Risk Assessment Chief at Major Failed Bank Organized LGBT ‘Pride’ Events and ‘Safe Spaces’ Before Everything Collapsed: Report
As Silicon Valley Bank was heading for a financial iceberg, new reports make it seem that the only risk assessment officer on board was focused on making sure the deck chairs were painted in rainbow colors. According to…

As Silicon Valley Bank was heading for a financial iceberg, new reports make it seem that the only risk assessment officer on board was focused on making sure the deck chairs were painted in rainbow colors.
According to the U.K. Daily Mail, the bank did not even have a top risk assessment official from April 2022 until January 2023, which by chance was also the month two top officials set plans in motion to dump large amounts of stock. In January, Kim Olson was hired.
The bank collapsed Friday in the second-largest collapse in U.S. banking history.
Meanwhile Jay Ersapah, the chief risk officer for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, who calls herself a “queer person of color from a working-class background,” was busy with a “pride” campaign and creating “safe spaces” for staff, the Mail reported.
The website Outstanding listed Ersapah in its 100 LGTB Future Leaders because she was “instrumental in initiating the organization’s first ever global ‘safe space catch-up,’ supporting employees in sharing their experiences of coming out. “
“Jay created the first month-long SVB EMEA Pride campaign, involving an awareness video with representatives of the firm’s LGTBQ+ communities and allies across the Executive, Board, Stonewall, and SVB UK’s LGBTQ+ charity partner,” it said, adding that she was working to “promote LGBTQ+ best practices for SVB’s external clients.”
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