Rehana Anait has over 18 years of experience working with regulators and international financial services institutions. She began her career at the UK Regulator - The Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2000 where she successfully assisted with development of the supervisory risk assessment framework. She then spent 3 years supervising a portfolio of 13 banking and capital markets institutions for compliance with regulatory requirements. In 2005 she joined the PwC London Banking and Capital Markets (B&CM) Regulatory Practice where she led the delivery of large regulatory compliance and conduct risk design and implementation projects, these included re-engineering organizational operating models, three lines of defense structures and providing clients with regulatory advice.

Rehana then moved into the FS IA team in London B&CM where she successfully managed and delivered multiple outsourcing and co-sourcing contracts to both mid-tier and large banks. She also became an expert in the delivery of IA Quality Assurance Reviews and Global Audit Methodology Transformation projects through assisting a number of large multinational Tier 1 Banks.

Since joining PwC New York Rehana has continued to lead IA contracts in NY and has performed a number of EQA reviews for global complex banks head quartered in the US as well as foreign European banks. She has also continued to lead numerous Internal Audit co-source assignments to include Capital Adequacy (i.e., CCAR), Model Risk and Corporate Treasury audits and supported IA functions to remediate regulatory (e.g., FED and OCC) issued actions. Rehana also leads our NY Conduct and Culture Practice. 

Stef Coleman is a financial services specialist with extensive, global, experience across a number of human resources areas. Her more than ten years of consulting experience covers US, Australian, Middle Eastern and European markets, within which Stef has consulted across all aspects of the HR value chain and advised the world’s leading financial services companies on various elements of HR transformation.

Stef joined the US firm in October 2014, after having been a Senior Manager within the Australian firm’s People & Change practice. Prior to this, Stef spent five years consulting for Watson Wyatt Worldwide/Towers Watson in London, Dubai and Sydney in their Talent & Rewards practice.

Stef has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Sydney and is also certified in Towers Watson’s Global Grading System (GGS) for job grading and evaluation. 

Bernadette D’Alessandro is a Director in the Risk Assurance area (Internal Audit Compliance & Risk Services). A passionate and pragmatic leader, Bernadette has over 13 years experience working for a major Australian bank leading the Internal Audit practice for the Australian Division. This encompassed monitoring and evaluating the control environment across all aspects of the retail bank, small business banking and corporate and commercial banks and digital banking solutions, including product, operations, servicing and distribution channels. Risk and compliance management, including regulatory and emerging risks were key areas of focus. Bernadette has strong experience in presenting both audit outcomes and industry papers to Audit & Executive Committees.

Bernadette began her career in Professional Services, where she focused on Financial Services, in particular Insurance. This included secondments in Europe and the USA where she led audit engagements for multi-national companies. Bernadette holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Monash University and is a Chartered Accountant in Australia. 

Sachin Mandal is a principal with more than 22 years of experience in providing business process and information technology advisory and assurance services to his clients. He has extensive experience in dealing with multinational clients with complex business processes, organizations, and enterprise application solutions. Sachin has worked on SAP business transformation projects where he designed internal controls strategies, SAP security, and SAP GRC10 tool (both access controls and process controls) requirements and GRC support models post go-live. His recent focus has been on working with robotic process automation software (automation anywhere) to automate manual controls. He leads the US SAP Controls Solutions practice and SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions in the New York Metro region. In this capacity, he supports our global teams in the development of tools, methodologies, and training for SAP/GRC solutions. 

Mark Martinelli is the Executive Vice President & Chief Audit Executive for Synchrony Financial. Prior to its 2014 initial public offering, Synchrony operated as GE Capital Retail Finance.

Prior to joining Synchrony in 2014, Mark was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Auditor for HSBC North America since 2009, Chief Auditor of HSBC USA Inc. since 2007 and Chief Auditor of HSBC Finance since 2013. Prior to that time, Mr. Martinelli was President and Chief Executive Officer of hsbc.com from 2006 to 2007, and Chief Financial Officer of hsbc.com from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Martinelli joined HSBC in the U.S. as part of Republic National Bank of New York and has held various senior executive positions in Finance, Strategy, Planning and Audit.

Prior to joining HSBC he was a Senior Manager with KPMG LLP. Mark has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College. From 2007 – 2014 he served on the Audit Committee of New York Clearing House and served as its Chairman from 2011 to 2013.

Mr. Martinelli has been a director on the Baruch College Fund (BCF) Board of Trustees since April 2010, a member of the BCF Audit Committee since 2010 and served as the Audit Committee Chairman during 2011 – 2014. Mr. Martinelli has served on the NYSSCPA Internal Audit Committee since 2013 and been the Chairman of that Committee since May 2018. Mr. Martinelli serves on St. John’s University Department of Accounting and Taxation Executive Advisory Board.

Mark is often a featured industry speaker on banking, accounting and auditing matters. 

Erica McManaman is the Chief Internal Auditor at Signature Bank, a full-service commercial bank based in New York. In her current role, Erica is responsible for leading a team of 30 audit professionals (business and technology) to fulfill the Internal Audit Department’s mission of providing risk-based and objective assurance and consulting services, ensuring alignment with the strategies, objectives and risks of the organization. Prior to joining Signature Bank in June 2016, Erica was a Director and Head of Audit at Credit Suisse, with responsibility for the Private Bank (Americas), Global Alternative Investments and People Risk. Erica started her career at Ernst & Young, LLP in the Banking and Capital Markets Group.

Erica is a member of various Chief Audit Executive roundtables and professional organizations, including the IIA , AICPA and Mid-Sized Bank Coalition (MBCA). Erica currently serves as the MBCA CAE Resource Group Chair, with responsibility for directing and coordinating the MBCA CAE Group’s activities to support its mandate of providing mid-sized bank CAEs a forum to share best practices, experiences and processes, conduct quality benchmarking and obtain regulatory intelligence. 

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Rich Reynolds is the national leader for PwC's Internal Audit and Compliance Testing Services practice for financial services industry. He has over 26 years of experience working with financial institutions and is a trusted advisor to senior executives on solving complex risk management, compliance, and control related issues. He specializes in providing Internal Audit services ranging from strategic performance reviews to directing a broad range of Internal Audit activities including outsourcing, co-sourcing, and policy development and implementation. Rich also has significant experience designing and executing programs for testing compliance controls across a variety of banking and securities laws and regulations. He has managed risk management consulting and auditing engagements for a broad range of financial institutions including commercial banks, investment banks, asset managers, insurance companies and treasury operations of large corporations.

Rich is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, has an MBA from Columbia University, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM).

Mukesh Sobhani is a Director in PwC’s Risk Assurance practice based in New York. He has more than 15 years of experience in delivering technology-related risk management, audit, regulatory compliance, and risk remediation services to a wide array of public and private sector client stakeholders from IT, accounting, compliance, finance, internal audit, and legal functions.

Mukesh has led and executed IT risk assessments, audits, and data analytics engagements for multiple global institutions in a variety of industries. He has been a key member of PwC’s IT Risk Assessment framework development team and writer for IT risk assessment surveys. Mukesh has hands-on auditing and programming experience with leading ERPs. 

Bob Stanier is a Director in PwC's Risk Assurance – ICRS practice, focusing on enterprise and operational risk solutions for financial services clients. Bob has more than 16 years of executive experience leading enterprise and operational risk organizations and engagements for some of the largest and most recognized global financial services companies.

Bob recently returned from a 2-year overseas deployment where he was the offshore banking sector leader for PwC Caribbean Region, based in the Cayman Islands. Additionally, he has led engagements supporting the development and implementation of comprehensive enterprise risk management and operational risk management strategies and programs. Bob led the development of core risk management framework components including Risk taxonomies, ERM and ORM policies, risk governance strategy, risk appetite frameworks, strategic risk assessment and mitigation strategy, RCSA processes, maturity assessments and validation frameworks, as well as GRC readiness and implementation efforts.

Prior to joining PwC, Bob led the Commercial Operational Risk Organization at a top-5 bank where he developed and implemented a formal integrated risk management framework and capability supporting all Commercial Operations. In addition to commercial banking risk management experience, Bob spent 10 years in 1st and 2nd line retail-banking risk management executive leadership roles at one of the largest nation-wide banks. Bob has extensive experience managing operational risk, acquisition integrations, business continuity, third-party risk, compliance, information security risk, payments risk, loss tracking, funds availability and overdraft strategy, armored transportation and retail store, call center, and automated / self-service channel risk strategy. 

Khalid Wasti is a Partner in PwC’s Risk Assurance practice based in New York focused on technology risk. Has more than 18 years of experience supporting institutions across multiple industries with evolving and emerging technology risks, including security, privacy, analytics, social, mobile, cloud, infrastructure, and large program implementation.

Khalid has performed IT risk assessments for multiple global institutions, including a leading retailer and a multinational financial institution. He led the Digital Enterprise initiative for a Big Four firm’s internal audit market offering. 

J. Douglas Watt is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Executive. Reporting to the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, as well as to the President and Chief Executive Officer, he is responsible for all internal audit activities throughout the company, including internal controls and operational processes.

Watt has more than 35 years of audit experience. Before joining Fannie Mae in July 2016, he was Managing Director and Audit Executive for the Americas at GE Capital. In that position, he oversaw the internal auditing of GE Capital’s North American commercial lending and leasing businesses and helped lead the audit function’s critical regulatory initiatives. Prior to that, Watt served as Vice President – Bank Audit Group at Capital One, where he led the retail bank and commercial bank audit teams. Before that, he was a partner in the Banking and Capital Markets practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Watt has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business.