IESA Dinner Meeting - Topic: Inflation and Interest Rate: Implication For Your Business

IESA DINNER MEETING

Inflation and Interest Rate:
Implication For Your Business

We are in an inflationary environment driven by both cost-push and demand-pull inflation. While a bit of inflation is generally good for the economy, inflation at higher levels for a prolonged time period is detrimental to economic growth. To prevent inflation from getting out of control, the Federal Reserve is turning more hawkish – planning to end QE asset purchases and hike monetary policy rate. The Federal Reserve’s move to reduce liquidity and increase interest rates has direct implications everyone.

Speaker: Venkat Veeramani,  Ph.D.
SVP, Chief Economist with Wintrust Financial Corporation 

Dr. Veeramani is a Risk Management executive with a demonstrated history of successfully leading high visibility initiatives at global and midsize financial institutions. He is currently SVP, Chief Economist with Wintrust Financial Corporation. He leads the bank’s Economic Analysis & Scenario Selection, Risk Strategy, and Risk Analytics programs.

Dr. Veeramani is a published author and frequent speaker on topics related to risk & financial analytics, creation of data-driven business intelligence, and economic trends. 

Dr. Veeramani earned his MS from the Gatton School of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky and his Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky. He is a graduate of the Advanced Risk Management Program from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Wintrust Financial Corporation, he held various risk management positions at Morgan Stanley, Discover Financial Services (spin-off from Morgan Stanley) and HSBC.

Wednesday, January 26th | Venuti's 2251 W Lake Street | Addison

Schedule

5:00 pm  Check-in & Networking

5:30 pm  Dinner

6:30 pm  Presentation