Webinar: Practice session with Chris Smigielski by MRMIA

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About This Webinar

This session explores issues in managing the risks in information security models.

Presenters

Chris Smigielski

Director of Model Risk Management at Arvest Bank

Director of Model Risk Management at Arvest Bank with over 30 years of financial services industry experience, Chris has an in-depth knowledge of model risk management, model governance, model validation, financial model development, Asset Liability Management, and team development. Chris is currently the Director of Model Risk Management at Arvest Bank and was previously Vice President, Director of Model Risk Management at TIAA Bank for five years. His experience includes leadership roles at Diebold and Fiserv, where he consulted with financial institutions nationally and internationally to design and implement financial strategies to maximize productivity and growth, as well as Asset/Liability Management and quantitative analysis at HSBC and First Niagara Banks.

Joseph Breeden

Dr. Breeden has been designing and deploying risk management systems for loan portfolios since 1996. He founded Deep Future Analytics in 2011, which focuses on portfolio and loan-level forecasting solutions for pricing, account management, stress testing, and CECL; serving credit unions, banks, and finance companies. He is also the owner of auctionforecast.com, which predicts the values of fine wines using a proprietary database with over 2.5 million auction prices.

He is member of the board of directors of Upgrade, a San Francisco-based FinTech; an Associate Editor for the Journal of Credit Risk, the Journal of Risk Model Validation, and the Journal of Risk and Financial Management; and President of the Model Risk Managers’ International Association (mrmia.org).

Dr. Breeden earned a Ph.D. in physics, and has published over 80 academic articles, 8 patents, and 4 books. His upcoming book, Creating Artificial General Intelligence and Preventing the AI Apocalypse, will be published in Summer 2022.