Suresh is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Model Risk practice. He has twenty years of experience in leading model development and model validation; economic capital modeling, stress testing, loss forecasting, managing credit risk of consumer loan portfolios, and improving portfolio performance through use of predictive / advanced analytics. Prior to joining Protiviti, Suresh was a Director at PwC in their model validation and model risk management practice. He was also the head of portfolio credit risk modeling and analysis team at Bank of America Home Loans ; head of risk department at 1st Financial Bank USA; and the head of modeling and quantitative analysis at HSBC subprime credit cards (formerly Household International).
Independent Model Validation
Suresh has led independent model validation of a variety of models at a number of medium and large banks.
Internal Audit Model Validation
Suresh has led internal audit model validation for a number of banks.
Model Development
Suresh has led development of a variety models for a number of banks.
Consumer Credit Risk Analytics
Suresh has led many credit risk analytics projects for several retails banks.
Model Validation
Model Development
Model Audit
CCAR Stress Testing
Economic Capital
Credit Risk
Machine Learning
Data Analytics
Financial Services
Consumer Credit
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Engineering
University of Pennsylvania, Master’s in Finance
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, B.Tech. Engineering