GARP 2025 Financial Risk Symposium

Catherine is the Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Nasdaq. She heads Group Risk Management, including Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Risk Management, and Corporate Insurance. Catherine is a board member for Nasdaq’s Clearing AB and the Nasdaq Foundation and chairs several Nasdaq committees, including the Group Risk Management, Business Continuity and Crisis Management, AI Governance, Model Risk Management and Supplier Risk committees. She also serves on Nasdaq’s Technology Risk Committee and Compliance Council. Catherine is the executive co-sponsor for Adelante Nasdaq, Nasdaq’s Hispanic and Latin American employee network. 

Catherine’s 25-year career includes leadership experience in internal audit, risk management, and technology transformation. Prior to Nasdaq, Catherine held several positions during her 18-year tenure at Goldman Sachs. Her most recent role was Chief Digital Transformation Officer and Managing Director for Engineering. She also served as a member of the company’s Engineering Risk Committee. 

Ashwani Aggarwal is the Chief Risk Officer of Santander US and Santander Bank, N.A., leading the oversight across both the financial and non-financial risks, including credit, market, operational, compliance, model, liquidity, technology, capital, and reputation since August 2021. He serves on the Board of Directors of Banco Santander International.

Aggarwal began working at Santander US in June 2019 as Head of Risk Analytics and Chief Model Risk Officer. In this role, he was responsible for Data Management Framework for all Santander US entities. Prior to joining Santander US, Aggarwal held various leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase from 2007 to 2018, including Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Model Risk Governance & Review. He also held a variety of risk positions at GE Capital, Standard & Poor’s, and GMAC Rescap.

Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos is the Founder & CEO of Metrika, the leading SaaS platform for real-time risk management and compliance in digital assets. Under his leadership, Metrika has enabled financial institutions, custodians, and regulators to seamlessly onboard digital assets, establish continuous risk monitoring, and navigate evolving regulatory frameworks with confidence.

Nikos served the U.S. CFTC as a member of its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) and Subcommittee on Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology, helping shape policy discussions on blockchain risk, DeFi, and AI-driven compliance. He played a key role in the CFTC’s DeFi Report, contributing to operational risk frameworks that support regulatory clarity and financial stability in digital markets.

Beyond his regulatory contributions, Nikos has been a recognized leader in the convergence of blockchain, AI, and financial risk management. His insights have been sought after by industry leaders, policymakers, and financial institutions navigating the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.

Prior to Metrika, Nikos was a Principal at Cartesian, where he advised telecom and technology companies on market strategy, digital transformation, and regulatory affairs, including engagements with the FCC on 5G policy development. His work at the intersection of technology and regulation continues to inform Metrika’s approach to bridging compliance and innovation.

Nikos holds an MSc. from MIT EECS, an MBA from MIT Sloan, and a BSc. in EECS with honors from NTUA.

Saad P Aslam is the Executive Vice President and Head of Credit Review at Citizens Bank. In this capacity he leads the bank’s credit review function and the team responsible for management of enterprise-wide credit risk. The credit review team is also tasked with ensuring the identification and mitigation of all credit risk concerns for commercial, consumer, and wealth management business, as well as surveillance of the bank’s loan portfolios on behalf of the bank’s Board Audit Committee.

Jasmine is the CRO of Coinbase Asset Management, a digitally focused asset manager creating solutions for the convergence of traditional and digital investments. In March 2020 Jasmine lead the spin out of Brevan Howard’s infrastructure in the United States, Coremont, a SaaS and services company supporting full FTB operations for multiple asset managers and hedge Funds. Jasmine built the US team covering all roles and designing and managing the build needed to support varied digitally focused clients. Jasmine joined Coremont from Brevan Howard, where she sat on multiple Global Committees and Chaired the US Executive Committee from her role as Head of Risk of the New York office, a position held since August 2016. Prior to joining Brevan Howard, Burgess was Chief Risk Officer at Prologue Capital, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund (April 2013 to July 2016). Prior to this buy-side focus, Jasmine held several roles at Macquarie Bank from August 2006 to March 2013, starting as a Senior Manager leading the Market Risk Team in Sydney, Australia, then being transferred in 2009 to New York as an Associate Director on a small team to build the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities trading floor. Whilst in her role as Head of FICC Risk, Jasmine started and lead Macquarie’s first quantitative strategy team with initial focuses on Vol arbitrage, FX and commodity futures trading strategies. Jasmine started her career at Citibank in 1999 before joining JP Morgan as an Analyst within the Debt Capital Markets team in 2002. Jasmine graduated from University of New South Wales, Australia with a Bachelors of Commerce in Finance (hons) and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2002).

Kaizad Cama is a Managing Director at BlackRock and the Head of Risk for Global Private Credit and Private Equity. In this capacity, he is responsible for the investment risk management of BlackRock’s private credit and private equity businesses.

Outside of BlackRock, Cama serves on the investment committee for MCE Social Capital's MESA fund. MCE a non-profit impact investment manager investing in small-scale sustainable agriculture and financial service providers (e.g., microfinance organizations) in frontier markets. 

Prior to joining BlackRock, Cama led a risk advisory practice at FIS (formerly SunGard), which advised banks on credit risk management, capital management and business strategy. He was responsible for creating risk solutions for regional and community banks within their middle market lending, CRE lending and retail lending businesses. Kaizad began his career at ERisk, a spin-off of the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman.  

Manish Chakrabarti is the Head of Model Governance (CDAO) at Vanguard, the second largest investment management firm in the world. In his current role Manish is responsible for the Enterprise Model Risk Management (MRM) function and providing oversight of all models used across the Vanguard with a focus on AI models. In addition to setting up the MRM function from the ground up, he has been instrumental in creating the AI risk management framework. He authored Vanguard's Model Policy, AI Ethics Principles and is leading the AI Policy work. 

Manish has held senior leadership roles at some of the largest global banks, including at Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, and Deutsche Bank. He brings extensive experience acquired during 17+ years in the financial services industry and has worked in all three lines of defense, successfully leading complex regulatory programs, resulting in a unique perspective on challenges and opportunities in this industry.

At BNP Paribas, he was the Head of Model Governance for the CUSO IHC, and before that he was the US Head of the Model Risk team at Goldman Sachs – IA, where he led the buildout of a global team of Ph.D. quants and mature the model risk audit program. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Computer Science.

For over two decades, William Coen has been intimately involved in increasing the safety and soundness of the global financial system. Most recently he was the former Secretary General of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) – responsible for setting banking standards worldwide – where he directed and managed the international group.

When Coen joined the BCBS as Deputy Secretary General in 2007, few could predict the global implications of the upcoming U.S. financial crisis. As a result, his role primarily focused on the response to the global crisis and making much-needed changes to the banking sector. Coen navigated the introduction of the Basel III policy initiatives – aimed to strengthen the regulation, supervision, and risk management of banks – and has since overseen the completion of the guidelines. He also chaired the BCBS’s Policy Development Group – aiming to improve the resilience of banks and banking systems by formulating policy responses. Integral in the expansion of the BCBS into a truly global organization, Coen participated in growing the Committee from 13 countries in 2009 to now 27 countries around the world.

Prior to joining the Basel Committee’s Secretariat, Coen worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. During his tenure, he honed his expertise by focusing in areas related to banking policy, supervision, and licensing. Coen continues to participate in strengthening the world’s financial stability as a board member for the Toronto Centre – promoting stronger, more effective financial regulation and supervision around the globe.

ChristopherDonohue is the Managing Director of the GARP Benchmarking Initiative, a datautility for financial services companies to compare sensitive data. Previously,he led GARP’s Educational and Research Programs, with oversight including the FinancialRisk Manager (FRM®) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP®).

Prior tojoining GARP, Donohue’s roles include hedge fund partner responsible for thedevelopment of asset allocation tools for pension funds and automated tradingsystems; director in the Global Research Center at Deutsche Asset Management, leadingproduct research and development; and Director of Optimization Technology atAlphatech, a technology and research defense contractor, where he led algorithmdevelopment for intelligence aircraft path planning and sensor scheduling systems.

Wilson Ervin has worked in the financial sector for roughly 4 decades, mostly in the private sector. He was the global Chief Risk Officer of Credit Suisse throughout the 2000s, including the 2008 Financial Crisis. He was also a member of the Executive Board from 2005-2009. From 1982- 1998, Mr. Ervin held a series of responsibilities in front office divisions including: capital markets, Australian investment banking, derivatives structuring, and Mergers & Acquisitions. 

After the events of 2008, Mr. Ervin moved to a policy role, focusing on reforms to address the recent crisis. He received Risk Magazine’s “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his work in proposing and developing the “bail-in” strategy to enable the resolution of large banks, as well as his role as a successful CRO.

In 2021-22, he worked pro-bono as a senior advisor to Emergent, a tropical forest protection organization. From 2023-24 he worked as a Counselor in the US Treasury (domestic finance), working on both climate and financial stability issues. He currently serves on the boards of Equilibrium Capital, City Harvest, and the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee. He previously served on EDF’s National Council, and the board of Worldwide Orphans. Mr. Ervin received his A.B., summa cum laude, in Economics from Princeton University. 

Courtney Garcia is Managing Director and Head of Market Risk at Apollo. Courtney sits on several committees, including the Firm’s Global Risk Committee, Valuation Committees, Investment Practices, and various other Investment Committees. 

George Gau is currently the Managing Director – Treasury and Liquidity Risk Officer at MUFG Americas. He joined MUFG in September 2024 and lead the second line of defense functions for Treasury activities across Americas. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of Americas Liquidity, IRR, Markets Treasury and Pension Risk for HSBC. George has taken various leadership roles and have 20+ years of experiences in Treasury and Risk Management across FBOs and major US investment banks / financial institutions, including Barclays, GE Capital, Morgan Stanley and Merril Lynch, etc. He holds a master’s degree in engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research (EESOR) from Stanford University and holds both Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certifications.  

Beth Gould Creller joined GARP in 2018, leading our Energy Risk Professional (ERP) and Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) programs. Prior to joining GARP, she began her energy career in the upstream oil and gas industry with Hess Corporation, where she developed an embedded Enterprise Risk Management program, key in company capital decision-making and asset valuation. Working across multiple continents, her energy background spans corporate risk, internal audit, global supply chain, business continuity planning, and governance.

C.J. Heald is a globally experienced financial services professional with over 20 years of specialized experience within the Treasury field. Since joining TIAA in 2011, he has expanded and elevated his career through various roles within the Global Treasury Organization and currently serves as Treasurer. Mr. Heald previously served as Interim Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer, overseeing the debt capital markets activity, including financing of spread lending, enterprise governance & controls, bank connectivity, liquidity stress testing, treasury operational functions for the firm’s insurance companies and asset managers. 

Mr. Heald’s treasury organization delivers treasury technology infrastructure and treasury expertise to build the TIAA Global Treasury Organization into the dynamic team that it is today. This includes Treasury Management and Bank Account Management Systems, Society for World Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”), a Bank Relationship Management tool and managing key relationships on behalf of the firm, such as the Federal Home Loan Bank membership for spread lending investing.  

Mr. Heald is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He began his career at Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. within their Treasury Department.

Joseph Hwang is the Head of U.S. Regulatory Policy, responsible for interpretation and advocacy related to the Basel

Committee's and the Federal Reserve's regulatory capital frameworks applicable to the Bank Holding Company and to Goldman Sachs Bank U.S. He serves as co-chair of the Finance, Risk and Services Asian Professional Network.

Previously, Hwang helped create the Regulatory Policy team in 2010. Prior to that, he built the GS Bank USA Regulatory Reporting team in 2008. He joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in 2005 and was named managing director in 2017.

Hwang earned a BBA in Accounting from Baruch College in 2005 and an MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business in 2011.

Katie Hysenbegasi, PhD is the Global Head of Risk Modeling and Analytics for BNY based in New York. She currently leads all the risk model development for the Bank. She joined BNY in January 2006. 

Katie has spent her career in risk modeling, primarily in the credit, counterparty credit, market and operational risk areas. In addition, Katie is responsible for modeling related to Basel, CCAR and CECL. Prior to joining BNY, she spent several years at Citigroup building credit risk models for retail portfolios.

Katie received a PhD in Applied Economics from Western Michigan University and a M.S. in Financial Engineering from Baruch College.

Aakanksha is the Director of Product Development at Mastercard, where she leads innovation within Mastercard Foundry. Her work focuses on developing cutting-edge solutions at the intersection of AI and financial technology.

She has spearheaded the development of multiple AI-driven products of strategic importance, including AI-powered credit risk models for SMEs and a set of merchant portfolio optimization models for Mastercard’s Acceptance business. Most recently, Aakanksha has been leading the development of a portfolio of Generative AI products for SMEs.

With over nine years of experience in product management and consulting, Aakanksha has a deep understanding of AI applications across industries. She also works closely on AI model governance, model risk management, and regulatory compliance, ensuring that AI solutions meet legal, privacy, and ethical standards. Before joining Mastercard, she held roles at JP Morgan, Deloitte, and GEP Worldwide, gaining extensive experience in financial services and consulting.

Beyond her professional role, she has contributed to AI research, publishing a paper on Bias in Large Language Models and Responsible AI.

Colin Lovemason is currently Head of Model Risk at SMBC, Risk Management Americas Division. Previously, he held positions in the Risk Division of Credit Suisse from 2005 to 2023 in roles covering model development and model validation. Lovemason holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from King’s College London and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.  

David Lynch is Deputy Associate Director for Policy Research and Analytics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He joined the board in 2005. His areas of responsibility include Volcker metrics, Swap Margin, and oversight of models for market risk capital and counterparty risk capital. David Lynch has been a representative on the Risk Measurement Group and the Market Risk Group of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision where he worked on the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book and Counterparty Credit Risk Capital. He was a representative on the Supervision and Implementation Group and is now a co-chair of the Research Group of the BCBS. David is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Stability. He has worked at the US Securities and Exchange Commission in broker-dealer finance and in the economics department at the University of Mary Washington. David holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. 

Elizabeth McCaul is the first American to serve as a European Central Bank Representative to the ECB's Supervisory Board. Her non-renewable five-year term concluded in 2024. Her mandate included supervisory strategy, consistency and quality of supervision, risk, capital, internal governance, and training. She focused on prudential implications to financial stability, including private credit markets, capital markets and geopolitical risk. She served as the chair of the Board Steering Committee on the Digital Agenda overseeing supervision of operational resiliency, IT risk, crypto, cyber-security and new FinTech entrants. In 2020 to 2021 she participated in an organizational re-design of supervision which included the creation of a new unit for Supervisory Strategy and Risk, guided the unit during its first year of operation and participated in hiring its first Director. She served as the project sponsor for the Wise Person Group which conducted a comprehensive review of the effectiveness of supervision during 2022 and published its report in March of 2023. She had responsibility for supervision's interactions with the ECB's IT and Human Resources shared services. She was a member of the Macro-Prudential Forum.

She joined the NY State Banking Department as First Deputy in 1995 and served as NY Superintendent of Banks from 1997-2003. She was elected Chair of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, served as a Member of the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council, on the Joint Forum for Financial Conglomerates, and as an Instructor for Financial Stability Institute at the BIS. Before joining the ECB, she worked for Promontory Financial Group where she founded the New York office and served in a variety of senior roles including New York Partner-in-Charge, CEO and Chair of Promontory Europe/Middle East and Global Head of Strategy. For the first decade of her career, she was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

Lee Medoff has over 20 years of professional experience in banking and finance. He began his career as a desk quant at JPMorgan Chase, where he developed models to optimize the return of the bank’s card portfolio. He moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, following the merger of JPMorgan Chase with BankOne, before joining Moody’s Analytics Risk Management Services, where he oversaw analytics teams in New York and India.

His professional experience further includes consulting roles in the Quantitative Advisory Services Group of EY, followed by several years in leadership within the Fintech space, prior to his joining Fifth Third.

Rashika Murthy is Managing Director, Head of Cross Business Risk at BMO Wealth Management where she leads the implementation, maintenance, and administration for First Line of Defense risk programs within the Wealth Management line of business. Rashika is a Financial Services Executive with 14+ years of experience in Capital Markets, Risk Management and Treasury. She is known for her process-oriented approach and strategic mindset, consistently delivering high efficiencies, and ensuring regulatory compliance. 

Prior to her current role, she was Director of Business Risk and Solutions at BMO Capital Markets where she revamped compliance frameworks and risk management processes. Her role involved implementing and operationalizing policies to ensure regulatory adherence while collaborating with executive leadership to integrate risk management into business strategies. 

Leading up to her role in Capital Markets she served a number of years in the Corporate Treasury division with a focus on liquidity and funding management at BMO, Barclays and J.P. Morgan Chase. In these positions, she developed liquidity risk strategies, optimized liquidity planning efforts and enhanced reporting processes. 

Rashika holds an MBA from University of Michigan and a B.S. in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University.

Mark Rosenberg, PhD, is Founder and Co-Head of GeoQuant, acquired by Fitch Group in 2022 and now part of BMI, a Fitch Solutions company. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow and specialized in game theory and African politics.

After Berkeley, he joined the political risk firm Eurasia Group (EG), where he was the Director of Africa, Comparative Analytics and Research Management. Mark also led product development at EG; he created the firm’s Political Trajectories and helped create its Political Risk Country Portfolio asset allocation model. Prior to this, Mark worked at the global human rights organization Freedom House, where he helped build their highly regarded democracy index and edited the flagship Freedom in the World publication.

Mark teaches political risk analysis as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and has written and spoken widely on country and geopolitical risks. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and lives in Los Angeles with his family.

George Smirnoff is Managing Director, Global Information Security, Compliance and Operational Risk Executive for Bank of America, overseeing cybersecurity risk and compliance globally. George is a leader with expertise across cybersecurity, technology, data, and operational risk with a record of embedding transformational change, delivering a forward view of managing the interconnect of complex risks across business, technology, functions, and legal entities. 

Previously for Barclays, George built out a global integrated risk program for cybersecurity, technology, data, resilience, and change and was promoted to lead the entire global Operational Risk function. Further, he served as the Executive Sponsor for the Employee Multicultural and Faith Resource Group.

George has been CISO at Comerica and Synchrony, a global executive in security and data at Morgan Stanley and EY, and served in multiple board/advisory roles with The Clearing House, Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Notably, he is an original architect of the Cyber Risk Profile and is a recognized thought leader in cyber frameworks, regulatory harmonization, and privacy. George has extensive Board and Regulatory experience and holds a JD, MBA, and CISSP.

Jorge R. Sobehart is a Managing Director, Head of Credit, Climate and Obligor Risk Analytics at Citi, where he manages analytics for credit risk ratings, wholesale climate risk, credit stress testing, CCAR, ICAAP, IFRS9 and CECL reserves, and loss likelihood and loss severity approaches for regulatory capital. Previously he also developed wholesale frameworks for credit risk capital and various credit risk approaches. Dr. Sobehart has over 35 years of professional experience in research and development for government and industry, risk analysis, quantification of uncertainty, probabilistic risk assessment and mathematical modeling. During his career, he has worked for several prestigious institutions making contributions in multiple fields, publishing articles in risk management, finance, theoretical and applied physics, computation, and mathematical modeling, and acting as a reviewer for several professional journals and book editors. He authored the recent book Advanced Analytical Methods for Climate Risk and ESG Risk Management. Dr. Sobehart has advanced degrees in physics and postdoctoral experience at the US-Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Rodney is Americas CRO for OKX, and has come “full-circle” as his very first job was as a Mathematician Cryptanalyst at The National Security Agency. 

Most recently, Rodney helped Customers Bank develop their Financial Risk Management program. He’s served as the CRO for Morgan Stanley’s Broker Dealer and Swap Dealers, and as CRO for Celsius Network. Prior to that he worked as a senior risk manager at Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust, and began his financial career at Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies. 

Rodney teaches grad-level classes at Columbia University (Corporate Finance and Investment Banking), and at NYU’s Courant Institute (Risk Management and Modeling of Bonds and Securitized Products). 

He matriculated at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management (MBA), and at Harvard College (A.B.).

Jason Wu is the Assistant Director of the Global Markets Analysis division at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In this capacity, he directs the IMF’s work on financial market surveillance and leads the flagship Global Financial Stability Report.

Before joining the IMF, Jason served as an Associate Director in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board, where he oversaw the Global Financial Flows, Global Financial Institutions, and International Financial Stability groups. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Head of Economic Research and later the Head of Credit Risk and Banking Statistics at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

Between 2007 and 2018, Jason held positions in the divisions of Monetary Affairs and Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve Board, focusing on FOMC communications, the transmission of monetary policy, and the operations of financial intermediaries.

Jason holds a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published research on monetary policy transmission, banking, capital flows, and econometrics in leading academic journals.

Richard Apostolik has led the world’s premiere association for risk professionals for 16 years. Previously with Bankers Trust’s (Deutsche Bank) strategic ventures group, Apostolik developed financial risk management initiatives designed to provide credit risk mitigation and management services to financial service companies. He also served as JPMorgan & Co.’s global head of energy brokerage activities and chief operating officer of its global listed product businesses. Apostolik ran his own consulting firm and was responsible for the start-up of SG Warburg & Co.’s North American futures and options business. He was an attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, practiced law with a private law firm in Chicago, and was the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s house counsel. Apostolik holds a BSBA, MBA, and JD from the University of Dayton.

Michael was appointed CEO of Credit Benchmark in June 2023 after serving in several key executive roles including most recently as Chief Operating Officer and Head of Risk. He is also a member of the Executive Committee.

Prior to joining Credit Benchmark in 2016, Michael worked at Goldman Sachs in the Credit Risk Management & Advisory group covering a diverse portfolio of entities across the natural resources and public finance sectors. Before Goldman, Michael spent over 10 years in other credit risk and banking roles at Barclays, Dexia and Moody’s Investors Service focused primarily on energy, infrastructure and U.S. public finance. Michael holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Anders Wulff-Andersen joined Citi in October of 2020 as the Global Head of Financial Institutions and Counterparty Credit Risk within second line Risk. After an extensive overhaul of the counterparty credit risk framework he moved to Institutional Credit Management in the first line where he heads up Financial Institutions & Counterparty Credit Risk and Wholesale Credit Portfolio Management. Prior to joining Citi he held similar roles at UBS, Credit Suisse and Bank of America. Earlier in his career Anders led quantitative model teams focusing on credit and trading risk.

ChristopherDonohue is the Managing Director of the GARP Benchmarking Initiative, a datautility for financial services companies to compare sensitive data. Previously,he led GARP’s Educational and Research Programs, with oversight including the FinancialRisk Manager (FRM®) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP®).

Prior tojoining GARP, Donohue’s roles include hedge fund partner responsible for thedevelopment of asset allocation tools for pension funds and automated tradingsystems; director in the Global Research Center at Deutsche Asset Management, leadingproduct research and development; and Director of Optimization Technology atAlphatech, a technology and research defense contractor, where he led algorithmdevelopment for intelligence aircraft path planning and sensor scheduling systems.

Frederic is a Managing Director in Consulting and an Adjunct Professor at NYU. He has led business and technology projects on Wall Street, with expertise in banking, trading, and operations across asset classes. His focus areas include risk management, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cryptocurrency.

With 25 years of experience at globally recognized organizations such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Reuters, IBM, and leading fintech firms like Murex and Algorithmics, Frederic has developed a robust portfolio that includes tier-one financial institutions on both the buy-side and sell-side, including JPMorgan and Citibank.

His expertise extends beyond traditional quantitative finance to encompass machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. A transformational leader, he is adept at guiding high-performance teams in cross-functional environments, driving projects, and fostering continuous innovation. Known for his strategic acumen, he excels in building compelling business cases, influencing senior leadership, motivating teams, cultivating trust among peers, and delivering operational solutions.

In addition to his industry contributions, Frederic is passionate about education and continuous learning. He teaches derivatives, risk management, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cryptocurrency at NYU as part of the Master of Finance and Risk Engineering program.

Peter Cai is EVP, Chief Market Risk Officer at KeyBank, where he oversees corporate treasury risk and trading-related risk management activities. Cai has more than 25 years of enterprise risk oversight and recently served as Global Head of Risk Data, Analytics, Reporting, and Tech for Citigroup across all risk stripes and products. In this role, he led a global team covering modeling and analytics for enterprise-level risk aggregation and stress testing. 

Previously, Cai served as the Global Head of Asset Liability and Investment Risk for Barclays, Chief Risk Officer for Global Atlantic (formerly Goldman Sachs Reinsurance), and Managing Director, Firmwide Portfolio Risk Management for Morgan Stanley. He has taught at master’s level financial mathematics programs at Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, and New York University.

Cai holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Pennsylvania State University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mechanics from Fudan University in China.

George Soulellis currently serves as Enterprise Model Risk Officer for Freddie Mac with overall responsibility for model risk management in the firm. Previously, he served as Managing Director, Risk Analytics for Barclays Bank in the UK, overseeing model development and analytics. He has also held leadership positions in the risk management/modelling/analytics space at Citigroup, General Electric and JP Morgan Chase. His interests primarily lie in model uncertainty measurement, model risk under extrapolation, machine learning methods and modelling for capital requirements.