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Shelly is a Managing Director in BMO Capital Markets where she leads a global team responsible for the first line of defense including Trade Floor Supervision, Business Unit Compliance, AML Operational Risk & Resilience, Crisis Management, Algorithm & Automation Risk, and ESG Risk. The mandate includes preventing loss due to failure in process, people and systems and ensuring the execution of trading and investment banking businesses in compliance with applicable regulations.

In addition, she is focused on integrating data with machine learning and AI to enhance the way we work and make decisions and to focus on real versus perceived risk. She leverages similar technology applied in a different way to design process and organizational efficiencies, influencing across the organization.

Previously, Shelly was the COO for BMO's US Trading business. She has over 25 years of experience across industries. Prior to joining BMO, she was a global COO at Barclays. She has a unique blend of experience in sell-side M&A, corporate infrastructure, risk and in leading large scale regulatory and business transformations.

Shelly earned an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS from Penn State University. She holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses. She has regulated and non-profit board experience and currently sits on the board of BMO Europe PLC and BMO Harris Investment Co.

She enjoys hiking, fishing, singing, playing guitar and sports.

Traditional 401(k)s, payroll-deduction IRAs and SEP-IRAs represent far superior approaches to state-mandated retirement plans.

A study from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that union construction firms are succeeding in a labor shortage.

Tech and healthcare positions are in the lead as the most in demand fields as the workforce begins to reflect the last two years.

HR leaders are struggling to do it all, especially when it comes to supporting employee mental health. A good benefits partnership could help ease the strain for everyone.

More than 25% of people who left their jobs are reconsidering their decision.

Deb Franklin is the co-CEO of PEAK6 InsurTech, the insurance operations and technology subsidiary of PEAK6. PEAK6 uses technology to find a better way of doing things. The company’s first tech-based solution was developed in 1997 to optimize options trading and, over the past two decades, the same formula has been used across a range of industries, asset classes and business stages to consistently deliver superior results. Today, PEAK6 seeks transformational opportunities to provide capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs and forward-thinking businesses, helping to unlock potential and activate what is into what ought to be.

Eric Rosenbloom, CLTC, ChFC®, is Vice President, Wealth Services at Alera Group Wealth Services. For over 30 years, he has counseled individuals, families and businesses about long-term care and how to create and implement customized financial strategies to help enhance and protect their financial security. 

Today, employees aren’t afraid to ask employers for the things they actually need — and we’re seeing more businesses actually listen and react. 

According to a new study, boomers are likely to deplete their savings much faster than previous generations — but advisers can still help.