Cecile Real

CEO & Co-Founder

Endodiag

Sebastian Ptasznik

Head of IFRS9 and Non-credit Risk Validation

Close Brothers

Sebastian in the Head of IFRS9 and Non-Credit Risk Validation at Close Brothers at Close brothers Group. He is an experienced leader with over 14 years of experience in quantitative analytics working with tier 1 banks (Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Lloyds, Westpac,), leading advisory and technology companies (Palantir Technologies, Accenture). He has a proven track record of delivering complex analytical projects while working across multiple locations (London, NYC, Sydney, Singapore, San Francisco, Toulouse, Warsaw) with geographically dispersed teams. He has an academic background in econometrics/statistics and specialises in credit risk modelling, model risk management, machine learning/artificial intelligence, management consulting, and business development. He has a strong grasp of emerging technologies and state-of-the-art modelling methodologies.

 

Konstantina Armata

Senior Modelling Expert, Former Group Head of Model Risk Management at Barclays

Konstantina is a highly experienced Financial Risk professional with over 20 years career in Banking in various Quantitative Modelling roles, most recently as the Group Head of Model Risk Management at Barclays. Prior to that, she worked at Deutsche Bank where she built and led the Bank’s Model Risk Management function and before that at UBS in various quantitative roles in both the Front Office and Risk. Konstantina has extensive experience in developing Model Risk Management frameworks including methodologies to assess and quantify Model Uncertainties and their impact on the output of the framework they are used for (e.g. Capital in stress, IFRS9 etc). Konstantina’s most recent work involves Climate Transition modelling. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College, London and an MSc and BSc in Mathematics from ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France and the University of Patras, Greece respectively.

 

 

Paul Marcelis

Attorney at Law

Brinkhof