Paul Bianco RIMS CRMP, CCRA
Chief Risk Officer at Aspen Insurance U.S. @ Aspen Insurance Group
About
RISK LEADER WITH WILLINGNESS AND EXPERIENCE TO CHALLENGE, DRIVE CHANGE AND ENHANCE THE RISK CULTURE Expertise - Enterprise Risk Management, Market Research & Business Strategy, AI & Emerging Risks, Stress Testing, Capital Model Validation, Operational Risk, Risk Culture - Leadership & Team Management, Executive Engagement & Presentation, Company Charitable Donation & Volunteering Management 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lines of defense experience, working directly with C-Level, Boards, Risk Committees, Regulators, Rating Agencies and Departments of Insurance across fast paced and high growth Financial Services Industry (Property Casualty Re\Insurance and Banking) Strategic thinker with proven management, decision making, influencing and relationship skills across cross-functional teams, enabling sound decisions and bottom-line results that solve business issues across strategic initiatives centered on innovation and risk materiality Experience leveraging quantitative approaches that enable (re)insurance underwriting AI use case adoption, delivering business process and operational efficiency improvements Strong communication and presentation skills, experience serving as representative with external business partners, participating in panel discussions and leading speaking engagements
United States
Briarcliff Manor
Insurance
Risk Management, SDLC, Insurance, Property & Casualty Insurance, Reinsurance, Change Management, Catastrophe Modeling, Project Management, Management, Team Management, Portfolio Management, Analysis, Analytics, General Insurance, Strategy, CRM, Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Financial Risk, Underwriting
Experience

Chief Risk Officer at Aspen Insurance U.S.
Stamford, CT
• Responsible for US Risk Management: Lead work efforts and reporting to Board, Committees and Regulators across deliverables and risk categories (insurance, artificial intelligence, legal\compliance, reserving, capital, market\credit, liquidity, operational, strategic, emerging risks) • Own US wide implementation of the Risk Framework: Risk appetite, Policies, Governance, Solvency Plans, ORSA, RCSA, Climate, Business Plan Risk Assessments including Performance Reviews & Underwriting Enablement, Issue\Event Management, Capital Planning • Develop AI Risk Framework and conduct ongoing risk assessments: Use Case Delivery, Governance strategy, KRI Scorecard & Controls • Lead Risk Assessment and Mitigation strategies around market dynamics and events • Lead risk function action planning in response to Employee Survey Results to support long-term employee satisfaction and retention • Assume Group Head of Operational Risk role on interim basis during individual's leave • Ensure alignment of first line practices with corporate culture, values & business objectives via annual Risk Culture Assessment • Manage Corporate & Social Responsibility Connecticut budget and employee volunteering efforts Results: • Top-tier implementation of Enterprise Risk Management to support achievement of corporate strategic imperatives & financial goals

Firefighter
Briarcliff Manor Fire Department: Tower Ladder 40 Company
Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States
Volunteer firefighter serving the local community Desk Officer - Correspondence Secretary (2019 - 2025)

Enterprise Risk & Client Engagement Leader
New York, New York, United States
• Implemented and optimizing risk frameworks and best practices for clients • Lead teams across risk-related initiatives and project work streams including strategic planning, execution, and funding to assess current state and drive future state of operations, governance, risk and compliance functions • Directed engagements on adoption of integrated governance, risk & compliance platforms, and processes to streamline operations Results: • Increased company credibility with clients and requests for proposal leading to new and expanding client relationships and new bookings of $800k in 2022 • Implementation of enhanced operational risk and control environment for major US insurance and banking client

Principal
Bianco Risk Consulting
New York, New York, United States
• Provided enterprise risk management advisory services to clients resulting in enhanced risk management capabilities Results: • Increased awareness, adoption and marketing of credible risk management practices by InsurTech clients to support business cases for additional venture capital investment

Vice President & Risk Manager
Hartford, Connecticut Area
• Directed teams and performed as an individual contributor across all components of enterprise risk management • Designed and implemented governance charters and committees • Optimized and performed quarterly and annual disclosure & reporting function • Conducted and streamlined operational risk and control annual assessments • Managed implementation and execution of third-party vendor risk management framework and annual assessments • Implemented and performed a US-wide business continuity management resiliency program • Supported operations, cyber defense and information security functions with protocols and risk assessments • Performed emerging risk management assessments and supported associated business planning • Supported internal audit with scoping, coordination, planning and measures management Results: • Best in class enterprise risk management shared services model supporting consistent achievement of financial solvency, credit rating and risk aggregation goals • Effective and efficient approaches to assess and adapt to risks stemming from the external business environment, accounting for business plan performance vs. established financial and operational goals • Efficient approach to assess and react to business headwinds, tailwinds, and performance vs. risk thresholds • Comprehensive operational risk function able to arrive at reasonable residual risk levels and the ability to effectively react to operational risk events and control failures • Streamlined approach and ongoing compliance with federal and state regulations, and internal policies • No significant business downtime nor loss of productivity during COVID-19 pandemic and other operational events • Regulatory compliance and mitigation of operational and reputational risk related to cyber-attacks and data breaches • Ability to capitalize and mitigate risk associated to emerging risks • Strengthened operational and business processes related to top and material risks

Second Vice President, Risk Management & Catastrophe Risk
Hartford, CT & NYC
Served as unit leader with accountability across various Enterprise Catastrophe Risk Strategy and Analysis teams • Business Consulting Unit: Client Facing Underwriting Review and Enablement o Enabled and provided risk review analytical services in partnership with underwriting and actuarial teams to monitor, analyze trends and capitalize on profitable underwriting business opportunities • Natural Catastrophe & Public Policy Unit: Risk Mitigation and Finance o Managed team responsible for monitoring, generating awareness and influencing business decisions to account for the potential impacts of ongoing developments across coastal legislation, wind pools, public policy, and regulatory changes o Managed building science research partnerships and initiatives including relationships with external business partners o Served on Board of Directors for risk mitigation partnerships and residual markets spanning Alabama, Insurance Institute for Building & Home Safety, Build Strong Coalition, and the internal-facing Climate Energy & Environment Committee o Chaired Natural Catastrophe Public Policy Committee • Catastrophe Metrics Information Management Unit: Operational Risk o Managed in an operationally efficient and risk-controlled processing environment the team of onshore and offshore resources responsible for generating the Enterprise & Business Unit strategic risk reports leveraged to monitor and adapt risk appetite based on risk aggregation levels o Operationalized and optimized risk metric calculation processes and reports around perils, regions & platforms o Published and presented risk content with external audiences including Rating Agencies, Office of Insurance Regulation \ Department of Insurance, Government Affairs Office & National Association of Insurance Commissioners submissions • Project Management Office Unit: Project Risk o Managed teams & portfolio of key strategic projects to inform C-level & Risk Committees on business unit risk

Principal Account Manager
Hoboken, NJ & Stamford, CT
• Established and managed a portfolio of top 25 clients as a trusted advisor resulting in increased licensing and services revenue • Collaborated with sales team by supporting request for proposal responses and leading client presentations resulting in additional license and service revenue • Led initiatives across multiple business units to address client concerns and implement process improvement with RMS models resulting in increased client satisfaction as a foundation for growing licensing and services revenue • Utilized RMS modeled output to guide and assist clients with underwriting business decisions • Participated on future release strategic design panels including managing new model and software change management processes • Established client value propositions related to sharing claims data with the company and advised clients on catastrophe response processes
Paul Bianco RIMS CRMP, CCRA's Contact Information
Phone
Find the Right Leads
Find Verified Contact Data
What LeadContact does well
Find verified emails, phone numbers, and decision-makers with 98% accuracy.
Find Leads
Find the right people by company, role, industry, location, and more.
925M+ professional profiles

Find Emails
Access verified email addresses for your target contacts.
657M+ emails

Find Phone Numbers
Get cross-validated phone data from multiple top sources.
239M+ phone numbers

More Accurate. Lower Cost.
Find contact data in 1 tool with 98% accuracy
LeadContact integrates leading enrichment tools to deliver more accurate contact data—without paying for each one.
Great conversations start with the right contact.
It’s time to find yours.


