Robert Summers Email & Phone Number

United States

Lead Enterprise Data Risk Oversight encompassing Data Risk Taxonomy Ownership; Data Regulation/Law/Standard Adherence (Basel, OCC, FFIEC, FDIC, FRB, DAMA, European AI Risk Act, etc.); Advisory, Effective Challenge, Testing, and Assessments for Data Protection, Data Quality, RCSAs, Issues, Data Classification, New Initiatives (including Gen AI Use Cases), Data Usage, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Architecture (Snowflake, Helix, SDLC), Scenario Analysis, Risk Appetite/KRIs, CDEs/Metadata, Record Retention and Disposal, and Stewardship.

Lead team responsible for overseeing Data Risk for the Operations business line including Models/Generative AI; Data Protection and Privacy (PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, APPI, Bill 64, Privacy Incident Reporting, Data Loss Prevention); Data Validation and Issue Management; Data Governance; Digital Assets; Records Information Management and Access Management.

Areas of oversight included: U.S. Bancorp Asset Management/First American Funds, Business Line CFOs (Payments, Wealth Management, Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking, Technology, Operations), Community Development Corporation, Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Controller’s Group, Treasury, Investor Relations, Analytics, Corporate Development, Stress Testing, and Market Risk.Led team responsible for oversight of Operational, Compliance, Strategic, Reputation, Liquidity, Credit and Interest Rate Risk. Programs encompassed Information Security and Technology (NIST, COBIT); Model/AI Risk; Business Change and Strategic Initiatives Risk Assessments; Strategic Plan; Risk Identification; Risk Appetite Statement; Audit and Exam Management; Money Movement (European Bank Card Settlement, Reg E/ATM Settlement); Sarbanes-Oxley; Control Testing; Compliance (Fair and Responsible Banking, Dodd-Frank, Securities Act of 1933/1934, Investment Company Act, BSA/AML/OFAC, OCC, Reg CC, European Central Bank, etc.); Risk and Control Self-Assessments; Regulatory/Policy Change Management; Adverse Events; Issue Management; Data Quality; Digital Assets; Data Protection and Privacy including GDPR, Data Loss Prevention and Privacy Incident Reporting; Third Party Risk; Operational Loss/Fraud; Training; Product and Service Delivery Risk; Enterprise Resiliency/Crisis Management; Records Information Management; Customer Reimbursements/Complaints and Key Risk Indicators.Committee Memberships included: Information Security, Compliance Risk, Information Security Policy, Model Risk, Enterprise Data Protection and Privacy, Enterprise Information Technology Governance, Executive Response Crisis Team, Corporate Operational Risk, European Operational Risk, Enterprise Resiliency, Fair and Responsible Banking, Corporate Policy, Digital Accessibility, and Training.

Program Manager for joint venture between U.S. Bank and Visa that provided a business-to-business (B2B) global financial supply chain network for corporations and governments (payments, trade finance, invoice processing). Led identification and implementation of overall program scope, milestones, branding, signing, close and integration deliverables.

Project Management Office activities included managing $50M Budget, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management Framework Build-out, Technology Integration, Project Planning and Execution, and Capability Testing for initiative that entailed: Creation of new European bank chartered in Ireland, Establishment of infrastructure in six European countries and subsequent passporting to twenty-three additional EU/EEA countries, Consolidation/Reorganization of existing Merchant Payment business line, Establishment of new Payment business units and Replacement of sponsor bank.

Directed team responsible for implementation of Pillar Three of Basel. Initiated, planned and started execution/control of project. Scope included capital adequacy, credit risk, market risk and operational risk.

Tasked with taking on at-risk project implementing Enterprise Governance Risk and Compliance system encompassing all U.S. Bank business lines. Collaborated with senior business line leaders to align on goals and scope, developed comprehensive implementation plan along with leading technical and business teams. Project completed within original time and budget constraints.

Led team responsible for implementing U.S. Bank wide operational loss system collection and reporting.

Internal control review for various U.S. Bank business lines including Wholesale, Consumer and Payments; SSAE16 program oversight; Regulatory Reporting and MD&A position statement development; Information Technology General Control Framework Review; and Scoping (significant process and account listing).

Directed team responsible for scoping, business process and system documentation, risk and control identification and walkthroughs for Consumer, Wholesale and Technology business lines.

SOX Internal Audit Lead for newly acquired $2B metals distribution division (Integris Metals), reporting to Director of Internal Audit. Duties included methodology development, project planning, requirements definition and leading internal audit testing teams.

Managed Six Sigma program, which had Board of Director visibility, helping resolve SEC cease and desist order. Re-engineered data management practices for Finance, Operations, Sales, IT and Engineering; including Oracle ERP applications. Subsequently created an ongoing Data Infrastructure Program.

Evaluated infrastructure costs of providing 24/7 support for non-Carlson affiliated travel agencies. Encompassed point-of-presence provider, call switching at three U.S. locations and a new call center in India.

Reporting to CFO, consolidated financial functions and systems from five U.S. sites to one and re-engineered processes and systems, including controls using Agile methodology. After reorganization passed subsequent Microsoft audit.

Led implementation startup of 11 infrastructure projects required for migration of Oracle ERP from 10.7 to 11.5.7 (projects included enterprise systems management and VPN). Developed and implemented formalized project methodology. Reported to Technical Services Manager and Director of IT Operations.

Directed roll out of Retek applications, including point of sale functionality, for all Best Buy stores. Included coordinating the build of 12 environments. Led technical team, including Oracle DBAs, responsible for environment builds, source code management (Philippines, Spain and U.S.) and production releases.

Directed $5M e-commerce/e-publishing data management project for seven Fingerhut e-commerce sites and catalog. Included data management software selection, development and implementation. Oversight responsibilities included data architecture, networking, Oracle DBAs, mainframe and e-commerce development.

Enterprise and business unit lead in $50M Oracle 10.7 ERP project for Jostens. Co-authored program charter and developed project methodology. Developed $6M consulting budget along with contributing $2M in sales.