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Our Team
Leadership
Daniel Solo
President & Head of Client Engagement
Christopher Kelly
Director
Chris is a Director at Second Line Advisors. Previously, he served as a Senior Associate with Sheffield Haworth, assisting in identifying and placing executives within the risk, compliance, legal, technology, and finance functions. Prior to his executive search career, Chris was a journalist with Thomson Reuters for 12 years, where he covered the daily commodity futures trading, with a particular focus on the precious and industrial metals markets. His career in finance began in 1998, working in the middle office clearing function of Liberty Brokerage.
Lexie Leeming
Search Assurance & Diversity Officer
Lexie is the firm’s Search Assurance & Diversity Officer overseeing and assessing best practices toward diversity and addressing unconscious biases throughout the search and selection process. She also serves as the lead for business operations leveraging her decade of experience in executive search. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History from Newcastle University, UK.
Advisors
Yvette Hollingsworth Clark
Chief Compliance Officer,
State Street
Yvette Hollingsworth Clark is EVP, Chief Compliance Officer at State Street. Prior to joining State Street, Yvette was the head of compliance for Google’s Consumer Trust business based in California. Her career compliance experience includes progressively challenging roles with Barclays Capital, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. While at Wells Fargo, she served as EVP and Chief Compliance Officer and was responsible for enterprise-wide consumer protection, as well as the banking and securities regulatory framework that had oversight of approximately 8,600 global locations through a team of 1,800 employees. She was also a regulator with the Federal Reserve System. She was honor as one of the “Most influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times, and by American Banker on its “The 25 Women to Watch” list from 2015-10027. She earned an MBA from Syracuse University and BS from SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Yvette is active in the community and has served on many not-for-profit boards and regularly speaks at industry events regarding compliance and risk management related topics.
Gerald Manwah
Former Head of Financial
Crime Compliance, HSBC
Gerald Manwah is a former Financial Crimes Compliance Executive, most recently as the U.S. Head of the Financial Crime Compliance Executive Office at HSBC. Previously, he served as a Managing Director in Compliance and Financial Crime at Barclays and the Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Credit Suisse where he managed the end-to-end compliance program related to Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, and Economic Sanctions. He previously held various legal and compliance positions at American Express, ABN Amro, and Citigroup. Mr. Manwah is admitted to practice law in New York State and completed an LL.M. at Harvard Law School. He is currently an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School in New York, teaching the International Financial Crime course.
Konrad Alt
Senior Advisor
Co-Founder, Klaros Advisors
Konrad Alt has been a trusted advisor to the boards and senior executives of financial institutions and fintech companies ranging from small startups to multinational banking organizations, assisting them with their most complex regulatory, corporate governance and risk management challenges, including helping numerous companies explore and pursue strategies for entering the banking business via both de novo charters and acquisition. Before co-founding Klaros, Konrad served as Chief Banking Officer of the Green Dot Corporation, and Vice-Chairman of the Green Dot Bank board of directors. Immediately before joining Green Dot, he was Chief Operating Officer of Merlon Intelligence, Inc., a regtech startup. Konrad founded and led the Promontory Financial Group’s San Francisco office from 2004-2015, and served as Promontory’s COO from 2014-2016. Before joining Promontory, Konrad served as Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer at Providian Financial Corp., and as a Senior Vice President at Golden West Financial Corp. From 1989-1996, Konrad was in public service, first as counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and later as Chief of Staff and Senior Deputy Comptroller at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
