Ryan Hittner

Audit & Assurance Principal

AI Assurance

Ryan is an Audit & Assurance principal with more than 20 years of experience helping global institutions strengthen trust, transparency, and performance across complex analytical, financial, and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. His work brings together deep experience in risk management, governance, controls, valuation, modeling, data, automation, and emerging technology to help clients navigate transformation with confidence.

Ryan serves as Deloitte’s Global AI Specialist Leader, leading a team of AI professionals who support assessments of AI systems and advise non-attest clients on large-scale AI strategy and governance transformations. His work focuses on helping organizations understand, govern, and manage the business, risk, and control implications of AI, advanced algorithms, and emerging agentic systems.

Ryan also serves as Deputy Leader of Deloitte’s Valuation & Analytics practice, a global network of professionals with deep experience across traded financial instruments, data analytics, modeling, and valuation. In this role, he leads Deloitte’s Omnia DNAV AI and Derivatives technologies, which incorporate automation, machine learning, and large-scale data to enhance the delivery of valuation and analytics services.

Previously, Ryan served as a leader in Deloitte’s Model Risk Management practice, where he advised financial services institutions on model development, validation, governance, technology enablement, and quantitative risk management. He has led multidisciplinary teams serving several of the top 10 US financial institutions on complex risk, control, and process transformation programs.

Ryan frequently serves as a trusted advisor to CEOs, CFOs, CROs, boards, and audit committees on issues at the intersection of risk, technology, governance, financial markets, and business transformation. His experience spans AI and algorithmic risk, model risk management, financial risks and valuation.

Ryan received a BA in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics & Economics from Lafayette College.

His work sits at the intersection of financial risk, valuation, modeling, data, automation, machine learning, and AI, helping clients strengthen trust, transparency, and business value across critical decision-making processes.

Media highlights and perspectives

Ryan has authored many thought leadership articles and blogs and his commentary has been featured in publications including Accounting Today, CFO Dive, Strategic Finance Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

2026