2018 Speakers

Ron Morrow was appointed Managing Director of the Bank of Canada's Financial Stability Department in August 2013. In this role, he leads the Bank's analysis and research on issues related to the financial sector in Canada and abroad, the assessment of risks to financial system stability, and the oversight of systemically important payment, clearing and settlement systems under the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act.
He also represents Canada on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS).

Mr. Morrow began his career at the Bank of Canada in 1992 and has worked in a number of different areas related to monetary policy and the Bank's financial market activities. In 2006, he was seconded for one year to the Fiscal Policy Branch of the Department of Finance, working as a Senior Adviser to the Assistant Deputy Minister. In 2010, Mr. Morrow became Managing Director of the Bank's Funds Management and Banking Department, a position he held until his appointment as Managing Director of the Financial Stability Department.

Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Mr. Morrow received an honours bachelor of arts degree in economics, with a minor in mathematics, from the University of Waterloo in 1991. He received a master's degree in economics from Queen's University in 1992. 

Neville Henderson was named Assistant Superintendent,
Insurance Supervision Sector in July 2015.

In his executive role he is responsible for the supervision of some 250 federally regulated insurance providers.

Mr. Henderson joined OSFI in May 2011 as the Managing
Director, Life Insurance Group (Conglomerates), bringing withhim, nearly 40 years of varied experience in insurance
companies, consulting and oversight, including roles as Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a senior executive with medium and large insurance companies. He is a Fellow of both the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and the Society of Actuaries and a former president of the CIA.

Mr. Henderson earned an Hons. Bachelor of Science from McMaster University. 

Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder is Vice President and World Bank Group Chief Risk Officer.

Lakshmi was previously Chief Financial Officer and Director, Finance and Risk at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group.

Prior to joining MIGA in March 2011, she worked since 1994 at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), also part of the World Bank Group, where she was Director for Corporate Risk, and Director of IFC's Risk Management and Financial Policy Department. She helped develop IFC's client risk management advisory services and IFC's portfolio risk metrics which formed the foundation for the GEMs initiative across MDBs. She led the development of IFC's integrated capital framework and was responsible for all financial risks in Treasury, lending and equity investment operations as well as rating agency issues. She was also Co-Chair of IFC's New Products Assessment Group.

Lakshmi is co-founder and Co-Chair of the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) risk database, a Consortium for Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and International Financial Institutions (IFIs).

Lakshmi has consulted for a range of public and private sector institutions in the U.S. and in emerging markets. She has also served on the Board, and Finance and Risk Committees of institutions in emerging markets.
Before joining IFC, Lakshmi was a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management and earlier at The Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. She has a Ph.D. in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Ben Golub is a member of the Global Executive Committee and co-head of the Risk & Quantitative Analysis Group of BlackRock. Dr. Golub has served as Chief Risk Officer since 2009. Dr. Golub is responsible for the investment, counterparty, technology and operational risk of BlackRock. Dr.
Golub is also the chair of BlackRock's Enterprise Risk Management Committee.

Previously at BlackRock, Dr. Golub was co-head and co-founder of BlackRock Solutions,BlackRock's risk advisory business beginning in 1995. Dr. Golub also served as the acting CEO of Trepp, LLC., a former BlackRock affiliate that pioneered the creation and distribution of data
and models for collateralized commercial-backed securities beginning in 1996.

In 1988, Dr. Golub was one of the eight founding partners of Blackstone Financial Management LP, from which BlackRock Inc. . Prior to the founding of BlackRock, Dr. Golub was a Vice President at The First Boston Corporation beginning in 1985 where he established the Financial Engineering Group. During his tenure, the group structured over $25 billion of bonds, including many innovative collateralized mortgage obligations and asset-backed securities.

Dr. Golub earned an SB in Management in 1978, an SM in Management in 1982, and a PhD in Applied Economics and Finance in 1984, all from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Sandeep Goel is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for ICICI Bank Limited's North American operations including ICICI Bank Canada. He oversees all group-level risk management activities across the U.S.A. and Canada.

Mr. Goel has a wealth of experience in the financial services industry with a career spanning over 20 years and across Asia, Europe and North America. Mr. Goel started his career as a debt ratings analyst at Moody's Investor Services in New Delhi, India before moving to ICICI Bank Limited, where he headed its media/telecom risk units in Mumbai, India. As the Bank expanded its footprint outside of India, Mr. Goel joined the Bank's U.K. subsidiary to build its risk management infrastructure. He then joined ICICI Bank Canada as its CRO and was elevated to the position of CRO for all North American operations.

Mr. Goel holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Delhi University and an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India. 

Canadian Credit Risk Management Professional with over 20 years of experience.

Currently CRO and VP, Credit and Risk Management at Wealth One Bank of Canada. Responsibilities at the Schedule 1 Bank include Credit, Treasury and Operational Risk Management.

Prior to joining Wealth One Paul spent over 20 years with Scotiabank in a variety of roles. He has had positions in 3 business lines - Mortgages, Credit Cards & Indirect Automotive Lending. Rounding out his business line experience he has also held positions in Finance, Sales and Service and over 10 years in Risk Management.

Responsible for Risk Management for Canadian consumer and small business lending which included Regulatory Reviews, Policy, Risk Strategy, Collections and Analytics across acquisition, account management and recoveries.

Externally Paul is very involved in the industry on advisory boards of associations and frequently participating in industry round tables and discussions.

Paul holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Guelph and a MBA from Dalhousie. He has four children which keep him involved outside of the office.

Saskia Goedhart joined HOOPP in 2020 as Senior Vice President & Chief Risk Officer, and she is responsible for the evolution and ongoing enhancement of the risk management function for the organization. She is accountable for continuing to strengthen HOOPP’s risk systems, practices and monitoring to meet current and future demands.
Saskia has more than 20 years of experience in senior risk positions. She has extensive expertise in designing and implementing value-add risk management frameworks and maintaining risk-aware cultures in financial organizations around the world.
Most recently she served as Chief Risk Officer for IMCO (Investment Management Corporation of Ontario), an independent long-term investor for Ontario's public sector. Prior to that Saskia was the Chief Risk Officer of AMP Ltd., a Sydney, Australia based financial institution with a broad range of business lines.
Saskia holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration with a focus on financial management, and a Master’s in Accountancy from Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

Darryl leads SAS’ risk practice in North America and has close to 20 years’ experience in banking, insurance, and risk management. Before joining SAS,  Darryl held positions as Chief Risk Officer at two OSFI regulated institutions, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of a comprehensive risk framework.  Prior, he held various lending and risk and capital management positions at one of Canada’s largest banks. 
 
Darryl holds a Bachelor of Engineering from McMaster University and an MBA from Schulich School of Business. 

Greg started with BMO Global Asset Management in 2009 and is Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management and Quantitative Research for Multi-Asset Solutions where he is responsible for the Portfolio Management of all Canadian managed Multi Asset strategies. He works closely with the global investment strategy team and local portfolio implementation teams to ensure efficient management and implementation across the Multi Asset platform.

Greg also provides ongoing input and development of the firm's global multi asset investment platform and directs the firm's global quantitative research initiatives for multi asset focusing on idea generation, portfolio construction and risk management. Prior to this role within GAM, he was Head of the Systematic Investment team in Canada and was instrumental in building the Systematic Investments business within BMO which manages equity and ETF investment solutions covering global developed markets, including Canadian equity portfolios.

Previously he was a portfolio manager and investment strategist in the U.S. and Japanese equity markets for a large US-based institutional investor. He co-managed the U.S. Advanced Active quantitative investments funds and worked on the development and launch of a Japanese equity hedge fund. Greg then spent nearly 10 years managing investment teams and trading desks in the Asia Pacific region. He held senior positions as a founding partner in an Asia-Pacific multi-strategy hedge fund, appointments in proprietary trading, and as head of quantitative portfolio risk and trading strategies.

Greg holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and a dual Master's of Science in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University and is a member of American Mensa Ltd.

Chai Lam joined RBC Royal Bank in March 2014 as the Lead Architect for Cards and Payments. He led the initiative to develop the future state business and technology architecture for RBC Global Loyalty and Rewards. Solutions delivered include the award winning Mobile App for Rewards, integration with eco-system partners such as Best Buy, Apple and travel services like Expedia, as well as innovative Payment services which led to a US patent.

In February 2016, Chai was given the responsibility for leading the Solution Architecture team for RBC Insurance. Solutions include Digital self-service Apps for Insurance, automated underwriting, CRM, RPA, BPO, Data analytics and AI technologies.

Chai has held various architecture roles including Director and Senior Architect for Personal & Commercial Banking at BMO Bank of Montreal, Chair of the Technology Review Council which reviews architecture solutions for alignment to business and IT strategies. Responsibilities included the development of the future state architecture, road map and solution for the Retail Mortgage Process Transformation, Branch Digitization, Commercial Lending, Master Data Management (MDM) which enabled an enterprise view of the customer in support of the bank's cross channel customer experience and compliance strategies.

Chai holds a Professional Engineer's license. He has a degree in Engineering and a Masters in Economics.

Robert is an accomplished risk management professional with a solid 24 year career in risk management, banking & regulatory program management. His career spans executive leadership, relationship and financial management roles in the financial services industry.

He is a driven individual who has led, managed and overseen the implementation of risk and regulatory programs for two of the largest International Banks operating in Canada. Robert was most recently the Chief Risk Officer for the Canadian unit for one of the top 10 largest financial institutions in the world.
He has tremendous energy and passion for this industry and has continuously sought to build sustainable and pragmatic solutions for clients with whom he has worked.

He enjoys the complexity and challenge involved in what is essentially a fundamental business service (Banking).

Dr Jesus Bravo is the Country Head of Traded Risk for HSBC Canada. 

Ping Hu has been with Wells Fargo since 2005 and works in the Market Risk Analytics group within Corporate Credit and Market Risk. He is the FRTB implementation SME at Wells Fargo. Prior to Wells Fargo, Ping was a Senior Financial Economist and Econometrician at the SAS Institute.

Ping received his Ph.D. in Finance from Georgia State University. He also has a master's degree in Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Valerie cumulates 20 years of expertise in software industry and capital markets. She started as an Interest Rate Derivatives consultant working with numerous European and American banks and hedge funds at Murex. In 2007, she initiated the emerging market practice in New York leading large implementations in Latin America as head of the Emerging market team.

She specialized in market risk, 8 years ago, focusing on pre-sales and implementations of enterprise solutions, contributing as well to the evolution of the Murex product. She is currently focusing on regulatory aspects of Market Risk and is part of Murex FRTB design authority.

Valerie holds a Master's degree in mathematics of finance from the Dauphine University in Paris. 

Jacques Lussier is currently CEO and Chief Investment Officer of IPSOL Capital, a firm dedicated to the development and management of efficient portfolio solutions for institutional investors. He is a former academician at HEC Montreal and has worked within the financial industry for the last twenty years.

Prior to IPSOL Capital, Jacques worked 18 years at Desjardins Global Asset Management (DGAM) where he was Chief Investment Strategist until March 2013. During his career, Jacques has been involved in most segments of the asset management industry: portfolio policy and global asset allocation, funds of funds management both alternatives and traditional, research leading to product design and product management in the equity, commodity and asset allocation space and management of a high net worth platform.

Jacques earned a M.Sc. in Finance from HEC Montreal and a Ph.D. in International Business from the University of South Carolina. He is a CFA and was president of Montreal CFA Society from 2013 to 2015. He is a board member of Retraite Québec and president of its investment committee.

He is also the author of the book "Successful Investing Is A Process" published by Wiley and Bloomberg Press in December 2012 and co-author with Hugues Langlois of "Rational Investing" published by Colombia University Press in March 2017. He also wrote two series of short educational documents to support investment advisors and retail investors on behalf of CFA Montreal. (www.cfamontreal.org/en/fichesinvestisseurs). He is currently working on a third book tentatively called "Secure Retiring".

Jonathan Hausman is Managing Director and Head of Global Strategic Relationships at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, where he is responsible for developing and cultivating key investment partnerships around the world. He is also responsible for coordinating the Fund's efforts in Latin America. Previously, he served as Vice President, Alternative Investments and Global Tactical Asset Allocation, responsible for Ontario Teachers' global hedge fund portfolio, as well as its internal global macro and systematic trading strategies.

Prior to joining Ontario Teachers', Mr. Hausman was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, where he held positions in its New York, London and Hong Kong offices, managing sovereign risk strategy and advising government clients on their external financing and international credit ratings. His clients included the Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Italy, the People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea, which in 1999 conferred on him a National Award of Merit in recognition of his advisory work for the Korean government through the Asia Crisis.

Mr. Hausman is a Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, which he helped to found and where he lectures on Global Markets and International Political Economy. Mr. Hausman received an Arbor Award for this service to the university. He also serves as Chair of the Canadian Council for the Americas, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Capitalize for Kids, and a member of the Hold'em for Life Charity Challenge Committee. In 2009, Mr. Hausman was selected by the Canadian International Council to be an expert panelist for its Global Positioning Strategy, a major non-partisan initiative to design and recommend to the Canadian government a new approach to international affairs in the changing global environment.

Before beginning his career in international finance, Mr. Hausman worked as Special Assistant to the Premier of the Province of Ontario. He holds a BA (Hons.) from McGill University, an MSc. (Econ.) from the London School of Economics, and an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He also has ICD.D certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Hausman is a native of Toronto and lives in the city with his wife and two daughters. 

Kurt Reiman, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Strategist for Canada and is a member of the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). Kurt is responsible for creating value-added Canadian financial market and investment insights and communicating them, alongside our global views, to our clients as well as to investors and our client-facing professionals throughout Canada. Prior to his current role, Kurt was a Global Investment Strategist with responsibility for presenting BlackRock's multi-asset investment views to clients throughout North America, primarily in the U.S.

Kurt joined BlackRock in 2013 with over 15 years of experience in investment research and strategy. Prior to joining BlackRock, he was the Head of Thematic Research at UBS Wealth Management in New York and Zurich. He also held various analyst positions at Reuters and the G7 Group.

Kurt appears regularly in Canadian financial news media, including BNN, Bloomberg, the Financial Post and the Globe and Mail.

Kurt earned a BS degree in business and economics from the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh and his MS degree in international relations with a concentration in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. Kurt also spent a year at McGill University in the finance department and focused on Canadian studies during his undergraduate and graduate degree programs. 

Frédérick was appointed CIO of Blue Bridge in February 2015. He began his career at State Street in 1997 and occupied various investment-related roles. He moved onto Abitibi-Consolidated Inc (now Resolute Forest products) as Pension Investment Manager. He then spent seven years as Senior Director of pension fund investments at Alcan/Rio Tinto.

Between 2007 and 2015, Frédérick was also member of the board of directors at Ivanhoé Cambridge, one of the ten most important real estate investors in the world. A CFA charter holder since 2004, Frédérick completed his Bachelor's Degree in Business with a major in Finance at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

Normand Tanguay is responsible for the Enterprise Risk Management team at Murex North America, focusing on pre-sales and implementations of the Murex software for Market, Credit and Liquidity risk management.

He has 15 years of experience in Capital Markets, a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Finance from McGill University and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.

Steve is Senior Vice President and head of Quantitative Risk Analytics at Regions Bank, where his current responsibilities focus on quantitative aspects of forecasting and stress testing, risk rating, valuation, economic capital, credit strategy, reserve methodologies and credit portfolio management. Steve has 20 years of industry experience in quantitative modeling and risk management and has prior experience building portfolio management and analytics infrastructure at Merrill Lynch, Bank of Montreal and ABN AMRO.

Steve has a Ph.D. in applied physics from Northwestern University, a B.S. in physics from University of Colorado in Boulder, and has held Series 7 and Series 63 certifications.

Mike Ames leads the Product Management, Marketing and the Data Science teams within the SAS Fraud and Security Intelligence business unit. Here, his focus is on real-time surveillance and investigation tools for fraud detection and compliance monitoring and the novel application of machine learning and AI to improve fraud detection rates and enhance analyst productivity.

Ames holds a BBA in economics from the University of Georgia, an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an adjunct faculty member at Wake Forest University's School of Business.

Svilen has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario (Ivey).

He joined RBC in June 2015 as a Director, Liquidity Risk, responsible for liquidity and funding risk methodology and oversight.

In early 2016, Svilen assumed additional responsibilities as a Sr. Director of Enterprise Liquidity and Non-Trading Market Risk, focusing on building a global oversight function for all Treasury and Banking Book related liquidity and market risk exposures.

As MD of Balance Sheet Risk, Svilen is responsible for leading the effective challenge and oversight function to Corporate Treasury and other business lines in all areas of liquidity and non-trading market risk originated by the retail, wealth management, insurance, and capital markets activities of RBC and at the consolidated Bank level.

Svilen is responsible for ensuring enterprise-wide liquidity and IRRBB compliance, and provides guidance and analytical support to regional Corporate Treasury and GRM teams. In addition, he supports new business and project initiatives, and directs the development of an appropriate reporting and monitoring to control key non-trading market and liquidity risks.

Prior to joining RBC, Svilen has worked in FX and fixed income trading with SocGen, and in the Asset Liability Management and Treasury functions of TD Bank and Scotiabank.

Gordon is Managing Director, Regional Head of Global Risk Analytics at HSBC. He is responsible for the development and implementation of models used for calculating wholesale credit, market and counterparty credit risk metrics, anti-money laundering, and operational risk analytics in the region. He is also responsible for interacting with regulatory agencies to ensure HSBC’s compliance in quantitative aspects with the relevant regulations.
Gordon received a PhD in electrical and systems engineering from University of Connecticut and his undergraduate and master degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

As a Capital Markets professional, Priya Radha is responsible for Scotiabank Global Banking Market's Fixed Income Interest Rate Options Business globally. Prior to running the Options Business, Priya was a successful Swap trader in the U.S. and Canadian markets as a market maker for Scotiabank as well as a Swap Trader and market maker in European and Sterling interest rates.

In 2006, Priya was appointed by Senior Management to assist with the build-out of the Emerging Markets Trading Platform. She successfully managed a team within Capital Markets and Banking and helped launch the business. The EM platform has grown into a successful global Sales and Trading Business for the Capital Markets Group at Scotiabank.

Priya joined Scotiabank in 2000 on the Bank side via the Commercial Banking Development Program. After 3+ years as a Relationship Manager, she moved to Capital Markets through the Sales and Trading Rotational program and has held progressively senior roles within Fixed Income Trading.

In 2017, Priya was the recipient of Women in Capital Markets Rising Star Award. This coveted award is presented annually to one woman in Canada whose entrepreneurial spirit, leadership and social responsibility have made a unique contribution to the capital markets industry.

She was also awarded the WCM Executive Coaching Award in 2016 as a high potential candidate who exemplifies exceptional business leadership. She mentors and coaches several junior and intermediate men and women in Capital Markets both within Scotiabank and outside the firm.
Priya is a firm advocate for women in business and has been involved with Women in Capital Markets since she started in the industry. She was the Chair of the Professional Development Committee overseeing over 12 program series that are run by volunteers, for over 3 years. She now has been appointed to a new role as co-chair of Gender Diversity and Inclusion, a new committee within WCM.

Priya recently joined the Mississauga Living Arts Centre as a Board Member. Previously, she was also the Treasurer and a board member for a grassroots non-profit organization, REA'son D'etre Dance Productions. Her commitment to enriching the quality of life through arts and culture and giving back to her community is prevalent in her involvement through her board work and her passion for writing.

She contributes to her blog www.kittenheeldiaries.com and is also in the process of writing her first science-fiction novel scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.

Priya holds both a B.B.A. (Hon.) and an M.B.A (Dean's List) with a Specialization in Finance and Strategic Management from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Kamyar Hazaveh, vice president, portfolio management and portfolio manager with Signature Global Asset Management specializes in G10 and EM fixed-income, cash and derivatives analysis, trading and portfolio management. Mr Hazaveh oversees $12bn of developed and emerging market fixed income assets and is responsible for their asset allocation, duration and curve management as well as foreign exchange exposure.

Before joining Signature in 2014, Kamyar worked at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan for six years as a fixed-income trader and portfolio manager responsible for managing its $50bn allocation to global nominal and inflation-linked bonds (real money role), as well as adding value through G10 alpha strategies in both cash and derivatives (internal hedge fund role). Mr Hazaveh holds a master of mathematical finance (MMF) degree from the University of Toronto.

In his global role at Manulife, Andreas is responsible for providing independent oversight of risk taking and risk mitigation activities for Fixed Income, FX , Alternative Long Duration Assets, Derivatives and Liquidity Risks.

Andreas brings over twenty years of global risk leadership to the organization. Most recently he served as a Director in the Berkeley Research Group, where he led management consulting engagements for global financial services industry clients. Prior to that, he held progressively senior risk management positions at JP Morgan Chase & Company in the firm's Investment Banking and Global Wealth Management businesses. There his key roles included Head of Market Risk for Asia, Credit Derivatives Executive, and Head of Hedge Fund Due Diligence and Hedge Fund Risk Management.

Andreas holds an MBA from the University of Chicago with specializations in Finance, Economics and International Business. He also has a BA in Accounting from the University of Illinois and is a CPA. In New York he was a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Anca is the Managing Director, Risk Management at OMERS Capital Markets. In this role, she provides leadership for the risk management function to support the firm's public markets investment activities.

Anca has 20 years of experience in the financial industry and Canadian institutional investor side. Prior to joining OMERS she was an investment advisor to the Asset-Liability Management Committee of the HOOPP Board of Trustees and an executive in residence with the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services. (GRI). Anca spent 15 years at OPTrust, a large public sector defined benefit pension plan, in a number of leadership roles, most recently as their Chief Risk Officer. She began her career as a financial engineer at Algorithmics Inc. (now part of IBM)

Anca is an alumni of the Harvard Business School, and holds a MMath from the University of Waterloo and a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto. She is a CFA charter holder.

Anca is also member of the Investment Committee for the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada.

Mr. Anthony Peccia is Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer for Citibank Canada. He is responsible for credit, market, liquidity, operational and pension fund risk management. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Operational Risk at Citi, responsible for the development and implementation of operational risk policy and standards globally and managing the global AMA implementation plan

Mr. Peccia has extensive experience in all the major risk types, including credit portfolio management, market, operational, and liquidity risk management. Mr. Peccia has had leadership roles in asset liability management, capital market financing, structured derivatives, securitization and corporate insurance.

Prior to joining Citi, Mr Peccia has consulted to major global banks on operational risk management. He has started up and managed operational risk departments at BMO and CIBC. At CIBC he developed the industry first AMA op risk model. Prior to that, he was head of Treasury Option hedging at CIBC. Previously he was Assistant Treasurer at RBC, in charge of domestic and international long term debt and equity financing.

Mr. Peccia has an MBA and MSC in physics.

Oliver joined MUFG from UBS' Investment Bank, where he was the Global Head of Market Risk. Prior to UBS, Oliver held various risk management positions in New York and Toronto over the last 17 years. He started his career in Bankers Trust's Market Risk Department.

Oliver graduated from Karlsruhe University (Germany) with a diploma in Industrial Engineering. Oliver holds a CFA designation.

Kerry Reinke is Chief Risk Officer, Canadian Division and Group Head, Enterprise Risk Management for Manulife. In this role, Kerry as Chief Risk Officer, Canadian Division, he is accountable for the oversight of all risks, regardless of source, including enterprise, market, insurance, credit and operational risks. He is also responsible for developing and maintaining the Company's Global Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework at industry best practice levels and ensuring it meets all stakeholder needs. Key areas of focus include risk governance, risk appetite, stress testing, recovery planning, Own Risk and Solvency Assessment, risk reporting, risk technology, CRO communications and awareness, and regulatory liaison.

Prior to joining Manulife, Kerry was the Chief Risk Officer of Home Capital Group, Canada's largest independent Trust Company. In that role, Kerry was responsible for the effective oversight of all risks including credit, market and operational, was member of the Executive committee and reported directly to the CEO and Board. While at Home Trust, he designed and implemented their Enterprise Risk Management, market risk, credit risk and operational risk functions including establishing the related risk appetite frameworks and underlying analytics.

Before joining industry, Kerry gained over ten years of experience in the banking and insurance sectors at Deloitte & Touche LLP in their Global Risk and Capital Management Practice where he led a number of complex banking and insurance engagements in North America, Europe and Asia.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting/Finance from Saint Mary's University of Halifax, NS and is a Charter Professional Accountant/Chartered Accountant from the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants.

As Group Head and Chief Risk Officer for Scotiabank, Daniel Moore is responsible for global management of risk, including enterprise, credit and market risk. Prior to his appointment in April 2017, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Market Risk Officer.

Daniel is a member of the Bank’s operating committee, senior risk policy, asset liability committee, market risk, and credit committees. Daniel joined Scotiabank in 1997 and has held progressively senior roles in Toronto, Europe and Asia. Prior to becoming Chief Market Risk Officer in 2016, Daniel ran the Global Banking and Markets business in Asia-Pacific. He brings a strong focus in developing risk management strategies that align with the Bank's risk tolerance, business objectives and customer focus.

Daniel holds a D. Phil. in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University and a B.Sc. from Queen’s University.

He and his wife Deborah have three daughters.

Mike is a Managing Director with Protiviti and serves as the leader of the firm’s North American Financial Services industry practice as well as the global leader of its regulatory compliance practice. He has nearly 20 years of experience focused on regulatory risk and compliance matters.

Prior to joining Protiviti in January of 2004, Mike was a Regulatory Relationship Manger for a Top 10 U.S. bank holding company, where he was the primary point of contact with regulatory agencies in the states in which the company was registered, with direct responsibility for responding to and resolving all compliance issues raised in these states. Mike played a significant role in the successful implementation of one of the largest consumer protection settlements in U.S. history.

Mike is also regularly consulted as a regulatory compliance subject matter expert by leading media outlets, having been interviewed and quoted by organizations including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, American Banker, and the Chicago Tribune, among many others.

Dr. Alex Shipilov is a Managing Director and practice leader of Risk and Compliance Practice of Protiviti in Canada. He has over 25 years of experience gained inside the financial services industry. Alex held executive positions with banking, insurance and accounting firms where he led risk management and internal audit functions, and quantitative risk advisory practices. He consulted financial institutions and corporate treasuries in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Spain and Russia. Alex was responsible for advising clients in dealing with enterprise wide risk management and compliance challenges, financial models, risk measurement, simulation, and derivatives valuation issues.

His specific area of expertise includes implementation, review and audit of risk and capital management functions, including the development, review and audit of model risk management framework. Dr. Shipilov co-founded the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA.ORG), sat on its Board of Directors, strategized PRMIA’s development and the global chapter network by leading the treasury and finance functions.