Sara Ricci is a risk, cybersecurity, and resilience executive with extensive experience building enterprise risk and technology governance capabilities across highly regulated financial, energy, technology, and retail organizations. She is Founder and Head of the Risk and Resilience Practice at Transcend Advisory and Consulting, where she advises executive teams on cybersecurity, operational and enterprise risk, third-party risk, business resilience, governance, and technology enablement. She also serves as a Lecturer at Columbia University, teaching Third Party Risk Management within the Enterprise Risk Management curriculum for master's degree candidates.

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Previously, Sara held senior risk and resilience leadership roles at Hudson's Bay Company, HCL Technologies, the New York Power Authority, JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America, and UBS. Her experience includes establishing global operational risk frameworks, integrating business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency management, and cyber resilience programs, and developing risk governance, control, and third-party risk capabilities across global organizations. She has also contributed to industry guidance and framework development involving cybersecurity and resilience, including work related to NIST and U.S. Department of Energy frameworks. Sara is a frequent speaker and mentor on cybersecurity, operational resilience, third-party risk, business continuity, and incident response.