Leadership Team

Lynn Exton

Chief Risk Officer

Lynn is the Chief Risk Officer for Opportunity International. In this role, she manages Opportunity International’s risk profile and related policies and practices aimed at supporting Opportunity’s growth in a prudent manner and in keeping with good stewardship. The role of the risk officer is integral to Opportunity’s efforts to impact millions of hard working entrepreneurs, at minimal credit, operational, market and reputational loss to the organization.
Lynn is an experienced banker having worked for more than two decades in commercial banking and financial institutions analysis with particular expertise in the areas of bank portfolio analysis, hybrid securities assessment, fixed income research and risk management. Before joining Opportunity International in April, 2008, she worked with Moody’s Investors Service, Merrill Lynch and Chase Manhattan Bank where she was based in London, Hong Kong, New York and Rio de Janeiro. Most recently, Lynn served as a Senior Vice President in Moody’s London office as the Regional Credit Officer for banks in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA), SAIS-Johns Hopkins University (MA) and the Institut d’Etudes Politques (Science Po). Lynn is fluent in French and Portuguese and proficient in Spanish