This document provides an agenda for the 3rd Annual Operational Risk Management Forum taking place on October 10-11, 2011 in Dubai. The forum will cover topics related to operational risk management including enterprise-wide vision and commitment, organizational frameworks and responsibilities, risk monitoring and management, business continuity, and risks related to outsourcing. It lists a distinguished advisory panel and speaker panel of operational risk experts from banks and other financial institutions in the region. The agenda outlines presentations and panel discussions on each day covering issues such as fostering an operational risk culture, advanced risk management approaches, using loss data, and challenges in implementing risk management frameworks.

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Aizaz Zaidi, Emirates Islamic Bank, Head of Operational Risk
Andrew Andayi, Al Hilal Bank, VP/ Head Operational Risk
Alok Tiwari, Aptivaa, Chief Executing Officer
Dr. Anthony Hatton, Al Rajhi Bank
Head of Business Continuity & Shared Services
Dr. Dayanand Pandey, The British University in Dubai
Head of Banking and Finance Program
Jaweed Gaya, Commercial Bank of Dubai, Head Operational Risk
Kumar Natarajan, Mashreq Bank, Head of Operational Risk
Nita Mehta, Barclays, Head of Operational Risk
Ramkumar Pavothil, National Bank of Fujairah
Head of Operational Risk
Sohail Farooq, Oman International Bank, Chief Risk Officer
Dr. Sunando Roy, Central Bank of Bahrain, Inspection Adviser
Wasim Malik, BBK, Head- Business Continuity Management
Kumar Natarajan
Mashreq Bank
Head of Operational Risk
Dr. Bjorn Lenzmann
Emirates NBD
Group Head of Operational Risk
Aizaz Zaidi
Emirates Islamic Bank
Head of Operational Risk
Dr. Dayanand Pandey
The British University in Dubai
Head of Banking and Finance
Program
Horst Simon
Global Association of Risk
Profesionals (GARP)
Co-Director, Dubai Chapter
Jayen Vyraven
Quency Advisory & Training
Services (Pty) Ltd
Managing Director
Yawar Gardezi
Al Rajhi Bank
Head of Operational Risk
Thalib A. Al-shamrani
Riyad Bank
EVP/ Chief Risk Officer
Nita Mehta, Barclays Plc
Country Head of Operational Risk
Sohail Farooq
Oman International Bank
Chief Risk Officer
Ramkumar Pavothil
National Bank of Fujairah
Head of Operational Risk&Compliance
Nisar Ahmed Khan
Kuwait International Bank
Head of Business Continuity
Management
Mostafa Khedr
Banque Du Caire
Deputy Head Of Operational Risk
Sebastian T Samuel
AW Rostamani
Group IT Manager
Peter Hill
Oracle Financial Services
Vice-President- Head of Product
Development, Operational Risk
and GRC
Alok Tiwari, Aptivaa
Chief Executing Officer
Tahir Rao, Dubai Bank
Head of Operational Risk
Enterprise-wide Vision, Culture, and Commitment
Organizational Framework and Responsibilities
Framing Strategies for Operational Risk Response
Dynamic Risk Monitoring and Management
Business Continuity
Operational Risks Involved in Outsourcing
• Learn how to improvise, implement and sustain a robust
Operational Risk Management Model
• Understand how to add value to business through efficient
Op-Risk Reporting
• Enhance your knowledge on the correct usage of Loss Event
Data to gain qualitative benefits
• Gain insights into the advantages of using Insurance as an
Op-Risk mitigating tool
CEOs, CROs, SVPs, AGMs, Group Heads of Risk, Directors/Heads
of Risk Management, Basel II Programme Directors, Heads of
Operational Risk/Operational Risk Managers/Directors, Heads
of enterprise-Wide Risk Management, Heads of Regional Risk
or International Risk, Business Continuity Managers, Disaster
Recovery Specialists, Chief Internal auditors, Audit Managers,
Internal auditors, Chief Compliance Officers, Risk Managers,
Heads of Internal Control, Directors/Managers Supervision,
Senior Managers Risk Management, Regulators, Lawyers and
Consultants, Board of Directors, Senior Managers responsible
for the areas of internal controls, operations, risk measurement
and compliance with laws and regulations
10th
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October 2011
Amwaj Rotana, Jumeirah Beach, Dubai
3rd
Annual
Operational Risk
Management Forum
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3. 8:15 Registration and Coffee
8:45 Welcome Note from Fleming Gulf
8:50 Opening Remarks from the Chairperson
9:00 Reinforcing Enterprise-wide Vision, Culture,
and Commitment
• Defining Operational Risk for the Organization. Importance
of how to get the staff at large to be focused and committed
towards an institution’s Operational Risk Objectives.
• Demonstrating a Vision, Mandate, and Objectives–
Formulating bank-wide vision, values and mandate at highest
level communicated as clear evidence of buy-in at both the
Board and most senior management level of the Bank.
• Managing the Risk of a Firm’s Franchise and Reputation,
ongoing discipline, strategy development and a plan for
managing importance of crises that might impact the Bank’s
reputation and franchise.
Thalib A. Al-shamrani, Riyad Bank, EVP/ Chief Risk Officer
9:30 Interactive Panel Discussion:
Fostering a Culture of Integrity and Risk
Management Awareness
Corporate culture and philosophy can have the greatest positive
or negative impact on the Bank’s risk profile. A senior level
commitment and a risk-aware culture, both are essential to build an
effective business ethics
Aizaz Zaidi, Emirates Islamic Bank, Head of Operational Risk
Kumar Natarajan, Mashreq Bank, Head of Operational Risk
Ramkumar Pavothil, National Bank of Fujairah
Head of Operational Risk and Compliance
10:20 Morning Coffee & Networking
10:50 Operational Risk Frameworks and
responsibilities
• Empowering Business Units with Responsibility for Risk
Management- How to stand out from your peers
• Supporting and Leveraging Corporate Units’ Capabilities and
Contributions- Defining roles and responsibilities of corporate
units firm wide so as to reinforce key aspects of existing control
and risk assessment programs
• Designating Operational Risk Management Unit to Serve as a
Facilitator
Kumar Natarajan, Mashreq Bank, Head of Operational Risk
11:30 Dynamic Risk Monitoring and Management
• Implementing Bottom-up Processes to Identify, Evaluate
and Manage Operational Risks
• Using a Portfolio-based Approach to evaluate Firmwide Loss Potential
• Coordinating Event and Risk Indicator Data Firmwide
• Applying Analytics to Improve ORM Decision Making
• Implementing Dynamic Risk Profiling and Monitoring
Nita Mehta, Barclays, Head of Operational Risk
12:10 Road map to Advanced Management Approach
(AMA) of Operational Risk Management
• Key Components of Operational Risk Management Framework
• Minimum requirements of AMA
• Challenges in implementation of AMA
• Integrating RCSA, KRI and LDM
• Loss Distribution Approach
• Scenario based Approach
• Detailed road map to AMA
Alok Tiwari, Aptivaa, Chief Executing Officer
12:45 Prayer Break & Luncheon
14:00 Operational Risk Learning and Management
• Building an innovative and comprehensive Global Risk Learning
strategy
• Driving a group-wide approach and standard for OpRisk
Management
• How to partner with the business functions through risk learning
• Manage internal and external relationships and deliver practical
risk solutions
• Learning culture within a global organization
Dr Dayanand Pandey, The British University in Dubai
Head of Finance & Banking Program
14:40 Interactive Panel Discussion:
Operational Risk Reporting & Response
Framework
• How Op-Risk Reporting can add value for business
• Quantifying loss events
• Using Loss Event Data to gain a qualitative benefit, while
achieving its primary objective of recording loss events with
a view to mitigate Operational Risks of the organization.
• Disseminating Useful Management Information and Reports-
Providing useful and actionable information about operational
risks & losses
• Using Incentives and Disincentives as a means to optimize
operational risk
• Reducing risks through upgrades in systems and manual
processes
• Employing Segregation and Diversification Strategies-
developing programs for benchmarking and goal setting
• Balancing risk and reward in diversification of physical asset
concentrations
Alok Tiwari, Aptivaa, Chief Executing Officer
Nita Mehta, Barclays Plc, Country Head of Operational Risk
Mostafa Khedr, Banque Du Caire, Deputy Head Of Op.Risk
15:30 Afternoon Tea & Networking
16:00 Op-Risk Appetite
• What is Operational Risk Appetite (ORA)
• Objectives and purpose of setting ORA
• Process for setting Risk Appetite
• Implementation and roll-out
• Challenges
Dr. Bjorn Lenzmann, Emirates NBD
Group Head of Operational Risk
16:40 Operational Risks Involved in Outsourcing
• Frameworks governing Ops Risk in outsourcing
• How does it impact Operational risk
• Measurement of Ops risk in Outsourcing
• Minimizing Ops risk in Outsourcing
• Tools and processes for management
• Does Outsourcing decrease Ops risk?
Tahir Rao, Dubai Bank, Head of Operational Risk
17:20 Closing Remarks from the Chairperson
17:45 Networking & Cocktail Reception
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4. 8:15 Registration and Coffee
8:45 Welcome Note from Fleming Gulf
8:50 Opening Remarks from the Chairperson
9:00 Effective usage of Loss Data
•Why collect Loss Data?
•The Data Quality Issue
•How to use Loss Data to add value
•The Value of a Data Consortium
Horst Simon, Global Association of Risk Profesionals
(GARP), Co-Director, Dubai Chapter
9:30 Interactive Panel discussion:
Overlap between Internal Control, Internal
Audit & Operational Risk Management
Yawar Gardezi, Al Rajhi Bank, Head of Operational Risk
Kumar Natarajan, Mashreq Bank, Head of Operational Risk
Ramkumar Pavothil, National Bank of Fujairah
Head of Operational Risk and Compliance
Tahir Rao, Dubai Bank, Head of Operational Risk
10:30 Morning Coffee and Networking
11:00 A new definition of operational risk: The risk to
the successful achievement of corporate objectives
For many banks around the world, what we mean by operational
risk has become more than the direct impact on earnings and capital
arising from failures of people, processes and systems to include risks
to reputation, business continuity, failure to comply with regulations
and the impact of financial crime and fraud on business.
Peter Hill, Oracle Financial Services
Vice-President- Head of Product Development,
Operational Risk and GRC
11:35 Op-Risk Finance Hedging
• Significance of Op-Risk hedging
• Aligning insurance, risk finance programs to Operational Risk
• Measuring program performance over time
Ramkumar Pavothil, National Bank of Fujairah
Head of Operational Risk and Compliance
12:10 Effective Implementation of Op-Risk Framework
through an Alternative Approach
• How does traditional Op-Risk framework define, identify
and manage operational risks
• How is it implemented and what safeguards does it provide
against operational losses
• How robust it is in identifying operational risks and how can
it be integrated with other risk types
• What is the implementation framework of an alternative
approach and how is it different from the traditional
operational risk methodology
• Key pros and cons- Which approach is more in-depth and
more strategic
Sohail Farooq, Oman International Bank, Chief Risk Officer
12:45 Prayer Break & Luncheon
14:00 Interactive Panel Discussion:
Regional Challenges in Implementing
Operational Risk Management Framework
Sohail Farooq, Oman International Bank, Chief Risk Officer
Peter Hill, Oracle Financial Services, Vice-President- Head of
Product Development, Operational Risk and GRC
Sebastian T Samuel, AW Rostamani, Group IT Manager
Tahir Rao, Dubai Bank, Head of Operational Risk
14:40 Scenario Analysis- Developing a Stress Testing
Framework
• Embedding Scenario Analysis in Operational Risk Framework
• Choice of Scenario
• Use of the results of Scenarios in capital calculation
Yawar Gardezi, Al Rajhi Bank, Head of Operational Risk
15:10 Afternoon Tea & Networking
15:30 Business Continuity Management –
A Must for Business Success
• How to develop and implement a sustainable business
continuity program
• Analyzing key risks to people, processes, technology,
Infrastructure and suppliers
• Adopting the most appropriate continuity strategy for key
banking processes (eg. retail, commercial & online banking,
treasury operations, call center, credit card and ATM operations)
• How to effectively test and exercise the business continuity
capability
Nisar Ahmed Khan, Kuwait International Bank
Head of Business Continuity Management
16:00 An Enterprise Architecture Driven Approach for
GRC Implementation
• Understanding the enterprise GRC context
• Defining enterprise architecture concepts and
relationship to GRC
• The enterprise architecture approach for GRC
• The AWR risk management framework
• The ERM life-cycle solution
• The Audit life-cycle solution
• Implementation benefits and challenges
• The MEGA GRC Platform
Sebastian T Samuel, AW Rostamani, Group IT Manager
16:45 Closing Remarks from the Chairperson
I would like to thank everyone who has helped me with
the research and organization of this event, especially the
speakers for their support and commitment.
Binoj Puthur, Conference Producer
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Day 2 / 11th
October 2011
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5. MEET OUR RENOWNED SPEAKERS
Chairperson
Ramkumar Pavothil | National Bank of Fujairah |
Head of Operational Risk and Compliance
Ramkumar joined the National Bank of Fujairah as Head of Operational Risk and Compliance in
May 2008, where he has been instrumental in the establishment and ongoing management of the
Operational Risk Management and Compliance framework in the National Bank of Fujairah. Ram
brings with him 15 years of experience in the banking industry with a strong background of 9 years
in Operational Risk Management. Prior to NBF, he served with HSBC for 10 years in Operational Risk,
Internal Control, Internal Audit and Banking Operations, and with Al Rajhi Bank for 2 years where
he was responsible for the initial set-up of the Bank’s Operational Risk Management framework. He
has received various certifications in Risk Management including CCSA (Certificate in Control Self
Assessment from the Institute of Internal Auditors, USA), ACOR (Advanced Certificate in Operational
Risk from the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, UK) and CISM (Certificate in
Information Security Management from ISACA)
Kumar Natarajan | Mashreq Bank | Head Operational Risk
Kumar is a career banker with over 20 years of experience across the areas of Credit, Operations,
and Audit with the last 10 years devoted to Operational risk function. He has been focusing on
designing and implementing a practical operational risk framework which demonstrates a clear value
add to the organisation. A professional with an eye for detail with good knowledge on technical
and technological aspects of the business, he is currently heading the operational risk function for
Mashreq bank, prior to which he was with First Gulf Bank for over 6 years where he set up the
operational risk function. In his Audit role he has traveled extensively over the Middle-east and South
Asia region and has a very good understanding of this region, specifically with regards to operational
risks prevalent.Kumar obtained a Bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Mumbai and
picked up a diploma in general management and a Masters in Financial Management from Jamnalal
Bajaj Institute of Management Studies / University of Mumbai in India. He is a member of PRMIA and
a professional member of Institute of Operational Risk.
Dr. Dayanand Pandey | The British University in Dubai |
Head of Banking & Finance Program
Dr. Dayanand Pandey is currently Head of Finance & Banking program at the British University in
Dubai, Honorary fellow of the University of Birmingham, UK and Consultant-Risk & Training at Bank
Melli Iran, UAE. Prior to the BUiD, he was Head of Risk Management &Training at Bank Melli Iran
(BMI), Regional Office in Dubai. Bank Melli Iran is the largest and the oldest bank of Iran with more
than 30 years of presence in UAE. The bank deals in retail, corporate and trade related financial
products. Dr Pandey was entrusted the task of implementing ERM across the bank and to comply
with Basel II guidelines of UAE Central Bank. Previously, he has worked as the Coordinator of Master
of Applied Finance and Banking Program with the University of Wollongong in Dubai, Senior Lecturer
at the Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies in Sharjah, Professor of Economics and
Chairman Global MBA program at IMT, Ghaziabad. He is a Graduate in Economics; Post Graduate in
Business Economics and Ph D in Risk Management. Dr. Pandey has published a number of books and
scholarly articles in journals of repute. He has authored a book on Managerial Economics published
from Pearson Education, Economic Environment of Business and Risk management from Excel
Publications. He is a regular speaker at various international conferences and seminars.
Sohail Farooq | Oman International Bank | Chief Risk Officer
Sohail is an an innovative Canadian professional with over 15+ years of proven expertise in risk
management, ALM and corporate strategy. He has been serving as a trusted adviser to business leaders
in the GCC for the past 7 years, and is known for developing and executing compelling strategies for
increasing the headline earnings, streamlining work flow and creating a team environment to increase
productivity. At present he is the CRO at Oman International Bank. His prior work also includes credit
portfolio management at major Canadian banks, Scotiabank and CIBC World Markets, where as a
member of credit & structuring committees he was mandated to risk-proof credit portfolios, transaction
and securitization structures. As a consultant with Oliver Wyman Financial Services, he developed the
state of the art operational risk frameworks which featured risk hot spot drill-downs and were calibrated
to risk appetite. He holds a Masters degree in Quantitative Finance from Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft
Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) in Germany and an M.B.A. from the
School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Yawar Gardezi | Al Rajhi Bank | Head of Operational Risk
Yawar is currently working as a Head of Operational Risk for Al Rajhi Bank. He has been with Al
Rajhi Bank for the last three years where he is responsible for the development and implementation
of Operational Risk Framework with the goal to achieve the AMA accreditation. Key focus area has
been Operational Risk Policy and procedures and supporting tools development. Prior to that he has
worked for National Australia Bank, Australia. He has more than 16 years of experience in the field
of Operational Risk, Finance, Business Banking & Credit Analysis. He has done MBA and a CPA from
Australia.
Nisar Ahmed Khan | Kuwait International Bank |
Head of Business Continuity Management
Nisar Khan has more than 8 years of experience in managing Business Continuity Management
programs with the regulator, conventional and Islamic banking. Nisar is currently the Head of Business
Continuity Management for Kuwait International Bank, prior to joining KIB, Nisar worked as Service
Continuity Specialist for Central Bank of Kuwait. He also served for United Bank (Pakistan) as Business
Resilience Manager. Previously he served as a BC/DR Manager for a consultancy firm, delivering end-
to-end BCM programs and training to leading companies in Pakistan. Nisar also has vast experience
in implementing enterprise level IT Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions such as Storage Area
Networks (SAN), Backup, Recovery, Replication and high availability clustering, secondary data
centers and redundant data networks. Nisar holds a Masters degree in IT and Business. He is a
professional member (MBCI) and is certified (CBCI) with merit from British Continuity Institute UK,
BS25999 Lead Auditor as well as a member of ISACA. He is a frequent contributor for various online
groups and forums pertaining to Business Continuity Management.
Horst Simon | Global Association of Risk Profesionals (GARP) |
Co-Director, Dubai Chapter
Horst has been in the banking and consultancy industries for over 30 years. As Head of Risk
Technology in Mashreq Bank in the United Arab Emirates, he pioneered the concept of Risk
Technology Management; implementation of a strategic risk mitigation framework to achieve active
risk management capability, support good risk governance and ensure sustainable competitive
advantage. Horst started his work in the Middle East in 2005 at EmiratesNBD Group, where he
was tasked with building an Operational Risk Management function for the Group. He held previous
operational risk and banking operations positions with Barclays Bank plc and with the Standard
Bank Group of South-Africa Ltd, living and working in 4 countries. His special interest is in the field of
People Risk and he has delivered many presentations at international conferences on the Mitigation
of People Risk and other risk management topics. He is a member of the Professional Speakers
Association of Southern Africa. Horst currently works with leading global players in the field of Risk
Management Consultancy and Training as well as Business Process Outsourcing in the following
positions: Director- Operational Risk Management- Horwath MAK, Senior Associate- RiskBusiness,
Principal- Risk Management, Consultant- Quintica Middle East, Advisor to WNS Global Services, Co-
Regional Director, Dubai Chapter- Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
Thalib Ali Al-Shamrani | Riyad Bank, Saudi Arabia |
Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer
Mr Thalib Ali Al-Shamrani has around 26 years of Banking experience with the latest 20 years in
senior and executive management level. He has been serving as Chief Risk Officer and Head of
Credit for the last 6 years. In this role he manages the Bank wide Risk including; Credit, Market Risk,
Operation Risk, Insurance and Compliance. Prior to that, he was The CFO of the Bank for nearly 10
years. In addition, He was involved within his career with the Bank in Managing and overseeing
other Divisions in The Bank such as, Financial and strategic planning, corporate Banking, Retail
Banking, Treasury, Investment, IT, HR and support. Thalib is a member of the following Executive
level Committees: Management Committee, Main Credit Committee, ALCO, Investment Committee,
Risk Management Review Group, Technology Committee, Risk and Compliance Committee and HR
committee. He is also a permanent invitee to The Board Audit Committee, Chairman of Fiduciary
Committee, Member of Strategic Planning Group of the Bank, Vice Chairman of a subsidiary Financial
Services Company and Chairman of the Executive Committee as a member of the Board, Member
of Saudi Banks CFO Committee when was The CFO of The Bank, Member of Chief Credit Officers
/ Chief Risk Officers of the Saudi Banks and Chairman of Real Estate Company. Thalib holds a
B.A. in Business Administration and has participated in many trainings in Banking and Finance-
Internationally and locally- some of which are: Banking Operation in retail Branches Riyad Bank
1985, On job training with National Westminster Bank London, Integrated Financial Management
Program Euro-money London, DC Gardner training courses in Money market & derivatives product
and FX & Treasury program, Young Managers Program INSEAD Paris, On job training with Chemical
Bank New York, Executive managers Program, American Management Association, Accounting
study in London School of Accountancy, Internal Control Systems, TQM, The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective Managers Covey Leadership Centre, Balanced Score card with ORACL, A number of Executive
management, Risk Management and Finance courses.
Dr. Bjorn Lenzmann | Emirates NBD | Group Head of Operational Risk
Dr. Björn Lenzmann is Group Head of Operational Risk at Emirates NBD in Dubai. He is responsible
for the development and implementation of the Group-wide Operational Risk framework and
methodologies. Björn joined Emirates NDB from KPMG as Associate Director within KPMG Germany’s
Financial Risk Management Practice. He has worked with several banking and insurance clients to
implement Operational Risk solutions that allowed them to qualify for the different Basel II approaches
including scenario analysis, KRI, and capital and insurance modelling. He was a member of the
KPMG’s German OpRisk competence team and is a regular speaker on Operational Risk Management
at national and international conferences. Prior to joining KPMG Björn has worked for Commerzbank,
a leading German bank heading the OpRisk quantification team developing and implementing the
AMA model. He was the bank’s representative in several working groups of the data consortium ORX
and a member of the Forum for European discussion on Operational Risk (FEDOR).
Nita Mehta | Barclays Plc | Country Head of Operational Risk
Nita Mehta has vast experience of over17 years in Financial Services Sector wide ranging from Investment
Banking, Treasury, Commercial Banking and Retail Banking. In investment banking, she has worked in
different areas of investment banking spanning over mutual funds, merchant banking, stock broking and
mergers/acquisitions heading Risk, Compliance, Audit and Governance functions. She is in Dubai for last
6 yeas. In her previous position, she was Regional Head of Operational Risk in Standard Chartered Bank,
biggest treasury in GCC predominantly focusing on operational risk in Global Markets and Corporate Finance
for 3 years. Nita currently holds the position with Barclays Bank as Country Head of Operational Risk focusing
on Operational Risk, Audit and Governance of Commercial Banking, Retail Banking and Treasury.
Alok Tiwari | Aptivaa | Chief Executing Officer
Alok, CEO and founder member of Aptivaa, has over 16 years of experience in the area of risk management
and has specialized in Governance and Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Strategy and Risk
System Consulting, primarily in Financial Risk Management to the financial services sector. Alok is also
a member of Advisory Board of Chartis Research- a leading research and advisory services firm which
specializes exclusively in the risk technology market, analyzing systems, products, vendors, applications
and related trends in the risk technology domain. Prior to founding Aptivaa he was heading the Enterprise
Risk Management (ERM) practice of a Big 4 consulting firm. He has successfully conducted program
management for implementing the Basel II framework at large Banks in Asia and Europe. He has been
involved in more than 10 Basel II implementation, 4 large EWRM Implementation Projects, 30 Risk
Analysis & Assessments and 6 Risk Model Testing and validation projects (covering models such as Value
at Risk (VaR), KMV, Credit VaR and Portfolio Performance Analysis). He has lead assignments for top tier
clients such as ICICI Bank, Barclays, Lloyds TSB, State Bank of India, Axis Bank, National Bank of Abu
Dhabi, Bank Audi, SAMBA Financial Group, Life Insurance Corporation of India and other leading names.
He has also conducted trainings workshops for senior personnel of the Banking and Financial Services
Sector on Basel II and Risk Management in India, South East Asia and Middle East Asia. Alok has also
spoken at the IBA Conferences- India, ACCA-Kenya, International Risk Management Congress-Dubai, IFC
Conferences-Colombo and Dhaka, Annual International Seminar-Dubai, Value from Risk forum – South
Asia and has been a discussion panel member at various seminars on Risk Management and Basel II.
Sebastian T Samuel | AW Rostamani | Group IT Manager
Sebastian T Samuel is the Group IT Manager at AW Rostamani Group, one of the leading business groups
in the UAE, with diverse portfolio of businesses. With over 2500 employees and net assets in excess of AED 6
billion, AW Rostamani group is among the finest business success stories to come out of the UAE. Sebastian
holds masters in computer applications and is certified in the enterprise governance of IT. He has a wide
range of experience in managing IT for multiple industries like automotive, real estate, manufacturing,
logistics and contracting. He has over 20 years of engagement expertise in various IT domains such
as Requirement Management, System Analysis, Business Process Management, ERP Implementation, IT
Service and Delivery Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Performance Management,
Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy and Planning and IT Governance.
Tahir Rao | Dubai Bank | Head of Operational Risk
Tahir Rao is presently working with Dubai Bank, as Head- Operational Risk and is responsible for
implementation of Operational Risk Frameworks. Last assignment was with Union National Bank, as AVP
& Manager Operational Risk and established Ops Risk Framework and implemented the Operational Risk
Solutions for RCSA, KRIs, Loss Database, stress testing, scenario analysis and capital modelling. Overall
more than 15 years of Operational Risk, Internal Audit and Credit Risk Review experience working with best
regional and international banks, like Dubai Bank, Union National Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and
United Bank Limited. His qualifications include MBA (Philippines), Diploma in Banking from The Institute
of Bankers (Pakistan) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) from The Institute of Internal Auditors (USA).
Peter Hill | Oracle Financial Services |
Vice-President- Head of Product Development, Operational Risk and GRC
Peter Hill is an acknowledged expert in operational risk management and leads the operational risk and
compliance product development at Oracle Financial Services. He is a former treasurer of a financial
markets dealing room in the City of London. Hill can draw on more than 25 years of banking experience
and has witnessed many operational risks at first hand. Hill’s experience of banks going bust goes back
to Bankhaus Herstatt, a German bank caught by over trading that subsequently collapsed in 1974. Hill
has also worked for a string of operational risk software and consulting firms, including Chase Cooper,
Algorithmics and Amelia Financial Systems.
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