Leigh-Ann Schultz Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Leads the credit risk and data relationship for one of the top 4 U.S. financial insitutions• Works with the client to understand risk analytics, acquisitions and account management needs, and appropriately position industry leading data and technology solutions• Builds and maintains relationships with executives, business leaders, and their teams to understand client business objectives/priorities and identify opportunities to add value.• Facilitates a mutually beneficial… Show more • Leads the credit risk and data relationship for one of the top 4 U.S. financial insitutions• Works with the client to understand risk analytics, acquisitions and account management needs, and appropriately position industry leading data and technology solutions• Builds and maintains relationships with executives, business leaders, and their teams to understand client business objectives/priorities and identify opportunities to add value.• Facilitates a mutually beneficial partnership via thought leadership and creative deal structures. Show less

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Innovation Solutions Group (ISG) | Consumer Information Services (CIS)• Drove business for Experian’s cloud-based Ascend Technology Platform via internal relationships and external partnerships with large financial services clients• Successfully supported 15+ Account Executives on 40+ accounts via aggressive pre-sales involvement, competitor analysis, pricing strategy, contract configuration, and implementation support• Understood client strategy, business problems, and… Show more Innovation Solutions Group (ISG) | Consumer Information Services (CIS)• Drove business for Experian’s cloud-based Ascend Technology Platform via internal relationships and external partnerships with large financial services clients• Successfully supported 15+ Account Executives on 40+ accounts via aggressive pre-sales involvement, competitor analysis, pricing strategy, contract configuration, and implementation support• Understood client strategy, business problems, and technology stack to provide subject matter expertise for standard and custom solution recommendations and implementations across the credit life cycle• Worked seamlessly with sales, product, and engineering to position best-in-class solutions, inform product roadmaps, and bring voice of the client to market • Understood and effectively communicated the functionality, value proposition, key differentiators, and business use cases of 10+ products covering analytics, risk, marketing, account review, identity resolution, and attribute and model deployment. Show less

Greater Philadelphia Area

Regional Economic Outreach - Research Department & Corporate Affairs• Created and presented economic outlooks to brief FRB executives and leadership, business/financial leaders, and other local groups on business conditions, macroeconomic trends, and monetary policy• Built and validated risk models, performed other complex econometric analysis, and produced academic writing on consumer credit risk, and national and regional economic trends • Developed a credit risk score to… Show more Regional Economic Outreach - Research Department & Corporate Affairs• Created and presented economic outlooks to brief FRB executives and leadership, business/financial leaders, and other local groups on business conditions, macroeconomic trends, and monetary policy• Built and validated risk models, performed other complex econometric analysis, and produced academic writing on consumer credit risk, and national and regional economic trends • Developed a credit risk score to inform research on score drift, consumer behaviors and economic conditions• Recruited, interviewed, selected, trained, and managed summer interns• Lead Bank-wide project on CBDC to help build relationships within the CBDC community, and conducted research on the impacts of CBDC on LMI consumers Show less

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Retail Supervision and Research Group - Supervision, Regulation & Credit Department• Performed moderately complex modelling and other econometric analysis for research papers relating to emerging risks in retail credit portfolios • Assessed credit risk models in quantitative bank exams for large financial institutions• Interviewed, helped choose, and mentored summer interns • Fluent in SAS, SQL, and R Programming• Organized research conferences with up to 150 attendees

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Supervision Regulation and Credit Department (SRC).• Performed analysis and modeling for research contributing to Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF) literature.• Analyzed financial documents and market data via Bloomberg terminal and Lexis Nexis.• Leveraged internal and external databases to collect, clean, and analyze data.

With Dr. Christopher Laincz -- Mathematical Econ Professor and Administrator for PhD Candidates.• Provided reference and research services.• Worked with data and updated academic lectures.• Co-authored a paper on the effects of strategic divorce on FASFA funding.

• Conducted independent research "Leadership: A predictor of Economic Efficiency during Group Formation from a 'State of Nature'" -- Mentor: Dr. Natalie Shook• Wrote formal research proposal.• Applied for and received grant funding and IRB approval.• Collected experimental and survey data from human subjects.• Used SPSS to analyze data.• Presented at the UMD 2015 National McNair Research Conference.

Morgantown, West Virginia

• Conducted laboratory experiments for research on social cognitive biases.• Worked with human subjects.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Applied Economics, 3.88

Activities and Societies: Recieved award for Excellence in Macroeconomics. Award given only to the top performers.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

As a student at West Virginia University I obtained dual degrees in Economics and Psychology.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology