Chief Technology Officer

Dennis Samuels ******@******.*** 310-***-****

Entrepreneurial, innovative, professional with 20 years’ experience with, Asset Management, Capital Markets, Investment/Retail Banking, Private Equity and advising FinTech companies .

Experience designing technology strategies for global clients, customers and employers.

Customer driven, focused on sustainable performance improvement process through effective communication with business, technology alignment, team development, and leadership.

Infrastructure, vendor management, application development, audit and project management office experience.

Global Trading Infrastructure Design and Implementation

Cloud based communication and collaboration platforms

Public, Private cloud based and Hosted service platforms

Research technology platforms, AI, Machine Learning skills.

Measurement and management metrics

IT Governance, Audit, Security and PMO Development

Team building, mentoring and leadership skills

Global Regulatory and Cyber Security Audit experience

Professional Experience

Indus Capital Partners LP, New York, NY

Chief Information Officer 2015 – November 2018

Strategic transformation, redefining business process, removing legacy market data systems and architecture

Completed global migration to hosted infrastructure, reduced both capital and operating costs.

Promoted ‘Cloud First’ applications strategy, reduced RPO/RTO globally across managed BCP/DR infrastructure.

Migrated legacy accounting, fund administration, operations and risk platform to cloud based, vendor solution.

Successfully passed external cyber security audit. Infrastructure based virtual application/desktop architecture.

Empyrean Capital Partners LP, Los Angeles, CA

Chief Technology Officer 2003 - 2015

Bootstrap experience implementing operations function and technology platforms for multi asset class fund launch.

Staff recruitment, Rapid Application Architecture and design deployed and fully tested ahead of schedule.

SEC compliant, ERP, CRM, Investor Relations, Marketing and secure mobile remote platform design/implementation.

Scaled business infrastructure over 300% within 3 years, reduced annual technology through internal DevOps model

Development, implementation and management of ‘in house’ risk and portfolio measurement systems.

Morgan Stanley, Tokyo, Japan

Executive Director 1999-2003

Managed International cross-functional teams developing and supporting Fixed Income and Equity Trading

Developed advanced analytics/decision support systems for Equity trading and hedging strategies

Deployed first Electronic Fixed Income trading platform across Asia

‘End to end’ High Frequency trading architecture, data feed, data distribution and market execution

Recruited and built market data application support and development team

DeltaMetriX, Singapore

Managing Director 1997-1999

Founded global Technology consultancy, Project Management, IaaS business – direct presence in, Singapore, HK,

Japan, UK, US and Australia.

Project and program resource management, oversight, audit and customer engagement specialist.

Design, buildout and support regional head offices and datacenters for Rabobank, SCB Trading, AIB, AIG FP.

Responsible for all DMX Corporate Business Development,Sales, Marketing and Customer Service.

Implemented Asia based hosted architecture, (LAN, WAN, SAN, Cisco Switching) for European Financial franchises.

Banque Paribas, Singapore

Regional Head of Infrastructure 1990-1997

Infrastructure and staff resources. Responsible for regional support of over 1200 users

Business development, internal consulting to create operational leverage from common application data layers

Consolidated locations and teams into Regional Financial Operations Center

Responsible for regional recruiting, training, retention of technology staff across Asia.

BAII - Sheppards, London, UK

Communications Manager 1987-1990

Led implementations & management global voice /data networks and facilities management for global operations.

Staff recruitment, training and development

Education

Pepperdine University Malibu, CA

Master of Business Administration

Additional Information

Featured Speaker/Panelist: CIO Enterprise Forum, - CFO/CTO synergies, Financial Technology Forum (Big Data, Global IT Management, Trading & Technology Management, SDLC, Rapid & Agile Development/Deployment, Market Data Management), HFM (Incident response planning), Global Communication Platform management

Certifications: PMI, Sybase SQL Server, Fiber Optic Transmission

Applications: Geneva, MIK/IVP DataWarehouse, RiskMetrics, Investor Dynamo, MIK Portfolio Management

Environments: AWS, OMS/EMS platforms Risk/Portfolio Management systems, Data Warehousing, Decision Support Systems, Bloomberg/Thomson Reuters API development. SaaS, MilSpec Secure systems & communication.

Software: VMware, Citrix, Linux, Python, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, MS Windows Server, MSOffice365, Visio.

Professional Affiliations: Member, IoD, Vice President, Bell Canyon Community Center

Volunteer Activities: Hope of the Valley Mission, NBC Universal Triathlon Team, Condors/Titans Jr. Ice Hockey

Languages: English (native); French (proficient); German (basic).

Sports: Former International Athlete and national champion (Swimming), NABC (Boxing), County Team (Squash)

Interests: Travel, continued educational learning and development.

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