Patrick Tobin

Patrick Tobin is a Part-Time Lecturer at Columbia University, where he teaches graduate courses in Operational Risk Management, Strategic Risk Management, and Company Failures.

He is the former Director: Strategic Intelligence & Analytics at FINRA, where he spent over a decade at the intersection of regulation, data analytics, and risk management. Before FINRA, he spent more than a decade as a risk and technology consultant at firms including BearingPoint, Ernst & Young, and SunGard. His experience includes operational risk frameworks, scenario analysis, RCSA, risk governance, risk analytics, and the use of data to support supervisory and executive decision-making.

In the classroom, Patrick bridges academic frameworks with real-world regulatory and industry experience. He also brings a startup builder’s perspective: one of the first employees at NYC-based Kinderhook Systems , and also launched the New York office of Acumen Solutions. Today he advises AI startups and financial firms, with a focus on AI risk, data governance, and how organizations turn risk insights into effective management action.