Katherine Avery

Founder at Chimayo Consulting

Speaker

Katherine Avery is an enterprise risk executive and founder of Chimayo Consulting, a boutique advisory firm helping financial services organizations build the governance infrastructure required to operate responsibly at the intersection of traditional finance, digital assets, and AI-enabled processes. With more than 20 years of experience spanning capital markets, commodities trading, banking, and regulatory compliance, Katherine brings a practitioner's authority to the governance and risk questions that matter most to financial institutions navigating digital transformation.

Katherine's speaking draws on direct, institutional-scale experience with digital asset risk. As Global Head of Operational Risk at StoneX Group, a Fortune 50 financial services firm with diversified exposure across physical commodities, financial derivatives, and digital assets, she directed enterprise risk strategy across a $4B+ global organization, led risk integration for numerous acquisitions, and governed model, third party risk, and emerging risk domains including digital asset operations. Prior to StoneX, she held senior risk leadership roles at S&P Global Energy, Bank of Oklahoma Financial, and BBVA Compass, where she built enterprise risk frameworks across trading, wealth management, broker-dealer, and various banking business lines.

Katherine is a credible and engaging voice for audiences that include compliance professionals, risk practitioners, fintech founders, regulators, and institutional investors. She speaks from experience, not theory, and is known for translating complex regulatory and governance concepts into frameworks that practitioners can actually use.