Ms. Alkema is a results-oriented senior finance and transformation executive with 20+ years of Big Four public accounting experience serving global and domestic, public, and non-public companies in the financial services, health care and technology industries.

Ms. Baker is an accomplished corporate development, finance, and strategy executive with over 25 years of experience. She is a strategic finance partner that has touched all aspects of finance. During her career, Nora developed and directed financial, tax, and treasury strategies, implemented over 50 new customer initiatives, and led over 35 international corporate reorganizations to drive growth and efficiency.

Martin Baumann most recently served as Chief Auditor and Director of Professional Standards at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. In this capacity he was responsible for establishing and interpreting auditing and related professional practice standards for audits of all companies that are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Freddie Mac and as a Senior Partner and Global Banking Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Marty is currently an Adjunct Faculty member at The Washington Campus (washcampus.edu).

Mark Bolton brings almost 30 years of executive level experience in banking and financial services in the US, UK and EU delivering major business and digital transformation programs.  Recent experience includes leading initiatives in AI, Digital Transformation, Cloud Transformation, Customer Experience (notably Gen Z), Process Mining and Optimization and banking Risk and Regulatory.

Paul Chew is a senior Technology and Operations transformation specialist with over 27 years of consulting experience with large professional service firms (PwC and Accenture) and financial institutions (incl. JP MorganChase, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Deutsche Bank).

Peter Commons has over 30 years of hands-on experience driving design and development of customer-impacting and revenue-driving software from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies including Apple, Amazon, Groupon and Zendesk. He has led diverse, worldwide, product, engineering, and data teams from back end to front end for internal and external customers in CTO, CPO, CDO, and VP level roles.

Mr. Daniels is a finance leader with extensive knowledge and skills in controllership, strategy, budgeting, financial operations, Sarbanes Oxley, FP&A, and Big Four auditing. David is an entrepreneurial senior finance leader helping public and private companies improve profitability, cost optimization, and shareholder value. His expertise is in Accounting, Internal Controls, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Simona DeFeo has over 20 years’ experience program managing large scale, multidisciplinary and multi-national projects in transformation, data governance/management and operational and technology risk with depth in both waterfall and agile program/project management methodologies.  Simona is a hands-on trusted change agent who creates networks of inspiration and support while honoring unique diversities, common goals and individual potential. She is a “Firestarter” enabling cooperation and collaboration while continuously developing her own equanimity.  As a servant leader who lives life with a deep sense of integrity, courage, voracious curiosity, and generosity, Simona has served and led complex transformation efforts for organizations such as MUFG, Citi, HSBC, Capital One, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, JetBlue, Credit Suisse, UBS, Johnson & Johnson, TIAA-CREF and Italian and Haitian government agencies, amongst many others.  She has also a decade of experience in the performing arts – as a producer, playwright and performer to drive cultural diplomacy and social justice.

Eric Deraspe is an accomplished financial services consulting professional and product leader with over 25 years of success and experience managing teams, creating new operational processes, establishing sales processes and metrics, formulating strategies, framing metrics, and delivering large programs for great companies. His expertise is mainly in payments, capital markets, banking, and fintech with companies such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express, TD Bank, RBC, CIBC, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs.

Daniel Doman has more than 30 years of technical and business leadership as both CTO and COO across a number of international business sectors including banking, pharmaceutical, media, advertising, Federal/DOD and travel.

Mr. Drapkin combines extensive experience in strategy, technology and project management across financial services firms, government and the arts. A creative achiever, strategist and problem solver, Drapkin has successfully delivered projects including global technology implementation, as well as formulating business planning, customer acquisition and market analysis. He has worked in financial services, telecom, new media, as well as the arts, and was previously the Chair of Ecommerce management at Columbia University in New York and has two patents in the retail space.

Ms. Elovic is an executive thought leader with extensive experience managing and advising on compliance and regulatory issues for financial institutions including banks, broker-dealers, RIAs and funds. She is a creative problem solver with unique insights into integrating technology into Compliance frameworks in order to maximize controls effectiveness and reduce manual processes.

Rebecca Felder has over 20 years of program management experience in the financial services industry specializing in business transformation in the following areas: Compliance, AML, KYC, and other regulatory requirements. She has successfully led large and small regulatory remediations and new business driven initiatives which have required both a business and technology transformation. She has held senior leadership positions in JPMorgan Chase and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

Mr. Francis has over 35 years of consulting experience delivering significant business results and value through technology.  He is adept in building sales and delivery organizations and capabilities, developing go-to-market business strategies, and cultivating high performing teams. He has led and managed a broad range of multi-million-dollar engagements focusing on business and workforce transformation, operations improvement and digital strategy with a proven track record growing business value through the design and implementation of complex change and business transformation programs. He has diverse industry experience including media and entertainment, retail, consumer and industrial products, electronics and high tech, aerospace and defense, oil and gas, and state and federal government.  He has designed, led and managed diverse organizations including multiple global account teams, service lines and North American divisions. Brian’s skills and experience include:

Ms. Frawley is a Financial supervision and regulation leader with broad capital markets experience and deep expertise in assessing board governance and risk management. During her career, she built and led new programs and functions critical to advancing supervisory and regulatory abilities. Caroline played a key-person role as part of the crisis response during the global financial crisis and COVID 19-crisis. She contributed to domestic and international policy development and global collaboration through efforts with Basel Committees. 

Christienne Genaro is a Payments subject matter expert with over 20 years’ experience.  She has in-depth understanding of business models and stakeholder needs in the credit and debit card industry, encompassing the network, bank and merchant perspectives.  Ms. Genaro brings a consultative approach to meeting client needs across a wide range of functions, including strategy, product development, marketing, risk management, collections, customer service, and processing.

Dr. Glasser is a business leader with broad experience initiating and building organizations, driving strategic change, delivering solutions and advising in the areas of data, analytics and risk. She possesses deep experience across products and multiple disciplines, including financial (buy and sell side), corporate, government and consulting. 

Aviva Halpert is a Healthcare Compliance Professional with over 35 years of hands-on success in health information management and Healthcare compliance .  She has broad knowledge of the  HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, HITECH, the 21st Century Cures Act, and related state regulations in both the Acute Care, Ambulatory and IT Support settings and  has extensive experience in creating and presenting training modules, conducting HIPAA security risk assessments, creating and maintaining policies and procedures and conducting Notification of Breach investigations, including interrogation, mandatory reporting and implementing corrective action.

Dorothy Hill has over 25 years of expertise and program leadership in global financial services as well as the technology and governmental sectors.  She has designed and supported the implementation of technology from Marketing Technology to US Department of Treasury FATCA solutions and futures trading interfaces with the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges in Japan.  She has worked in the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Hong Kong with Goldman Sachs and McKinsey. She has led teams on Wall Street for ISDA contract negotiation across derivatives & futures trading desks/prime brokerage/funds management, compliance change management, controls frameworks and FINRA registration tracking and reporting. She is a subject matter expert in AML/KYC, OFAC, risk management & reporting (including CCAR, and counterparty due diligence), cybersecurity, data privacy, public company governance, investor activism, client services, and data management (including BCBS 239). Hill has held senior roles and served as a Board member for start-ups in technology (including SaaS) and leadership training.

Ms. Kalstrup is a dynamic executive with broad experience as a strategic general manager and results-oriented operations leader in global professional service organizations. She excels in solving complex problems, aligning varied perspectives to a common vision, and raising client satisfaction.

Olivia Knight has 20 years of experience managing third party relationships from a commercial, contractual and risk mitigation standpoint. She has led and developed global Strategic Sourcing/ Procurement and Third Party/ Vendor Risk Management functions in both the First and Second Line of Defense. Her expertise includes building a Vendor Risk Management function from the ground up as well as transforming a global Third-Party Risk Management function in the Financial Services industry. She has led multiple Supply Chain functions with an emphasis on Procurement and Sourcing in Germany, China and the US in the Manufacturing, Technology and Financial Services industries. Her experience allows her to make strategic third-party decisions taking the entire lifecycle and risk exposure into consideration.

Alex Kramer has over 35 years of experience serving clients through a range of positions in consulting and IT management. Recent engagements have ranged from IT strategy to global sales force systems deployment to Cybersecurity and large-scale data analytics. Previously, as a Partner at PwC and IBM’s Global Business Services, Mr. Kramer focused on CRM, sales and service systems and the customer experience – helping CIO’s and senior IT management cope with the accelerating demands of value creation in this era of connected, mobile and social computing.

Ira Lehrman, most recently, served as global head of Nuveen Technology. In this role, he had responsibility for Nuveen’s overall technology strategy, systems design and development, production environments and emerging technologies.

Mr. Livezey is a digital transformation enablement and innovative analytics design expert with experience leading consolidation of critical revenue data and other high-risk transactions across data sources, providing real-time data with increased speed to accuracy as part of process redesigns and new system implementations, enabling Finance Executives to make ongoing critical business decisions.

Sal Magnone has 30 years of experience building, reenvisaging, and transforming technology centric products, services, teams, and companies. He’s been a successful cofounder, CEO, turnaround CEO, CTO, and Chief Engineer; is very technical, and is very hands on in the data, machine learning, and the distributed computing & high-performance computing (HPC) spaces. Sal is x-PwC, where he was part of the Financial Services CIO Advisory Practice and x-Army, where he enjoyed 12 years of active and active-reserve duty as a United States Field Artillery Officer in both training and combat units.

Albert Mayo is a transformation and change leader with over twenty years of experience leading software development, data, enterprise applications, and IT operations teams across the Education, Psychological Science, e-Commerce, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing sectors. He has extensive C-level experience in fast-paced, dynamic and multicultural environments. He excels at bridging the gap between business and technology strategy and building both enterprise and customer-facing technology solutions. Albert has a strong history of servant leadership by building, growing, and retaining highly performing technology teams. He is sought-after for business acumen and deep strategic insight that create a competitive advantage.

Mr. Norris has 35 years of IT experience and 30 years working with SAP technologies. He has sold, managed and delivered some of the largest global ERP/SAP programs to many Fortune 100 companies. Grant’s deep technical understanding has allowed him to successfully deliver results to his clients and maintain long-term trusting, relationships with them. His global perspective is enhanced from having lived in Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and the United States and from working in many other countries.

Kevin Pilarski has over 40 years of experience as a leader with extensive expertise in orchestrating organizational turnarounds, spearheading marketing initiatives, implementing regulatory reforms, and driving operational excellence across diverse sectors. He specializes in devising and executing strategies that fuel revenue growth, expand market presence, and secure competitive advantages. He is adept in capital markets, auditing, compliance, private equity, hedge fund due diligence, payment systems, relationship building, wholesale funding, and retail/institutional investment regulation.

Mr. Porto possesses experience across Fortune 100 companies to privately held mid-sized companies. He has a clear understanding of audit, tax and advisory related services P&L impact, budgets, realization, utilization and KPI’s across multiple lines of businesses. Alan’s career responsibilities include Sales, Operations, IT Strategies, ERP design and delivery, e-commerce/content management solutions, development & infrastructure buildouts.

Jim Ranton is a results driven advisor. He has a successful track record improving sales and profit performance, for both emerging and established companies, in diverse industries. He advises organizations in developing and implementing talent strategies that align with desired outcomes. His areas of expertise include organization performance planning, talent management, compensation design, labor relations strategy and acquisition integration. He is recognized for his ability to partner with the CEO and his or her executive team to support major growth initiatives and develop a high performance, metrics-based system and culture. He has worked for large (PepsiCo, United Technologies), mid-size (Citizens Utilities, New York Racing Association) and small growth companies (Surescripts).

Sabyasachi ‘Sabby’ Ray has over 30 years of hands-on experience in the financial services industry. As COO within Life and Retirement insurance he has managed Operations, Third Party Administrators, Real-Estate, Procurement and Vendor Governance, and Regulatory Compliance. As CEO of Consumer Finance business, he oversaw multimillion-dollar Asia business. He has led global organizations and demonstrated success driving business strategies through operational transformations harnessing data insights, and innovative technologies to enhance customer experiences. He has executed large-scale projects including M&A and divestitures in multinational environments, with strong people management skills and a collaborative approach to diverse teams.

Mr. Ringle utilizes deep industry expertise to enable global mid-to large-scale organizations to achieve compliance with rigorous rules and regulatory requirements. He fosters productive executive-level and third-party stakeholder relationships to translate diverse requirements into fit-for-purpose, compliant internal controls, processes, and IT systems.

Mr. Stankavich is a strategic and innovative international Technical Solutions Leader experienced in managing Complex Data Projects, Cloud Platforms, Database Modeling, Blockchain, Systems Security, Design and Development. He is dedicated to building all-encompassing deliverables that address business requirements and promote brand loyalty. He incorporates cohesive planning, network engineering, and system administration.

John Stone has over 30 years of information technology experience in development and management of software platforms, products, and custom applications. He has led development and transitions for on-time delivery, predictable ROI, and measurable business results. Known for leveraging market and technological evolution and change, John is experienced in leading and coaching globally distributed teams.  Former Corporate CTO and Andersen Partner, John has consulted at companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 on projects that include due diligence, Agile transformation, IoT solutions, data analytics, large-scale software development, and project rescue.

Obi Taiwan is a senior technology and strategic leader with over 25 years of experience in business and technologies, digital transformation, strategies, and consultancies together, with global, cross-industry experiences. As a CIO and CTO, Obi has managed all information and communications technology operations, accountable for end-to-end service delivery across the company, including hospital clients, governmental clients, and regulatory agencies. He has served as a Council Member to the International Workforce Development Foundation and has led as an Executive and Officer of Portfolios in Government, Healthcare, Cyber-Security, Advanced Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.