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Andrew Pym
Head of Operational Resilience
Monzo
Andrew Pym leads the Operational Resilience function at Monzo, where he has spent over seven years shaping the bank’s approach to managing operational disruptions. As Head of Operational Resilience, he is responsible for safeguarding critical services, coordinating bank-wide incident management and business continuity, and ensuring a consistent approach to resilience across multiple jurisdictions. Prior to this he spent 6 years working at Deloitte as an operational resilience consultant, working with a range of financial services clients.
Ayesha James
Group Head of Resiliency Risk
Citigroup
Ayesha James is an experienced Risk & Resiliency professional and inclusivity champion. Currently serving as Group Head of Resiliency & RRP Risk (MD) at Citi, she brings decades of experience in operational resilience, risk and controls oversight, regulatory and legal expertise. With extensive experience in developing robust resilience and supply chain frameworks, and leading a mature risk culture across cross-functional teams, technical leaders and business stakeholders.
Prior to Citi, Ayesha worked at HSBC in Operational Risk, Resilience and Third Party Risk during the introduction of the UK FCA & PRA Operational Resilience and RRP regimes. She is a qualified Technology, Telecoms and Data lawyer, with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement personally and professionally.
Ben Jeary
Head of Operational Risk
Santander
Biography coming soon…
Danielle Nurse
Senior Third Party Risk Manager
Nationwide
Danielle Nurse is a Senior Third Party Risk Manager at Nationwide Building Society, where she is accountable for the endtoend third party risk agenda. She has spent over a decade at Nationwide, progressing through multiple governance and risk leadership roles, and brings deep organisational knowledge to the design and execution of third party risk management. Danielle’s current focus is on operationalising accountability for third party risk through largescale integration, live data migration and modernisation, and embedding risk ownership into onboarding, procurement processes through to post contract management. Her approach is firmly outcomeled, prioritising clear accountability, decision ownership and measurable risk outcomes over traditional taskbased or checklistdriven activity.
Dominic Victor Masny
Head of Operational Controls
Risk & Resilience
Dominic brings nearly 20 years of regulatory experience across insurance, broking, and banking, including leading key initiatives like the review of the Oversight Framework for Operational Resilience in the Lloyd’s London Market. He currently heads Operational Controls, Risk and Resilience (Operations) at Sompo International and has previously held roles at MS Amlin, Lloyd’s, Barclays, the FCA, and RBS.
Passionate about fostering positive culture, Dominic focuses on building strong, diverse teams to enhance conduct and productivity.
Dominic also dedicates time to causes close to his heart, incl. supporting non-professional carers and mentoring young people through various programmes. When he’s not working or volunteering, he enjoys traveling, live music events, exploring the outdoors with his beloved sausage dog, and indulging his passion for gin.
Elena Pykhova
Author – CEO and Founder
The Op Risk Company
Elena Pykhova is internationally recognised for challenging conventional thinking and helping organisations redesign Operational Risk for the next generation of financial services. Elena is the founder of The OpRisk Company and the Best Practice Operational Risk Forum, bringing together senior practitioners and regulators to shape the future of the discipline. She is the author of the bestselling Operational Risk Management in Financial Services, translated into Chinese, and delivers executive education internationally for organisations including Risk.net, Euronext and the Institute of Internal Auditors. A former Director for Education at the Institute of Operational Risk, Elena is recognised for developing practical frameworks that connect governance, strategy, decision-making and organisational resilience in an increasingly AI-enabled world.
Girish Rao
Global Head – Operational Risk Coverage
Citi
Biography coming soon…
Haydn Brooks
CEO and Co-Founder
Risk Ledger
Haydn Brooks is the CEO and Co-Founder of Risk Ledger, a network-first supply chain security platform transforming the way organisations manage third-party risk.
Frustrated by the inefficiencies and blind spots of traditional third-party risk management (TPRM), Haydn founded Risk Ledger in 2018 with the vision of building a more connected, collaborative, and proactive way to secure global supply chains. Today, the platform enables thousands of organisations across government, financial services, healthcare, transport, and other critical sectors to move beyond static questionnaires and spreadsheets to continuously map, monitor, and mitigate risks across their entire ecosystems.
Under Haydn’s leadership, Risk Ledger has become a trusted partner for CISOs and their teams, helping them identify hidden vulnerabilities like nth-party dependencies and concentration risks while strengthening collaboration between clients and suppliers.
A recognised leader in cybersecurity innovation, Haydn was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe for Enterprise Technology and regularly speaks at major industry conferences on the future of supply chain security and systemic risk.
Kishan Majithia
Executive Director – Cyber & Technology Controls
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co
Biography coming soon…
Koen Harmsen
Head of Non-Financial Risk Management
ING
Risk manager with broad range of experience across market risk, credit risk and non-financial risk management. Until recently responsible at group level for risk areas such as Outsourcing, Operational Resilience, Product Approval and Processing Risk. Currently responsible for non-financial risk management (ORM, IRM, AI) of ING’s activities in The Netherlands.
Lisa Kalscheur
Chief Marketing Officer
WeaveAI
Biography coming soon…
Milena Maneva
Head of Business Continuity & Resilience EMEA
BGC Group
Milena Maneva is a recognised resilience leader with over 16 years of experience across financial services, brokerage, legal, and real estate sectors. As Head of Business Continuity & Resilience, EMEA at BGC Group and Cantor Fitzgerald, Founder of ResilienceArc and Chair of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM) London Chapter, she helps organisations navigate disruption, strengthen resilience and turn complex risks into strategic opportunities.
A trusted advisor to senior leaders and boards, Milena specialises in business continuity, crisis management, risk governance and enterprise resilience. Recognised for her contributions to the resilience profession, Milena has also served as a judge for the FSTech Awards 2026, ISACA Global Achievement Awards 2026, Security & Safety Entrepreneur Awards (SSEAs) 2026 and the Recruiters Investing in Talent Awards. As organisations face increasing uncertainty, she remains focused on advancing resilience through thought leadership, innovation, and cross-industry collaboration, helping leaders build organisations that are prepared, adaptable and future-ready.
Michael Grimwade
Independent Consultant & Author
Independent
Michael Grimwade first worked on Operational Risk 30 years ago. During his career he has been Head of Operational Risk for ICBC Standard Bank and International Head of Operational Risk at MUFG Securities. He has also held senior Operational Risk management roles at RBS and Lloyds TSB, and he has been a Board Member of both the Securities Industry BCM Group and the Institute of Operational Risk. He has also been a management consultant with PwC and Deloitte.
Michael has written a number of peer-reviewed papers on Operational & Reputational Risks covering: quantifying emerging risks; modelling capital; stress testing; AI; and Climate Change. He received an award in 2014 from the Institute of Operational Risk for his contribution to the profession. Michael has had two books published: “Managing Operational Risk” in 2016, and “Ten Laws of Operational Risk” in 2021.
He is now focusing his time on training & lecturing, and interim management & consulting roles.
Orlando Fernandez Ruiz
Senior Policy Specialist
Bank of England
Orlando Fernández is a Senior Policy Specialist at the Bank of England (BoE). He has been with the BoE working on a range of policy areas for 15 years. In his current role, Orlando focuses on AI governance, cybersecurity, operational resilience, and third-party risk management regulation in the financial sector. Orlando was one of the key architects of the new regime for critical third parties in the financial sector (CTP) and the BoE’s regulation on third-party risk management. On the international front, he has represented the BoE at the Financial Stability Board (FSB) where he was a key contributor to the draft sound practices on AI risk management published earlier this year, and the third-party risk management toolkit published in 2023
Phil Pate
VP & GM EMEA
AlertMedia
Phil Pate is Vice President and General Manager for EMEA at AlertMedia, a global leader in emergency communication and threat intelligence solutions.
Since joining the company in 2024, he has spearheaded AlertMedia’s expansion across Europe, establishing a new London office to meet growing regional demand for proactive risk management, crisis response and communications solutions.
Phil brings over two decades of experience in go-to-market leadership and regularly shares industry perspectives at major conferences and events.
Rayan Bhattacharya
Head of Global Resilience Frameworks & Assurance
Santander Corporate & Investment Bank
Experienced CIB SME and former Senior Consultant, with experience across financial services strategy, risk and resilience, regulation, AI and innovation, and transformation. Proven track record of delivering global and regional leadership mandates in G-SIB institutions, engaging executives, and managing cross-continental teams.
Currently, I hold a dual role as the Head of Global Resilience Frameworks & Assurance and UK Resilience Manager at Santander CIB. Additionally, I bring consulting advisory and business development experience across ~10 financial institutions from Avantage Reply, a pan-European financial services specialist consultancy.
Ricardo Mariano Gonzalez
Head of Third-Party Risk Management & Business Resilience
Sompo Continental Europe
Ricardo Mariano Gonzalez is an executive leader specialising in operational resilience, technology risk and third-party governance. With more than 27 years of experience across financial services and other highly regulated sectors, he has held senior leadership roles with direct accountability for resilience, operational risk and governance frameworks.
Most recently, he served as Executive Director of Business Resilience & Third-Party Governance at Zurich Insurance. Throughout his career, he has worked at the intersection of business resilience, technology dependency, regulatory change and executive decision-making, helping organisations strengthen resilience while navigating increasingly complex risk landscapes.
His current focus is on systemic technology risk, concentration risk, governance and operational resilience in an increasingly interconnected world.
Sam Lee
Managing Director – Head of Operational Risk
SMBC
Sam Lee is a senior financial services risk leader with expertise spanning Non-financial risk, and operational resilience and third party risk management. He advises organisations on navigating complex regulatory, technology and transformation landscapes, with a particular focus on enhancing/ building risk management frameworks that support business strategies including focus areas such as emerging risks across digital banking, AI, data and third parties. His work centres on turning resilience and risk management into strategic capabilities that enable organisations to transform with confidence and answer the ‘so what?’
Satu Qersh
Head of Operational Risk
DNB Bank ASA, Sweden Branch
Satu Qersh heads Operational Risk at DNB for Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, bringing over 15 years of experience in operational risk management. Her approach is pragmatic and business-oriented, with a focus on turning complex frameworks into practical and effective risk management practices. She is recognised for promoting clarity in reporting, constructive collaboration, and a strong risk culture grounded in integrity. In 2017, she became the first global student to receive the International Certificate in Operational Risk Management. She is also a member of the UK-based Best Practice Operational Risk Forum.
Sean Titley
Chief Risk Officer
Bank of London
A leading member of the operational risk community in London, with over 30 years of experience in risk management, Sean is the Chief Risk Officer at the Bank of London and an advisor on operational risk to the Institute of Risk Management and Risk.Net. He is also a regular speaker on the subject at conferences, webinars and industry forums, including speaking to his extensive network of practitioners, advisors and regulators.
Sean has worked in the first and second lines of defence as a risk director and in an advisory and audit capacity, including extensive experience in wholesale capital markets, corporate lending, asset finance, retail banking and payment services at major banks and smaller institutions
At the Bank of London, Sean is responsible for the Bank’s approach to risk management, including risk governance, culture and appetite. Prior to that, Sean operated as a consultant and in permanent roles at NatWest, Toronto Dominion Bank, Metro Bank and Cambridge and Counties Bank.
Sophie Dupré-Echeverria
Head of Group Risk & Compliance
AustralianSuper
Sophie-Dupré Echeverria is the Head of Group Risk & Compliance International, with significant experience in risk management and compliance at institutions including Gulf International Bank, UBS Asset Management, Barings, and Schroders. She has led teams, driven strategic initiatives, and promoted a strong organizational culture, while supporting Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, recognized by the Women In Finance Advocate of the Year award in 2023. Additionally, Sophie collaborates with senior leadership to align risk strategies with business goals and enhance corporate governance.
Tin Lau
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
Mirae Asset Securities
My experience includes challenging and diverse roles within asset management investment banking financial services regulation and the audit of financial services.
I am qualified as: a Chartered MSCI a Fellow Chartered Global Management Accountant Barrister of England and Wales. My first degree was a Masters in Computer Systems Engineering which was dual honours in electronic engineering and computer science. My dissertation was in the computational analysis of multicompartmental pharmacokinetic mathematical models.
In addition I have also renewed my machine learning skills by means of Andrew Ngs Deep Learning course. I have also given speeches on behalf of the FCA on prudential regulation and represented the UKs interests at IOSCO and various ESAs.
Violeta Cadosch
Head of Operational Resilience & Governance L&H Reinsurance
Swiss Re
I am a senior leader in Operational Resilience and Governance, with 15+ years of experience across reinsurance, banking, technology and aerospace. I bring a broad perspective shaped by roles spanning risk management, audit, information security, governance, transformation and internal consulting.
In my current role, I lead Operational Resilience & Governance for Swiss Re’s Life & Health Reinsurance business, supporting the organisation in strengthening its operational risk and control environment, resilience and compliance. My focus is on translating complex risk and regulatory requirements into pragmatic business practices, strengthening governance and accountability, and enabling leaders and teams to effectively manage risk as part of day-to-day business execution.