Overview

Gender

female

As President and CEO of RiskSpan, Bernadette leads the company’s strategy for solutions, sales, and operations. Bernadette co-founded a boutique advisory firm that subsequently merged with RiskSpan in 2008. Bernadette has over 25 years of experience in financial services, conducting and managing a combination of risk management, analytical and information technology initiatives.

Throughout her career, she has supported many of the nation’s largest private financial institutions, Government Sponsored Enterprises and the Federal Government. Her knowledge of the industry spans the entire lifecycle, from mortgage origination, through servicing, to capital markets transactions and investor asset management. She spent ten years with KPMG’s Mortgage and Structured Finance Practice providing strategic services, operational and financial advisory services to clients. While with KPMG, she was responsible for managing multiple complex projects and providing business and technical support to various clients.

Bernadette started her career in the Treasury Department of Prudential Insurance Company. She is a respected expert on mortgage related issues and has authored several articles and published many research studies for a variety of clients.

Bernadette holds an MBA from Seton Hall University and BS in Finance from Villanova University.