Clarissa Crane

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About Clarissa Crane

An accomplished Risk and Internal Audit Executive, she has extensive experience in spearheading global risk and internal audit operations in high-growth technology companies. She excels in building and then optimizing these functions to be leading edge and efficient. She is able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, while ensuring that staff remain motivated and engaged. She is a reliable partner, adept at collaborating across different areas to comprehend and contextualize strategic risks and risk management practices. She ensures that within her function, resources are strategically allocated to provide timely risk insights to business partners while also enabling investments into automation. She is an effective leader, setting goals and empowering team members to deliver. Her wide-ranging experience in team leadership and risk insight spans diverse areas including insights on strategic initiatives to overseeing automation builds. She possesses a holistic understanding of the implications of risk and appreciates the diversity in risk management approaches across various disciplines.At present, she holds the position of Global Head of Risk & Internal Audit at Shopify where she leads a global, high-performing team. At Shopify, she has built the function from the ground up, setting the vision for the function and then matured and scaled it with Shopify's rapid growth, expansion, and technology adoption.