Speakers

Speakers

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Dessa Glasser

Principal

FRG

Dessa Glasser is FRG’s Principal for the data strategy advisory and analytics practice, providing innovative solutions to clients in data, risk, and analytics. She is an independent board member of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc; and chair of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF).

Before joining FRG, Dessa was the Managing director at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for the Capital Stress Testing Analytics and was the Chief data officer for Asset and Wealth Management. As Deputy director of the Office of Financial Research, she received the US Treasury Exceptional Service Award. Dessa was the Chief risk officer for Bunge and held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, IBM, and KPMG.

Dessa has a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Fordham University, where she is on the advisory board for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 

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Brett Caracciolo

SVP, Director of Data Governance

Sterling National Bank

Brett Caracciolo is a Subject Matter Expert in defining and implementing data management programs, consisting of end-to-end data strategies, governance policies and frameworks, data architecture, reporting and analytics. With deep technology roots, Brett successfully implemented several large data governance programs with common themes of introducing leading data management practices while satisfying regulatory and compliance criticism. Brett leads the Data Management Office as the SVP and Director of Data Governance for Sterling National Bank and is the Chief Data Officer. Sterling is recognized as a top regional bank committed to strong growth and talented, high-achieving individuals. Currently, Brett is implementing data management capabilities and standing-up a Data Governance Program, involving people, process, and technology. Brett has gained strong executive support and obtained measured success in the 5 strategic program components (Governance Policy, Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Metadata Repository, and Data Aggregation/Reporting & Analytics) supported through roles, responsibilities, and procedures.

Previously, Brett spearheaded a similar data governance program at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. In addition, he was instrumental in integrating the program with Union Bank after the merger in July of 2014. Brett led the rationalization of the data governance components, assimilating the "best of the best", to create an industry leading data program, conforming to BCBS 239 principles.
Brett started his career at Merrill Lynch where he graduated from their selected technology/management training program, and enjoyed deep technology roots for two decades across Financial and Banking applications.

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Sandra Recca

Senior Director

Fitch Ratings

Sandra Recca is a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings structured finance group in New York. Her role is to promote enhanced data governance and data best practices which enhance and streamline structured finance operations.
Sandra joined Fitch from Deloitte Consulting, LLP where she was part of the Data Management & Architecture practice and where she was a leader in data quality and data governance capability offerings. She held leadership positions in data governance at Moody's and Marsh and McLennan Companies.
Sandra holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Chicago.

Jerry Castricato

Director

Capgemini