Ryan Hodge, a Senior Director at Stratis Advisory, is a compliance and risk expert with more than 20 years of experience in banking and payments from Fortune 500 banks to startups. Ryan applies his knowledge to global risk management frameworks across anti-money laundering (“AML”), sanctions, fraud, consumer protection, data privacy, and cybersecurity.
At Stratis, he leads an international portfolio of financial and technology companies developing and executing strategic growth plans, risk management frameworks, and technology systems design and implementation. Ryan supports banks and technology companies seeking to launch, scale, and optimize payment and lending products, services, and operations. He advises on new regulations, guidance, and best practices, implementing proactive enhancements to risk and compliance programs, inclusive of payment and data flows, customer journey, and onboarding optimization, sanctions and transaction monitoring tuning and validation, and global shared services deployment. Ryan designs and executes regulatory and partner-required AML, sanctions, fraud, Nacha, vendor, data privacy, and cybersecurity program development, systems, assessments, and training.
Prior to Stratis, Ryan led risk and compliance functions for two separate Banking-as-a-Service (“BaaS”) ventures supporting the early development of the FinTech market. Furthermore, he served in multiple risk, compliance, and operational leadership roles from credit unions to global banks, including serving as the designated Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) & Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) Officer. Collectively, the roles provided Ryan with a multi-faceted approach on scale, growth, and optimization of risk management, processes, technology, resourcing, and operations in financial services.
Ryan served on the award-winning board of directors for the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”), has been featured as a speaker at both local and national ACAMS and financial crimes prevention events, and holds an advanced Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist – Audit certification (“CAMS-Audit”).
