Head of Americas Market, CRISIL

Alex Paladino serves as Senior Director, Americas Head of Business Development & Sales for CRISIL’s Global Research & Risk Solutions (GRRS) business. She leads the team driving organic revenue growth, client engagement and go-to-market strategy with financial institutions, asset managers and private market participants via a consultative approach, providing strategic regulatory and transformation solutions, unique analytics, industry-recognized execution and advisory services across financial risk, non-financial risk, credit, research, ESG, data, and analytics. Prior to joining CRISIL, Ms. Paladino served as Strategic Advisor to Affine, an AI, Cloud, ML & Data management consulting start-up partner to Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud. She is former Chief Revenue Officer for Prometric, in Baring Private Equity Asia’s (BPEA) portfolio. Ms. Paladino also served as Global Managing Director, Executive Team Member in the Corporate Strategy and Chief Customer Offices during her 18-year tenure at Thomson Reuters.
Known for her strong customer focus and strategic business partnerships with global industry leaders in tech and finance, Ms. Paladino is an influential voice on media platforms and industry panels at industry events on DEI and global issues and trends impacting a rapidly changing landscape. She has a track record of championing talent development, building diverse, high-performing organizations, DEI and influencing positive culture change, and is currently Co-President of the Women’s Bond Club, a NYC 501c3 whose mission is to advance women’s leadership in the financial industry.
Ms. Paladino earned a degree in Business Administration, Finance at State University of New York at Albany, and a certificate in cryptocurrencies at MIT Media Lab.