Third‑party risk management: Navigating complexity in a volatile world
Insights from the new 2026 KPMG global TPRM study

Roy is a Chartered Accountant and Head of Investigations and Corporate Forensics at KPMG in the UK. He has been conducting forensic investigations and disputes in many countries for 21 years. Roy has acted on behalf of several regulators and many multinational clients to conduct regulatory driven financial investigations of fraud, financial statement misstatements, misconduct and money laundering – often together with leading law firms in cross border work. Roy has testified in several forums and believes that the effective investigation of fraud requires a multi-disciplinary approach of financial skills, regulatory context, technology-driven efficiency and analysis. By working with our leading team of specialists in the UK and our member firms across the globe we bring a consistent and robust approach to multi-jurisdictional fraud and misconduct investigations, supporting our clients to respond to regulatory inquiry and crisis incidents.

Joey is a Principal in KPMG’s Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk practice and leads the U.S. Enterprise Risk Management solution. Joey has global experience that includes evaluating and designing governance frameworks and risk management programs; assessing governance and risk management effectiveness; designing risk and compliance reporting frameworks; conducting best practice reviews; and helping companies implement ERM, Internal Audit, SOX programs.

Diana Keele is a Managing Director in our Cybersecurity and Technology Risk practice overseeing our US Third Party Security services. Based in Phoenix, Arizona she is experienced in executing large-scale security and compliance risk projects at global institutions across all sectors. Diana’s ability to understand third party risks related to complex technology environments, vendor relationships and supply chain and manage stakeholder expectations has allowed her to develop Intelligent Automation based solutions and programs and execute organizations programs on their behalf with a transformation led mindset and approach. Diana’s areas of specialization include Third Party Risk Management (TPRM), Supply Chain Risk and Continuity, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) and TPRM & GRC Technology enablement.

Maneesha is a Partner and Heads Managed Services across Business Consulting and Risk Advisory for KPMG in India. Under managed services’ remit, she has oversight on sub service lines like Forensic, Finance and accounting, HR, Learning Services, Insight Led sales, Digital business operations and Sourcing. Maneesha has over 25 years of strong due diligence, finance and accounting experience with KPMG in India, American Express and Agilent Technologies. In her last 16 years with the firm, she has steered new service lines, built multi-cultural and dimensional teams, managed global account relationships, and built client relationships at the executive level. She has been engaged in mitigating risks around credit portfolio, helping with and influencing clients for optimising business results. Maneesha specialises in background screening, corporate intelligence, third party risk management, counterparty due diligence on supply chain and providing strategic risk mitigation methodology across a broad spectrum of fraud and ethic related issues and events. She has been a key architect of the set-up and success of Verifications Services and Counter Party due diligence services in KPMG in India. She has helped clients across IT/ ITeS, consumer markets, telecom, retail and financial services in risk assessment and delivering combined risk methodology based on gathering data and intelligence, including sanction screenings, deep research, and operationalising the deliverables in line with compliance and regulatory mandates. She has also led engagements on KYC related to customer onboarding, anti-money laundering and rolling reviews. In addition to being a forensic practitioner, Maneesha actively engages in business discussions for HR, finance, insight led sales, and customer operations, leveraging her insights to identify and implement strategic improvements that analyse workflows and help achieve desired outcomes. Her leadership has been instrumental in growing and incubating leading practices for these services both internally and externally, leading to increased efficiency and stronger business relations. Her prior experience includes over six years with American Express in financial control and in her last role with Agilent technologies, she headed the Credit and Collections department for Americas and Canada region, and provided onsite leadership for Europe and Asia Pac teams, in credit portfolio management to mitigate imminent risk and controlling bad debts.