Philadelphia, PA (October 6, 2020) - The Risk Management
Association has named John Sullivan its Academic
Market & Assessment Director (AMAD). Sullivan will oversee RMA Executive Education offerings such as the prestigious
RMA/Wharton Advanced Risk Management Program, as well as the Association’s
Credit Risk Certification and other RMA Assessment and Credentialing. He
will also serve as the executive staff liaison to the RMA Foundation, which
awards scholarships to college students pursuing a career in financial services.
Sullivan is taking over as AMAD
just as RMA’s efforts to prepare the financial industry for the challenges of
tomorrow have earned it a spot among the American Society of Association
Executives’ “100 Associations That Will Save the World.”
Sullivan’s
experience includes positions at the Center for Creative Leadership, Darden School of Business,
and Duke Corporate Education, where he led project managers and designers in
creating, developing, and delivering customized solutions and strategies for
clients and program participants across the globe. He has published
numerous business and leadership articles and is a former broadcast journalist
for CNN.
“John has deep experience in learning and
development and bringing client-focused solutions to executives and their teams,”
said RMA Chief Strategy Officer Brian Weiss. “I am confident that he will build
on RMA’s leading executive education, assessment, and credentialing in a way
that will benefit practitioners, their institutions, and the industry.”
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 1,900 institutional
members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial
institutions. They are represented in the Association by 18,500 individuals
located throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia/Pacific.
Media Contacts
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