Marcel van Duin
Sandra Milligan
Shira Center
Mehdi Esmail
Mehdi Esmail is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Validmind, a VC-backed startup focused on simplifying Model Risk Management for Financial Services. He has over a decade of experience in data, analytics, and risk management for the Financial Services industry, having served as both an operator working with the Chief Data Officer at American Express, and as a consultant for Fortune 100 Financial Services companies.
Bahar Malavan Naryndji
Dr. Philipp Aeby
Dr. Philipp Aeby is the CEO and co-founder of RepRisk. He is an expert in business conduct risk management, with a special interest in machine learning.
Before joining RepRisk in 2006, Philipp served in various managerial positions across Europe at Amgen, a global biopharmaceutical firm, and worked on a broad range of international assignments with the Boston Consulting Group. He started his career as a visiting scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia.
Philipp holds a PhD in Environmental Physics and a Master’s degree in Climatology and Hydrology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he earned the ETH Medal for outstanding research that involved applying neural networks to pattern recognition.
