Aadesh Gandhre is Managing Director and General Auditor at DTCC. Within this role, he is responsible for managing DTCC?s Internal Audit function, with enterprise-wide responsibility for evaluating and strengthening processes, governance, and risk management to support the firm?s compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Aadesh has nearly 20 years of leadership and expertise in internal audit and compliance. Prior to DTCC, he served for 6 years as Managing Director and Head of Audit for IT, Operations and Latin America business at Soci?t? G?n?rale Americas (SG). In this role, he oversaw a global team managing technology and operations audits across Corporate and Investment Banking activities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America as well as business audits in Latin America. He also held the position of Chief Innovation Officer within the Internal Audit department for the Americas and served on several key committees, including the Audit Executive Committee, Global IT Audit SteerCo and Diversity & Inclusion Council. Before SG, Aadesh held audit positions of increasing responsibility at Goldman Sachs & Co. Aadesh holds the certifications of ISACA CISA, ACAMS Sanctions Foundation, ITIL 4, ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity, Certified Cryptocurrency Auditor?, and BCG Artificial Intelligence. He graduated from the University of Mumbai with a bachelor?s degree in computer engineering and from the Stony Brook University with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science. In addition to his corporate leadership, Aadesh proudly serves on the Board of Directors for Hope?s Door NY, a nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic violence and empowering survivors. Leveraging his expertise in governance and risk strategy, he contributes to advancing the organization?s mission of fostering safer communities through advocacy, education, and trauma-informed support services.

Patrick Simonnet is a New York-based Managing Director and the Chief Audit Executive (CAE) of Bank of China for the USA. Patrick has enjoyed a long career within banking and financial services. Prior to Bank of China, Patrick was the Global Head of Audit for Market Behavior & Conduct at Credit Suisse between 2014 and mid-2019. In this role, Patrick assumed global responsibility for the audit coverage of market conduct risk, including the related legal, compliance and regulatory programs and activities, including AML. He previously worked at JP. Morgan Chase in 2011-14, where he was an Executive Director within their Internal Audit department for the Investment Bank and their regulatory change program consecutively within the COO department. Originally from Paris, Patrick held a number of control and business roles with the Banque de France and the French Futures and Options Exchange and Clearing House (aka MATIF). Patrick also spent 14 years with Goldman Sachs in Paris, London, New York and Chicago, in various Operations, Finance, Technology, Management Controls and Internal Audit roles, ultimately leading the Americas regional Internal Audit program. Patrick has been very familiar with 1st, 2nd and 3rd lines of defense matters since he has fulfilled responsibilities in a large number of different executive roles and covered related topics throughout his career at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, globally, and Bank of China in the US.