About this blog
Clark Abrahams has been with SAS for a decade. A 2011 NACD Governance Fellow, Clark previously worked three decades in various management positions dealing with credit, risk and finance, culminating in a bank executive role reporting directly to the board. He currently serves on the PERC Advisory Board. Clark is a strong proponent of high-performance analytics (HPA), which he envisions will enable quantum leaps in business strategy, problem-solving and decision-making. Clark has been awarded six patents and has six more in the works. Clark has co-authored several books on risk, complinace and decision making:
Fair Lending Compliance: Intelligence and Implications for Credit Risk Management
Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System
The Risk of Investment Products - From Product Innovation to Risk Compliance
Director Decision Making -- A Sensible Approach
See and hear Clark discuss a new lending system in this RMA " Journal Interview" video.
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Clark Abrahams
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Principal Product Marketing Consultant
Clark Abrahams is Global Marketing Director, Governance, Risk, & Compliance at SAS. A former bank CRO, author and inventor, he has seven years of corporate board experience, both public and 501(c)3 non-profit. A San Francisco native, Abrahams graduated from UC Berkeley and holds an M.S. Engineering Degree from Stanford University. He is a member of the CFA Institute, NC Society of Financial Analysts, PRMIA, RMA, and an NACD Governence Fellow. He has been awarded three patents, and has four others that are pending. Mr. Abrahams latest co-authored publication is due out March 1 and is concerned with decision-making.
Recent Posts
Buy HPA Now!
SAS Global Forum is taking place this year in my home town -- San Francisco. I feel especially proud and moved by the words of ... Read More
Director decision making -- a sensible approach
Decision making in the board room is an interesting topic indeed! In her blog post today entitled Guidance for Director Decisions, Alex Lajoux, NACD Chief ... Read More
Decision-making for the boardroom and beyond
Last Friday I co-presented a session on decision-making in the boardroom at the Research Triangle Chapter, NACD Directors College. There was a great line-up of speakers ... Read More
Imagine HPA in an exascale world!
I will be sharing thoughts about high-performance analytics (HPA) next week in Southfield Michigan at the Great Lakes BI & Big Data Summit. In particular, I ... Read More
Enterprise GRC payback for SteadyBank
[Our final SteadyBank episode finds Ned in Jake's office. It's November 1 and the board meeting alluded to in our last episode is tomorrow. Ned has ... Read More
Keeping a watchful eye
This week's episode is installment number eight in a nine-part series aimed at fostering understanding of GRC solutions. It's now October 25, 2012, and ... Read More
Fixing the process
Ned sees several layers in the process for "fixing the process." SteadyBank's enterprise GRC solution will factor into them all, and will serve to not ... Read More
Dealing with the crisis
Ned and Jake are of a common mind on next steps for dealing with the crisis. Ned realizes the fastest way to achieve desired ... Read More
Press release today announcing launch of SAS High-Performance Risk Release 2.2
Today marks the announcement of the latest release of the SAS® High-Performance Risk solution at The Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas. Nevada. In ... Read More
Borrower versus iBorrower, more context please!