Biography

Nishant Desai is Chief Compliance and Operational Risk Officer at USAA. He leads the company’s compliance and operational risk functions, with responsibility for risk governance, compliance management, operational risk frameworks, risk appetite programs, and oversight of emerging risks. Desai has more than 20 years of experience in risk and compliance leadership across financial institutions and has held several senior roles at USAA. Prior to joining USAA, he served as Chief Compliance Officer at TIAA Bank, SVP and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer at BB&T, SVP and Corporate Compliance Manager at SunTrust Bank, and held a series of compliance, operational risk, and information security leadership roles at Bank of America.

Desai received his MBA from the Texas McCombs School of Business and his BS in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.