FREDERICK TAN
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SENIOR MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE
Summary: 20+ year chronicle of success building and driving growth for globally focused Fortune 500,
Turnaround, and Start-Up Organizations across diverse industries. Highly successful at planning,
executing, and managing business development campaigns de signed to improve market share, operating
efficiencies, and gross revenue. Key qualifications include:
P&L Management Strategic & Operational Business Planning Sales Management
Business & Project Development Private Capital Raising Contract Negotiation Operations
Reengineering International Business Performance Improvement
Objective: To align myself with a visionary management team committed to promoting clean
technologies and energy efficiency while achieving ambitious strategic and financial objectives.
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CAREER PROGRESSION HIGHLIGHTS
2008 – Present
SR. VP- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, Seeman Holtz, Boca Raton, FL
Independent life insurance agency and financial advisory firm serving the High-Net Worth market.
Recruited by President to expand business lines and increase operational efficiencies. Rapidly acquired
knowledge of longevity-linked assets and insurance industry to collaborate in the development of three
new revenue making programs: premium financing, structured settlements and Reg D capital raising.
Developed and manage the operations of a premium financing program which
Business
Development generated revenues of $ 25 million.
Partnered with President in a capital raise through Reg D private
Revenue
Growth placements resulting in a $ 15 million raise.
Manage structured settlement business which generates an estimated
Program/Fund
Management $12 million in annual revenues.
Managing Member, Platinum Structured Income Fund, LLC.
Capital
Raising
2007 – Present
PRESIDENT & FOUNDER, Paraveda Foundation, Miami, FL
A 501(c)(3) dedicated to online spiritual education and community building. Paraveda’s mission is to
serve as a catalyst to spiritual exploration so individuals can discover their life purpose and live soul-
centrically.
Created a detailed organization plan for the foundation.
Strategic
Planning
Designed and launched first generation website with unique spiritual videos
Organizational
Contracted first 8 spiritual teachers and attracted first 150 community
Development
members.
PRESIDENT & BOARD MEMBER, Banorte Securities Int’l Ltd., NY, NY 2001 – 2006
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Grupo Financiero Banorte’s (Mexico’s 4 largest financial conglomerate) international investment
management division.
Full strategic planning, development, management and P&L responsibility. Maintained autonomous
decision-making authority within the areas of R&D, sales and trading, finance, human resources,
technology, and administrative affairs.
PRESIDENT & BOARD MEMBER, Banorte Securities Int’l Ltd. (Continued)
Transformed firm’s commission-based culture and revenue
Strategic
Planning model to that of investment management and recurring revenues.
Led the design and sales offering of an asset allocation investment
Program
Development program targeting high-net worth Mexican nationals and institutions.
Assets under management grew from $300 million to $1 billion.
Created a fee-based program, added 6 Best of Breed mutual fund families,
Revenue &
Profit Growth structured products, and an equity investment program, New programs resulted in
doubling average annual sales (from $ 12 to $ 25 million.) Increased net operating
Sales income from 15% to 25%.
Management
Hired and mentored a team of 27 sales and trading professionals in
Contracting NY and 10 investment professionals in Mexico.
PRESIDENT – WHOLESALE DIVISION, Aphrodisia Products, Inc., Brooklyn, NY 1998 – 2001
Privately owned company operating within the Natural Products Industry.
Recruited by Founder to turnaround failing wholesale division.
Reorganized management, streamlined internal business operations, consolidated
Operations
Reengineering procurement functions to increase operating efficiencies and lower expenses by 20%.
Re-designed pricing strategy, revamped catalogue business and imposed
Market
Positioning minimum margin requirements to increase profitability and reposition firm in the
market.
Reversed a 3 year sales decline within 1 year by doubling wholesale sales to
Sales
Turnaround $1.5 million within 12 months and by improving margins 20%.
1995 – 1998
REGIONAL VP, Fidelity Institutional Investment Services, Inc., NY, NY
Recruited by President as part of a sales management and development team mandated to create
a Bermuda-based family of funds for the High-Net W orth Latin American and Institutional markets.
Generated sales of $ 20 million by gathering $ 250 million in assets from Latin
Sales
American Private Banks located the US and Andean markets.
Oversaw sales, marketing operational, legal, and operational development
Program
Development of the Fidelity Advisor World Funds as part of development and sales team .
EDUCATION
STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, New York, NY 1989
MBA, Finance & International Business
COLGATE UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, NY 1983
BA, International Relations & Political Science
OTHER
Fluent in Spanish. Raised in Larchmont, Bronxville, Caracas, Maracaibo and Taipei. Student of
Yoga, Tantra, and Vedanta.