New York, New York, United States
Executive Risk Professional currently serving as Americas Lead for Counterparty Risk where I am charged with overseeing the US Global Banking & Markets exposure to its trading clients. Focused on managing counterparty credit risk the team rolled out in 2022 a new risk platform to aggregate client exposure, risk signals and credit quality in a single place linking front office and back office risk measures for a single view of counterparty risk. Prior to that I held leadership roles in the margin operations and onboarding teams dealing in complex structures, focused on risk management, process engineering, regulatory reform, and automation. I forged strong partnership with trading and strategy teams to facilitate new business in a controlled, risk sensitive manner. I started my career at Goldman in structured products middle office working with trading desks to support complex derivative transactions. From there I built the Americas Structures Products Middle office team supporting securitized derivatives transactions through the full life cycle from inception, through trading and ongoing maintenance to final retirement of the security. Prior to Goldman, I held various roles in startup entities in the telecom space focused on finance, M&A and process improvement and automation.
Led 1st Line of Defense team focused on overseeing counterparty credit risk, oversaw the adoption of new risk mitigation framework to appropriately manage risk while enabling additional commercial opportunities. Responsible for client portfolios measuring in the billions of dollars of trade notional.
Headed a global team responsible for establishing margin relationships with clients from the negotiation and execution of trading agreements to the start of trading. Responsible for facilitating implementation of new regulations across Onboarding and Reference Data business units. Review regulations and analyze impact to relevant teams, design process flows to meet evolving regulatory challenges. Manage implementation working with impacted teams to develop technology requirements and rolling out strategic infrastructure
Held several leadership roles managing teams in operations developing new workflows, business process development and operational controls to meet changing industry standards, regulatory requirements and new commercial opportunities.
Member of founding management team launching new product in US market -Developing Sales & Distribution network -Sourcing strategic partnerships with large retail manufacturers
Managed Financed & Accounting Department of $200mm prepaid calling card company -Oversaw the books -Rolled-out budget process -Managed relationship with external auditors
Managed operations of $100 million revenue prepaid calling card subsidiary. - Oversaw pricing and marketing strategies - Managed strategic partnership with local telecom companies - Oversaw distributer network and sales force