Leo M. Tilman

Financial Darwinism

Leo M. Tilman is President of L.M. Tilman & Co., a strategic advisory firm that serves governments, financial institutions, corporations, and institutional investors worldwide. L.M. Tilman & Co. helps its clients create real and lasting economic value in finance and is headquartered in New York City. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Tilman held senior positions with BlackRock as well as Bear Stearns, where he was Chief Institutional Strategist and Senior Managing Director.

Ali Samad-Khan

Reinventing Risk Management in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

Ali Samad-Khan is a Principal and Global Leader of the Operational Risk Consulting Practice at Towers Perrin. He has over ten years’ experience in risk measurement and management and more than twenty years of experience in financial services. Ali has advised more than fifty of the world’s leading banks, insurance companies, and energy and transportation companies on the full range of operational risk measurement and management issues.

Marcelo Cruz

Reviewing Risk Management Frameworks and Tools: Lessons from the current financial and economic crisis

Marcelo Cruz is a senior risk management consultant and also a professor at New York University and Columbia University. Formerly he was the Chief Risk Officer of Aviva. Previously Marcelo was Global Head of Operational Risk Analytics and Quantitative Risk Analytics at Lehman Brothers and was the Managing Director and founder of RiskMaths a boutique consultancy focused on risk management and more specifically operational risk.

Panel Discussion

Mitchell Petersen
Glen Vasel Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management

William Quinn KSM '91
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Sergio Rebelo
Tokai Bank Professor of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management

Steve Lindo
Executive Director, PRMIA

As well as Leo Tilman, Ali Samad-Khan, and Marcelo Cruz

moderated by Russell Walker
Assistant Director, Zell Center for Risk Research
Kellogg School of Management