Philadelphia, PA (May
Brian A. Weiss will officially join RMA on May 6
at its Philadelphia headquarters, where he will help guide product development and the Association’s
overall vision as it proactively addresses the challenges and opportunities
presented by a shifting financial services and risk management landscape.
“We are fortunate to have a Chief Strategy
Officer with a proven and distinguished track record like Brian’s on board,”
RMA President and CEO Nancy Foster said. “He clearly possesses the
talent and experience to help The Risk Management
Association grow as a professional association and indispensable asset to
the financial services industry.”
Weiss was most recently Vice President,
Practitioner Career Development at The Project Management Institute (PMI), the
world’s leading not-for-profit professional membership association for the
project, program, and portfolio management profession. There, he was a key
member of an Executive Team that grew PMI’s revenue from $85 million to $210
million, its membership from 250,000 to over 500,000, and its chapter footprint
from 240 to 305. He has also served as Director of Marketing at Aramark and
Director of Global Products and Services at The Hay Group (now Korn Ferry). Weiss
holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from St. Joseph’s
University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from Tulane University.
About RMA
Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit,
member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use
of sound risk management principles in the financial services industry. RMA
promotes an enterprise approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk,
market risk and operational risk. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
RMA has 2,500 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as
nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by
18,000 individuals located throughout North America, Europe, Australia and
Asia/Pacific.
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Contacts
Stephen Krasowski, skrasowski@rmahq.org,
215-446-4095
Frank Devlin, fdevlin@rmahq.org,
215-446-4137