Olga Puntus

As Head of Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM) team, I lead Wells Fargo’s efforts to understand customers’ E&S impact and performance, and manage E&S risks across the enterprise. ESRM team also engages with key external stakeholders to understand their perspectives about the industries Wells Fargo supports, and identify solutions to pressing and emerging E&S issues.
The ESRM function provides lines-of-business the clarity and tools they need to make informed decisions when growing relationships in sensitive industries. The ESRM approach also helps the corporation more effectively manage business and credit, strategic and reputational risks to Wells Fargo, while at the same time allow it to deeper understand customers’ operations and long-term viability. We help the company protect people, communities and the environment.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo, I spent 14 years at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducting global E&S risk management, due diligence, supervision, and audit in the infrastructure, apparel, manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and health and education sectors. At IFC, I worked in a number of regions, including Europe, Central Asia, Northern Africa, Middle East, Central and Southern Americas. I hold an MS in Environmental Science and Sustainability Management from Columbia University in New York; Masters of Law from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany; and the equivalent of a JD from Belarusian State University in the Republic of Belarus. I am fluent in English, Russian, German, and Spanish. I am a certified yoga teacher and mindfulness practitioner. For fun I travel the world and practice circus arts. I have a daughter who is a joy and light of my life.

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.

Rhea Rajwani

Rhea Rajwani heads the Model Risk Governance and Controls portfolio for TD Bank in the US. She has worked with the Bank since 2006 on both sides of the border – Canada and the US, in Finance & Risk Management. In addition to her work past few years in model risk governance, her areas of expertise include financial modeling, efficiency planning, resolution and recovery planning primarily focused on strategy and liquidity management, model validations, management and regulatory reporting and investor relations. Prior to joining TD, Rhea has worked at the Bank of India in Planning and Forecasting and ICICI Bank where she was responsible for Capital Planning and Regulatory filings including her work on filings with the SEC in the US and as a representative from the Bank to the working committee for Basel supervision and reporting at the Reserve Bank of India. Rhea has a Masters degree in Business, Bachelors degree in Financial Accounting & Auditing, completed the Canadian Securities Course, is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers, passed the CFA level II exams and has several technology certifications to her credit.     

Varun Agarwal

Varun Agarwal is an Executive Director at USAA where he oversees risk audit teams.

He brings over twenty-five years' experience having worked for large global financial institutions and insurers in Regulatory Risk & Compliance space. He has worked for Capgemini, HSBC, Deloitte, and JP Morgan in US, Canada and Europe.

His background includes responsibilities in Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational, Strategic Risk and AML, along with Risk Governance, Policy, Data Management and Reporting.  He also created Enterprise Risk Management frameworks, set Risk Appetite, and executed end-to-end risk processes. He has also worked on a variety of analytical models for Capital Management, Pricing, Valuation and Derivatives.

He is a published author on topics in finance and risk across US and Europe and has presented at professional conferences at both national and regional levels. Varun earned both his Ph.D. and Master's degree in Financial Economics from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India. He also holds a CFA charter.​

Varun enjoys outdoor running and reading world history.

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).

Lakshmi Murthy

Lakshmi Murthy is the Global lead for Climate Risk Strategy and ESG Analytics at Credit Suisse.

She is an experienced Financial Services leader with a passion for building scalable data-enabled products to solve business problems using advanced analytics.

Lakshmi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from India, and an Master’s degree in Business Analytics from NYU Stern School of Business “