Aparna Ramesh

Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Aparna Ramesh is the CFO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Prior to becoming CFO, she served as vice president in the Financial Support Office, FSO. Prior to coming to the Federal Reserve 12 years ago, she spent a decade in Banking (M&T Bank and Cambridge Savings Bank). Her responsibilities in these two financial institutions spanned financial profitability, asset-libility risk management and commercial product management. As vice president in the FSO, Aparna co-chaired the Financial Management Leadership Team, had responsibility for  developing the priced services pro forma financials and environmental costs, and leading various efforts related to multi-year spend management and the formulation of the Committee on Spend Stewardship. As CFO, Aparna has responsibility for Accounting, Procurement, Financial Planning and Analysis, Accounting Policy and Operations, COSO risk management and data analytics.

Aparna presents routinely to external audiences on a variety of strategic finance and technical finance topics. She is actively engaged in various FinTech initiatives with a focus on positively improving social pain points. Aparna serves on the Board (as treasurer) of a non-profit, BEST Corporation that is focused on better jobs, is on the Board of the Boston chapter of Financial Executives International, is a steering committee member of the Boston CFO leadership council and the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA).

Aparna has earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of management, an MS in finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an integrated masters (engineering, economics and management) from the Birla Institute of Technology. Aparna also has a diploma in Banking from the National School of Banking. Aparna is a Fellow of the 2017 class of the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Aparna resides in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.