Sara Ricci is an accomplished executive with a proven track record in global leadership roles, building new capabilities and enhancing organizational resilience. She is experienced in Risk Management and Technology Enablement in highly regulated financial and energy sectors. Sara excels at building trust and credibility with executives, clearly communicating risk concepts and strategies in non-technical terms to help drive business results. As a Risk and Resilience leader, Sara leverages prior experience as Head of Information Risk Governance and Resilience at HBC and senior leadership roles at HCL Technologies, New York Power Authority, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America and UBS. She has led global implementations of governance, risk management and compliance programs, aligning risk and reward with business strategy, specializing in Operational Risk, IT Risk, Information Security, Business Continuity, Enterprise Risk, Third Party Risk, Operational Resilience, Enterprise Resource Planning, Software development and Business Process improvements. Sara actively collaborates across organizations and helped develop industry guidance for the financial and energy sectors, including maturity models in Resilience and Cybersecurity, whitepapers and benchmarking studies in Risk Appetite and Resiliency. MBA (Finance and Management), CRISC, CDPSE, CBCP, HSEEP, SCR.