Rich is a Director in the Technology Risk and Resilience practice based in Tampa and New York City and leads Protiviti’s AI Governance practice. He has over 30 years of business experience, including 25 years in financial services, 7 in global advisory services across multiple industries, and three years as an entrepreneur in data & analytics and eDiscovery. Rich’s focus areas include artificial intelligence governance, operational resilience, cyber resilience, business resilience, third-party risk, and technology risk management.
Before Protiviti and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rich co-founded and built eDiscovery and data & analytics start-ups. Prior to his start-up experience, as part of a cybersecurity strategy and governance advisory practice, Rich worked on devising, managing, and delivering large-scale, multi-disciplinary data and information risk engagements. While in-house at a multi-national FSI, he envisioned, created, managed, and evolved the global information governance function, beginning with oversight of policies, guidelines, and standards, evolving into the organization’s global data & information risk compliance controller. As controller, he worked to enhance and build out all three lines of defense to define and mature effective challenge processes, controls, analytics, and reporting across lines of business and supporting functions.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- AI Governance
- Data & Information Governance
- Infonomics & Data Asset Valuation
- Operational Resilience
- Operational Risk Management
- eDiscovery & Investigations
- Technology & Data Architecture
- Regulatory Compliance
- Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Third-Party Risk Management
