GARY PORTUGAL
Westcliff-on-Sea Essex
Telephone: (07538) 837521 Email : ************@*****.**.**
EDUCATION
New York University
MBA in Finance 1996
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
BA with Honours, Spanish Literature 1983
EXPERIENCE
Gelber Group LLC., London 2009-2018
Director, Foreign Exchange Trading
•Marketmaker in deliverable emerging market
currencies to leading electronic currency networks
and interbank platforms.
AIG Financial Products, London 2002-2008
Executive Director, Foreign Exchange Trading
•Developed the firm’s e-commerce spot trading
business in G-10 and deliverable emerging
market currencies.
•Shared responsibility for quoting all currencies
to client base and helped managed client relationships.
AIG Trading Group, London 1997-2001
Vice President, Foreign Exchange Trading
•Seconded to London to manage the Group’s
European Monetary System currency business
and served as an interbank market maker.
•Priced and executed client business in Scandinavian
and G10 currencies. Assisted in the maintenance
of client relationships and marketing efforts.
•Initiated the firm’s entry into the spot foreign
exchange e-commerce business in G10 currencies.
AIG Trading Group, Connecticut 1990-1996
Vice President, Foreign Exchange Trading
•Manager of European Monetary System desk and
interbank market maker in EMS currencies.
•Quoted all EMS and G10 spot currencies to the firm’s
client base.
Drexel Burnham Lambert, New York 1985-1989
Assistant Vice President, Foreign Exchange Trading
•Quoted firm’s client base in G10 spot and forward
currencies and currency futures.
•Helped manage and develop client relationships.
Drexel Burnham Lambert, New York 1983-1984
Commodities Group Trainee
•Executed client orders in foreign exchange,
metals, soft commodities and financial futures.
SKILLS
•Fluent in Spanish
•Proprietary trading of foreign exchange options
•Exposure to structured products and credit derivatives