VALERIAN AGNELO CRASTO
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
. Proven track record with over 20 years of progressive experience in the
financial services industry.
. Values and principle driven with a reputation for integrity and
professionalism.
. Success and proven ability in providing leadership across functions,
cultures and geographic boundaries.
. Broad and diversified experience in risk governance having held key roles
in the first, second and third line of defense (Front Office, Finance,
Operations, Risk Management, Internal and External Audit).
. International exposure having worked in five countries and directed
global teams in multi-locations.
. Extensive experience across the wide spectrum of the Financial Services
Industry: Treasury & Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Wealth
Management; Corporate Banking & Consumer Banking.
. Champion on governance and risk management having advised and enabled
management of financial institutions to improve their control environment
and enhance risk management practices and culture.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DBS Bank, (Head Office) Singapore
Jan 2007 - Date
DBS, the largest financial services group in Asia and largest bank in South
East Asia with operations across 15 countries including Singapore, Hong
Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea,Vietnam, Japan, UAE, UK
& USA. The bank's strong capital position and credit ratings among the
highest in Asia earned it Global Finance's "Safest Bank in Asia" accolade
for five consecutive years from 2009 to 2013.
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND COO, TREASURY & MARKETS (T&M) Jan 2009 -
Date
Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the T&M business, leading the Business
Management Support/COO units (7 direct reports with a total staff of 70 in
7 countries) and reporting to the Global Head of T&M. T&M businesses
include: Trading and Sales, Structuring, Treasury Investments (TI), Debt
Capital Markets (DCM), Treasury and Liquidity Management (TLM). T&M total
revenue over S$2 billion per annum.
Key responsibilities include the following:
. Developing and implementing the overall business plan and strategy for
the T&M business.
. Overseeing IT strategy implementation and ensuring the infrastructure
supports the business needs.
. Championing revenue growth and managing cost to improve overall
profitability of the business.
. Directing resources delivering high standards of operational
efficiency and customer service.
. Implementing systems of governance, controls and compliance including
risk framework, policies and procedures for the end-to-end processes
for the T&M business.
. Managing market, credit, operational risk for the business as the
first line of defense working closely with Group Risk, Compliance,
Finance and Operations to identify, assess and mitigate all risks.
. Managing balance sheet and capital usage for T&M business working
closely with Group Finance.
. Planning, budgeting, developing and tracking KPI's including risk-
based performance measurement.
Major achievements include:
. Established the regional risk governance framework for the end-to-end
processes across T&M.
. Instituted a quarterly business risk review exercise across all risk
types and across all locations.
. Improved the cost to income ratios consistently through efficiency
and productivity.
. Enabled business to streamline sales processes and distribution of
products to improve cross-selling.
. Established processes to comply with Global Financial Regulatory
Reform for OTC Derivatives.
. Reduced Operational Losses significantly by being proactive and
dealing with root causes of issues.
. Improved ORM KPI scorecard and Audit Ratings as a result of an
improved control environment.
Member of following Group Committees: Market & Liquidity Risk Committee;
Operational Risk Committee; GALCO; Capital Committee; Product Approval
Committee; and Business Control Committee.
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SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GROUP AUDIT Jan
2007 - Dec 2008
Reporting to the Head of Group Audit and leading a team of 30 professional
auditors across Asia.
Accountable for directing and leading Group Audit coverage for the
following key areas:
. Global Products/Businesses: Treasury & Markets (T&M): Sales & Trading
(including Derivatives and Structured Products for Equities, Interest
Rate, FX, Commodities and Credit); Capital Markets; Investment
Banking; Vickers Securities (brokerage arm); and Global Transaction
Services (GTS).
. Global Functions: Risk Management; Corporate Treasury (ALM); Finance;
Legal and Compliance.
. In addition, country responsibility for India, Indonesia, Korea,
Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines.
. Independent reviews for BASEL II implementation (including reviews for
Model Validation).
Primary responsibility for the following:
. Developed the overall audit strategy and annual audit plan.
. Hiring, training and mentoring a high performance team of professional
auditors.
. Conducting thorough risk assessments and executing a comprehensive
audit plan responsive to the risks of the organization.
Enabled BU's to achieve business objectives while balancing governance and
compliance requirements.
CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE (CIBC), Head Office, Toronto, Canada
SENIOR DIRECTOR, POLICY & ADVISORY, CONTROLLER'S GROUP 2005 -
2007
Please refer details on next page (Page 3).
BANK OF AMERICA, Charlotte, N.C. USA (Corporate Headquarters)
2001-2005
Bank of America, one of the world's largest financial institutions and then
the 2nd largest bank in the USA.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, LOB OPERATIONAL RISK EXECUTIVE 2004
- 2005
The largest retail bank in the U.S. and serving 33 million consumer
relationships with more than 5,800 retail banking offices, more than 16,500
ATMs.
Responsible for management oversight and supervision of following key
activities for Operational Risk Management (ORM) for the Global Consumer
Bank:
. Developed and implemented ORM procedures and governance routines.
. Risk Identification and Assessment: Loss incidence database, Business
Self Assessment, Key Risk Indicators (KRI) including Operational Risk
Dashboard and New Product Approval Process.
. Risk Mitigation and Control: Audit Issues Management Process; Event
Risk Management.
Also, responsible for Governance & Risk Management oversight processes for
the Banking Center Channel.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, AUDIT DIRECTOR, GCIB
2003 - 2004
Directed an audit team of 12 for Global Corporate Investment Banking (GCIB)
in NYC and Charlotte.
. Directing the audit coverage for following key global businesses for
Bank of America Securities (BAS): Global Equities: Cash Equities,
Equity Financial Products, Equity Capital Markets; Equity Financing:
Prime Brokerage (including Hedge Funds), Securities Lending;
Investment Banking: Industry Groups and Mergers &Acquisitions; and
Equity Research.
. Led the implementation for Sarbanes-Oxley for GCIB, including
documentation and testing.
. Responsible for directing audit coverage for following key GCIB-wide
centralized group functions that cut across all products and line of
businesses in GCIB: Trading Market Risk and Credit Risk Management;
GCIB Finance; GCIB Compliance; Global Securities Operations.
. Active engagement and participation on the following key GCIB
committees: GCIB Operation Risk Management Committee; GCIB Risk
Management Extended Leadership Team; New Products Committee;
Supervision & Control Committee; BAS Board Meeting, GCIB Risk
Committee.
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SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, AUDIT DIRECTOR, CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP 2003
Led and directed a team of 40 professional auditors including 4 audit
managers (1 SVP and 3 VPs) located across the country with responsibilities
for the Global Consumer Products Group business for the largest Retail Bank
in the USA which included: Consumer Real Estate (including home mortgages
and home equity); Card Services; Dealer Financial Services; Auto and
Specialty Loans; and Consumer Special Assets.
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR AUDIT MANAGER, TREASURY RISK MGT. 2002
VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR AUDIT MANAGER, TREASURY & FINANCE (From Feb 2001)
Responsible for managing major reviews for strategic and significant
functions of the bank including:
. Economic Capital Methodology and Shareholder Value Added (SVA)
Methodology and Process.
. Interest Rate Risk Management and Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP)
Methodology and Process.
. Corporate Insurance and Risk Transfer.
. International Treasury (EMEA) London.
. Trading Market and Credit Risk Management.
. Structural Foreign Exchange and Translation Risk Management;
. Corporate Investments Portfolio including Securities, Derivatives and
Whole Loan Book.
Many of the audits were considered to be breakthrough performances and well
received by business partners, senior leadership team and regulators.
CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE (CIBC), (Head Office), Toronto, Canada
SENIOR DIRECTOR, POLICY & ADVISORY, CONTROLLER'S GROUP 2005 -
2007
DIRECTOR, AUDIT, TREASURY & BALANCE SHEET MANAGEMENT 2000 -
2001
SENIOR MANAGER, AUDIT, CIBC WORLD MARKETS
1998 - 2000
MANAGER, AUDIT, NORTH AMERICA & TRADING
1997 - 1998
CIBC, a leading Canadian based financial institution and one of the largest
banks in North America with international operations across the globe.
Returned from the USA after working for BoA in July 2005 to work as Senior
Director, Policy & Advisory for CAD (Chief Accountant's Division) in the
Controller's Group. My mandate was to ensure effective policy development
related to Management Accounting & Reporting, so as to provide performance
measurement information aligned with the new organization structure.
Measure the different business lines' performance from an economic risk
adjusted and shareholder value perspective with aim of supporting effective
business decision-making and balancing risk and reward.
Key areas or responsibility included:
. Management Accounting and Reporting: Corporate wide Policies and
Standards.
. Measure and Manage Model: P/L Accountability for Products, Channels
and Business Segments.
. Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP) and Treasury Allocations relating to
Interest Rate Risk Management.
. Attribution of Economic Capital (RAROC) and Shareholder Value Add
(SVA).
. Legal Entity International Tax Transfer Pricing.
. Hedge Accounting: Fair Value Hedges; Cash Flow Hedges, NIFO Hedges;
and Fair Value Option.
. Key projects related to Treasury Business Architecture (new Financial
Instrument Standards).
In Corporate Audit from June 1997 to February 2001 and primarily
responsible for directing, managing, planning and executing the audits for
the following businesses in CIBC World Markets: Sales & Trading (Equities,
Debt, FX, and Commodities); Financial Products (Equities, Interest Rate and
Credit Derivatives); Investment Banking (DCM, ECM, and M&A); Wealth
Management (TAL Investment Funds); Treasury & Balance Sheet Management.
Location coverage included Toronto, New York, London and Montreal.
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MANAGER, FUTURES AND OPTIONS, DERIVATIVES OPERATIONS 1996 -
1997
BANK OF MONTREAL, Toronto, Canada
Bank of Montreal, Canada's first bank, a highly diversified financial
institution that ranks as one of the largest banks in Canada and North
America.
. Responsible for the supervision and control of Derivatives Operations
including activities related to the processing of Futures and Options,
(exchange traded and OTC options), including interest rate option
products (caps and floors), swaptions and FX options for several booking
units around the world.
. Direction and supervision of back office staff for all Futures and
Options, ensuring a high level of service to Dealing Executive, Senior
Dealers and Risk Management.
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT, TREASURY AND FINANCE
1995 - 1996
ONTARIO PENSION BOARD, Toronto, Canada
Ontario Pension Board is one of Canada's largest pension funds with a
diversified investment portfolio of $8.5 billion, which included foreign
and local equities, bonds, derivatives and real estate holdings.
. Responsible for the effective management of investment accounting,
accurate and appropriate financial, statutory and management reporting.
. Monitor and report on investment activities with regard to the Board's
overall compliance with and requirements of the investment policies and
objectives i.e. asset mix policy, portfolio diversification, rate of
return, compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT 1993
- 1994
NOMURA INVESTMENT BANKING E.C., Bahrain, Middle East
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 1991 -
1992
MANAGER, OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 1990
- 1991
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
1989 - 1990
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR COMMERCE, Bahrain, Middle East
ACCOUNTANT 1986
- 1989
ERNST & YOUNG, Bahrain, Middle East
ASSISTANT AUDIT MANAGER
1985 - 1986
A.F.FERGUSON & CO. (AFF) CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS, Bombay, India
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1. Certified General Accountant, (CGA) May 1998
Certified General Accountants Association of Canada
2. Chartered Accountant, (CA) November 1984
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
3. Bachelor of Commerce, December 1982
Bombay University, India
CITIZENSHIP
1. Citizen of Canada
2. Permanent Resident of Singapore (PR Status)
3. Overseas Citizen of India (OCI Card)