Cathy Kiriakos

Cathy Kiriakos, MS has a diverse range of work experience spanning various industries. Cathy recently worked as a Senior Solutions Analyst - Assistant Vice President at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, where they played a key role in creating the bank's risk policy for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Cathy also wrote whitepapers and collaborated with sales and subject matter experts to engage customers through various publications. In addition, they created data pipelines and collaborated with AWS Proserve to support advance forecasting projects.

Prior to their role at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, Cathy worked at Northern Trust Corporation as a Product Owner and Liquidity Analyst. Cathy was responsible for business intelligence and analytics, as well as managing global liquidity.

Before that, they worked as the Headquarters Business Manager/Budget Analyst at Platte River Power Authority and as a Financial Analyst at the City of Greeley, where they provided financial reporting and analysis and participated in budgetary committees.

Cathy also has experience in the energy industry, having worked as a Credit and Risk Operations Analyst at Xcel Energy. Cathy tracked credit exposure reports, maintained credit lines, and facilitated the issuance of letters of credit. Cathy also performed credit stress testing and trained other analysts.

Earlier in their career, Cathy held positions in marketing analysis at Bankers Life and Casualty and operations and correspondence at Harbor Capital Advisors. Cathy also had internships in IT and marketing at Komet of America and worked as a Display Advertising Assistant at The Daily Egyptian.

Cathy's earliest work experience was as a Receptionist at Taisei Corporation.

Overall, Cathy Kiriakos, MS has a strong background in finance, risk management, business intelligence, budgeting, marketing analysis, and operations.

Cathy Kiriakos holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Data Science from Regis University, which they obtained from 2019 to 2020. Prior to this, they pursued their undergraduate studies in Liberal Arts & Sciences, with a focus on Economics, at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2007 to 2009. Cathy Kiriakos has also obtained additional certifications in various data-related topics, including Data Visualization with ggplot2 (Part 1 and Part 2), Intermediate R, and Introduction to R, from DataCamp.