The Connected Enterprise: Mobilizing the CEO's Risk Intelligence Network

Astrid Yee-Sobraques, FRM, CISSP is the senior risk executive Fortune 100 financial institutions call when complex risk and regulatory challenges bring previous efforts to a standstill. Over 25 years at GE Capital, AIG, Citibank, and PwC, she has honed a rare breadth of expertise across Enterprise Risk Management, Strategic Advisory, Regulatory Compliance, Digital Transformation, and Cyber Security spanning Banking, Asset Management, and P&C Insurance globally. 

As the Risk Sherpa, Astrid is known for her signature "risk connectivity" approach—integrating people, processes, and data to strengthen how organizations anticipate, manage, and respond to cascading financial, operational, and compliance risks. Currently focused on driving the integration of Cyber Risk with ERM frameworks, she collaborates with senior risk leaders across the industry to develop unified approaches that address the evolving threat landscape.

Astrid serves on GARP's New York Chapter Advisory Committee, bridging traditional financial risk frameworks with emerging interdisciplinary approaches. Beyond her professional work, she mentors emerging risk professionals and gives back to her community by sponsoring children through the Jhamtse Gatsal orphanage in North-East India.

Brenda Boultwood is the Distinguished Visiting Professor, Admiral Crowe Chair, in the Economics Department at the United States Naval Academy. The views expressed in this article are her own and should not be attributed to the United States Naval Academy, the U.S. Navy or the U.S. Department of Defense.

She is the former Director of the Office of Risk Management at the International Monetary Fund. She has previously served as a board member at both the Committee of Chief Risk Officers (CCRO) and GARP and is also the former senior vice president and chief risk officer at Constellation Energy. She held a variety of business, risk management, and compliance roles at JPMorgan Chase and Bank One.

Lisa Ponti, Vice President, Institutional Outreach, meets with students to discuss the FRM and ERP certification programs, and works with universities to establish partnerships in risk education. She also works to raise the profile of both programs among regulatory agencies and corporate employers in the financial and energy markets.

Joining GARP in 2014 as a member of the FRM Exam Development team, she focused on financial markets and products, and on current issues in financial markets. She previously worked in commercial banking, first as an analyst, then as a lending officer, before transitioning to academia to teach statistics, economics, and finance at local universities including NYU and Fordham.

Ponti holds a bachelor’s degree in finance with a minor in economics from Penn State University; she earned a master’s in business administration with a concentration in finance, and a doctorate in business education, both from New York University.