OUR SPEAKERS
Katherine Avery
Founder at Chimayo Consulting, LLC
Katherine Avery is an enterprise risk executive and founder of Chimayo Consulting, a boutique advisory firm helping financial services organizations build the governance infrastructure required to operate responsibly at the intersection of traditional finance, digital assets, and AI-enabled processes. With more than 20 years of experience spanning capital markets, commodities trading, banking, and regulatory compliance, Katherine brings a practitioner's authority to the governance and risk questions that matter most to financial institutions navigating digital transformation.
Katherine's speaking draws on direct, institutional-scale experience with digital asset risk. As Global Head of Operational Risk at StoneX Group, a Fortune 50 financial services firm with diversified exposure across physical commodities, financial derivatives, and digital assets, she directed enterprise risk strategy across a $4B+ global organization, led risk integration for numerous acquisitions, and governed model, third party risk, and emerging risk domains including digital asset operations. Prior to StoneX, she held senior risk leadership roles at S&P Global Energy, Bank of Oklahoma Financial, and BBVA Compass, where she built enterprise risk frameworks across trading, wealth management, broker-dealer, and various banking business lines.
Katherine is a credible and engaging voice for audiences that include compliance professionals, risk practitioners, fintech founders, regulators, and institutional investors. She speaks from experience, not theory, and is known for translating complex regulatory and governance concepts into frameworks that practitioners can actually use.
Mark Majeske
Senior Vice President of Faster Payments at Alacriti
As Senior Vice President of Faster Payments at Alacriti, Mark leads the overall corporate faster payments strategy and product development of the Orbipay Payments Hub. Mark also currently serves in the Faster Payments Council Board Advisory Group and chairs their Cross-Border Payments Work Group. Previously, Mark led product development for the RTP® network, the FedNow® Service, and Zelle® at FIS. In addition, Mark was part of the team that designed, developed, and launched the RTP network at The Clearing House. He also worked in the financial industry in digital payments product development.
John San Filippo
Co-Founder and Publisher of Finopotamus - Fintech News for Hungry CUs
John San Filippo, co-founder and publisher of Finopotamus - Fintech News for Hungry CUs, has enjoyed a 40-year career in financial technology. John was the marketing director at Symitar/Jack Henry for 16 years and also guided Bluepoint Solutions (later sold to Alogent) to unprecedented growth. When he made the move to tech journalism, he became the very first technology reporter for The Credit Union Journal and has written for every major credit union publication. In 2005, he co-founded Credit Union Business magazine and served as its executive editor for two years. Outside the industry, John was the editor of ComputorEdge magazine and also authored a number of mass-market computer books. He's qualified as an expert witness on computers and the internet in California Superior Court.
Olga Baldwin
Lead of Third Party Risk Management at StoneX Group
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Olga Baldwin is the Lead of Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) at StoneX Group, a Fortune 100 company. With over 18 years of experience in TPRM, she oversees the development and execution of a comprehensive Global Third Party Risk Management program. Before joining StoneX, Olga implemented and managed TPRM programs at multiple banks and gained valuable experience in the insurance and airline industries. She has extensive expertise in establishing TPRM and Vendor Risk Management (VRM) programs, system implementations, change management, regulatory examinations, and audits. Olga earned her BA from CUNY's Hunter College and an MBA from CUNY's Zicklin School of Business.
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