Rebecca Felder

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.

Kevin Pilarski

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.

Suzanne Elovic

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.

Michael Drapkin

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.

Daniel Doman

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.

Eric Deraspe

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.

Simona DeFeo

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.

David Daniels

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.

Peter Commons

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.

Paul Chew

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).

Mark Bolton

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.

Martin F. Baumann

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).

Nora Baker

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.

Dale Livezey

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.

Brenda Alkema

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.