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Antonio Gonzalez
Former National Bank Examiner
OCC
Biography coming soon…
Jay Wojciechowski
SVP Operational Risk Director
Huntington National Bank
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
Head of Institutional Securities Group Operational Risk coverage
Morgan Stanley
John joined Morgan Stanley in 2023 based in New York and prior to that, he spent 7 years at Credit Suisse leading Global Investment Bank Operational Risk Coverage in New York.
He also worked for 16 years at UBS in London, Tokyo, and New York in a variety of roles, including product control, and equity derivatives COO. John began his career as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen in Manchester, UK.
Lee Marks
Global Head of Operational Risk Management
Prudential Financial
Biography coming soon…
Lisa Kalscheur
Chief Marketing Officer
WeaveAI
Biography coming soon…
Maggie Bin Lai
Head of Enterprise Risk Oversight
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.
Mariana Almeida
Former Head of Non-Financial Risk Americas
ING
Mariana Almeida is an Enterprise Risk Executive with more than 20 years of international leadership experience helping financial institutions strengthen governance, navigate transformation, and make confident business decisions. She has led enterprise-wide Non-Financial Risk, Operational Risk, Technology Risk, and Governance across global banking organizations, partnering with executive leadership to translate complex business, technology, and regulatory challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
Known for her collaborative leadership style and business-first approach, Mariana helps organizations bridge business, technology, governance, and enterprise risk to strengthen resilience, support growth, and create lasting business value.
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.
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
Citibank Canada
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.
Sandeep Maira
Former Head, Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Reg Technology
BNY Mellon
Sandeep spent 25+ years running line technology organizations, leading major risk, data, and cloud programs at JPMorgan, BNY Mellon, Citi, and the Options Clearing Corp (OCC). At JPMorgan, he was head of risk technology across buy- and sell-side functions, including JPMorgan Asset Management and its clearing and prime brokerage businesses. At BNY Mellon, he was head of enterprise risk, compliance, and regulatory reporting technology, leading a successful risk and data transformation. At OCC, he co-led the first SEC-approved cloud migration for a clearing firm and re-architected its margin models for 3x performance, enabling intraday risk management for the first time. At Citi, he led the first banking blockchain initiative and conducted the first cryptocurrency pilot with the US Treasury.
Sandeep served as a Managing Director at Accenture, leading agentic AI deployments at scale and co-leading Accenture’s partnership with Anthropic.
He holds computer science degrees from Cornell and AI credentials from Stanford and Wharton. He speaks regularly on agentic AI at industry forums and teaches AI seminars at Duke and Northwestern. He serves on the advisory boards of GARP, AI 2030, the Center for Financial Professionals, and the Ascend Executive Network.
Shirley Jiang
Managing Director & Chief Operational Risk Officer
Bank of China USA
Shirley Jiang is a seasoned audit and operational risk executive with extensive experience leading governance, controls, and risk management across major global financial institutions. She serves as Managing Director and Chief Operational Risk Officer at Bank of China U.S.A., following six years as the bank’s Deputy Chief Audit Executive. Shirley oversees enterprise operational risk governance, aggregated and domain specific risks, and core programs including third party risk management, business resilience, RCSA, new activities risk management, and incident and loss event management. Her career also spans across internal audit, risk management and business line control leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, Lloyds Bank, Mizuho Bank, and public accounting, where she consistently advanced risk maturity and strengthened control environments. She is a CPA licensed in New York and holds CAMS and CISA certifications.
Spruille Braden
Head of Enterprise Resilience
MassMutual
Spruille Braden is an Operational Resilience executive and subject matter expert experienced in creating standards, methodologies and frameworks uniquely capable of utilizing industry best practices within the complex global regulatory landscape. He is a seasoned professional in the Financial Services industry with subject matter expertise across all three lines of defense at top tier banks. Has over 20 years’ experience with Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management delivering risk-based, full-life cycle program management.
In January 2026, Spruille joined MassMutual as the Head of Enterprise Resilience for the firm. In addition to traditional Business Continuity and Crisis Management responsibilities, Spruille is evolving the program in line with the Operational Resilience landscape. Prior to MassMutual, Spruille was the Enterprise Head of Operational Resilience at Prudential Global Investment Management (PGIM) tasked with managing a global program that (i.) satisfies the requirements of local regulatory authorities, and (ii.) drives strategic deliverables creating value for senior leadership. Prior to PGIM, he was the Head of Operational Resilience at Citi where led the development and implementation of the function at the firm. Spruille spent the majority of his career at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and UBS where he held several roles across multiple lines of business focused on execution and delivery of strategic initiatives.
Spruille is active in the Resilience community since the onset of the competency in 2018. He was a co-chair for SIFMA’s “Resilience Forum” where he helped shape responses to regulatory guidance through the collaborative peer industry group. He participates in several forums aimed at shaping emerging rules amidst regulatory divergence in the Resilience space.