SARAH JANE CHELIN
Vice President, Global Risk Management
Bank of America
A financial services industry veteran with 21 years of experience, Sarah Jane Chelin is Bank of America’s vice president of global risk management, where she supports compliance testing and manages nine developers from her offices in Westlake.
Chelin was previously with Countrywide Home Loans, and throughout her career has built highly complex enterprise-wide testing protocols on issues of bankruptcy, commercial flood, Fair Credit Reporting Act enterprise, global wealth & investment management, matters requiring attention, and Service members Civil Relief Act enterprise.
Additionally, Chelin is a nationally recognized therapy dog trainer and handle. For nearly 15 years, she has volunteered with her own dogs in pet therapy to bring joy to people receiving end-of-life hospice care, those living in retirement homes, homeless shelters, children in schools and camps for foster children. In the wake of the recent wildfires, Chelin and her certified pet therapy dogs have been part of the teams responding to an overwhelming number of requests for support from local schools, police departments, ambulance agencies and recovery centers.
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