Emmanuel D. Chesnais

Blockchain & cryptocurrencies

Enterprise risk management

Governance

Model risk management

Quantitative investments

Regulatory Compliance

Emmanuel D. Chesnais

Emmanuel Chesnais is a senior risk executive with over 20 years of industry/consulting experience and a passion for tackling strategic opportunities in complex trading and investment environments with focus on buy-side.
He has a broad range of skills in risk management, analytics, controls, and governance, including model risk, enterprise risk, portfolio risk. He put these skills to use when developing, building, and running risk frameworks for different types of financial firms such as hedge funds, asset managers, crypto firms.
Emmanuel holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University and a B.S. in E.E./M.E. from ESTP (France).

Industry Experience

Education

Areas of Expertise

Keywords

Industry Experience

Atalante LLC

2023 - Present

Independent Consultant, Risk Advisory Services

GSR Markets

2021 - 2022

Risk Officer, Head of Model Risk, HFT Risk

AQR Capital Management

2016 - 2020

MD, Head of Model Risk Management

PwC, Financial Advisory Services

2013 - 2016

Risk and Regulatory practice (ERM Buy-side lead)

Capco

2010 - 2012

Risk and Compliance practice (Buy-side lead)

Ernst & Young

2008 - 2009

Financial Services Office, Hedge Fund practice

Infosys Consulting

2006 - 2008

Banking & Capital Markets - Sub-practice lead

Independent Consulting

2002 - 2005

HF, Fintech focus

Capco

1999 - 2001

Director, Strategy, Marketing

American Management Systems (CGI)

1997 - 1999

Global Risk Practice, Team Lead

Crédit Foncier de France (BPCE)

1993 - 1995

Head of Fixed Income Derivatives Desk

Education

INSEAD

1996

Master of Business Administration

Columbia University

1989

Master of Science in Operations Research

Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics

1988

Master of Science

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise Risk Management

Framework development and implementation

Governance to infrastructure

Spanning buy-side and sell-side

Risk Appetite

Metrics, qualitative principles

Model Risk Management

Model identification

Risk assessment

Validation process

Change management

Ongoing monitoring/reporting

Quantitative Investment Management

Factor models

Equity, Macro, Arbitrage stategies

Risk, Portoflio construction

Independent testing

Trusted advisor to Research, PM, traders

Cryptocurrencies

Crypto markets, HFT, CEX/DEXs

Tokenization

Integrated risk framework

Incident management

DeFI protocol deep-dive

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory-mandated reviews

SEC, Fed, OCC, SFC, BIS regulations

Reviews of quant manager, algorithmic trading operations

Control deficiencies & remediations

Response to MRA/MRIA, enforcement actions

Governance and Controls

Committee founder, chairman & member

Model risk, Enterprise risk, Data Governance and New Product committees

Development and maintenance of policies, procedures, charters

Control frameworks design and review

Expert Keywords

algorithmic trading
alternative asset management
asset controls
asset verification
atomic swap
automated market making (AMM)
bitcoin (BTC)
blockchain governance
bridge risk
Byzantine Generals’ Problem
cipher
coin mixer
cold storage
cold wallet
compliance
composability risk
conflicts of interest
consensus
controls
cross-chain
crypto
crypto exchanges
crypto investment advisory
crypto risk modeling
crypto trading
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency derivatives
cryptocurrency market analysis
cryptocurrency taxonomy
Cryptographic Hash Function
custody
DDoS attack
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)
decentralized exchanges
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
DeFi protocols
derivatives
digital asset management
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
enterprise risk management (ERM)
ERC (token standard)
escrow
gas
governance
governance model
governance token
hack
hash function
high frequency trading (HFT)
Howey Test
impermanent loss (IL)
incentive mechanism
interconnectedness
Layer 1
Layer 2
liquidity pools
margin calls
market making
model risk
model validation
Money Transmitter License
OffLedger
operational due diligence (ODD)
operational risk
oracle risk
Perpetual futures (Perps)
Ponzi scheme
portfolio management
private key
pseudonymity
pump and dump
quantitative models
Race Attack
regulatory agenda
regulatory compliance
risk appetite
risk appetite framework
risk appetite metrics
risk assessment
risk framework
risk management
risk reporting
rug pull
seed phrase
short squeeze
Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT)
smart contract audits
Soft Fork
stablecoins
Sybil Attack
synthetic assets
systemic risk
technology risk
tokenization
tokenomics
trader
trading
trading bots
utility token
Vampire Attack
Vaporware
wallets
wash trades
Wrench attack
Zero Knowledge Proof

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Emmanuel D. Chesnais

Emmanuel D. Chesnais

Industry Experience

Atalante LLC

2023 - Present

GSR Markets

2021 - 2022

AQR Capital Management

2016 - 2020

PwC, Financial Advisory Services

2013 - 2016

Capco

2010 - 2012

Ernst & Young

2008 - 2009

Infosys Consulting

2006 - 2008

Independent Consulting

2002 - 2005

Capco

1999 - 2001

American Management Systems (CGI)

1997 - 1999

Crédit Foncier de France (BPCE)

1993 - 1995

Education

INSEAD

1996

Columbia University

1989

Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics

1988

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise Risk Management

Model Risk Management

Quantitative Investment Management

Cryptocurrencies

Regulatory Compliance

Governance and Controls

Expert Keywords

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