Risk Masters International advises clients on identifying, assessing, managing and mitigating Business and Technology Risk and works with clients to plan for business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber-resilience and cyber-recovery.

Boston Global Forum (BGF), based in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded to bring together thought leaders and experts from around the globe to participate in open public forums to discuss and illuminate the most critical issues affecting the world at large. Accomplishments include - Co-authored the BGF Ise-Shima Cyber Norms, which were incorporated, in part, in the G7 Ise-Shima Summit Cyber Declaration- Advised the governments of Japan and Vietnam on national cyber-security strategy

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As the National Director of Technology for Audit and Enterprise Risk Services, led IT strategy and delivery for the 15,000 person, $4 billion US practice, with operations in India. This occurred during a period of significant business, economic and regulatory change. - Led IT efforts supporting growth of the Audit Practice in India from startup to more than 5000 staff- Designed and implemented a system that integrated more than 20 distinct applications in order to enable more effective management of the practice and significantly enhance compliance with regulatory oversight, while also reducing operating costs and improving data quality As the Regional CIO, led IT operations for the East Sector of Deloitte. This encompassed more than 40 offices and an IT staff of 400 that provided technology support to more than 18,000 mobile professional and administrative staff. Accomplishments included: - Significantly reduced IT costs while improving service quality, reliability and timeliness- Launched the first national call-center, consolidating 50+ legacy centers into one and deploying associated call-management systems and technology- Implemented the first enterprise-wide, client-facing data-centers and technology labs- Introduced enterprise instant-messaging and remote secure VPN access- Participated in multiple client RFP responses and engagement pursuits- Led the recovery from the 9/11 Attack As the Director of Applications Development, led a 300-person development organization. - Established an offshore development team in Hyderabad, India- Launched Deloitte’s first enterprise-wide internal website (DeloitteNet.Com), replacing 400 distinct internal sites.

Led the transformation of business operations from legacy mainframe word processing and manual processes to a high-availability global network supporting a broad range of business functions. Key accomplishments included: - Designed and built a high-availability network and suite of integrated applications that ran uninterrupted 24/7 for 7 years.- Automated the global practice by extending the network from New York to Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong- Reduced annual firm-wide administrative costs 50% by automating multiple business functions that enabled the administrative headcount to be reduced by 50%. - Designed and built an intelligent search application modeled on human-reasoning that transformed archives of more than 2,000,000 documents into an effective knowledge repository. This permitted the rapid identification, research and reuse of work-products.- Led the recovery from the NatWest Tower Bombing

Responsible for automation of the Corporate Finance and other departments in Investment Banking. Startup opportunity leading to the development of a staff of 35 supporting 600 professionals and administrative staff. Led the transformation of data analytics and word processing from manual processes to an integrated global network of professional support systems. - Reduced document production time for debt/equity proposals from 6-8 weeks to 1 day- Designed and implemented expert AI systems modeled on human-reasoning to analyze securities trading to ensure regulatory compliance and to perform securities valuation.- Automated the global practice, including New York, London and Tokyo.

Responsible for development and global deployment of multiple high-performance real-time transaction processing financial systems, including Electronic Funds Transfer (including SWIFT, FED and other exchange systems), Foreign Exchange and Overseas Branch Transaction Processing

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