Lead Presenters

Nicholas Krasno

Nicholas Krasno is a New York-based consultant specialising in corporate governance, risk management, and strategic development for corporations and financial institutions. His practice includes corporate governance assessments and implementation for banks and companies, as well as advising governments, central banks and stock exchanges on corporate governance codes and practices. He has over thirty years of experience in the financial and banking world, and began his consultancy practice in 2003 after eleven years with Moody's Investors Service, where he was Senior Vice President of Moody's Financial Institutions, Banking & Sovereign Risk Group, responsible for the management and credit analysis of banks and other companies in the emerging markets of East and South Asia. Prior to his service with Moody's, Mr Krasno was a banker working in London, Toronto and New York.

Dr David S Bobker

Dr. Bobker is founder and Director of Real Assurance Risk Management Ltd., a company dedicated to helping clients to manage their risks and implement corporate frameworks and technologies for operational and credit risk management, internal auditing and corporate governance. He has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, working in various capacity including internal and external audit, compliance officer and IT manager and as a regulator. He has been commissioned by financial institutions and regulatory authority in the UK for projects in risk management and policy impact studies. Dr Bobker has authored articles on risk management, internal auditing and corporate governance and made numerous presentations to both national and international conferences on these subjects.

Professor Nabil N. El-Hage

Professor Nabil N. El-Hage is Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School in the Finance Area. Prof Nabil graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean's Doctoral Fellowship. His areas of interest are corporate governance, corporate restructuring, leveraged buyouts and private equity in the financial services, airline, private equity, real estate and retail industries.

Nabil was a Research Consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc., before business school. He also served on a dozen boards of private and public companies, ranging from start-ups to several billion dollars in revenues. Prior to returning to HBS in 2003, Prof. Nabil gained experience in private equity and venture capital with TA Associates and Advent International, as well as on the operating side, as CFO of Back Bay Restaurant Group. He was the president of the Yale Club of Boston from 2005 until June 2007. He is currently the independent Chairman of the MassMutual Premier Funds, a $10 billion mutual fund complex.