Rose Battaglia

Managing Director and Co-Head of Regulatory & Exam Management Deutsche Bank AG

Rose Battaglia is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Regulatory & Exam Management. She is a member of the Chief Administration Office Leadership Team and reports directly to the Chief Administrative Officer and Management Board Member. Rose is responsible for not only coordinating the Bank’s relationships with its regulators but also overseeing any external party engagement or exam administration related to regulatory assigned monitors, consultants and/or auditors for all CAO related matters. She also continues to oversee outside counsel management on behalf of the Legal department, which includes managing outside counsel governance and overseeing outside counsel spend and budgets.

Previously, Rose was the Global Chief Operating Officer for Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Deutsche Bank and the Global Chief Administrative Officer for Legal and Compliance at Credit Suisse prior to that. Before joining the financial services industry, she held several positions specializing in the areas of legal operations, client marketing, staff recruiting, training and development and managing professional support services at Shearman and Sterling; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and Spengler Carlson.

Rose is frequently asked to speak and moderate at industry forums on the topics of legal and compliance strategy, transformation, cost management and best practices. She has previously moderated the panel, “The New Normal: External Law Firms and Information Security” at the SIFMA Compliance & Legal Society Annual Seminar and is set to present this year on, “Managing In-House Legal Operations & Compliance Departments.” She also participates yearly in PLI’s Hot Topics for In-House Counsel panel discussions, with her most recent contribution being a part of the “Recent Developments in Legal Operations and AI” panel.

Rose was interviewed by David Barringer and her comments as a “Legal Visionary” were published in Unbound – How Entrepreneurship is Dramatically Transforming Legal Services Today, written by David Galvenski and David Barringer. Moreover, Rose was nominated in 2018 for Financial Time’s Intelligent Business Market Shaper Award.

Rose is a graduate from Fordham University where she received an Economics degree.