Chris Kennedy
SVP, Head Of Enterprise Payments at Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kennedy is an enterprise technology executive leading payments and platform strategy with eight years of progressive responsibility across Regions Bank, currently serving as SVP, Head of Enterprise Payments Technology. He blends technical rigor from engineering and nuclear PhD training with business acumen from an MBA, driving open banking, cloud migration, and ML/AI risk governance programs across regulated financial environments. Chris has led model risk management and AI risk efforts, introduced ML Ops practices for model promotion, and built governance frameworks that balance speed and control for cloud and embedded-finance initiatives. An educator at Duke Fuqua and UNC Kenan-Flagler, he translates cutting-edge AI and ML techniques into practical curricula for business leaders and practitioners. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver, he routinely mediates cross-functional tradeoffs between legal, security, and product to keep complex initiatives moving. Based in Birmingham, he pairs deep regulatory experience with a hands-on approach to scaling platform-driven financial services.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education: Strategic Innovation Programme, Executive Education: Strategic Innovation Programme at Saïd Business School, University of OxfordPhD, BS, Nuclear Engineering, PhD, BS, Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityProfessional Certificate: Future Commerce: Fintech, Professional Certificate: Future Commerce: Fintech at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProfessional Certificate: Digital Business Strategy, Professional Certificate: Digital Business Strategy at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Corporate Finance, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Corporate Finance at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business SchoolChief Revenue Officer Program, Chief Revenue Officer Program at Wharton Executive EducationHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
unc7
transfer-learning7
python5
scala5
tensorflow-model5
machine-learning4
functional-programming4
go4
survey4
tensorflow4
visualization3
image-classification3
analytics2
ml2
data-visualization2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ZircXes/uncmac854course
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 59 commits, 57 pushes in 1 month
ZircXes/uncmac900-alpha
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Course repository for technology and modern analytics landscape survey course for UNC Kenan-Flagler
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 7 months
analyticsdata-visualizationuncsurveylandscape
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