- Ensuring the widespread education on and implementation of ESG risk management practices across the entire institution
- Effectively communicating ESG risk management factors to the wider business
- Tackling ESG risks in the context of institutional risk management
Manuel Vicente
Manuel Vicente is a senior international executive with over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry with business, treasury, risk, and finance expertise. Manuel is currently advising financial services, climate tech and academia in assessing materiality and leading solutions in sustainability, climate, and risk management. This includes ESG Board training, strategic plans, risk appetite, client/product due diligence, stress testing, and disclosures.
Prior to this, Manuel was CRO Europe Wholesale and Markets at HSBC, where he focused, amongst others, on shaping and delivering the Sustainability and ESG strategy across the UK and EU regulatory landscape. Prior senior positions included Group Risk, Regulatory and Data lead for IBOR Transition and Group Risk lead for Brexit.
Manuel holds a MSc in Business Engineering from the Louvain School of Management (LSM of UCL), and the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
Rachel Neill
Rachel oversees Heptagon’s ESG strategy and firm-wide sustainability initiatives. She was previously the Chief Sustainability Officer at Connected Asset Management, a dedicated impact investment manager. Prior to that she developed the sustainable investment strategy at Smart Pension, the fintech master trust. Her financial services career spans the UK, Channel Islands and Australia and includes various banking and sustainability roles. Rachel has a BComm Honors in Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management from the University of Cape Town and earned her CFA Charter in 2019.
Parmod Garg
Dr. Evgueni Ivantsov
Dr Evgueni Ivantsov has a risk management career stretching over 25 years. He is currently the Chairman of the European Risk Management Council. He is an author of many publications on risk management including a book “Heads or Tails: Financial Disaster, Risk Management and Survival Strategy in the World of Extreme Risk”. His articles are regularly published in leading media including the Financial Times and the Banker magazine.
Prior to joining the European Risk Management Council in 2017, Dr Ivantsov held various executive positions at several global banks. His most recent role was Head of Portfolio Management & Strategy at Lloyds Banking Group based in London. Prior to this role, he worked at HSBC as Head of Global Analytics and Head of Portfolio Risk for Europe. Evgueni also worked in senior risk management roles at ING Group and Banque Bruxelles Lambert.
Dr Ivantsov was also a visiting Professor of Cass Business School (City University, London), a visiting Professor of International Economics at the Boston University and a visiting Professor of Money, Banking and Credit at the United Business Institutes in Brussels.
Nosa Omoigui
Nosa Omoigui is the CEO and founder of Weave.AI. Prior to Weave.AI, he led machine learning and personalization teams at Amazon. Nosa also held a senior role at Microsoft Research (MSR). Nosa has a total of 23 granted patents and over 50 pending patents on various areas of technology, including AI.