Darren Donovan

Board Director, Managing Principal (retired) KPMG

Darren is a current Board Director and serves on the Audit and the Risk Committees for a leading regional bank. Previously, he served as the Managing Principal of the KPMG Boston market hub. As the regional chief executive, he was responsible for overseeing the New England-Upstate New York business region and operations. He was highly successful at driving record double digit growth during his tenure. Darren also served as KPMG’s Global Lead Partner for State Street, and Fidelity Investments and was responsible for all aspects of managing these strategic relationships. In Darren’s prior role, he served as the Advisory Office Leader for the NEUNY market. For much of his KPMG career he served as the Forensic Practice Leader for the Financial Services sector. He was also an expert Firm resource for Audit Partners regarding certain risk management issues impacting financial statement reporting. Darren has over 38 years of experience providing boards and companies with Advisory ERM, regulatory, compliance and fraud risk/investigative services. With a focus on the financial services sector, Darren has worked for a highly select client base of major financial institutions and a diverse set of other companies throughout the U.S. and the world. Darren has led numerous assessments of compliance programs designed to address risk, internal control breakdowns, money laundering controls, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), financial fraud and fraud prevention and detection, anti-bribery, and corruption (FCPA), ethics and integrity issues, and conflicts of interest. Darren has extensive firsthand experience assisting Boards of Directors and companies in providing advisory services around Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) issues and various government oversight, exams and enforcement matters involving Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs), Cease and Desist Orders (C&Ds) and Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs). He has developed and led numerous presentations and/ or provided official reports to various senior government agencies such as DOJ, SEC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, New York State Banking, and a State Attorney General. Darren has a wealth of experience leading complex, high profile domestic and global projects. In recent times, he has personally led incountry projects in such venues as Israel, Switzerland, UK, Denmark, China, Indonesia, Korea, India, Japan, Australia, and Brazil.