Bridging the Gap:

Tim Corbett is the chief risk officer of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and a member of the firm’s executive management group. Tim leads a global team responsible for managing investment, liquidity, counterparty, model, and operational risks across SSGA. Tim’s primary objective is to provide independent oversight and ensure risks are known, quantified, communicated, and prudently managed. He is a member of the senior leadership team, co-chair of the State Street Global Advisors' Risk Committee, and serves on the Fiduciary and Product committees. 

Prior to assuming his current role in July 2019, Tim was the global head of Investment and Liquidity Risk at SSGA. Tim has over 25 years of experience and has held a wide variety of roles within operations, equity research, portfolio management, and risk management at State Street.

Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Boston College, a master’s in business administration from Bentley University, and a master’s in corporate finance from Bentley. Tim is a New England chapter member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Tim is a frequent speaker on a variety of investment and risk topics at industry conferences including Pension Bridge, RiskMinds, Institute of International Finance, and the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association. Tim is also on the board of trustees for the NVNA, a top 100 female led nonprofit organization dedicated to hospice care and cancer support.

As chief risk and compliance officer and head of global entity management (GEM) and oversight at PayPal, Fiachre O’Neill is responsible for leading the risk and compliance oversight function, which serves as the consolidated second line of defense for the company. Additionally, O’Neill established the structure of, and oversees leadership for, PayPal’s international legal entities and is responsible for the development and maintenance of a governance structure to meet business priorities and regulatory expectations in all jurisdictions in which PayPal operates.

O’Neill initiated his GEM leadership in 2018, establishing a structure, leadership team, and engagement model for this organization. Prior to leading GEM, he served as PayPal’s head of tax. Prior to joining PayPal in 2010, he held several different finance, business and regulatory roles with Anglo Irish Bank, Oracle and HJ Heinz. He began his career at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) working with multinational companies within the corporate restructuring and tax departments.

Pat Opet is head of cybersecurity and technology controls, and the global chief information security officer at JPMorgan Chase. He is a member of the firm’s global technology leadership team.

Opet leads a team of 3100+ cybersecurity and technology controls professionals across all lines of business and globally including teams providing monitoring of the JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) ecosystem to detect, analyze, track, and mitigate external threats.

JPMC cybersecurity teams are focused on the confidentiality, availability, integrity and compliance of the firm’s technology services and on the resilience the firm’s technology environment. The team partners with government agencies and financial services companies to advance early warning and operational collaboration in pursuit of a secure and resilient financial ecosystem.

Opet has extensive experience leading large-scale technology transformation, risk management, cybersecurity, and controls systems engineering. He is a member of the National Technology Security Coalition and of the advisory panel for Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is the executive sponsor for the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls organization’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program. He has master’s from the University of Maryland in computer systems management and information assurance and a bachelor’s from George Washington University in computer engineering.

Christel Saab is the current chief of the Environmental and Social Risk Management unit in the Office of Risk Management bringing her innovative perspective to the way the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) manages environmental, social, and governance risk. In this capacity, she is responsible for climate, disaster, biodiversity, environmental, social, and governance risk management oversight, quality assurance, and portfolio monitoring and reporting.

Saab has over 17 years of expertise in development, portfolio, project, and risk management from international development organizations and the private sector. Her years of experience at the IDB include roles as budget officer in corporate and operational departments, as well as experience in the field as the chief of operations in the Barbados office, followed by the position of operations and business transformation advisor for the vice-presidency for countries.

Saab holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and public administration from the University of Bordeaux IV in France, as well as a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Houston, USA. She also holds a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute, is certified in INDES Project Management for Results (PM4R), has been part of the IDB Emerging Women Leaders Program, and has participated in several USAID Rules and Regulations workshops. She is fluent in five languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Kriolu.

Rodney Sunada-Wong is the chief risk officer for Celsius Network. He teaches a graduate-level course in corporate finance at Columbia University’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department, and modeling bonds and securitized products at New York University’s Courant Institute.

Previously, he was the chief risk officer of Morgan Stanley’s broker dealer and swap dealers. Prior to that he oversaw market risk for the deposit-taking banks, and the Wealth Management and Global Treasury divisions, and before that, for Merrill Lynch’s deposit-taking banks.

Sunada-Wong began his risk management career at Commodities Corporation (Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies) and at Bankers Trust. He received his master’s in finance from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, and his bachelor’s from Harvard College.

Ms. Walters has 25+ years of experience in risk management and analytics at large buy- and sell-side firms. She is currently the Chief Risk Officer of Natixis Investment Managers. At Natixis IM, she oversees investment and enterprise risk management for $1.4 trillion AUM in fixed income, credit, equities, multi asset and alternative assets (i.e., real estate, private equity, private credit and infrastructure) in the United States, Europe and Asia across Natixis IM’s solutions-oriented portfolio management activities and ~20 affiliated asset managers.

Previously, Ms. Walters was the Chief Operating Officer of BlackRock's Risk and Quantitative Analysis (RQA) team and responsible for ensuring effective management of market, counterparty credit, liquidity and operational risk on behalf of BlackRock and fiduciary clients. She was also responsible for strategic technology, analytics and reporting initiatives with BlackRock's risk, financial modeling and application development teams.

Ms. Walters has also held senior positions in risk management at Goldman Sachs, PIMCO and Barclays Capital. Many of her risk roles have involved addressing regulatory issues pertaining to risk management, including managing the Federal Reserve's initial stress testing exercise for Goldman Sachs during 2009.

Walters holds a master’s from Babson College and an undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.