Meet our leadership, board and advisors
A team that knows credit risk from the inside — pairing deep market expertise with a collaborative culture.
Craig Broderick
Head of Advisory BoardCraig was formerly the CRO and a Senior Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co., from which he retired as an active employee in January 2018. He was a member of its Management Committee and chair or co-chair of key risk committees. In this capacity, he reported to the firm’s CEO and was responsible for managing the firm’s Risk Division. He spent 32 years with Goldman Sachs, primarily in the risk field. Mr. Broderick currently serves as a Director of the Bank of Montreal and of McDermott International.
Bruce Richards
Advisory Board MemberBruce is Chairman of the Board of Credit Suisse Holdings (USA). From 2011 until 2017, he was at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he was a Senior Vice President and Head of Supervision for Complex Financial Institutions. He served as a member of the Federal Reserve’s operating committee responsible for the supervision of systemically important firms in the US. Bruce was General Manager of the Americas for National Australia Bank from 2002-2010. He joined NAB in 2000 as Managing Director, Head of Client Relationships in the Americas. Bruce has served on the boards of the Institute of International Bankers, Great Western Bank, the American Australian Association, the US-New Zealand Business Council, and the Shelter for the Homeless.
Richard Berner
Advisory Board MemberRichard Berner is a Clinical Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Finance, and, with Professor Robert Engle, is Co-Director of the Stern Volatility and Risk Institute.
Richard served as the first director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) from 2013 until 2017. He was a counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury from April 2011 to 2013.
He was a managing director, chief US economist at Morgan Stanley from 1999 to 2011 and co-head of Global Economics from 2008 to 2011.
He was executive vice president and chief economist at Mellon Bank, and a member of Mellon’s Senior Management Committee (1992-99). Previously, he served as a principal and senior economist for Morgan Stanley, as a director and senior economist for Salomon Brothers (1985-91), as an economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (1982-85), and as director of the Washington, DC, office of Wharton Econometrics (1980-82).
Richard served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve in Washington (1972-80). He has been an adjunct professor of economics at Carnegie-Mellon University and at George Washington University.
He is an advisor to FinRegLab, an innovation center that tests new technologies and data to inform public policy and promote a responsible and inclusive financial marketplace. He is a member of the Milken Fintech initiative, led by former OCC head Tom Curry and former Treasury official Melissa Koide. He is a senior advisor to MacroPolicy Perspectives, an economic consulting firm. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of HData, which helps data companies involved in RegTech and Legal Tech solutions. He is a member of the IMF panel of experts for financial stability. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation.
Richard has been a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce, a member of the Board of Directors of the Penn Institute for Economic Research and a member of the Board of Advisors of Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC. He served as an associate for the Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group II. He is a Past President and Fellow of the National Association for Business Economics and is the past chair of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Bond Market Association. He is the winner of forecasting awards from Market News and the National Association for Business Economics, the 2007 recipient of the William Butler Award for Excellence in Business Economics, and has been a member of Time’s Board of Economists.
He received his bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard College in 1968, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. He researched his dissertation under the supervision of Professor Lawrence Klein and was funded by SSRC-Ford Foundation grants at both the University of Louvain, Belgium, and at the University of Bologna, Italy, from 1971-72.
John Willian
Advisory Board MemberJohn Willian is a former partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs. He oversaw several businesses across within the markets division most notably as the Global Head of Prime Services and subsequently the Global Head of FICC Sales. He retired in 2020 and currently serves as a board director and advisor to a variety of firms in the financial services industries that are themselves leaders in speciality finance, crypto collateral management and proprietary trading.
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