Maya has more than 25 years of experience in regulatory compliance and risk management, helping financial services organizations address their most pressing compliance, risk management, and governance challenges to improve their overall operational effectiveness.
About Maya
Maya provides expertise in compliance, risk management, and governance to bank and nonbank clients, enabling them to respond to supervisory actions, develop remediation plans, and enhance their risk management programs while increasing operational effectiveness. As a former bank regulatory lawyer in the public and private sectors, she is recognized for the depth of her expertise spanning various types of financial services businesses.
Maya supports clients in a variety of compliance, fair and responsible banking, enterprise risk, regulatory, and governance matters. These have included safety and soundness exams, consumer compliance oversight, and formal and informal enforcement actions, as well as business activities such as mergers and acquisitions, the permissibility of investments, and new market entry.
Throughout her career, Maya has:
- Directed a comprehensive transformation initiative for a major bank, resulting in a more robust compliance risk management program that proactively identifies, assesses, mitigates, and reports on compliance risks.
- Led the redesign and execution of a leading financial institution’s enterprisewide change management program, resulting in a strengthened framework for regulatory and organizational change, enhancing agility, compliance alignment, and operational resilience.
- Advised a non-U.S. organization exploring strategic entry into the U.S. banking market, guiding business strategy, license and charter selection, regulatory engagement, and market positioning to align with long-term growth, compliance, and operational objectives.
Previously, Maya served as managing director, regulatory compliance, mortgage, and operational and enterprise risk management solutions at Treliant, which was acquired by Huron in 2025. Prior to Treliant, she held the role of partner in Promontory’s risk and compliance practice. She also served as an attorney in the legal division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as senior counsel at the Treasury Department. She has also advised clients on a range of bank supervisory and regulatory matters while in private practice at the law firms of Mayer Brown and Hogan Lovells.
Maya earned a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law.
Maya has guest lectured on bank holding company regulation at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.