Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Asurity
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Asurity
Andy Sandler is an entrepreneur, business leader and advisor, lawyer, and philanthropist. He leads Temerity Capital Partners, the Sandler family office and private investment company, which invests in and advises early-stage companies developing new technologies in financial services and achieving positive social impact. He founded and is CEO at Asurity Technologies. He is Senior Partner at Mitchell Sandler, a 25-lawyer boutique law firm founded in 2019 that is widely recognized as a premier law firm serving the financial services, mortgage and fintech industries. Andy owns the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers and the Greensboro Grasshoppers, two top-performing minor league baseball teams, and is actively engaged in community redevelopment through multifamily and mixed-use projects in both Kannapolis, N.C., and Greensboro, N.C.
Andy was named a Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year finalist for representing the Navajo Nation in its breach of trust litigation with the United States. Andy and his colleagues achieved a $554 million settlement for the Navajo Nation. HousingWire Vanguard recognized Andy as “one of the biggest names in the housing industry” and Legal Times has named him as a Legal Visionary for his law firm leadership.
Andy is the founder of The Sandler Family Foundation which focuses its philanthropy on health and welfare, social entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and inclusive democracy. The Sandler Family Foundation’s funding initiatives include psycho-social support for cancer patients and their families through the Cancer Support Community where Andy has served on the national board for many years; professional development for social impact start-up entrepreneurs through the Global Good Fund; and advancement of broader adoption of ranked-choice voting through FairVote. Andy holds J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton School of Business, an M.A. from the University of Warwick (Rotary Foundation Fellow), and a B.A. from Union College.
Andy and his wife Andrea, managing partner of the Mitchell Sandler law firm, find their greatest joy spending time together with their family and friends at their Florida beach home and Virginia farm.
Awarded the 2019 HW Vanguard Award
Senior Managing Director
Asurity Advisors
Senior Managing Director
Asurity Advisors
Grace is a risk and compliance management expert and financial services industry leader with over 30 years of global corporate and consulting experience. At banks, FinTech companies, and consulting firms, her oversight responsibilities have included risk and compliance, fair and responsible banking, CRA, deposit operations, financial crime, consumer banking, payment systems, information technology, complaints management, mortgage, consumer and commercial lending, and business strategy. Areas of focus have included risk assessments, risk mitigation and management, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, data management, compliance management systems, and organizational transformation.
In her current role, Grace leads the Asurity Advisory practice as Senior Managing Director. In this capacity, she provides input and strategic direction relative to the Risk Exec product and leads the go to market activities for advisory service offerings.
Grace’s corporate roles have included Chief Compliance Officer of SunTrust Banks and Chief Risk Officer of Lender Processing Services (now Black Knight Financial Services, a leading FinTech company). At IBM’s Watson Financial Services Division, she led the design, development, implementation, and acquisition strategies of a number of technologies focused on regulatory compliance, risk management, and financial crime. Her consulting positions have included Partner at Guidehouse (formerly Navigant Consulting), where she led client development and relations regarding FinTech, financial crimes, and fraud. At KPMG, she was Director of the Southeast Risk Advisory Practice, focused on enterprise banking clients.
Grace is a frequent speaker on emerging technology, recently including a keynote on RegTech compliance implications at an American Banker event, as well as addressing international conferences and meetings of regulators on subjects including artificial intelligence for risk management, cognitive technology in boardrooms, and building trust and confidence in big data.
Grace earned a BS in Finance and Management from Florida State University. She has been recognized by the industry on several occasions for her technology innovation and was awarded Industry Academy Membership by IBM in 2018.
Managing Director
Asurity Advisors
Managing Director
Asurity Advisors
Lynn Woosley is a Managing Director with Asurity Advisory. She is a seasoned executive with extensive risk management experience in consumer protection, regulatory compliance, consumer and commercial credit risk, credit and compliance risk modeling, model governance, regulatory change management, acquisition due diligence, and operational risk in both financial services and regulatory environments.
Over the last three decades, Lynn has held leadership positions including Senior Vice President and Fair and Responsible Banking Officer; Group Vice President for Wholesale Transaction Modeling; and First Vice President for Portfolio Management within the Enterprise Risk Management division of a top 10 bank. Prior to joining the private sector, Lynn served as Senior Examiner and Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. She also has 6 years’ experience in financial services consulting.
With strong knowledge and experience across multiple risk disciplines, Lynn has been a featured speaker for several banking, compliance, and CRA conferences across the country. Lynn has authored numerous articles and presentations on financial institution risk management and consumer protection issues. She has also developed training materials related to fair lending, fair housing, UDAAP, credit risk management, credit scoring, and consumer protection topics.
Lynn holds a BBA and an MBA from Middle Tennessee State University and an MS Finance from Georgia State University. She is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager and a Commissioned Examiner of the Federal Reserve System. Lynn has also served as both Chair and Vice-Chair of the Consumer Bankers Association’s Fair and Responsible Banking Committee.
President
RiskExec
President
RiskExec
Dr. Anurag Agarwal is the president of Asurity's compliance risk analysis and report platform RiskExec.
He is a recognized expert in fair lending, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), and related areas. As the main architect, designer, and developer of the platform, Anurag continues to lead the development of the RiskExec line of compliance technologies.
During his career, Anurag has consulted with and advised large financial institutions in the areas of compliance, fair lending, statistical analysis, and regulatory risk management.
Director
Asurity Advisors
Director
Asurity Advisors
Jennifer Creger is an accomplished compliance risk management leader who partners with senior management and Boards of Directors to mitigate and manage risk through framework development, strategic planning, and regulatory compliance. Her early experience in working as an independent compliance and Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) software consultant built a strong understanding of risk management practices across various types of banks and operations. Throughout her career, she has been recognized for improving performance through enhanced risk mitigation, developing process simplification and controls, developing high performing teams, and leveraging a pragmatic approach to solving business issues.
As a compliance executive, she has provided subject matter expertise while partnering with lines of business to ensure a consistent risk management culture aligned with the corporate regulatory risk appetite. Jennifer has been the compliance liaison for federal regulatory exams, including those conducted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). Building productive relationships with regulators while aligning compliance programs with regulatory expectations has been key to her successful leadership in exam management.
Jennifer developed several Community Reinvestment Act (“CRA”) strategic plans, shepherding senior management through market research, crafting goals acceptable to management and bank regulators, and authoring plan documentation required for approval. Jennifer’s work in fair and responsible banking includes more than 25 fair lending audits for banks throughout the southeast. She performed 80 pricing and underwriting tests, 20 redlining reviews, and multiple fair servicing tests for Crescent Bank’s subprime indirect auto lending operation.
Recently, as SVP of Compliance for Crescent Bank, Jennifer led the regulatory compliance function. She played an integral role in the development of the company’s Compliance Management System (“CMS”), BSA/Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”)/Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) program, and CRA activities. She was responsible for developing the enterprise risk management (“ERM”) risk assessment program and aligning all risk assessments performed across the enterprise from a compliance perspective. Jennifer has leveraged her additional expertise in BSA, AML, and OFAC across financial services products and services, such as store value cards, indirect auto lending, software implementation, mortgage fraud, and risk assessments.
Her experience includes developing compliance issue management programs, key performance indicator (“KPI”) dashboards, corporate compliance training programs, credit reporting, privacy, and complaint management.
Jennifer has significant expertise in subprime indirect auto financing, deposit products, and commercial lending.
Senior Vice President
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Products and Services
Senior Vice President
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Products and Services
Sarah Brons is Senior Vice President of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Products and Services for RiskExec, Inc. Sarah brings in-depth community development and CRA compliance expertise developed through experience in bank examining, bank CRA program development, and industry engagement.
Sarah joined RiskExec from American Express where she served in the American Express National Bank Center for Community Development as Director leading the CRA Grant and Service Programs.
She previously held Community Development Officer and CRA Officer positions in two other large banks.
Prior to joining to her roles in banks, Sarah served as a bank examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency where her responsibilities included conducting CRA exams for banks of all sizes.
Sarah earned her BSBA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Director
Compliance Products & Services
Director
Compliance Products & Services
Jesse Taylor rejoined the RiskExec team summer of 2022 as the Director of Compliance Products and Services after her previous tenure with the company from 2015 to 2019. She brings with her over a decade of experience in Compliance having served in Fair Lending leadership roles at both depository and non-depository institutions.
Jesse’s experience includes completion of ground-up build-outs of fair lending analytic programs at multiple institutions, including facilitation of full-scope model validation projects in partnership with Quantitative Analytics and Model Risk departments. She has executed and supervised completion of risk assessments and fair lending reviews for underwriting, pricing, steering, redlining, branch distribution, marketing and servicing as well as assisted in examination preparation and response to multiple regulatory entities.
Director
Compliance Services and Implementation
Director
Compliance Services and Implementation
Arielle Sutherland is the Director, Compliance Services and Implementation for RiskExec, Inc. at Asurity. Arielle brings extensive knowledge and experience relating to collection, analysis, and validation of data collected under HMDA, CRA, and other fair lending regulations. Throughout her career as a Compliance Officer and Compliance Consultant, Arielle has developed a deep understanding of both the compliance and operational challenges facing banks and credit unions related to HMDA and CRA data and has served as a subject matter expert in these areas for the past decade. In addition, Arielle is currently working towards obtaining her Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) designation.
