Whether you’ve just started in Risk Management or you’re already a professional in this arena, this article will interest you. We are highlighting some of the reference professionals we follow who are seasoned Risk Managers, each in its own area of expertise. Most of these professionals have lengthy experience in Risk Management and are at the centre of current topics and discussions.
Be sure to follow them on Linked In and Twitter as you will gain a lot as a professional by learning about what they have to say, and be able to participate in their ongoing debates.
Note that this list isn’t ordered in any particular criteria.
| # | Name | Summary & Area of expertise | How to Connect |
| 1 | Hans Læssøe |
Hans has more than 35 years of experience in supply chain capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis and strategic Risk Management. Hans is a reference risk professional in Europe and a key note speaker in several forums, having written two books as well as multiple articles and sections of books on risk management, including the RIMS “Strategic Risk Management Implementation Guide”. | |
| 2 | Tim Leech |
Tim is the founder and Managing Director of Risk Oversight Solutions. Tim’s focus for the past 30 years has been promoting and helping organizations to implement strong management driven objective centric risk and certainty management. Tim is also an experienced instructor with hands on experience on risk management topics across several countries, having assessed hundreds of companies. | |
| 3 | Steve Burns |
Steve is an equities and derivatives trader for many years and has been blogging and teaching about Risk Management strategies for over 10 years. If you want to learn complex concepts in a simple way, be sure to follow Steve. | |
| 4 | Horst Simon |
Horst has decades of experience in Risk Management and views himself as a transformational nonconformist, constantly challenging other professionals to think differently about Risk Management. Horst is a seasoned professional in Banking, with a particular focus on Risk Culture building programs that disrupt and transform organisations to build sustainable competitive advantage. | |
| 5 | C.R. Mangum |
C.R. has over a decade of experience in the Risk Management & insurance industry, having helped several firms to develop strategies to improve decision outcomes involving uncertainty. C.R. is also a regular contributor of Risk Management Guru and a natural writer, which makes reading his articles easier and motivating. | |
| 6 | Martin Davies |
Martin is a Risk Management framework architect with a strong domain knowledge across a diverse set of risk disciplines, including operational risk, credit risk and counterparty risk. Martin is a Managing Director at Causal Capital, subject matter expert for Risk Management, specialising in risk framework design for credit risk, counterparty risk, operational risk, treasury systems and project finance. | |
| 7 | Ioannis Rigopoulos |
Ioannis has over 15 years of experience as a derivatives trader for tier 1 banks, having reached the position of global head of a front office quantitative development for the Fixed Income & Credit Derivatives desk at a large bank in London. Ioannis is also the founder, developer and writer at deriscope.com, a venture aiming to make financial derivatives pricing accessible to a wider audience. Ioannis has written several pages and articles for Risk Management Guru, including one of the most viewed “Real Time Stock Prices in Excel”. | |
| 8 | Carol Williams |
Carol is an Enterprise Risk Management Consultant, helping insurance companies take smart and informed risks to improve performance. Carol focuses mainly in ERM, Strategic Risk Management, Governance and Risk Management at Board level. | |
| 9 | Norman Marks |
Norman is an experienced practitioner and thought leader in Internal Audit, Risk Management and Governance. Norman has led large and small Internal Audit departments, having had several roles as Chief Risk Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, and managed IT security and Governance functions. | |
| 10 | Alex Sidorenko |
Alex is a Risk expert with over 14 years of Risk Management experience in private equity, sovereign funds, investment authorities and venture capital firms across Australia, Russia, Oman, Poland and Kazakhstan. In 2014 Alex was named the Risk Manager of the Year by the Russian Risk Management Association. Alex is also an active voice and an opinion leader in social media, many times challenging existing concepts with his strong background, benefiting the whole community by initiating interesting debates. |
Please leave your comments below or suggest your reference names for Risk Professionals – we will consider them for part 2 of this article.