Waleed Husain is responsible for overseeing Momentus Capital’s risk strategy, ensuring business resilience, and aligning enterprise risk management with corporate objectives and key performance indicators. This includes identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks to optimize portfolio performance in the following areas: credit, underwriting, enterprise risk management, and risk functions.
Waleed brings 18 years of experience leading enterprise risk, insurance, and loss-mitigation programs across both the public and private sectors through periods of transformation, regulatory pressure, and business recovery.
Most recently, he served as a Board Advisor and Deputy Superintendent at the New York State Department of Financial Services, overseeing over 3,000 regulated entities. He has also served within the Supervision & Regulation department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and as Chief Risk Officer at JPMorgan Chase and Ryan Specialty Holdings.
Waleed earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois. He is a U.S.-Commissioned Bank Examiner through the Federal Reserve System and has completed leadership coursework through The Wharton School of Finance. In 2026, he authored the “Working Capital Management” chapter in the Stanford University-level textbook, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.