Vanessa Welch Gomes
Financial Services Executive, Corporate Finance, Strategy, Board Member, Speaker, AI Enterprise, Economist.
- Role
- Guest Speaker at Council on Foreign Relations
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vanessa Welch Gomes
Senior global executive with 19+ years of experience at the intersection of corporate finance, AI governance, and sustainable growth, three strategic inflection points defining business agendas today.I bring a combination of deep financial and strategic expertise (debt capital markets, M&A integration, FP & A, corporate strategy, and capital allocation across global institutions including Standard Chartered, HSBC, S&P Ratings, AB InBev, and BASF), hands-on AI governance leadership (currently serving as Americas AI Enterprise Partner at a regulated global bank, Chair of the AI2030 Financial Services Working Group, with a University of Pennsylvania AI Strategy & Governance certification), and founder experience building a technology startup.I am NACD Directorship Certified, hold a Master of Finance from the University of Cambridge, and a Bsc Degree in Economics from University of São Paulo. I serve on the advisory boards of GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) and BrazilFoundation, and I am Chair of the Responsible AI2030 Financial Services Working Group.Open to senior executive roles and for-profit board positions where I can contribute to Audit, Finance, Risk, Technology, or Sustainability Committees.Trilingual (English, Portuguese, Spanish). Lived and operated across Brazil, UK, Canada, and the US. Citizen of U.S. and Brazil.
Experience
Guest Speaker
Jan 2021 — Present · NY, US
Education
University of Cambridge
Master, Finance
USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Bachelor's degree, Economics
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