ERM Alumni Panel for Prospective Students

Join us to hear a select panel of ERM Program graduates offer career advice and share their experiences at Columbia.

Opening Remarks

Sim Segal
Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Discipline, M.S. in Enterprise Risk Management Program; President, SimErgy Consulting

Panel

John Angkaw
John Angkaw is a results-driven leader with 13 years of experience in risk management, compliance, and operations in large, multi-divisional organizations within the public sector. Recently, he was appointed as Vice-President within the Public Entity Group at Marsh Canada where he is the risk management lead for government clients. Prior to that role, John has held numerous leadership roles in risk management in the municipal and healthcare sectors, where he was responsible for the implementation of enterprise risk management programs. John holds an M.S. in Enterprise Risk Management from Columbia University and an MBA from the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He also holds the Certified Risk Management Professional designation from the Risk Management Society.

Henali Shah
Henali's 8+ years in accounting and financial leadership roles include risk management, financial and operational internal control testing, audit support, and process improvement. Henali has significant experience with both public and private companies across a variety of industries including banking, manufacturing, government institutions, consumer goods, and financial services. After working at Wells Fargo for about 6 years, Henali completed her M.S. in ERM and moved into financial services consulting. She is now a manager at Riveron, a private consulting firm based out of Dallas. Her current passion career wise is developing ESG solutions for financial services firms.

Jason Li
Jason is currently an associate treasury at JP Morgan and a teaching associate for the Operational Risk Management class. Previously, he was an investment analyst at Homaer Financial, specifically in charge of fund administration where he deals with a variety of risks. He competed in the PRIMA risk challenge competition, and led a team that won the New York Chapter championship. He was also a member of the Columbia Risk Management Club leadership team.

Moderator

Mike Falconieri, Assistant Director, Recruitment