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What to Expect:
Join 400+ of your peers and GRC industry experts at the GRC Summit to share insights, exchange best practices, and discuss what's next in GRC.
Connect around operational resilience, risk management, compliance, cyber risk, ESG and much more. Move beyond just managing risk to embracing and ultimately thriving on risk.
8 reasons you should attend the GRC Summit:
- Network with the Best in the Industry
- Keep Up-to-Date with the Latest Trends in GRC
- Stay Ahead of the Latest Compliance Requirements
- Hear from Global Thought Leaders
- Learn through GRC Case Studies from Industry Leaders and Experts
- Enjoy Happy Hours with Industry Peers
- Participate in Deep-Dive Workshops
- Discover more about MetricStream Products and Solutions
Experience the Power of Connection and join us at the GRC Summit 2023 on June 14th and 15th at the Hyatt Regency in Miami, US.

Explore your area of interest!
Check out key GRC insights and choose the topics and programs that interest you.

What’s Next in Risk
Gain valuable insights from industry leaders on how to stay ahead with a connected and integrated approach to risk.

What’s Next in Compliance
Learn how you can strengthen your regulatory compliance posture and power the front line with latest innovations and industry best practices.

What’s Next in Cyber
Explore how you can boost your cyber resilience by leveraging innovative technologies and integrated strategies used by global cyber leaders.

What’s Next in ESG
Uncover how you can enable growth with purpose by leveraging connected strategies for ESG risks and compliance.
Past Speakers

Carlos Pereira
Head of Global Security Governance and Policy
Meta

Harvey Bootland
Head of Controls
Shell International Ltd

Gaurav Kapoor
Co-CEO, Co-Founder
MetricStream

Prasad Sabbineni
Co-CEO
MetricStream

Ken Kaberia
Head of Enterprise Risk
Safaricom PLC

Tami Dokken
Chief Data Privacy Officer
World Bank

Jean Goetzinger
Head of Department Risk Prevention and Compliance
Banque Centrale du Luxembourg

Gunjan Sinha
Executive Chairman
MetricStream

Lene Birk Enøe Christensen
COO Group Risk & Compliance
Nordea

Brett Hudson
Global Head Ethics, Risk & Compliance - Strategy, Innovation & Corporate Functions
Novartis

Rani Selvarajoo Urbas
Head of Enterprise Trust
Google Cloud

Garrett Smiley
CISO & VP of Information Security
Serco

Stuart Frost
Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management
Department for Work & Pensions

Santosh Gon
Chief Information Officer
Aviva Singlife

Cadambi Janardhan
EVP Transformation, Risk and Operations LFI
Mastercard

James Gilmore III
Former U.S. Ambassador
OSCE

Frank Wisner
International Affairs Advisor
Squire Patton Boggs

Meredith Harper
Chief Information Security Officer
Eli Lilly & Company

Eileen Fahey
Chief Risk Officer
Fitch Group

Arya Yarpezeshkan
Chief Risk Officer - Global Specialty
AIG

Nita Kohli
Vice President and Head - Operational Resilience and Enterprise Operations
Freddie Mac

Stacey Schabel
Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Executive
Jackson Financial Inc

John Langione
Chief Risk Officer
QBE

Duaine Styles
Chief Security Officer
Globe Life

Antonio Fernandez
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
FirstEnergy

LaLisha Hurt
Deputy Chief Information Security Officer
GDIT

Hatem Bennys
Hatem Bennys Strategic Business Support Chief
UNICEF

Mangone Fall
Director Cybersecurity Assurance
Cleveland Clinic

Philip White
Group Non- Financial Risk
Danske Bank
Carlos Pereira
Head of Global Security Governance and Policy
As Head of Governance and Policy@ Meta (Facebook), Carlos Pereira brings an unprecedented understanding and knowledge of Governance, Risk Management, Oversight Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk, Vendor Risk, and IT Risk. He has over 25 years of industry and risk consulting experience working with Fortune 100 companies. Carlos continues to lead by example in the development of the governance and risk management industries through practitioner excellence. He has diverse ERM experience in conducting detail risk and control assessments; Enterprise Risk Management implementation; leading expert on the 2017 COSO Framework; DOL Fiduciary Rule; Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing and validation; Control Self Assessments (CSA); implementing Enhanced Prudential Standards (EPS) for foreign banks owned in the U.S.; Internal Controls definition and testing; Risk metrics and measures; Operational Improvements and Excellence, Audit & Compliance integration. Carlos has been invited as an honorary speaker at several industry Risk Management Conferences. He has several risk management certifications, an MBA degree and is multilingual.
Harvey Bootland
Head of Controls
Harvey is Group Head of Controls at Shell. As such he is responsible on behalf of the Group Controller for providing oversight of and guidance on Shell’s Financial Control Framework, including the annual Sarbanes Oxley attestation. His previous experience includes a variety of financial control and business finance within Shell as well as external audit experience with Ernst & Young. He is a Chartered Accountant and based in the UK.
Gaurav Kapoor
Co-CEO, Co-Founder
Gaurav Kapoor serves as the Co-CEO and Co-Founder, MetricStream Solutions & Services. Gaurav has been involved with the company since its inception and is responsible for strategy, marketing, solutions, and customer engagement. He also served as the CFO of MetricStream until 2010.
Previously, Gaurav held executive positions at OpenGrowth and ArcadiaOne. Prior, he spent several years in business, marketing and operations roles at Citibank in Asia and in the U.S.
He also serves on the board of Regalix, a digital innovation and marketing company. Gaurav has a bachelor's degree in Technology (with Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a degree in Business from FMS, Delhi, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.
Prasad Sabbineni
Co-CEO
Prasad Sabbineni is a dynamic and visionary technology executive with an exemplary track record of delivering strategic and innovative technology solutions for global financial institutions. An industry subject matter expert in the risk, finance, and treasury areas, Prasad creates trust based, collaborative partnerships with business partners, senior management, and employees, to consistently deliver large and complex commitments, on time and within budget.
Prasad Sabbineni most recently served as the Chief Technology Officer and as Head of Products at MetricStream driving its SaaS journey and responsible for development of products and platform, architecture, technology infrastructure and cloud automation.
Sabbineni joined MetricStream after a career spanning 25+ years in Wall Street financial services industry. Prior to joining MetricStream, Prasad was a senior technology executive at Citigroup for 13 years. He oversaw technology for enterprise functions of Risk Management, Compliance Risk, Finance, Liquidity, HR, Data, Information Security, Internal Audit, Enterprise Supply Chain and Third-Party Management across the entire bank globally at Citi. Prasad also served as a member of the Citi’s CIO Council representing the enterprise functions technology. Prior to Citi, Prasad headed up Enterprise Risk technology at Lehman and as a member of the Derivates group at Bear Stearns, built and delivered risk management solutions for the derivates trading desk. Earlier in his career, Prasad led technology for market risk, credit risk, prime services risk, portfolio risk margin, and operational risk functions at Lehman Brothers. Preceding Lehman, Prasad rolled out derivative trading systems globally and as a Risk Manager, he was also responsible for managing market risk of fixed income and equity derivatives at Bear Stearns.
Ken Kaberia
Head of Enterprise Risk
Ken Kaberia is the Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Safaricom PLC, the leading unified Telecommunications services provider in the East and Central Africa. Safaricom PLC is best known as the pioneer of the mobile money services in the World with the first and most successful mobile money platform M-PESA.
Mr. Kaberia has had a successful career in Risk Management and Compliance for the last 15 years having worked with various companies in Africa and in the UK.
Ken spearheads and provides strategic leadership for the organization’s Enterprise Risk Management operations to driving the identification, assessment and mitigation of enterprise-wide risks around strategy, operational, information security and promoting a proactive risk management across the business and in the industry.
He holds certifications in the following areas: Risk Management, Information Risk, Business Continuity, Crisis Management among other assurance disciplines.
Mr. Kaberia is a purposeful and impact driven leader who is passionate about transforming customers lives using technology as an enabler of positive change that impacts communities and individuals.
Tami Dokken
Chief Data Privacy Officer
Tami Dokken is the first Chief Data Privacy Officer at the World Bank, where she is responsible for implementing the World Bank Group’s Policy on Personal Data Privacy. Prior to joining the Bank in 2019, she was Head of Global Data Privacy and Associate General Counsel at MoneyGram International, an global financial services company, where she implemented its first privacy program. Previously, she was associate general counsel at a multinational hospitality company, and was in private law practice at a U.S.-based law firm. Ms. Dokken is certified in U.S. and EU data privacy law through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (CIPP/US and CIPP/E), and has more than 25 years of experience in data privacy, corporate, marketing, and intellectual property law. Outside the Bank, Ms. Dokken is a frequent guest speaker on personal data privacy issues. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the College of Media, Communications and Information at the University of Colorado, Boulder, past-President and Director for the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies, and past volunteer at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, and various shelters for victims of domestic violence.
Jean Goetzinger
Head of Department Risk Prevention and Compliance
Jean heads a highly skilled team of ORM, BCM, Information/Cyber Security and Compliance experts. He has more than 20 years of experience within information/cyber security, included BCM and 9 years in ORM and is a recognized expert within the Luxemburgish and greater region landscape (Belgium, France, Germany), as well as within the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). His expertise embraces multiple fields within Information/cyber security and risk management, focusing on governance, translating technical risks into business language, compliance, emerging technologies and technical security. Jean owns a master degree in IT from the CNAM, Metz and a master degree in Management and Leadership from the « Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from ISACA since 2007.
Gunjan Sinha
Executive Chairman
Mr. Sinha is responsible for leading MetricStream's overall strategy and execution. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Silicon Valley companies, and was appointed in 2010 to the Board of the US-India Science and Technology Research Endowment Fund by the US State Department to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Additionally, he is the Chairman of CFHI.org which brings transformative healthcare education to under-served communities. Over the course of his career, he has spent over 20 years in various entrepreneurial, board, and executive positions building innovative businesses. He was the Co-Founder and President of WhoWhere? Inc., a leading Internet directory services company that was acquired by Lycos in 1998, as well as eGain, an online customer service company which he built from inception to post NASDAQ IPO. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and UC Santa Cruz, respectively. He also holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. He has been featured as one of the 50 most successful immigrant entrepreneurs in the US by Silicon India.
Lene Birk Enøe Christensen
COO Group Risk & Compliance
Lene Birk Christensen is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Group Risk & Compliance in Nordea, a member of the Group Risk & Compliance Executive Management team and a strategic partner to the Group Chief Risk Officer of Nordea. Lene drives to optimise and strengthen solutions, processes and operations across Group Risk & Compliance and Nordea. Driving guidance and transparency on the prioritisation of the development resources and efforts. Ensuring solid data and application management. Further Lene focus on strengthen and simplifying the Nordea Group’s Risk Management Framework, supporting clear roles and responsibilities and a harmonised and connected approach across all risk types. Collated group risk reporting based on automated processes. Lene has +20 years of experience within the financial sector where she has held various positions of senior leadership roles across a multitude of areas including Enterprise Risk Management, Banking Products and Customer Processes, Audit, Governance and Oversight, Analytics and Finance. Before joining Nordea, Lene worked at Danske Bank latest as Head of Group Operational Risk with responsibility to drive the transformation agenda and enhancement of the Operational Risk management in Danske Bank. Lene has a background as an auditor and has a MSc in Business Economics and Auditing (Cand.merc.aud) from Copenhagen Business School. Lene is married, has a daughter and lives in Roskilde in Denmark.
Brett Hudson
Global Head Ethics, Risk & Compliance - Strategy, Innovation & Corporate Functions
Brett Hudson joined Novartis in April 2006. Since joining Novartis, Brett has held various leadership positions in Australia, Thailand, Germany and most recently in Switzerland. Today, Brett is transforming ethics, risk and compliance at Novartis - by embracing behavioral and data science, innovation, and cocreation. Brett has changed the organizations approach to ethics & compliance - finding the right balance between rules and principles, process optimization and integration, and digital innovation. Most recently, Brett and his team led the development and launch of the new Code of Ethics in 2020, which was cocreated by associates and anchored in behavioral science. Brett’s unique profile of commercial, ethics, risk and compliance experience enable him to support the organization in finding pragmatic solutions to manage the organizations diverse and expanding risk profile. Prior to joining Novartis, Brett worked in various commercial roles across a variety of industries and markets. Outside of work, Brett enjoys spending time with his family, staying fit, and traveling.
Rani Selvarajoo Urbas
Head of Enterprise Trust
Rani is a senior software executive with more than 25 years of experience in public cloud operations; enterprise applications; platform services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS); corporate strategy and field sales. Her P&L and management responsibilities include leadership of cloud operations, product development, corporate strategy and field sales teams across North America, Europe & Asia. She has built and managed large, high-performing, globally matrixed teams, managing complex company-wide programs focusing on cloud capabilities, operations, service delivery and customer commitments. Currently, Rani manages a global team of risk and compliance experts at Google Cloud who engage with highly-regulated enterprise customers and in-region regulators on trust and compliance in the Cloud.
Garrett Smiley
CISO & VP of Information Security
I have over 20 years’ experience as an Information Technology and Information Security leader. I have extensive know-how in the areas of business continuity, compliance, governance, identity management, incident response, network security, risk management, security awareness and training, security operations, strategy and roadmaps, and vulnerability management. I currently have heavy C-level and Board of Directors (BoD) interaction, meeting with senior executives in weekly and monthly intervals and with BoD members at least quarterly. Additionally, I have also taken pain-staking efforts to establish rapport with all business units, departments, customers, vendors, and fellow employees, so that I can better understand their concerns and conversely, they can better appreciate my role as CISO and help me secure the business. I do this by speaking to them all in a language they can understand (e.g., cost/benefit to execs, KRIs to the risk team, liability to the board, tailored solutions to the customer, etc.). Given my strong compliance background, I have deep knowledge of various information security frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NISPOM, OWASP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FERPA, FISMA, etc.). I couple this knowledge with my understanding of the various security capabilities in the market (e.g., 2FA, CASB, DLP, ML, NAC, RPA, SEIM, UBA, etc.) to achieve the desired risk posture for the organization.
Stuart Frost
Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management
Stuart Frost, BEM, heads up the DWP Enterprise Security and Risk Management organisation. A vastly experienced, highly certified Security and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) professional with extensive sector knowledge and significant experience of delivering risk based security programmes across large scale, multi-disciplined and geographically dispersed organisations. Stuart has won numerous industry awards for his work in the GRC space and is renowned for his thought leadership and ability to align security programmes to enable successful, secure delivery of business objectives.
Santosh Gon
Chief Information Officer
Santosh Gon is the CIO for Aviva Singlife. He holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree with specialization in IT & Strategy. Santosh provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment to support the evolving demands of the customers and distributors. He has been leading the digital strategy for Aviva Singlife implementing number of strategic initiatives to support the growth in business and delivering a differentiated experience for the customers. Santosh has also been instrumental in setting up Aviva’s wholly owned financial advisory firm in Singapore. Prior to joining Aviva Singlife, Santosh has worked across diverse industries such as Manufacturing, Telecom and Technology.
Cadambi Janardhan
EVP Transformation, Risk and Operations LFI
Jana is the Executive Vice President – Transformation, Risk and Operations for LFI (Law, Franchise and Integrity) at Mastercard. His focus in this role is building robust risk practices across all functions , leading transformation of customer and legal processes and managing technology and process that cover key customer facing platforms and automation. Prior to this role, Jana was the Chief Franchise Development officer at Mastercard. In this role, he led the company’s efforts to evolve the Franchise Development function with a particular focus on enabling the rapid expansion and diversification of customers and entities who participate in the Mastercard ecosystem. He drove the strategy to ensure all Mastercard customers are successfully integrated into the Mastercard system, including the continued build out and development of tools and resources for customer onboarding, and development of Rules Architecture. Before joining Mastercard in January of 2014, Mr. Janardhan spent 28 years in global Consumer Banking and payments, specifically focused on the strategic development of large franchises in new markets through innovation, operational simplification and an ability to develop and inspire high-performing teams. His previous role at Standard Chartered Bank was global head responsible for leading strategy, product development, innovation and process governance for Retail Products, Segments and Consumer Finance across all markets. Prior to Standard Chartered, Mr. Janardhan was with Citigroup for 23 years in various leadership roles in Asia, Africa, Europe and the US, overseeing franchise and network operations for multiple consumer offerings at the country, regional and global levels. Until recently he was on the Boards of Merchant Solutions Pte Ltd, Singapore, Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, Standard Chartered Capital Company Korea and Standard Chartered Savings Bank Korea. In addition, he has spent several years serving on MasterCard’s Asia-Pacific Regional Advisory Board. Mr. Janardhan graduated from University of Bombay and is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He also completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
James Gilmore III
Former U.S. Ambassador
James “Jim” S. Gilmore III recently served as President Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria. With the bipartisan support of Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, the U.S. Senate confirmed him as U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE on May 23, 2019. He was sworn in as Ambassador on June 25, 2019, and departed his post on January 20, 2021. Mr. Gilmore grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and in 1971, he enlisted as a volunteer in the U.S. Army after college and worked as a counter-intelligence agent in then-West Germany after intensive language training in German, in which he became fluent. In 1974, Gilmore was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal for Service to NATO. Gilmore graduated from the University of Virginia (UVA) and earned a B.A. degree in International Relations, Russian Area Studies. He then earned his law degree at the UVA School of Law. After serving his country and receiving his law degree, Mr. Gilmore was elected in 1987 as chief prosecutor for Henrico (hen-rye-co) County and then-Attorney General of Virginia in 1993. Mr. Gilmore became the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002. As Governor, he led extensive work in economic development including trade missions to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Gilmore has also traveled to Israel, Pakistan, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Australia, and Peru. In May 2021 he toured battleground areas in Ukraine where Russian-sponsored separatists have been killing Ukrainians since 2014. More than 14,000 soldiers and citizens of Ukraine have been murdered since Russia’s 2014 invasion. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent participant at the Center for the National Interest and has lectured at the Potomac Institute on homeland security and terrorism issues. From 1999 to 2003, Gilmore served as Chairman of the Congressional panel known as the “Gilmore Commission” to assess America’s capabilities to respond to a terrorist attack. In 2003, Gilmore was recruited to serve as chairman of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors. He ran for the GOP nomination for president from July 2015 to February 2016. Since leaving office, he has served on eight corporate boards of directors. He is married to Roxane Gatling Gilmore and they have two adult sons and one granddaughter
Frank Wisner
International Affairs Advisor
Ambassador Wisner’s diplomatic career spans four decades and eight American presidents. He served as ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, the Philippines, and India during his extensive career in the State Department. As Foreign Affairs Advisor, Ambassador Wisner plays a pivotal role at the firm, leveraging his vast experience in the Middle East, India, Europe and Asia to assist the firm’s domestic and international clients. In addition to his role as ambassador to four countries, he has served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs. Ambassador Wisner was senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs from 1982 to 1986, a time of intense diplomatic engagement in Southern Africa. After graduating from Princeton University in 1961, Ambassador Wisner joined the State Department as a Foreign Service officer. His first post was in Algiers immediately after it won independence from France. He then went to Vietnam, where he spent four years at the apex of the war. Ambassador Wisner worked as a senior diplomat in Tunisia and Bangladesh before returning to Washington as Director of Plans and Management in the Bureau of Public Affairs. He joined the President’s Interagency Task Force on Indochina, the entity responsible for evacuating and settling nearly 1 million refugees and served as its Deputy Director. Later, as Director of the Office of Southern African Affairs, Frank Wisner worked closely with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to launch negotiations with Zimbabwe and Namibia. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Ambassador Wisner as the nation’s special representative to the Kosovo Status Talks in 2005 where he played a crucial role in negotiating Kosovo’s independence. Before joining the firm, Ambassador Wisner served as Vice Chairman of External Affairs for American International Group. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation, which promotes the role of public service and pro bono work in the practice of law and the development of public policy.
Meredith Harper
Chief Information Security Officer
Meredith joined Eli Lilly & Company in August 2018 as their Deputy Chief Information Security Officer and as of April 2019, she transitioned to the role of Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer for Lilly’s global information security program. Over her 26-year career, she has emerged as a strategic leader who is not just interested in processes, goals and objectives but most of all she is passionate about her greatest assets...her human capital. Her success has been attributed to her ability to manage large-scale complex programs that cross functional areas while advancing the skill sets of her team members. She is an active member of the Health Care Compliance Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals where she has demonstrated her commitment to compliance by holding dual certifications in healthcare compliance and privacy. She is also certified as a HealthCare Information Security & Privacy Practitioner through the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc. and a Certified Information Security Manager through the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Meredith is passionate about empowering women and minorities to embark upon careers in technology especially in information security where those populations are not very well represented. She serves on several boards in support of that passion and she has a unique perspective she enjoys sharing with others. She has also served her community for 29 years through her Diamond Life membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She is a proud alumna of the University of Detroit Mercy where she received her Master’s in Health Services Administration and her Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems. She is also a proud alumna of Loyola Chicago School of Law where she received her Master’s of Jurisprudence in Health Law.
Eileen Fahey
Chief Risk Officer
Eileen Fahey is Chief Risk Officer for Fitch Group. Appointed in June 2017, Ms. Fahey oversees Fitch Group's risk management function, which includes reviewing, monitoring and addressing the multitude of risks that can impact the group's performance and reputation. Ms. Fahey and her team are responsible for implementing the increasingly large universe of rating agency regulatory mandates, as well as addressing new and developing threats across Fitch Group's businesses. Her Team includes: Jeremy Carter, Chief Credit officer, Peter Patrino, Chief Criteria Officer, and Jeff Horvath, Chief Compliance Officer. Ms. Fahey joined Fitch Ratings in 1998, most recently serving as Chief Credit Officer, a role she held since 2015. In that capacity she managed a team of regional and group credit officers who oversaw ratings, quality assurance, credit market commentary and macro research. Prior to that, as Regional Credit Officer for the Americas she played an important role in helping evolve Fitch’s credit policy in the wake of the global financial crisis. Her nearly-20 year tenure at Fitch has included a variety of other roles including credit officer for the Insurance, Fund and Asset Manager, and REITs group, where she oversaw the development and application of credit rating criteria and participated in ratings committees. She joined Fitch as a credit analyst for the financial institutions group and subsequently managed the teams focused on investment and money center banks, and asset management firms. Prior to joining Fitch, Ms. Fahey was a National Bank Examiner with the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where she was a member of the multinational banking group, examining capital markets and trading operations of U.S. money center banks. Ms. Fahey received a BA in business and economics from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and has been a chartered financial analyst (CFA) charter holder since1994.
Arya Yarpezeshkan
Chief Risk Officer - Global Specialty
ARYA YARPEZESHKAN is a senior strategic and risk management professional with extensive experience in enterprise risk management, strategy development, financial analysis, business process improvement and operations. Arya serves as the Chief Risk Officer and Leader of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function for AIG’s Global Specialty Insurance businesses. The group is accountable for the design and facilitation of AIG’s ERM framework across the Specialty Insurance operations and legal entities, including the effective management of all key insurance, market, credit, operational, and strategic risks. Prior to AIG, Arya has held Chief Risk Officer roles at Western World Insurance Group, The Navigators Group, Inc., and Tokio Marine – U.S. At Tokio Marine, Arya also led the Financial Planning & Analysis function. Arya began his risk management career at MasterCard International where he was instrumental in the development of the ERM initiative globally. Arya was responsible for the business transformation to a risk-centric culture, with the introduction of an internal capital model, risk-adjusted return metrics and a framework for evaluating new initiatives from a risk and return perspective. Prior to MasterCard, Arya held senior financial roles at Citigroup and Bank of New York. In his financial management roles, he was instrumental in several cross-functional efforts to streamline operations, develop profitability forecasting models and improve business returns. Arya has also spent time in strategic planning and operations roles within the manufacturing sector at Astec America and Maxwell Technologies. He completed his Masters in Accounting at Seton Hall University, his Masters in Banking at Mercy College, his M.B.A. at San Diego State University and his Bachelor’s at Kansas State University. He is passionate about leadership and continuously improving his craft as an ERM professional and Thought Leader. Arya is certified in Six Sigma, Project Management, Business Process Management, Business Continuity and The Balanced Scorecard.
Nita Kohli
Vice President and Head - Operational Resilience and Enterprise Operations
Nita Kohli is responsible for Operational Resilience and Crisis Management at Freddie Mac. Overseeing Business Resiliency across the company, Nita drives to strengthen and mature Freddie Mac’s resiliency capabilities as the industry aligns to Operational Resilience. She partners with her executive, regulator, and industry counterparts to manage robust risk and control frameworks designed to deliver solutions, align core goals, and help lead the organization as Freddie Mac prepares to exit conservatorship. Nita has 20+ years of multi-disciplinary experience within the financial industry. She has held a variety of leadership roles across a multitude of functional areas, including Finance, Operations, Risk & Control and has driven a number of large-scale business transformations. Prior to Freddie Mac, Nita worked at JP Morgan for more than 15 years, and was most recently the Head of Governance & Controls for Firmwide Business Resiliency. In this position, she had global responsibility for uplifting and enhancing the firm’s resiliency function in lieu of regulation, operational risk, and external threats that drive a riskbased approach for remediation. Nita’s career spans international work with Deutsche Bank UK, JP Morgan UK/US and KPMG UK. She is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and has a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics and Management from King’s College, University of London. Nita is married with two college-age children and lives between Virginia and New Jersey.
Stacey Schabel
Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Executive
Stacey Schabel is Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Executive responsible for the Jackson Financial Inc. Internal Audit team, which examines and evaluates the key activities supporting the North American operations of Prudential plc, including Jackson, its subsidiaries and affiliate. Ms. Schabel assists the Board, audit and risk committee members and executive management in protecting the assets, reputation and sustainability of the organization through assessment and reporting on the overall effectiveness of risk management, internal controls and governance. Ms. Schabel, who has over 19 years of audit and risk management experience, joined Jackson in 2005 and has served in various internal audit roles and as Director of the Solvency II and New Business teams during her tenure. Prior to joining Jackson, Ms. Schabel worked for Plante & Moran, PLLC. She is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants. She also serves on the IIA’s Global Financial Services Guidance Committee. Ms. Schabel earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Central Michigan University with majors in accounting and management information systems. She is a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Public Accountant and holds her FINRA Series 6 registration.
John Langione
Chief Risk Officer
John Langione joined QBE in 2010 and was named Chief Risk Officer in 2012. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Internal Audit. John has nearly 30 years of experience in insurance, finance, and risk roles. Prior to joining QBE, John was the Deputy Comptroller, Financial Controls with AIG International and the Senior Vice President, Financial Controls at ACE Insurance. He has served as a partner in Ernst & Young’s Advisory Services Group providing risk, controls, and internal audit support for various financial services organizations. He also held positions with State Farm Insurance, Prudential Insurance and the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Division of Criminal Justice. John received his MBA in Professional Accounting from Rutgers Graduate School of Business.
Duaine Styles
Chief Security Officer
Duaine Styles joined Globe Life in March 2015 and serves as their Chief Security Officer. He leads a consolidated security risk management department which focuses on the identification and mitigation of potential loss events. These capabilities span business resiliency, crisis management, cybersecurity, and personnel security. Previously, he was the VP of Security for a large auto finance company where he led a consolidated security department for over a decade. Throughout his career, Duaine has focused on giving back to the profession. He was a founding officer of the Information Systems Security Association’s Fort Worth Chapter and currently serves on the National Technology Security Coalition’s advisory board to members of the United States Congress on security and privacy legislation.
Antonio Fernandez
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Antonio Fernández is vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer for FirstEnergy Service Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. Fernández leads a dedicated team of compliance professionals with a focus on strengthening FirstEnergy’s ethics and compliance function. He reports to Hyun Park, senior vice president and chief legal officer, and the Audit Committee of the Board, and collaborates closely with the compliance oversight subcommittee of the Audit Committee. Fernández joined FirstEnergy in April 2021 after five years as chief compliance, NERC & privacy officer of Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), where he led PSEG’s ethics, compliance and privacy programs, advised senior management and the Board of Directors on the company’s compliance program and provided advice on ethics, compliance, privacy and cybersecurity matters. Before joining PSEG in 2016, Fernández was global ombuds leader and executive counsel for GE Power. During his five years at GE, he held various roles of increasing responsibility in GE’s compliance program, including serving as chief compliance officer for GE’s nuclear business and as GE’s corporate ombuds leader. Prior to GE, he was a senior attorney for Florida Power & Light from 2007 to 2011 and nuclear counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company from 2005 to 2007. Fernández began his career at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel in its Honors Program. Fernández earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Dayton, a Juris Doctor degree (Order of Barristers) from St. Mary’s University School of Law and a Master of Laws in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center.
LaLisha Hurt
Deputy Chief Information Security Officer
LaLisha Hurt serves as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). In her role, she is responsible for leading cyber operations, engineering, and intelligence managed services for internal and external customers across federal, state, and local agencies within GDIT’s Technology Shared Services organization. Prior to joining GDIT, LaLisha spent the last 20 years in various business strategy, IT risk management, IT governance and cyber security leadership roles at companies such as General Electric, Federal Reserve System and Ernst & Young, LLC. LaLisha has a successful track record of driving business outcomes, building high performing teams, spearheading cost savings initiatives and has a strong passion for developing a diverse workforce for the future. LaLisha has her Bachelor of Science Engineering degree from the University of Virginia, an MBA from the University of Baltimore and a Master's in Information Assurance from University of Maryland University College. She also completed Carnegie Mellon’s Chief Information Security Officer Executive Program in 2017 and possesses her CISA, CGEIT and CRISC certifications through ISACA.
Mangone Fall
Director Cybersecurity Assurance
Mangoné Fall is a technology leader driving responsible business growth for over twenty-five years. Currently, he is the Director of Cybersecurity Assurance at Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit, multi-specialty group practice, with 70,000 employees, annual revenue of over 8 billion dollars, and more than 10 million patient encounters each year. In his role, Mangoné helps business leaders understand cyber risk exposure, select strategies to manage risk, and meet regulatory obligations in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Throughout his career, Mangoné has helped blend the fast and creative culture of technology start-ups with the rigor and oversight expected of a large enterprise. The result is the acceleration of new ideas equipped with risk and privacy management strategies that help them achieve enterprise scale rapidly and responsibly. Mangoné’s leadership is lauded as a catalyst for new ideas. With his keen sense for successful innovation tactics and the ability to energize large teams, he has helped incubate, commercialize, and spin-off new products and services. With his direction and guidance organizations have reduced product development times to a quarter of the previous standard, achieved critical certifications with speed and efficiency built a governance, risk, and compliance platform to support over one million global users. As an advisor, Mangoné has helped many prominent health and technology companies develop new solutions and products that meet strict regulations and risk tolerance. He continues to grow and give back to the industry as a member of NHISAC’s Third-Party Risk group and as a founding member of the HITRUST Third-party risk Management Council. Both councils seek to improve supply chain security and streamline procurement for health systems and their vendors. Dedicated to excellence in his craft, Mangoné maintains CISA, CISM, CGEIT, and CRISC certifications from ISACA, CISSP from ISC2, CIPP from IAPP, and CPHIMS from HIMSS. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cleveland State University, a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University, and a Master of Science in Healthcare Management from Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
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