Stephanie Bontemps

Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer at First Republic Bank

Ms. Bontemps joined First Republic in 2008 and was appointed Chief Risk Officer in 2015 after previously serving as an Executive Loan Committee Member and Director of Credit Administration. As Chief Risk Officer, she is responsible for building and maintaining a robust enterprise risk management framework that supports the strategic goals of the Bank and builds upon its longstanding conservative risk culture.  Prior to joining First Republic, Ms. Bontemps worked for Citibank in corporate and investment banking leadership positions in both relationship management and credit risk management in New York and San Francisco.   Ms. Bontemps graduated from the Anderson School at UCLA (MBA) and UCLA (BA, Economics).