Kevin Oden

Founder & Managing Partner, Kevin D Oden & Associates LLC

Kevin D. Oden is the founder and managing partner of the risk management consulting firm, Kevin D. Oden & Associates, LLC. Most recently, Oden was an Executive Vice President and Head of Operational Risk and Compliance within Corporate Risk at Wells Fargo & Co., managing second-line risk activities across information security, financial crimes risk, model risk, operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, and technology risk. Prior to this he was the Chief Market & Institutional Risk officer for Wells Fargo & Co. Before joining Wells Fargo in November 2005, he was a proprietary trader at several firms including his own, specializing in the commodity and currency markets. He began his finance career at Goldman Sachs in 1997 working in the risk and commodities groups. Before moving to finance, Kevin was the Benjamin Pierce Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, where he specialized in differential geometry and published in the areas of geometry, statistics and graph theory. Kevin holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles and received bachelor degrees in science and business from Cleveland State University. Oden has served on the Board of Trustees of the Charlotte Symphony, the Board of Directors of Charlotte Concerts, the interest rates swap committee of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Risk Management Association (RMA) and on the RMA Journal Editorial Advisory Board and the financial technology firm Scienaptic Systems

Vijay Ganapathy

CTO, Some company

Vijay Ganapathy is the CTO of a startup firm and has built a world class IT operations, process and product innovation. He has developed a unique enablement-with-IT methodology with proven success An expert in strategy enablement with IT solutions that ensured revenue-cost optimization and met changing business demands. He is an expert in various environments including startups to enterprise scale in financial services, wholesale banking, telecommunications, and B2B e-commerce. Masters in Business Administration and IT from renown schools.