# Alla Gil

> Alla Gil is the co-founder, president and CEO of Straterix, a financial-technology company that builds scenario-generation, stress-testing and balance-sheet optimization tools. A mathematician by training, she previously led strategic advisory work at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Nomura, and has built a public body of work around a stubborn idea: institutions cannot predict the next crisis, but they can systematically explore enough possible futures to recognize danger earlier and respond better.

- **Role:** Co-Founder, President and CEO at Straterix
- **Organizations:** Straterix, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Nomura Securities, CIBC, Moelis & Company, Global Association of Risk Professionals
- **Education:** Voronezh State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Straterix and has led it as president and CEO since its 2015 founding., Built a long-running public body of risk-management writing for GARP Risk Intelligence., Presented Straterix’s AI and machine-learning methodology at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2007** — Worked in quantitative finance, including credit-derivatives modeling at CIBC and interest-rate-derivatives modeling at Goldman Sachs.
- **2007-2009** — Registered with Goldman, Sachs & Co.; her broader Wall Street career included leading strategic advisory work.
- **2012-2015** — Registered with Moelis & Company in New York.
- **Before 2015** — Served in senior strategic advisory roles associated with Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Nomura, advising institutions on stress testing, economic capital, ALM, long-term risk projections and capital allocation.
- **2015** — Co-founded Straterix with Joseph Dafni; the company was established to build scenario-driven risk and strategic-planning software.
- **2017** — Straterix emerged from stealth with an AI-driven stress-testing platform for financial institutions.
- **2020** — Appeared on The F in Tech podcast and articulated Straterix’s thousand-scenarios approach to uncertainty.
- **2022** — Chaired the Managing Uncertainty stream at RiskMinds International in Barcelona.
- **2023** — Discussed the failures around Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse on BBC News and joined a GARP symposium panel reassessing risk after SVB.
- **2024** — Presented Straterix’s methodology to decision-makers and senior analysts at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
- **2025-2026** — Continued publishing on AI oversight, hidden concentrations, private credit, stress-test transparency, M&A and nonlinear scenario design.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Straterix and has led it as president and CEO since its 2015 founding.
- Built a long-running public body of risk-management writing for GARP Risk Intelligence.
- Presented Straterix’s AI and machine-learning methodology at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
- Chaired a Managing Uncertainty program stream at RiskMinds International in 2022.
- Appeared on BBC News to analyze the 2023 failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse.
- Developed strategic advisory expertise across stress testing, economic capital, ALM and capital allocation at major financial institutions.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Published ‘From Imagination to Exploration: Scenario Design in a Nonlinear World’ through GARP Risk Intelligence.
- **2026-02** — Presented a workshop on practical scenario design in integrated stress testing for capital, liquidity and interest-rate risk at GFMI’s Liquidity Management for Financial Institutions event in New York.
- **2026-01** — Published a framework for evaluating bank M&A outcomes across a full distribution of forward-looking scenarios.
- **2025-11** — Wrote about the Federal Reserve’s stress-test transparency proposal and the case for common, comparable analytical benchmarks.
- **2025-10** — Published analysis of hidden risks in the expanding private-credit market.
- **2025-02** — Published an essay advocating a ‘cyborg approach’ that combines AI computation with expert human oversight in strategic risk management.

## Links

- Website: https://straterix.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alla-gil-8b58546
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/straterix
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc2LCFjadWU

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Last updated: 2026-08-28