Who we are

Marlene Lenarduzzi serves as the Bank’s interim President and Chief Executive Officer. Marlene has more than 25 years of experience in risk management and banking strategy development, regulatory affairs, risk quantification, operations and execution.  

Prior to joining Equitable, Marlene was the Head of Counterparty Credit Risk Management at the Bank of Montreal. Previously, Marlene served as Interim CRO for BMO Ireland, lending critical strategic advice and oversight as operations grew because of Brexit. She also served as the Head, Model Validation, where she was instrumental in transforming the Model Risk Management frameworks to better enable teams to make sound decisions. 

Marlene is deeply committed to giving back to the community and holds several prestigious board positions. She currently serves as President of the Toronto Chapter of the Risk Management Association and is an active board member of the Young People’s Theatre as well as the Dean’s Advisory Board for the faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. 

Marlene graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, earned a Master of Applied Science from the University of Ottawa and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.