Risk Summit Expands Speaker Roster

Senior executives from First Investors Financial Services, Huntington Bank, Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America, TD Auto Finance, and Toyota Financial Services are the latest additions to the Auto Finance Risk Summit speaker faculty.

The Auto Finance Risk Summit highlights the central role risk management plays in all functions of auto lending and leasing.

Tom Redding and Vijay Patil, risk managers at First Investors and Mitsubishi Credit, respectively, will join a panel discussion entitled “Executive Dialogue: Defining the New Risk Challenges in Auto Finance.” The panel will address topics including evolving risk goals within the industry, the most dangerous risk threats, and success stories of recent initiatives implemented to contain risk.

Ken Baruth, Toyota Financial’s global chief risk officer, and Pam Birnbrich, Huntington’s auto segment risk manager, will participate in an interactive case study on risk-management practices. The session will tackle topics like managing risk as competition heats up and overcoming the hurdles to effective risk management.

Also, Mike Goins, head of U.S. deficiency recovery for TD Auto, will present a session on ensuring collection success. His presentation will focus on combating early stage delinquency, refining repossession strategies because of the short supply of used cars, and developing effective loss-recovery techniques.

Other AFRS speakers include:
• Cristian deRitis, director of consumer credit economics at Moody’s Analytics
• Teresa Eller, consumer installment credit risk manager at M&T Bank
• Andrew Kang, director of capital markets at Santander Consumer USA
• Daniel Parry, chief credit officer at Exeter Finance

Visit www.AutoFinanceRiskSummit.com for more information or to register for the conference, which will be held May 7-8 in Dallas.