Joel
Castaneda

Joel Castaneda is Chief Risk Officer at Vantage Bank, a $5B commercial bank headquartered in Texas. He oversees Enterprise Risk and Compliance teams that are putting AI to work—leveraging a unified data infrastructure to automate risk and compliance workflows. Joel enables responsible innovation through forward-looking risk frameworks that keep pace with emerging technology, including the Hazel Network, a bank lead tokenized deposit and payments initiative on blockchain rails—keeping Vantage Prepared for What's Possible™. He started at the OCC in 2007 examining community banks, held risk and operations roles at a Texas bank, and served as a Director within USAA's Enterprise Risk Office.