The Intersection of Compliance and Resilience

Bryan Feierstein joined GARP in 2015 as part of the GARP Benchmarking Initiative team. Prior to that he spent 30 years as a risk practitioner on the banking and insurance sides along with several years working in the risk technology space.

Bryan recently co-authored a technical paper, "Calculating the Regulatory Surcharge for US G-SIBs" that steps through the mechanics of the regulatory capital buffer-setting mechanism using publicly available bank data.

Evan has worked in various capacities in risk management for the past 20 years, most recently as the Chief Model Risk Officer at Capital One. Prior to Capital One, Evan served at PNC, where he led the model validation team responsible for all models used by the bank and at MUFG where he was the head of non financial risk for the Americas.

Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Oliver Wyman, responsible for the non-financial risk platform for the Americas and was Aon's global head of financial institutions risk consulting. Evan started his risk career as a regulator at Boston and then the Richmond Fed. There, he was responsible for the coordination of the supervision of operational risk models for US-based AMA banks and the team that crafted the Federal Reserve’s operational risk stress testing model for CCAR.

With a foundation in academics, holding a BA and MA from the Universite Catholique de Louvain and a PhD from UCLA, Evan has always sought to blend knowledge with practical experience.

Rich Cooper is the Global Head of Financial Service Go-To-Market at Fusion Risk Management. Rich oversees the development and execution of Fusion's business strategy, serving the financial market worldwide. He focuses on building trusted top-level relationships within the financial services industry by providing thought leadership, market intelligence, and best practice insight to support firms with innovation and transformation to address swiftly-changing industry needs.  

During his more than 20 years in the industry, Rich has consulted with many of the world's leading global financial institutions and has lead practices in the U.S. and Europe across the critical disciplines within operational resilience. Prior to joining Fusion, Rich lead Arbor Continuity Inc., a successful boutique consulting company he started after spending 14 years at Business Protection Systems International (BPSI), where he held various executive, service, and sales roles – including company COO. Before joining BPSI, Richard was a founding partner and CEO of the Packing House Inc., a leading document management company that was ultimately acquired by Iron Mountain Inc.