Kitwana Folkes

Experience

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  Agency for Reconstruction and Development

  May 2005 - Dec 2007

  Coordinator of Economic Recovary/Human Settlement

  Agency for Reconstruction and Development was a quasi-government agency established to manage the recovery and reconstruction of Grenada after Hurricane Ivan in 2004, which wiped out more than 95% of the county's GDP and damaged or destroyed over 90% of the homes on the island.

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  Government of Grenada

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2011

  Senior Planner

  Responsibilities include: Formulating annual budgets and budget statements, for different Ministries to be included in the country's Annual National Budget. Formulating and writing of projects to be funded by a number of international agencies and organizations (IMF, European Union, World Bank, Organization of American Stated and the Caribbean Development Bank). Coordinator of Grenada's Human Settlement Policy and Strategy implementation (2008-2015).

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  Toussaint Capital Partners, LLC

  Dec 2011 - Jun 2013

  Vice President of Investment Banking

  Toussaint Capital Partners is a boutique investment bank based in New York.

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  Kota Global Securities Inc.

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2014

  Senior Vice President Capital Markets

  Kota Global Securities is an investment bank based in New York with a global footprint, trading in more than 45 countries.

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  CAVU Securities, LLC

  Sept 2014 - May 2015

  Vice President

  Responsibilities and accomplishments Included: Creation the firm’s Capital Markets Coverage Model,Increased firm’s coverage of investment grade corporate and utility issuers by more than 300%, Secured participation in over $20 billion of new issue debt and preferred stock transaction in my first six months at the firm, Corporate bond underwriting and debt syndicate, Fixed income and preferred stock sales and trading and the provision of municipal bond portfolio valuation for a number of clients. Show less

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  Government of the District of Columbia

  Jan 2016 - now

  Debt Manager

  Management of Washington DC's debt portfolio, which includes the issuance of new debt to finance the District's operations and Capital Improvement Plan, the refunding of existing bonds to provide debt service relief, and the preparation of debt service budgets for all debt managed by the Office of Finance and Treasury.