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EDUCATION
May 2011 Chapel Hill, NC
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL
Master of Business Administration Concentrations: Finance & Sustainable Enterprise
Jan-April 2011 Hong Kong, China
THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HKUST International Exchange Courses: Chinese Finance & Investment, Clean Tech & Renewable Energy
March 2005 Milan, Italy
BOCCONI UNIVERSITY
Master of Science in Financial Markets Management (summa cum laude) Major: Quantitative Finance
EXPERIENCE
2010 – 2011 Chapel Hill, NC
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT FUND
Industrials Analyst and International Markets Strategist
Managed portfolio of over $1.8 million in assets
Conducted fundamental qualitative and quantitative investment analyses for the industrial sector. For the past 12
months, the Fund’s industrial sector outperformed the relative benchmark by 239bps
Allocated assets and rebalanced stock positions in various sectors based on fluctuations in macro-economic risks
Developed investment strategies aimed at generating alpha
Executed a “Long Corn vs. Short Wheat” futures strategy which generated an arbitrage profit of $28k
Summer 2010 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
VALE
Finance Strategist and Risk Manager Associate
Researched and developed with other strategists analytical risk tools to address portfolio construction and
optimization for Vale capital structure and for potential target acquisition companies
Conferred with other financial engineers and analysts to understand and evaluate risk models and market
dynamics, in order to consult executive committee on the best practice
Applied mathematical and statistical techniques to address finance issues that reduced cost of capital by 45bps
2009 Geneva, Switzerland
KOCH SUPPLY & TRADING
Front Office Risk Manager for European Petroleum Products’ Desk
Estimated market risks (VAR) and provided in-depth analysis of specific trades, dealing with more than CHF 7.5
billion in assets, including CHF 3.5 billion in physical assets
Analyzed and explained the trading mark to market with a financial engineering emphasis (i.e. Greeks) on risk
components aimed at reducing excessive fluctuations in the desk’s performance
Trained and mentored junior analysts
2006 – 2008 London, UK
BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Front Office Risk Manager for Commodities Hybrids Derivatives’ Desk
Responsible for building and reviewing daily commodities market risk reports and following up implications with
more than $15 billion of assets
Devised correlations recovery strategy to collect on defaulted debt (i.e. Commodity Collateralized Obligations)
using internal and third-party models, resulting in a 20% increase in monthly recovery volumes
Responsible for executing a new streamlined reporting process, resulting in a savings of 30 man-hours monthly
Maintained pricing models and methods for new structures and non-standard deals aimed at improving
Barclays’ interest and fee policies
Enhanced the risk management process by creating customized reports for traders and senior management to
perform portfolio stress-test analyses and assess the effectiveness of portfolio hedges
2005 –2006 London, UK
CALYON INVESTMENT BANK
Structurer for Commodities Structured Products
Designed and priced exotic Structured Product deals worth between $5-10 million
Produced sensitivity analyses of commodity price dynamics and developed customized reports aimed at
monitoring global sales activity
Collected and analyzed clients’ financial information and conducted research on various industries and markets to
produce commercial proposals and recommendations
Bloomberg certified, expert in Access, Excel, Matlab & VBA programming, statistical/financial data packages
SKILLS:
English, Italian, French HOBBIES: Net Impact, Habitat for Humanity, Basketball, Soccer
LANGUAGES:
IPADE Business School (Mexico, 2010); Strathclyde University (Scotland, 2004); Havana University (Cuba, 2002)
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