2024 Future Focus: HMCC Young Professional Event

This event engages emerging leaders and young professionals as an extension of the Chamber’s Annual Membership Meeting. Our renowned speaker, Cassi Chandler, will present to this audience as an opportunity to develop and encourage the future leadership of our community. 

The topic of the presentation is: Growing the Champion Within: 10 Steps to Career Success.

Preparing talent to lead our region in the future is a critical component of our long-term success and this event seeks to effectively engage those leaders for critical topics that will impact Huntsville/Madison County.

Speaker


Cassi Chandler
CEO & Managing Partner
Vigeo Alliance

Cassandra “Cassi” Chandler, is CEO and Managing Partner of Vigeo Alliance, a leadership and talent risk assessment and skills training firm and Adjunct Professor at PACE University in New York. Cassi has led a distinguished career as an innovative strategist identifying and addressing emerging cyber and fraud risks in the banking industry and as a Senior Executive within U.S. government services and the financial services industry. Cassi has also served as a leader and advisor on the Global Diversity and Inclusion Boards of one of the world’s top multi-national banks and at Louisiana State University. She currently serves as an independent federal monitor with the New York Police Department and heads The Chandler Consulting Group, LLC.

Cassi retired as Senior Vice President for Business Operations at Bank of America, where she was responsible for building an integrated framework to identify, evaluate and assess emerging risks and the operational effectiveness of enterprise coverage areas. She developed enterprise-wide teams and analytic processes to identify emerging cybercrimes, fraud trends, and consumer risks.

In addition to her roles as a risk executive, Cassi led the bank’s compliance relationship with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As Enterprise Regulator Relations and Engagement Executive with the CFPB, she was responsible for building and maintaining relations with regulators, supporting the needs of regulators, and managing CFPB interactions across the enterprise.

Cassi joined Bank of America in January 2008, following her retirement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where she spent 23 years managing, directing, and leading criminal, terrorism, and cybercrimes investigations and foreign intelligence activities. She led the redesign of the Bureau’s health care fraud and criminal intelligence programs. She was appointed to the U.S. Senior Executive Service as an Assistant Director, where she was responsible for rebuilding the Bureau’s new agent’s training program and directing public affairs. She also served as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel and Special Agent in Charge of the Norfolk Field Office.