in the Financial Services industry with subject matter expertise in many critical functions at top tier banks. Spruille is the Enterprise Head of Operational Resilience at Citi. Prior to Citi he was the Head of Operational Resilience at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) where led the development and implementation of the function at the firm.
Prior to SMBC Spruille spend nearly 15 years at UBS where he held several roles that spanned all three lines of defense. Notably Spruille was the Americas Head of Business Continuity Management (BCM) at UBS for 6 years where he led a team of Risk professionals tasked with ensuring the resiliency of their Americas-based operations. As a member of the COO Group he drove strategic programs and initiatives that often spanned multiple competency areas. He helped develop the Operational Resilience program that encompassed Business Cyber Technology and Third Party Risk Management strategies in accordance with internal and external drivers. Spruille was a co-chair for SIFMA’s Resilience Forum where he helped shape responses to regulatory guidance through the collaborative peer industry group.
Spruille lives in Connecticut with his wife Jamie and three daughters Emma Elodie and Hailey (ages 11 8 and 8 respectively).
Tom Kartanowicz
CISO, Europe and Americas
Standard Chartered Bank
Tom Kartanowicz has been working in IT and information security for over 20 years with experience in cyber risk management, regulatory compliance, systems administration, network security and security awareness. As CISO for SCB Europe and Americas, Tom leads the information security function across ten markets and previously worked at Commerzbank and Natixis North America. Tom is also a lecturer in IT Risk Management at Columbia University.
Tom holds a Master of Science in IT from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University. He is a member of ISSA, ISC2 and ISACA. Tom has appeared as a panelist at the NYIT Global Cybersecurity Conference, OpRisk North America, Gartner, Columbia University and other industry events.
Vaughn Alliton
SMD Head of Tech / Digital Risk & Compliance
TIAA
Mr. Alliton currently serves as the Head of Technology / Digital Risk & Compliance, beyond Technology this also includes Data, AI and Privacy. He is also responsible for consolidation of Risk & Compliance Governance and Reporting for the Technology, Digital, Operations and Shared Services division. Vaughn leads a very experienced team responsible for the implementation of the Enterprise Risk and Compliance programs for these areas, including: operational risk, oversight of risk identification, risk appetite, and technical resiliency.
Mr. Alliton has 30 years of experience in IT including Project Management, Program Management, Application Delivery, Process Redesign and Risk and Compliance Management. He joined TIAA from Investors Bank in 2017, where he was responsible for the implementation of Risk Management Tools as well as the 2 Line of Defense for IT. Prior to this role he worked for JPMC, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. He lived and worked in Asia for most of the 1990’s and travelled extensively assisting Merrill Lynch with their Global Expansion.