Vice President Analyst

STEPHEN C. GIBBS, CFA

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PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE:

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS

****-******* **** ********* –Business and Competitive Analysis (Jan 2012 – Present)

Lead for Fidelity’s Corporate Finance enterprise level business and competitive analysis activities.

- CFO Support: recurring and ad hoc support for Fidelity’s CFO for internal Board and Senior Management presentations, monthly

narrative report regarding Fidelity’s complete financial position and the trends impact this. Conducted ad hoc analyses of key drivers,

business unit and industry results, trends and potential forward looking impact.

- Rating Agencies: Prepared presentations and follow up materials for quarterly meetings with S&P and Moody’s regarding Fidelity’s

businesses, profitability trends, and drivers. Worked with the Treasury group regarding the firm’s capital and liquidity positions.

- Regulatory: Worked closely with Fidelity’s regulatory, legal, public policy and government affairs groups to prepare presentations

supporting Fidelity’s position on Systemic Risk and Money Market Reform.

- Debt Offering: Collaborated with various Fidelity groups and organizations in preparing the Offering Memorandum, Road Show

presentation and banker Due Diligence efforts for Fidelity’s 144A Debt Offering.

- Ran Fidelity’s enterprise level competitive analysis group, reporting and analyzing industry trends, competitor earnings, ad hoc analyses,

and coordinated with competitive groups throughout the firm’s business units.

Vice President – Client and Segment Cost and Profitability (Dec 2010 to Jan 2012))

Headed up a new focus on understanding various aspects of Institutional client and segment profitability and the

cause and effect relationship between the client business activities and the costs associated with those activities. In

addition to client analytics, responsible for making recommendations for potential client actions and incorporating

findings into current and future client pricing decisions.

Vice President – Chief Financial Officer for Fidelity Capital Markets (Feb 2008 to Dec 2010)

CFO for the Trading operations within Fidelity as well as the Prime Brokerage business.

- With a group of 10 people, was responsible for the entire financial support of Fidelity’s $500M Capital Markets

business, including: Equity and Fixed Income Trading, Prime Services, Foreign Exchange, Securities Lending,

Syndicate and Structured Products.

- FP&A activities included: closing of the monthly books, product and business unit P&Ls, daily and monthly

reporting of product revenue. Responsible for signing off on all financial statements.

- Created detailed monthly revenue analytics used by the FCM President, Product Heads and the Institutional CFO

and CAO.

- Constructed the first product level balance sheet for Capital Markets business, including operating and regulatory

capital, as well as, return on capital measures. Educated the senior on the balance sheet and the impact of changes

in the business on the balance sheet, capital usage and returns on the capital.

- Implemented the price comparison and monitoring process of the firm’s Fixed Income inventory.

- Presented at company meetings, business reviews with the Institutional President, and Initiative business cases to

Institutional Investment Committees.

- Worked closely with the business unit Controller on all controls and accounting issues around the income

statement and balance sheet.

- Active member of the FCM Business Acceptance Committee, Risk Committee, Investment Committee, Capital

Commitments Committee, Interest Committee, New Products Committee, Compensation Committee, and member

of the Senior Management Team within FCM.

- CFO of Fidelity Forex, LLC.

Vice President – Strategic Planning and Competitive Analysis (2007 to February 2008)

Responsible for the strategic planning, business and competitive analysis for the Fidelity Institutional group of

companies.

- Jointly ran the strategic planning process with the Institutional CFO including developing the unified strategy and

initiatives.

- Started the Strategy Management Office responsible for driving the analysis the company’s strategic investments,

setting up the Investment Committee and facilitating the allocation of capital to the most important strategic

investment, making sure they align with the company’s overall 5 year plan.

- Worked with multiple business unit CFO’s and Presidents on plans, investments, creating Key Performance

Indicators to monitor the success of their businesses.

- Ran the competitive analysis group developing deep dives into competitor businesses, strategies, P&Ls and

balances sheets.

FIDELITY MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH CO.

Equity Analyst (2005 to2007)

Covered 25 Machinery companies with market caps ranging from $300M to $54B.

- 64.0% (16/25) of recommendations have outperformed the S&P 500 benchmark year to date.

- Used a variety of valuation methodologies including discounted cash flows, relative multiples, historical price

performance, and cycle analysis in making buy and sell recommendations and evaluating reward/risk scenarios.

- Developed stock investment thesis and opportunities by combining top down and bottoms up market and

competitive research and analysis, interviews with management and industry experts, leveraging research across

different analyst’s sectors, and detailed analysis on company’s earnings, cash flow and balance sheets.

- Worked closely with Portfolio Managers in the Value, Core and Growth teams to make recommendations tailored

specifically to their style of management.

- Communicated investment ideas and ongoing news flow to portfolio managers through formal and informal

written and verbal formats.

FORTIS INVESTMENTS

2003 to 2005 Vice President – Equity Analyst

Covered 20 Basic Materials (Chemicals, Metals & Mining, Paper) and 32 Industrial (Capital Goods, Transportation,

Commercial Services) companies with market caps greater than $2.5B.

- 58.1% (25/43) of recommendations outperformed S&P sector benchmarks during tenure.

- Used a variety of valuation methodologies including DCF, relative multiples and historical price performance to

make buy and sell recommendations as well as entry and exit points in portfolios.

- Built supply/demand models for various commodities impacting my materials and industrial companies.

- Actively involved in management of Large Cap Core, Multi-cap Best Select, and Global Materials sector and

diversified Global Equity portfolios. Inputs include sector weightings, individual stock holdings/ weightings and

risk/return portfolio construction.

PUTNAM INVESTMENTS

1998 to 2003 Vice President – Equity Analyst, International Equities (1999 – 2003)

Covered European Banks, European Insurers and asset gatherers for the International Equity team with a market cap

range of $5 – 40B. Previously followed global mid and small cap financials, generating new investment ideas and

developing own coverage list with market cap range of $1 – 15B.

- Recommendations outperformed fund benchmarks in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

- Evaluated companies through bottoms up, fundamental analysis with a strong focus on valuation.

Vice President – Senior Business Analyst, Corporate Development (1998 – 1999)

- Performed project-based quantitative and qualitative research and analysis to develop the firm’s global presence

and assist in setting its corporate strategy.

- Conducted thorough company and market research, analysis, valuation and written business cases on several

financial joint ventures/acquisitions in Japan, Australia, France, and Canada.

1994 - 1998FIDELITY INVESTMENTS

Senior Business Analyst, Fidelity Management & Research Co. (1997-1998)

Senior Financial Analyst, Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Co. (1994-1997)

1993 - 1994FLEET BANK, CORPORATE BANKING DIVISION - Senior Credit Analyst

1990 - 1993NCR CREDIT CORP./AT&T CAPITAL CORP. - Credit Analyst

EDUCATION: Master of Business Administration, Concentration: Finance

August 1990 Miami University, Oxford, OH

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Major: Marketing

May 1988 Miami University, Oxford, OH

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