Ken Lamar

Board of Directors AxiomSL

Kenneth Lamar is the founder and principal partner at Lamar Associates LLC and works as an independent senior advisor the Deloitte Centre for Regulatory Strategies. Mr. Lamar also is a member AxionSLs Advisory Board.

He served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York providing advice and counsel, namely on emerging data collections, developing data quality programs, and data management issues.  Prior to this role, he was the head of the Statistics Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in which he was responsible for most of the data collections systems and data quality programs.  Mr. Lamar also held several leadership positions in the Federal Reserve System that supported the design of data collections, the associated quality assurance programs, and the technical implementation of data collections. 

Mr. Lamar has experience in developing data management practices and has worked on data maturity models with CMMI. He has championed leading practices for financial firms to provide high quality data to regulators and other data collectors.  Concepts he has developed for industrywide adoption covers accountability models, quality assurance functions, point of origin reviews, and enhanced internal audit programs. 

Mr. Lamar’s nearly 40 years of experience in leading data operations includes building data ingestion systems and data quality programs.  As part of his leadership roles, he has managed close relationships with other banking agencies, trade groups, and financial services firms. He possesses deep technical knowledge of Federal Reserve data collections including, financial statement and holding company reporting requirement; financial stability data collections, deposit reporting (including expertise in Federal Reserve Regulation D), cross-border and international position data; and counterparty exposure reporting. The scope of his knowledge also covers primary dealer reporting, foreign exchange and derivative reporting; and legal entity reporting