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ORX is owned and driven by our members. We work collaboratively towards a future where financial institutions are prepared and resilient, protecting the global economy and all of us from inevitable risks in our constantly evolving world. Our Board is key to helping us achieve this goal.

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About our Board

We have a Board of Directors who are the principal decision-making body of ORX. The ORX Board of Directors is made up of 11 individuals, including a maximum of two external directors with the remainder being member representatives.

The Directors is recommended by the ORX Nominations Committee and elected, collectively or individually, by the ORX AGM. The Nominations Committee has a general duty to ensure that the Board is representative of the ORX membership. They recommend individuals to serve as Chair and Vice Chair, the recommendations then require approval by the ORX Board of Directors.

 



Responsibilities

The Board of Directors is the principal decision-making body of ORX. The powers, duties and the functioning of the board result from the Articles of Association and the Organisational Regulations adopted by the Board of Directors.

The board's core responsibilities include:

  • Ensuring that all member institutions are treated equally, irrespective of geography, size or sector
  • Determining ORX’s strategy, annual business plans and annual budgets
  • Determining of the rules and policies of ORX
  • Overseeing and regulating of all ORX's subsidiary bodies, including the managing board and sector governing committees
  • Appointing the ORX Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and Executive Director
  • Deciding any sanctions against member organisations

Meet the ORX Board of Directors

 
Lisa Broomer

Lisa Broomer, Chair

JPMorganChase
 
Lisa has been with JPMorgan Chase for over 30 years and leads the firm’s efforts globally to quantify operational risk, including the methodologies used to estimate capital and losses under stressed conditions. Prior to this, Lisa was responsible for the operational risk management framework. Lisa’s experience is cross discipline and cross business, with roles in risk, finance, sales, operations, technology and internal audit spanning the corporate sector, investment banking and commercial banking business lines. Lisa earned an MBA in Finance from New York University and a BS in Finance from SUNY Albany. Lisa is married with two children.

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Jedediah Turner, Vice Chair (Finance)

TIAA
 
Jedediah has vast experience across capital markets, banking, wealth and asset management. At TIAA, Jedediah is responsible for enterprise risk governance, data analytics and reporting and additionally oversees the risk strategy, risk IT operations, risk regulatory filings and a number of risk programmes.

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Giulio Mignola, Vice Chair (Services)

Intensa Sanpaolo

Giulio heads up the Enterprise Risk Management Department, governing Pillar 2 risks, Capital Adequacy, Integrated Risk Reporting, Stress Testing, Operational Risk and Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting framework. He was formerly Head of the Group Operational Risk Management department.

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Regina Desler
Northern Trust
 
Regina is a Senior Vice President at Northern Trust and leads operational risk analytics, loss data, reporting, and scenarios analysis within the Non-Financial Risk group. She joined Northern Trust in 2009 and is focused on quantitative and qualitative approaches for Stress Testing as well as operational risk assessments and profile reporting.
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Efe Cummings
Nomura Group
 
Efe has been with Nomura Group since 2009 in various roles in risk management and currently leads the firm’s Global Operational Risk Management function. Prior to joining Nomura, he worked as a consultant advising financial services firms on risk and regulatory matters. Efe holds a BA from Cornell University and an MPA from the London School of Economics.
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Günther Helbok 
Unicredit
 
Günther is known as a long standing operational and reputational risk expert. He is currently responsible for Data Science and Credit PD Models, leading the Bank Austria effort in redeveloping IRB models, PSD2 ready pre approved consumer loan models as well as the bank wide development and implementation of machine learning models through his responsibility for the Advanced Analytics Lab.
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Dmirtis Bartzilas
Credit Suisse
 
Dimitris is a Managing Director of Non-Financial Risk management at Credit Suisse. He joined Credit Suisse in 2010 and has focused on the advancement of the non-financial risk principle, primarily through the development of analytical methods & tools. He has global responsibility for Capital and Stress Testing, Risk Appetite and NFR Analytics. He has led the development and structuring of industry-first Operational Risk bond and is the 2021 winner of Innovation in Risk Management award from Risk.Net. Dimitris is mathematician and also holds an 
MSc in Risk & Financial Mathematics from Brunel University.
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Karin Griffin
Standard Bank Group
 
Karin Griffin is an experienced Head of Non-Financial Risk Management with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry since 1999. She worked in both Corporate and Investment Banking as well as Retail Banking in the Standard Bank Group. Karin gained experience in numerous risk management roles over the last 15 years. Prior to her role as Head of Non-Financial risk she was the Group Head of Operational risk. Her passion is to simplify Non-Financial Risk and deliver it in an integrated, digital manner, enabling Risk as a Service that empowers conscious risk taking.
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Richard McCulloch
Suncorp
 
Richard is a career banker having held front line roles in Suncorp across Retail and Business Banking networks, and senior roles across Group Credit, Credit Policy and Credit Portfolio Management. Richard was appointed Executive General Manager of Group Operational Risk and led the development and implementation of the Suncorp Group Operational Risk Management Framework, Business Continuity Framework, and crisis response capability. Since returning to Suncorp Bank in 2016 Richard has supported the maturity of operational risk management capability across 1st and 2nd LoD teams and led strategic risk transformation programmes to embed advanced operational risk management practices across the Banking and Wealth business.
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Barbara Ridpath
External Director
 
Barbara Ridpath is an external director of ORX. She is also a non-executive director of Paragon Banking Group. She is Chair of the Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group, an Associate Fellow at Theos, and sits on the international advisory council of the Institute of Business Ethics. Barbara worked in finance for most of her career in New York, Paris and London at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Standard & Poor’s and JPMorgan. She holds an A.B. degree cum laude from Smith College and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.
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Céline Samain
Axa Group
 
Céline has worked across the car, asset management and insurance industries. She held various positions in AXA over the past 20 years at entity and corporate level. She is Head of Operational Risk, Information Risk and Internal Control at AXA Group. She has worked in numerous international transformation programmes in business or risk teams.

Managing risk together

"As operational risk is pervasive, we need to collaborate and share learning from each other in order to more efficiently manage op risk as an industry." 

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