Evan Sekeris

Chief Model Risk Officer at Capital One

Speaker

Evan has had the privilege of working in various capacities within the non-financial risk sector, most recently leading the non-financial risk division at MUFG Americas. In this capacity, he was responsible for all aspects of non-financial risks including operational, model, and cyber risks. Before MUFG, Evan served at PNC, where he led the model validation team responsible for all models used by the bank. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Oliver Wyman, responsible for the non-financial risk platform for the Americas and was Aon's global head of financial institutions risk consulting. Evan started his risk career as a regulator at Boston and then the Richmond Fed. There, he was responsible for the coordination of the supervision of operational risk models for US-based AMA banks and the team that crafted the Federal Reserve’s operational risk stress testing model for CCAR.

With a foundation in academics, holding a BA and MA from the Universite Catholique de Louvain and a PhD from UCLA, Evan has always sought to blend knowledge with practical experience.