• Friday, October 28, 2016, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm :  (Light Refreshments and "Meet/Greet" 3:00 pm)
  • Speaker: Yong Ma, Managing Director Risk Management, COO for Risk Analytics, Morgan Stanley
  • Bio: Yong Ma is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer ("COO") for Risk Analytics. His key management responsibilities include risk model development to meet regulatory and internal requirements, stress testing (such as CCAR), governance and project process, global organizational structure and resource efficiency. Prior to his current role, he was Global Head of Risk Infrastructure covering the Basel capital processes, project and data management, risk reporting, credit policy and regulatory relations. He also served as COO for Credit Risk Management, Market Risk Management, and CAO (Chief Administrative Officer) for Firm Risk Management. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Ma served in a variety of Risk and Technology roles within Barclays Capital/Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and IBM. Among his civic activities, Mr. Ma serves as a NY Chapter Board Member of International Leadership Foundation, a Board member of New York Young Entrepreneurs Roundtable, and on the Advisory Board of the Asian Financial Society. He is an active member of Huaxia Chinese Schools; formerly served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Livingston Branch and a Board member of the Headquarter. Mr. Ma holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a M.S. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis. Prior to that, he attended the Computer Science Graduate Program at Tsinghua University and earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Dalian University of Technology.