Marc Maietta

About Marc Maietta

I don’t just manage risk — I design environments where good decisions become inevitable.I am a risk management and business operations leader operating at the intersection of product, technology, regulatory execution, and enterprise risk. My work focuses on evolving traditional risk functions into scalable, data-informed systems that protect the organization while enabling growth, speed, and sound decision-making. I view risk management not as a constraint on the business, but as a mechanism for improving decision quality, reducing late surprises, and enabling teams to move faster with confidence.I specialize in bridging established operational risk frameworks with modern technologies, including analytics-driven monitoring and AI-enabled controls. Across complex, highly regulated environments, I have led initiatives that improve control quality, increase risk predictability, and shift organizations from subjective assessments to clearer, signal-based operating models.While my operating roles have been rooted in the First Line, my work is deliberately designed with a full understanding of the three lines of defense. I regularly partner with independent risk and audit teams, translating Second and Third Line expectations into durable First Line execution and designing controls that withstand effective challenge, regulatory scrutiny, and audit review.Whether modernizing MCA/RCSA programs, embedding governance into product delivery, or addressing complex regulatory matters, my approach emphasizes root-cause elimination, transparency, and sustainable control design — not added bureaucracy.Core Areas of Impact • Technology- and data-enabled transformation of risk and control environments • Product-integrated governance and operational risk framework design (including MCA and RCSA) • Analytics-driven control monitoring and early risk detection • Safe and scalable adoption of AI through governance, oversight, and decision support • Regulatory remediation, issue management, and operational resilience at scaleI am driven by solving complex risk challenges through thoughtful system design and disciplined execution — ensuring that as financial services evolve, governance and control environments become more resilient, transparent, and effective.

Experience

1. Director-client Organization-global Control Design Lead

   Citi

   Mar 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• University of Nevada-Las Vegas

  Business

  1995 — 2000