2023 agenda

Prior to joining Risk, he reported on the futures and foreign exchange industries for Dow Jones' Financial News and the Euromoney group of publications. Osborn holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Warwick.

Tin will join a European digital currency exchange later this year as Group Head of Risk. He has worked at Flow Traders as the Head of Risk. Previously he worked for TP ICAP and before that the FCA, where he was responsible for supervision of areas such as the review and evaluation of firms, model waivers, structured products, the UK Regulated Covered Bond market and the UK Securitisation market including STS. He has also represented the UK at IOSCO and various ESAs. His previous industry experience was from various roles on the buy- and sell-side including quantitative analysis, fund management and economic capital modelling. He holds a dual-honours Masters in Engineering from the University of Warwick, called to the Bar of England and Wales, Fellow Chartered Management Accountant, Chartered MCSI, a member of the Institute of Operational Risk and of the Network of Operational Risk Modellers.

Fazal is the head of ORM – asset management at Phoenix Group. He has 15 years of financial services industry experience working across investment banking and insurance domains covering global businesses i.e., public and private markets. Focused on supporting first line functions in making sound business decisions on a risk adjusted basis is a key motivation for success.

In his spare time, Fazal enjoys football, movies and the company of a good book.

Sean has 27 years’ experience working in risk, compliance and assurance in financial services, including banking and payments for Santander, Barclays and Shawbrook. Sean has been responsible for implementing, overseeing and embedding risk, compliance, data protection and resiliency frameworks.  

Gennaro Scalo is responsible for ARCHER business and Go to Market strategy across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In his role he is responsible for the overall success of both Archer’s customers and business. Gennaro has a career that spans the broader areas of governance risk and compliance (GRC), and information security. He has helped organisations build integrated functions to address the many challenges associated with risk, including risk management, regulatory compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery, e-discovery, cyber investigations, computer forensics, incident response, IT audit, records management, and privacy. In his many roles he has worked alongside leading organisations to help define strategic, efficient, sustainable, and integrated risk programs.

Stefana Brown is chief risk officer, UK protection and fintech, and director, IT and data protection risk, at Legal & General Retail. She spent 10 years at Lloyds Banking Group and four at M&G Investments before joining Legal & General Retail.

Julien is managing director & founder of Aevitium. Prior to founding his freelance consultancy Julien, worked at Fidelity International (FIL) from July 2017 as head of non-financial risk and has over twenty years’ experience in the financial industry. Haye has worked for several financial services institutions in treasury, risk, capital management, programme management and trading.

Philip Alexander is the risk management and regulation editor for Risk.net, overseeing a team of journalists in the UK, US and Asia. He was previously senior editor at The Banker magazine, covering financial regulation, capital markets, derivatives, and central and eastern Europe.

Prior to entering journalism, Philip edited sovereign credit research for rating agency Standard & Poor’s in London. He was awarded a PhD in modern history by the University of Cambridge for a thesis on Britain and European integration.

Praveen heads up the IT risk and cybersecurity at ICBC Standard Bank. He has spent over 20 years in the financial services sector, including 10 years in management consultancy.  He likes to speak about technology, risk, regulation, cybersecurity and transformation. He is also a fan of Formula 1 and cricket.

Simon is a risk manager and security consultant specialising in the management of supply chain risk with professional with experience in defence, financial services, health and the security sectors. He has extensive experience as a service manager, managing complex supply chain risk management processes for a global Tier 2 financial services company. 

He is currently developing a supply chain & risk (Scar) assessment product as part of the Stara product family for BAE Digital Intelligence.  This product evaluates a customer's supply chain risk management (SCRM) capability and then provides managed capability improvement and transformation plans to enhance the customer's ability to identify, evaluate and treat supply chain risk.

Prior to joining BAE Digital Intelligence, Simon worked at JP Morgan as a KYC specialist managing the initial onboarding and due diligence AML risk assessments of the bank’s multinational corporate clients.  Subsequently joining the bank’s project re-engineering team to refine and enhance their KYC and AML platforms and manage the cultural change for these enhancements. 

This role was preceded by a year’s Internship with Barclays Bank PLC, delivering risk and change management for the corporate bank in the wake of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, focusing on compliance and governance.

This second career in project and risk management, has been based on 15 years of commissioned service in the British Army, gaining broad experience in the practical management of risk, infrastructure security, the procurement of military technology and the personal protection of VIPs, whilst serving in the Middle East and Europe.

A leading member of the Operational Risk community in London, with over 20 years of experience in Risk Management, Sean has co-authored several papers and acted as a speaker at many conferences, seminars and webinars.

He has an extensive network of contacts in the discipline as the Director of Business Development for the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR), promoting the development of the IOR and its Certificate in Operational Risk Management, and was until recently the Deputy Chair of the Association of Foreign Banks Operational Risk Committee, sourcing speakers and chairing discussions about regulatory issues and leading practices.   

Sean has held Director-level roles in Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Strategy/New Business and Governance and Front Office Supervision, having extensive practical knowledge of treasury, capital markets, lending and advisory businesses, including front, back and middle office operations and risk and support functions.

He has experience of regulations applicable across Europe and Asia Pacific and has handled a number of major regulatory reviews.

Sean has developed many governance and risk policies and frameworks and run bank wide risk projects reporting to Boards and executive level committees, benchmarking against regulatory requirements and leading practices.

Michael Grimwade is managing director, operational risk, at ICBC Standard Bank and has previously held senior op risk management roles at MUFG Securities, RBS and Lloyds. Prior to this, he held management consultant positions at PwC and Deloitte Consulting. Grimwade has been a director of the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR) and is currently the chair of the Association of Foreign Banks' Operational Risk Expert Panel. He has authored a number of articles on setting appetite for op risk; scenario analysis techniques; climate change; quantifying emerging risks; and modelling op risk capital. He received an award in 2014 from the IOR for his contribution to the profession. His second book, Ten laws of operational risk, was published in December 2021.

Sam Barrett is a researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development. He works on evaluations and value-for-money of adaptation projects and programmes, the integration of climate into development planning and decision-making, private sector investment in adaptation and developing investment cases for adaptation.

Sophie is the chief risk and compliance officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, designing the risk and compliance frameworks and overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance practices. Sophie joined GIB (UK) with extensive experience in the field, having previously served as executive director for compliance and operational risk control at UBS Asset Management. Before this, she was the global head of operational organisational risk at Barings and non-executive director of the Baring-Coller Secondaries Fund. Sophie was also an operational risk manager and the group head of investment risk framework at Schroders.

Sophie graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a master’s degree in economics and finance. She is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, a fellow of the Climate Safe Lending Network and a trustee of First Light South West, a charity supporting people affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse.

Maria heads the global ESG advisory team at Standard Chartered Bank, supporting the bank clients in their sustainability and transition strategies.

Maria spent more than 25 years in investment banking as managing director, heading emerging market equities sales at Lazard, UBS, Sberbank and Unicredit. She moved into sustainability in 2016 when she joined the non-profit CDP as head of their financial investor members. She then headed the ESG Client strategies and climate change strategies at Invesco Global Asset Management in EMEA, leading the growth of sustainability investment solutions and the set-up of the global asset manager’s climate strategy.

Authors of ESG thought leadership whitepapers, mentor, and contributor to industry initiatives in sustainable financing. Maria holds a CFA ESG, a diploma at Cambridge University Sustainability Leadership Institute, along with a CEMS Master and a bachelor’s degree in financial intermediaries at Bocconi University. Maria is a member of the CFA UK Climate and Investing committee, she is a mentor of the acceleration programme at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.