Hendrik Orem

Hendrik Orem, PhD, currently serves as the VP, Quantitative Consulting and Model Monitoring Manager at Columbia Bank, where leadership is provided to a team focused on implementing, optimizing, and monitoring models related to interest rate risk, fair lending, fraud detection, and BSA/AML compliance. Concurrently, Hendrik is a Contributing Assistant Professor at Willamette University, designing and teaching courses in the Master's of Science in Data Science program. Previously, roles included Quantitative Modeler and Model Implementation Quant at Umpqua Bank, and Quantitative Analyst at Rabobank, where expertise in statistical and machine learning models for areas such as credit risk and market risk was developed. Academic foundations were laid at The University of Texas at Austin, culminating in a PhD in Mathematics, alongside experience teaching and conducting research in mathematics and its applications.