Jim Costa
James Costa is Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Banner Bank. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s risk and compliance functions as well as the Bank’s interactions with industry regulators. He is also a member of the Bank’s Executive Management Committee.
Prior to joining Banner, Costa served as Chief Risk and Chief Credit Officer for TCF Financial a regional bank where he managed all credit and risk functions as well as operations. At TCF Jim managed the enterprise integration of the merger equals between Chemical Bank and TCF. Prior to TCF, Jim held executive leadership positions in risk, credit and lines of business as EVP at PNC Financial and Head of Enterprise Credit Strategy at Wachovia Corporation, now Wells Fargo. Jim has been active in financial services for almost 30 years with focus areas including enterprise strategy credit risk, and regulatory relations.
Jim earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and conducted his doctoral studies from the University of Minnesota. Jim is a veteran of the US Air Force. In Minnesota, Jim is active in community organizations to include Habitat for Humanity, Humane Society and The University of Minnesota Center for Children’s Cancer Research. Jim is also an advisory board member for the Midsize Bank Coalition of America.
Gurpreet Sodhi
Deniz Senturk
Deniz is the Head of Analytics and Chief Risk Officer, supporting Global Treasury, at State Street Corporation (SSC). In her role as Head of Analytics, Deniz is focused on providing quantitative solutions consisting of Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence (data analytics, reporting) for business lines across the bank. In parallel, she is also responsible for risk oversight of Treasury’s activities, which includes managing the investment portfolio, asset-liability risk, liquidity risk, funding and liability pricing, and capital structure, in her role as CRO for Treasury.
Prior to her current role, Deniz was the Head of Model Risk Management at State Street for three years and headed up Model Risk Management within GE Capital for 3+ years before joining State Street in 2015. Deniz’s 15 year tenure at GE also included leading the marketing analytics teams as well as the research teams within GE Global Research Center. During her time at GE, she published 15+ patents and 20+ research papers on advanced statistical techniques used in risk and finance.
Deniz’s areas of functional expertise include compliance and control functions, credit, treasury, market and model risk management in addition to risk analytics, marketing analytics and business strategy management. She also served as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business, Fordham University for three years.
Deniz holds a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Physics from Bogazici University (Turkey).
Chandra Khandrika
Chandra Sekhar Khandrika is Head of IA Model risk management at Citi Bank. He has 20 years of industry experience in Risk and Control areas including Risk Management, Independent valuation, and audit at global Investment banks. His interests are in the intersection of financial risk and climate risks. He is interests in the nexus of climate risk regulatory landscape and low carbon economy transition. Specifically, embedding climate risk management framework, stress testing, scenario analysis and disclosures. Low carbon economy transition and adaptation and mitigation strategies leveraging clean technologies.
Ahmed Elcott
Ahmed Elcott is an executive vice president and the head of Climate Risk at Wells Fargo where he leads the firm’s climate risk initiative. In this role, he leads the integration of climate risk into the firm’s overall risk management framework.
Cem Torunoglu
Mohammed Iqbal
Mohammed Iqbal strives to enhance people’s lives. He believes the key to leading a healthier life is having access to fitness knowledge and acting on it. He founded SweatWorks, the leading digital agency in fitness design and technology to create meaningful wellness journeys for everyone.
As founder and CEO, Mohammed has established SweatWorks as a wellness technology brand unlike any other. The agency pursues innovation to make fitness engaging, beautiful and accessible to all.
Mohammed also contributes to the wellness industry via speaking engagements at leading events and fitness conferences around the world. His personal commitment to his fitness journey is an inspiration to all those he comes in contact with. Daily, he immerses himself in strategic and creative thinking, fitness, and innovation. For ten years Mohammed has worked at exploring the intersection of fitness and technology, paving the way towards a more tangible wellness and healthcare future
SweatWorks collaborates with top-tier fitness brands to provide design, technology and marketplace expertise to produce first-to-market fitness and wellness products. It has made the Inc 5000 list as one of the fastest growing private companies five years in a row.
Allison Watkins
