Rob Mara

Rob Mara is a New York-based Principal in Ernst & Young’s Consulting practice who leads the Risk & Regulatory Compliance Technology and Operations practice.  He has over 20 years of experience in the industry serving multiple capital markets, retail, asset management, and banking clients in the areas of Sanctions, AML, brokerage compliance, enterprise compliance, reporting, and fraud management as well as multiple engagements with self-regulatory organizations and regulators.Rob has led assessments and transformation projects across multiple aspects of regulatory compliance programs for multiple large, global, regional, and specialty banks and other non-bank financial institutions in response to regulatory mandates, annual assessments, and program improvement initiatives.  These have included institutions regulated by a variety of US and foreign regulators including the OCC, FRB, FDIC, FINRA, SEC, CFTC, HKMA, MAS, IIROC, FCA, AUSTRAC, OSFI and multiple other agencies.

Rob’s more recent experience includes evaluating and mitigating the impact of new technologies and products in the compliance & risk space.