Brian Baczyk Email Address

Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer

Conning (www.conning.com) is a leading global investment management firm with almost $109 billion in global assets under management as of December 31, 2016.* With a long history of serving the insurance industry, Conning supports institutional investors, including pension plans, with investment solutions and asset management offerings, award-winning risk modeling software, and industry research. Founded in 1912, Conning has offices in Boston, Cologne, Hartford, Hong Kong, London, New York, and Tokyo. *As of December 31, 2016, represents the combined global assets under management for the affiliated firms under Conning Holdings Limited, and Cathay Securities Investment Trust Co., Ltd. ("SITE"). SITE reports internally into Conning Asia Pacific Limited, but is a separate legal entity under Cathay Financial Holding Co., Ltd. which is the ultimate controlling parent of all Conning entities.

Mr. Baczyk is a senior risk management professional with extensive experience in data governance, investment and operational risk, information security, and board-level communications in the financial services industry. He is familiar with both the COSO and ISO risk frameworks, as well as implementing risk frameworks in a globally diverse enterprise. Mr. Baczyk has led the efforts to bolster information security using the NIST framework and is knowledgeable about the GPDR, CCPA, NYDFS, as well as other global privacy and security regulations. Regular board level communications about cyber posture have improved the high-level risk awareness of the firm. Additionally, he has been a senior leader in technology upgrade efforts, providing both senior data management and risk management expertise, resulting in successful, transformative results for the organization. Prior to joining Conning, Mr. Baczyk provided consulting services to primarily buy-side asset management firms via his own firm. These services covered front, middle, and back offices, and included strategic technology alignment, system selection support, data management projects, as well as system implementation support Services •IT Strategic Review •System Selection Assistance •Design of Custom Solutions •Implementation of Investment Systems •Integration of Investment Systems Systems •Aladdin – Risk management, Integration, Implementation, Trade Order Management, Compliance •PAM – Implementation, Reporting, Integration, Operational Review •MAXIMIS – Integration, Reporting •Eagle PACE – Implementation, Integration •Markit EDM– Implementation, Integration •YieldBook – Implementation (Including VaR & TE), Risk Management) •Wall Street Office – Integration •InvestorTools – Performance Integration Specialties: Project Management, System Implementation, System Selection, PAM, MAXMIS, Aladdin, PACE, YieldBook, Credit Risk; CDS; Asset / Liability Management; Performance Measurement; Fixed Income; Equity; Economic Captial Analysis, BlackRock Aladdin suite, YieldBook, VaR, TE, CVaR