Head of Finance and Operations, COO

Eugene Markman

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MarketFactory, Inc. NY, New York

Head of Finance and Operations 2/2014 – Present

Report directly to the CEO, taking on the role and responsibilities of acting CFO and COO of the company while directly managing a team of 3 employees spread across New York and London.

Actively drive business development including managing sales staff, implementation of sales strategy, growth initiatives and personally maintaining existing client relationship.

Managed the growth and scaling of the business from $2m to $10m in SaaS sales and from 8 to 40+ employees in 3 years.

Responsible for overseeing all corporate day to day operations including managing accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, expense management, human resources, contract management, procurement and vendor relationship functions.

Implemented accounting, revenue recognition, billing, expense management systems and HRIS systems to create control and assist in efficiently scaling the business.

Secured multiple credit lines of over $5m for business working capital and maintained the ongoing relationships with partner bank and non-bank lenders.

Responsible for managing company’s cap table, investor (institutional VC and angel) relationships and communication.

Actively involved as the internal lead in Series-B equity raise.

Credit Suisse A.G. Zurich, Switzerland/ NY, New York

COO of Interest Rate Products Trading 10/2007 – 2/2014

Reported to the head of America’s rates trading desk as a COO to manage and support 27 traders and 23 people in Sales and Structuring in treasuries, Swaps, Options and Exotic Rates on a daily operational basis and acted as the liaison between the trading desk, all internal support functions, external vendors, auditors, legal and federal regulators.

Designed and automated reporting processes to provide management metrics, business KPI and performance analysis to the management team.

Performed all financial analysis, modeling, reporting and financial planning for the trading desk including managing a $1.2bn product revenue and $700m expense budget while regularly working to adjust the business strategy in accordance to the performance and the rates trading market.

Created and implemented a strategy to reduce spending by $150m, Balance Sheet usage by $10bn in 2013 to become more capital efficient and to meet Basel3 RWA requirements.

Created a systems of controls for management to monitor sales and trading activity, and to ensure all due diligence and supervisory tasks are performed to prevent errors, fraudulent trading and ensure that the trading desk is operating within guidelines set by federal regulators.

Assistant Vice President, CFO Investment Bank Finance

Advised internal clients on enhancing the financial reporting processes, regulatory reporting processes and P&L analysis for the Americas region as well as represented clients at meetings with senior management.

Analyzed an $8billion (2011) P&L for profitability and high capital requirements due to risk exposure of key business in the Americas for the Regional CFO.

Analyzed CS Private Banking America’s profitability for Americas Senior management, identifying key areas to improve profitability by over $75m annually through consolidating roles to reduce headcount, outsourcing operations functions and offering clients new financial products.

Led a team of 3 in identifying and validating savings opportunities for the Investment Bank, leading to expense reductions of over $60m.

Assisted senior management in overseeing trading desk activity, meeting the guidelines set forth by regulators and measuring performance.

Citigroup Inc. NY, New York

Financial Analyst, Financial Control 7/2006 – 10/2007

Managed an annual expense budget of $9 billion for the Citigroup O&T division.

Led team’s efforts to do manage the O&T business by creating various financial models used for corporate planning, analysis and reporting; resulted in cost savings of $20m annual.

Managed and coordinated the financial reporting process of all Citigroup O&T divisions.

EDUCATION

New York University – Stern School of Business New York, NY

Master of Business Administration; Specializations: Finance and Banking May 2012

Binghamton University Binghamton, NY

Bachelor of Science in Financial Economics May 2005

SKILLS, ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Language: Fluent in Russian, conversant in Spanish

Activities: Proficient with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Access, Quickbooks, PeopleSoft, Visual Studio,

HTML, DBASE, C++, Hyperion Essbase, Crystal reports, Business Object, various Risk Management Systems

Interests: Travel, Personal portfolio management; Running, Skiing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

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