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Published: 04 June 2024

Listen to Bhavini’s story of bringing together her Indian values and Western upbringing as she navigated through her accomplished career and lead in many different capacities.

Bhavini is a senior financial services executive with 25+ years of experience driving strategy, growth, and operations across fintech, banking, investment management, and lending organizations.  Throughout her career, Bhavini has held leadership roles in business operations, business development, sales, marketing, client experience, solution consulting, digital transformation, product development, data, analytics, and insights. She is a dynamic leader capable of navigating multifaceted roles and overcoming complex challenges.

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Published: 06 December 2023

Jessica Choi shares her thought-leadership experiences on learning from all sorts mentors in and out of the AAPI community, how leaders today can learn from Generation Z, and her Three Ls.

Jessica is a committed advocate for the advancement of diversity and a champion who helps to foster positive and inclusive work environments to transform corporate culture. Highly engaged, intuitive and collaborative leader and coach, she builds strong relationships at all levels, and helps executives (and high-potential employees) fully actualize their capabilities.

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Published: 11 October 2023

Urvi Bham Urvi Bham is the CEO and Founder of Vikara Risk and Compliance Solutions, a boutique advisory firm focused on transforming the risk and regulatory compliance landscape in the financial services industry.

Prior to starting her venture, Urvi worked at Bank of America as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) where she was highly successful in developing firm-wide risk and control strategies to address global complex issues, towards sustaining a strong risk culture within the Bank’s risk appetite. Urvi’s Executive Mentors | 2 background also includes leadership tenure with Freddie Mac, America Online and Ernst & Young LLP.

She is highly regarded for developing next generation leaders and leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams through direct and indirect influence.

Urvi is a strong advocate for her community and consistently reaches back to pay it forward. At Bank of America, Urvi sponsored the Asian Leadership Network. She is an Advisory Board Member for Ascend Greater Philadelphia Chapter, a member of the Ascend Greater Washington Corporate Executive Leadership team, a motivational speaker, and an executive coach.

Urvi holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh. Urvi resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children.

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Published: 21 September 2023

Sara Abiusi is Managing Director at Accenture. Sara leads Accenture Federal's Quality and Risk and is the Deputy Director of Delivery. She focuses on improving our risk posture, increasing our delivery capabilities, and supporting our account teams. Sara has served as the Technology Lead for our Civilian Portfolio of work over the past 5 years and has expertise in complex multi-tower software delivery, scaled agile and delivering the most complex programs for our clients.

Former clients include other federal and state and local agencies. Sara is chair of the AFS Inclusion and Diversity Council made of representatives across the business who develop strategies and initiatives for the AFS CEO.

Sara joined Accenture after graduating from Johns Hopkins with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1996. She leads Accenture's Johns Hopkins University entry-level recruiting effort. She also is the Executive sponsor of Accenture's Asian Pacific American Employee Resource Group. Sara leads Accenture's relationship with a number of strategic nonprofits including The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS), the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC), and Ascend. In addition to all of those she has a passion for supporting and promoting Women in Tech!

Outside of work, Sara is part of the Johns Hopkins University-wide Alumni Council - 60 alums who drive the strategic direction of the university as well as active in the Johns Hopkins University Women in Business Alumni Affinity group and the Society of Engineering Alumni. Additionally, Sara is on the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington chapter of Ascend, the largest, non-profit Pan-Asian organization for business professionals in North America.

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Published: 14 May 2023

Angeline Mai is a tax managing director with over 18 years of experience in the industry. She is a national subject matter expert in taxation of debt instruments and financial products, specializing in corporate bonds, syndicated debts, mortgage loan and consumer credit pools, structures financial products (e.g. MBS, ABS, etc) and various types of securitization vehicles (e.g. REMIC, Grantor Trust, partnership, WHFIT, CFC, PFICs, etc).

Angeline is also a national subject matter expert on fixed income products for cost basis reporting. She has served numerous significant credit investors in the financial industry, such as investment management funds, banks, mortgage REITs. Insurance companies, RICs, securitization issuers and trustees, etc..

Get to know more about Angeline’s career journey, advice for leadership development and more in this podcast.