Experience

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  First chicago, chicago

  Aug 1988 - Jul 1992

  Derivatives dealer

  Associate - Interest Rate Derivatives 1988-91AVP - Currency Derivatives 1991-2

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  Barclays de zoete wedd (bzw)

  Aug 1992 - Mar 1994

  Currency options sales specialist

  Sales and marketing to European corporate and institutional, inter-dealer client-base for currency options and option-linked products.

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  Banque indosuez

  Apr 1994 - Jun 1996

  Head of currency options sales and marketing

  Business development and marketing of bank's capabilities in currency options and option-linked products.

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  Nationsbank, london

  Jul 1996 - Dec 1996

  Fx options and exotics dealer/risk adviser

  Sales and Marketing, Quoting and Dealing of vanilla and exotic currency products.

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  Blackstone consulting, inc

  Jan 1997 - Jul 2001

  Managing director

  Freelance Financial Markets Consultant. Based in Palma de Mallorca Spain, covering clients in Asia, Eurpope, and the Americas.

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  Standard chartered

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  Global head of technical financial training

  Managing all aspects of planning and execution, budgeting and sourcing, quality control and reporting for Standard Chartered Bank's banking and financial markets division

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  Fra blackstone/blackstone consulting

  Jan 2005 - now

  Owner - manager

  Offering knowledge- and research-based services including training and consulting to the International Financial Sector. Domain expertise in Banking and Treasury Management, G/L Accounting for banking and trading books, Derivative Products across the asset classes, Investments and Wealth Management, Risk management and Regulatory compliance. Consulting services in work-flow mapping and design, business analysis, UI/UX design and testing, for financial product and service digitisation.

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  Fra blackstone pte ltd

  Jan 2005 - Dec 2020

  Owner-manager fra blackstone/blackstone consulting

  Offering bespoke training and other research- and knowledge-based services to the financial sector.

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  Contractor - market-leading bank in global markets and ecommerce

  Aug 2013 - Nov 2015

  Senior project manager

  Treasury management, Risk, Product management, Functional analyst. Multiple projects on UX/UI and workflows in electronic dealing of Global Markets products. Platform design for automated quoting and trading, data-capture. Focus in foreign exchange and rates-based financial products.

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  Lucyd pte. ltd

  Sept 2017 - now

  Director
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  Mad technology foundation (singapore)

  Oct 2017 - now

  Director
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  Yfdai finance

  Dec 2020 - May 2021

  Interim chief operations officer

  YFDAI emerged in late 2020 and quickly introduced a compelling product set, establishing a loyal and visionary user community. I'm happy to have been instrumental in filling a c-suite management role. Specifically I led the functional specification and UI/UX design of YFDAI's market-leading Launchpad/incubator for brining new tokens to market. Comprising subscription, vesting, and claiming the dApp is composed of solidity smart-contracts, and rolled out in March 2021 to broad market acceptance.I'm proud to have been part of the c-team and the YFDAI community. The founders and team are committed to offering ethically sound products, and keeping users safe from scams. Guided by an underlying set of values driving fairness and transparency, YFDAI moved quickly to at the forefront of the DeFi market as it evolved. Show less

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  Defit

  Apr 2021 - now

  Advisor / investor

  Advisory around finance and reporting

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  Start-up defi-focused blockchain company

  May 2021 - Oct 2021

  Defi economist - stablecoin research

  Advisor to CEO/Research Analyst for a start-up DeFi-focused blockchain. Job focus on proposed financial market and product initiatives. Research includes intensive analysis of fiat-backed, collateralised, and algorithmic stable-coins. Production of financial product primitive use-cases, risk analysis, and user-journey simulation, write-ups. Analysis of mathematical logic and logistics underlying constant function market maker (CFMM) bonding curves in, including the deployment logic for a concentrated liquidity paradigm. Show less