Is Your Board Asking the Right Questions? Strengthening Risk Oversight in Uncertain Times

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From skills gaps to information overload, boards are under pressure to challenge risk more effectively. FTI Consulting’s Mark Sexton explores how directors can better scrutinize management, strengthen collaboration, and align risk oversight with business goals.

Apr 11, 2025

Mark Sexton, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Tags: Resilience

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In an era of increasing complexity, boards face a paradox: too much data, yet not enough clarity.

Mark Sexton of FTI Consulting shares practical strategies to enhance board effectiveness - from conducting annual skills assessments and improving reporting quality to asking harder questions and building stronger collaboration with risk teams.

He highlights the importance of outside expertise, contextualizing data, and aligning risk with long-term business strategy.

Mark Sexton Bio

Mark Sexton is a financial services professional with 30 years of experience in sales & trading, risk management, and regulatory compliance. He partners with Board, C-suite, and senior business leaders to solve risk and compliance issues and support complex strategic growth and transformation initiatives. Mark is currently a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Forensic & Litigation practice. Before joining FTI he worked as a Managing Director at Promontory Financial Group. Earlier in his career Mark worked in Bank Supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and in commodities sales & trading positions at JP Morgan and Citibank.