Spencer de Melo
I am a Capital Markets Risk Executive with experience spanning Wall Street and global advisory roles, focused on designing AI-enabled risk, compliance, and decision-support systems for complex organizations.
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I am a Capital Markets Risk Executive with experience spanning Wall Street and global advisory roles, focused on designing AI-enabled risk, compliance, and decision-support systems for complex organizations. My work sits at the intersection of financial risk, system architecture, and user-centric design—translating institutional challenges into structured, intelligible, and actionable AI workflows.
I specialize in architecting AI-driven frameworks that integrate governance, risk assessment, and automation, with a strong emphasis on usability, clarity, and decision experience. This includes designing risk architectures, analytical workflows, and AI-assisted interfaces that allow stakeholders—executives, regulators, and operators—to interact with complex financial data and controls in intuitive, human-centered ways.
Leveraging large language models such as ChatGPT, I design end-to-end AI systems that support scenario analysis, policy intelligence, control evaluation, and process automation. My approach blends financial markets expertise with UX-informed system design to ensure that AI outputs are not only technically sound, but interpretable, auditable, and operationally effective.
I aim to help financial institutions, professional services firms, and NGOs embed AI into their core risk and governance architectures—improving transparency, speed, and decision quality in today’s increasingly complex and data-dense environment.
- 24 years' experience
- Joined December 2025
Skills· 9
Languages
- EnglishFluent
- PortugueseFluent
- Spanish; CastilianFluent
- FrenchBeginner
Industry experience
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
- Government
- Other
- Software & Internet
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Work experience· 33 roles
Built a board-approved internal audit function for sovereign and treasury operations; authored the Audit Charter, Policy, and a three-year risk roadmap within 90 days of mandate. Modernized risk-based planning by linking RCSA metrics and KRIs to risk-rating models; developed AI-driven risk-universe heatmaps to prioritize high-impact audits; established Audit Committee reporting protocols; led valuation and model-risk reviews for illiquid assets; instituted a vendor-risk framework and AI alerting; chaired cross-functional remediation forums to validate design-effectiveness before closure.
Lead rigorous internal audits with executive committee engagement to uphold governance across Broker Dealer activities in US/EMEA; refine Wholesale Credit Risk Policy; oversee governance within ASC Broker Dealer; integrate AI tools (ChatGPT, IBM Watson, Palantir Foundry) for predictive risk modeling and data analysis; ensure NSE/SEBI regulatory compliance; coordinate with external auditors; deliver senior-management reports with actionable risk insights.
Lead rigorous internal audits with executive committees, ensuring Broker Dealer compliance across US/EMEA; refine Wholesale Credit Risk Policy; integrate AI tools for compliance and risk management; support NSE/SEBI regulatory inquiries; prepare senior management reports.
Education· 12
Certifications and awards
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