Deniz is the Head of Analytics and Chief Risk Officer, supporting Global Treasury, at State Street Corporation (SSC). In her role as Head of Analytics, Deniz is focused on providing quantitative solutions consisting of Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence (data analytics, reporting) for business lines across the bank. In parallel, she is also responsible for risk oversight of Treasury’s activities, which includes managing the investment portfolio, asset-liability risk, liquidity risk, funding and liability pricing, and capital structure, in her role as CRO for Treasury.
Prior to her current role, Deniz was the Head of Model Risk Management at State Street for three years and headed up Model Risk Management within GE Capital for 3+ years before joining State Street in 2015. Deniz’s 15 year tenure at GE also included leading the marketing analytics teams as well as the research teams within GE Global Research Center. During her time at GE, she published 15+ patents and 20+ research papers on advanced statistical techniques used in risk and finance.
Deniz’s areas of functional expertise include compliance and control functions, credit, treasury, market and model risk management in addition to risk analytics, marketing analytics and business strategy management. She also served as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business, Fordham University for three years.
Deniz holds a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Physics from Bogazici University (Turkey).