Peter Gesell

About Peter Gesell

I am a Chief Risk Officer (CRO) specializing in strategic coaching and transparent communication to support goals, enhance performance, and engage talent. My expertise lies in aligning governance, risk management, and compliance efforts to enable informed decision-making while maintaining reputation, assets, and regulatory compliance. You’ll find that I excel in communicating complex risk concepts to diverse stakeholders and driving consensus. Known for my meticulous risk assessment, mitigation strategies, and for fostering a culture of risk awareness, I am committed to driving sustainable growth and value creation through strategic risk management practices. For example, in my most recent role, I engaged with multiple lines of business, business groups and risk teams on the development of a digital cash strategic initiative, ensuring that risks were adequately assessed and working the businesses risk appetite. In addition to a new product review and approval, this included a review of new market segments and new client types and securing approvals from the governance forums and regulators. As an assertive problem-solver and trusted advisor, I prioritize tasks to meet business objectives with a keen attention to detail. These are my core competencies: • Strategy Development & Implementation • Risk Assessment, Management, & Mitigation • Financial Analysis • Financial Acumen • Policy & Framework Development • Executive Presentations • Team Leadership & Development • Project Management Let’s talk about how I can drive financial health for your organization through data driven decisions, managing, and mitigating risk. I can be reached at p••••••••@yahoo.com

Experience

1. Chief Risk Officer, Treasury Services

   BNY

   Jan 2016 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Led a global team of Business Risk Managers providing leadership, strategic thinking, and a comprehensive approach to managing risks in a second line risk management role supporting the Treasury Services line of business. Served as member of the Treasury Services extended leadership team.• Provided input and challenge to business plans, strategic initiatives, oversight, and challenge of business risk appetite, monitoring of risks against established tolerance levels, and ensuring ongoing consideration of appetite in strategic decision making.• Built a culture of risk management across the Treasury Services organization and engaged with all risk stripes across financial and non-financial risk types to identify, measure, mitigate, and monitor risks and develop a risk profile with ongoing reporting to executive management• Supported the Treasury Services business in the review and approval of many new and transformation products and initiatives, delivering innovative payment and trade solutions and creating value for clients while ensuring risks were well understood and adequately controlled. Initiatives included:=>Digital Cash, Real Time and Tokenized Payments, Immediate Cross-Border Payments, Account and Payment Validation Services, Banking as a Service solutions, Utility Settlement Coin / Fnality, Virtual Account Based Solutions, TradeIX / MarcoPolo Network.• Oversaw onboarding of new clients, expansion of existing client relationships and expansion into new market segments (Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), Digital Asset Businesses (DABs) and fintech’s), and new frontier markets.• Co-Chaired and ran the monthly Treasury Services Business Risk Committee and served as a voting member of Business Acceptance Committee, Product Approval and Review Committee, Anti-Money Laundering Oversight Committee, and Operational Risk Committee.

Education

• College of the Holy Cross

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

Skills

• Fixed Income
• Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Capital Markets
• Banking
• Asset Management
• Equities
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Securities
• Management
• Credit
• Financial Services
• Investments