Speakers

Tracey Dunlap

Tracey first discovered her passion for helping customers with their financial needs while working on the teller line at a local community bank. That passion later guided her to the technology side of financial services, where her interest in usability and user experience grew. Tracey was involved in the implementations and rollout of some of the first digital-only banking solutions. Today, she continues to engage with her clients to better understand their needs and to help them on their path to digital transformation.

Prior to joining Zenmonics, Tracey served in product owner and solution consultant leadership roles in top fintech companies, including Sanchez Computer Associates, Bisys and FIS. Tracey studied computer science at Penn State University and holds a Certification in User Experience from Human Factors International.

Brett Oppel

Brett Oppel is an examiner with the Regional and Community Bank Supervision unit at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He participates on safety and soundness examinations of state member banks and contributes to ongoing emerging risk monitoring efforts, with a focus on liquidity and market risk as well as overall balance sheet management. Brett also participates on system-level market and liquidity risk working groups. Prior to his current role, he worked in the Treasury-ALM function of a large banking organization and at an ALM consulting firm catering to client community banking institutions. Brett attended Babson College, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, concentrating in Finance and Financial Analysis, Planning, and Controls.

Eric S. Rosengren

Eric S. Rosengren has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 2007. Previously he headed the Bank’s Supervision, Regulation, and Credit department, and was active in domestic and international regulatory policy. President Rosengren joined the Bank in 1985 as an Economist in the Research department, with a B.A. from Colby College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written extensively on macroeconomics, international banking, bank supervision, and risk management; including articles in leading economics and finance journals. Much of his recent research has focused on how problems in the financial sector impact the real economy. He is a director of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley, the chair of Colby College’s Board of Trustees, and a member of the University of Wisconsin's Economics Advisory Board.

Jeffrey P. Thompson

Jeffrey P. Thompson is a senior economist and policy advisor in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department, where he is the director of the New England Public Policy Center. Prior to joining the Boston Fed, Thompson was a principal economist at the Federal Reserve Board and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute. He specializes in public and labor economics, household finance, applied microeconomics, income, wealth and consumption inequality, state and local taxes, and regional economics. Thompson earned his PhD in economics from Syracuse University. He joined the Boston Fed in 2018.