Risk Managers
Grace Crickette
Chief Risk Officer
University of California
Crickette is credited with saving the university considerable sums with her initiatives, which include putting in place safety programs, improving claims management systems, developing risk financing strategies and implementing ERM throughout the university.
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Dorothy Gjerdrum
Chair, U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO 31000 & Executive Director, Public Entity & Scholastic
Arther J. Gallagher
As ISO 31000, an international risk management standard, gains users among U.S. companies, Gjerdrum serves as chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group, which worked on the draft standard.
David Ingram
EVP
Willis Re
Ingram provides thought leadership on the theory and practice of enterprise risk management for insurers. As a member of Willis Re's analytics teams, he works with insurers on practical ways to employ ERM to determine strategies and actions to enhance their risk-adjusted value.
Paul Sobel
Chief Audit Executive and VP
Georgia Pacific
Sobel is a thought leader on the topics of risk management, internal audit and governance, and has written three books, including "Auditor's Risk Management Guide: Integrating Auditing and ERM."
Thomas Wilson
Chief Risk Officer
Allianz
Wilson oversees risk for the global insurer, which handles both property and casualty and life, as well as having an asset management arm. He is driving its preparations for Solvency II and won kudos for his work steering Allianz through the financial crisis.
Bankers
Scott Barton
Co-CEO, International Banking
RBS
Barton was named co-CEO of international banking, a unit combining the bank's global banking and markets operations with the international arm of its global transaction services business, in January. Previously, he was CEO of global transaction services, where he refocused strategy and helped drive the business forward.
Paul Camp
Managing Director & Global Cash Management Executive
J.P. Morgan Treasury Services
Camp provides strong leadership for the bank's innovative cross-border payable, receivable, liquidity and balance management solutions. He has been instrumental in leading the efforts to expand J.P. Morgan's treasury services operations globally.
Peter Cherecwich
COO, Corporate & Institutional Services
Northern Trust
In 2011, Cherecwich led Northern Trust in making and integrating two strategic acquisitions that built the asset servicing unit's capabilities in the growing areas of hedge fund administration and ETF back-office services. Cherecwich's unit also took on large new clients in Australia, Asia and the Middle East last year.
Steve Ellis
EVP & Head of Wholesale Services
Wells Fargo & Co.
Ellis oversaw the successful integration of Wells Fargo's and Wachovia's wholesale banking platforms while still pushing innovation. Customers using commercial/corporate mobile banking grew 144% year-over-year.
Jeff Ficke
Director of Treasury Management & SVP
Fifth Third Bancorp
Ficke's leadership has propelled strong growth in Fifth Third's treasury management business. He has developed robust analytics and reporting teams in the unit.
Michael Fossaceca
Regional Head of Client Sales Management for Corporates, North America & Managing Director
Citi Transaction Services
Amid increasingly complex regulatory challenges, Fossaceca and his team of more than 100 banking specialists come up with customized solutions for 3,000 clients in North America. The team helps optimize liquidity and create efficiencies in working capital management.
Shahrokh Moinian
Head of Trade Finance & Cash Management Corporates, the Americas, Global Transaction Banking
Deutsche Bank
Moinian drives significant added value in working capital for Americas-based corporates leveraging the bank's next-generation treasury solutions. By coupling Deutsche Bank's strong North American franchise and its century-old presence in Latin America with 21st century innovations, he advances treasury efficiencies region-wide.
Diane Reyes
Global Head of Payments & Cash Management
HSBC
Reyes' position is a new one for HSBC and underscores the bank's continued commitment to investing in its payments and cash management business. She joined HSBC last year from Citi and has 20 years of experience in financial services.
Paul Simpson
Head of Global Transaction Banking
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
As head of Global Transaction Banking, which combines the bank's treasury solutions and global custody and agency services units, Simpson leads efforts to provide cash management to 97% of Fortune 1000 companies. Since signing on last year, he has added resources in Asia, EMEA and Latin America.
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