Thomas Kicak

Thomas Kicak has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Thomas began their career in 2000 as Senior GCIB Compliance Manager at Banc of America Securities (now Merrill Lynch). In this role, they managed a team of professionals responsible for the Investment Grade, MBS/ABS, Short Term Fixed Income, and Global Structured Products origination, sales, and trading businesses. Thomas also created and developed the enterprise-wide Reg W (Section 23A/23B) Compliance monitoring program, to address and resolve prior regulatory comments from the prudential regulators, as well as coordinated the development of the Compliance Program for Global Structured Products for Bank of America affiliates in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore.

In 2005, Thomas Kicak moved to SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. as Chief Compliance Officer. In this role, they executed and managed the Compliance Risk Management Program for the Corporate & Investment Banking businesses of SunTrust Bank (now Truist) including Debt & Equity Capital Markets, Debt & Equity Research, Asset Finance, Syndicated Loans & Trading, Interest Rate Derivatives, Structured Equity Products & Derivatives, FX, M&A Advisory, and the Control Room. Thomas also led the successful registration of SunTrust Bank with the CFTC as a provsionally registered swap dealer.

In 2015, Thomas Kicak joined BBVA USA as EVP - Director of US Securities & Derivatives Compliance. Thomas is currently Chief Compliance Officer at LevelField Financial, a U. S. financial services firm with a specialization in digital assets.

Thomas Kicak has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Cleveland State University, with a focus in Finance.