How risky is your risk information?

Author's Biography

Robert M. Mark is the Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond Risk Enterprises, which provides corporate governance, risk management consulting and transaction services. He serves on several boards. In 1998, he was awarded the Financial Risk Manager of the Year by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He is on the board and is the Vice Chairman of The Professional Risk Managers’ International Association. Prior to his current position, he was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, as well as Corporate Treasurer, at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Prior to this, he was the partner in charge of the financial risk management consulting practice at Coopers & Lybrand. He earned his PhD, with a dissertation in options pricing, from New York University’s Graduate School of Engineering and Science, graduating first in his class. Subsequently, he received an Advanced Professional Certificate in Accounting from NYU’s Stern Graduate School of Business. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

Dilip Krishna is head of Teradata’s enterprise risk management and capital markets practice in North America. He and his team have consulted on enterprise risk management and Basel II initiatives with several US financial corporations. He has had 15 years of experience in technology and business consulting in the financial industry and brings significant experience in the successful management of large-scale projects. He has written numerous articles about risk data architecture and implementations and has also spoken on the topic in diverse settings. He holds Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations, as well as engineering degrees from the Ohio State University and the Indian Institute of Technology.