Mr. Allan D Grody President, Financial InterGroup (FIG) Holdings Ltd, USA

Mr. Grody has been involved in the financial industry for his entire five decades business career. He began working in multiple sectors of the financial services industry and later consulting domestically and internationally on issues at the intersection of risk, data, technology and regulation. He was a partner and the... read morefounder of Coopers & Lybrand’s (now PwC’s) Financial Services Consulting Practice. At New York University’s (NYU’s) Stern Graduate School of Business he founded and taught the only graduate-level risk management systems course that viewed risk management from a global financial industry infrastructure and enterprise systems perspective.

He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions and has authored numerous academic papers and trade articles focused on risk adjusting the financial system and reengineering financial institutions. He has served as an expert in litigated matters related to patent infringement cases and class action shareholder suites; and as an expert on panels and working groups involved in assisting regulators in the global realignment of data and risk management after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.