Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Esq., is a highly regarded adviser and former C-Suite executive with significant operational and change management experience.
She is President of The Cambridge Group LLC, a strategy and risk management advisory firm consulting with financial services firms, fintechs, and other companies.
Previously, Agnes served as the Northeast Regional Director of Supervision Examinations for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). As Regional Director, Agnes managed the regional NYC office and represented the CFPB Supervision mission on all matters relating to conducting consumer financial protection supervision and examinations at a variety of complex depository financial institutions and non-depository consumer financial services companies. The 32 financial institutions and 25 companies under her regulatory authority had assets totaling over $6 trillion.
Earlier, Agnes worked in various executive risk, compliance and control functions as well as lending roles at TD Bank, Bank of America and FleetBoston. Agnes also served as counsel at Goodwin Procter and for the United States Senate Budget Committee; she was also a defense lobbyist for Fairchild Republic Company. In her various roles, Agnes managed large staffs, teams and projects with P&L responsibilities.
Agnes is an independent director with Truist Financial Corporation (member of the risk, trust, and nominating & governance committees); AppFolio, Inc., (chair of risk & compliance oversight committee and member of audit committee); and, R1 RCM, Inc. (chair of its compliance & risk management committee). She is vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s Compliance Management Subcommittee. Agnes is an adviser with the Paul, Weiss ESG & Law Institute, a board member with the Future of Privacy Forum, and a member of the Executive Leadership Council. She was selected for inclusion in Boston Business Journal’s Most Powerful Women and in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Agnes is the former vice chair of the Smith College Board of Trustees, former chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ Consumer Advisory Council, and former (and founding) chairman of International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Agnes holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. from Smith College. She is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Bars of the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the Bar of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Currently, Agnes is enrolled in a yearlong Diligent Climate Risk certification course. Recently, she completed certification courses from Oxford and Cambridge Universities on Digital Transformation and Disruption; Harvard University and NACD on Cybersecurity Oversight; and MIT on Artificial Intelligence.