2025 Top Consultants: Ira Goldberg

Ira is a principal in our global bank practice, where he is responsible for leading a team of RSM risk and regulatory professionals in delivering risk management, governance, compliance, financial crime, audit and culture solutions. Ira’s experience spans 30 years in various leadership roles at large global financial institutions. His experience includes global roles as a chief compliance officer of a private bank, global head of compliance testing and risk assessments, head of compliance training, head of policies and procedures, chief auditor of legal, compliance, financial crime and culture, as well as a regulatory leadership role as the deputy director of FINRA’s New York office. Ira has led large-scale end-to-end transformation projects, requiring extensive regulatory engagement and responses. He is a regulatory compliance expert with extensive experience leading teams in internal investigations, regulatory exams, remediation efforts and for addressing regulatory inquiries and action plans issued by the FRB, OCC, SEC, FINRA and other international regulators. In his role on these projects, he has managed the design and development of corrective action plans, detailed project and testing plans, validation execution and board reporting. He has worked closely with regulators and independent monitors as part of global regulatory settlements and consent orders.