Mr Sean Bell

Flat * Harrington House, ** Cairns Place, Rowan Park SW16 5FS

Mobile; 074******** Email; acr4j2@r.postjobfree.com

Specialities; Online trading, Investment and Private Banking, 'start-up' Leadership skills, Compliance, Operations, Sales/Trading, FX, CFDs, Option/Futures trading, Teams and processes building, Mentoring- Manage the sales distribution plan and strategy;

BAM Capital Ltd (London) September 2009 Present Director of FX business Development London

Working under an appointed rep status and introducing institutional clients to our own white label trading platform through a Dutch Hedge Fund to manage high-net worth clients funds I worked with the regulator to insure that our compliance and business adhered to the UK regulations and I am directly responsible for our systems and controls. Attending global seminars to interact directly with potential clients giving speeches and demonstrating our product offering and learning what our competition are up too, while managing the office sales and business pipeline Establish and execute the company’s business strategy and Identify new niche market opportunities that will enhance the company’s product offerings that will better serve our clients needs, through vendor partnerships. Identify opportunities to enhance the FX product to meet customer needs, through partnership with product. Work with support areas to improve client experience and drive efficiency. Dealing with the client on-boarding, sales and negotiating the commissions that we charge out to our clients and structure the book has a whole

(BLM) London August 2007– September 2009 (2 years 2 months) Head of UK/European Sales

Working for a new start-up introducing broker business looking after the UK and European markets business Work with support areas to improve client experience and drive efficiency. Working with the board and other heads of departments to define the company’s business direction and structuring the business into a more streamlined and profitable company while also dealing with the firms HNW clients to inform them of the firms future business plans and up and coming products. Directly selling to smaller broking houses, hedge funds and banks globally aiming to develop the department into a larger division of the firm, first line of contact for incoming calls, enquires and customers problems

Saxo Bank July 2006– June 2007 (1year) Head of Private Wealth Management

The bench mark for on-line trading companies; my position was Manager of Private Wealth Management and Treasury products for Saxo Bank London. I pro actively created; developed and managed the London office for FX structured products & wealth management concepts generating 23% of the firm’s global profits through my department of ten sales staff. We targeted the firm’s top 5% their client base selling directly to these HNWI while also maintaining very high standards of client satisfaction. Effectively dealing with all client aspects of sales, cold to warm calls. I was also responsible for the recruitment and appraisals of sales staff and responsible for creating a cohesive working environment for staff to work under. I was fully responsible for the UK PWM business infrastructure and selection of external suitable business partners for Saxo bank to work with, I developed the UK sales strategy in co-operation with the Global Head of PWM for a global roll-out throughout the entire banks PWM global departments while having full control of establishing a UK sales team. I had to also implement the banks regional strategies and I was the lead person to investigate trade issues dealing directly with the IT department, back office departmental heads. Developing the business change initiatives and participating in the quarterly management business Control Committee and global strategy meetings with other department heads.

Mint Equities - London January 2006– March 2006 (3 months) Contractor/Consultant

My remit was to help set-up a CFD and FX trading desk for a traditional Equities trading house who wanted to move into this space. The owners knew me from my Citi Bank days and they trusted my fully to bring in the right trading platform and staff and build out with the correct infrastructure and third party providers. This firm was sold to BGC (Barclays Global Cantors)

FSW Securities A-S (Berlin – Germany) March 2002– January 2006 (3 years 11 months) Trading Floor Mg/Sales Trader

Dealing in FX, Equities, CFD's, for a BAFIN registered trading house. I built the sales trading department from scratch and working with the BAFFIN the German regulator to insure the firm was compliant in their actions. Managing the FX costs centre and ensuring the brokerage commissions, prime broker costs and third-party market data vendors (Bloomberg’s, market news systems) and other data were consistently in line with our costs. I was consistently building and adding new client volumes to the business by day-to-day calling and visiting clients to explain the benefits of working with us and our partners while setting up the correct infrastructure for this to benefit both the firm and our clients

SchrodersSalomonSmithBarney (Citi Group) May 2000 – Feb 2002(1 year 10 months) Vice President of FX/Equity Connectivity Program Trading Desk

VP of the electronic programme trading desk for Institutional clients where clients would be price pooled to get the best execution available at the best price available, my role as VP was to monitor the daily trade volumes via FIX/Royal Blue and Syn ticket trading systems from sales traders to institutional clients & Insuring that trades get filled both timely and accurately while also developing both old and new business. Monitoring the trader flow and the department's business performance ensuring quality control of the trading-desk and client satisfaction.

MEB Management Ltd January 1993– May 2000 (7years 5 months) Sales Trader/floor manager

Dealer for Danish based hedge fund trading in spot FX and equity for high net-worth clients and Institutional clients globally I was responsible for setting-up and reporting new controls alongside HR and compliance for the business and insuring that the traders reached their given targets. Managed the firm’s most profitable accounts due to me ability of developing client accounts and building them through referrals. I was responsible for the recruitment of sales traders and assigning weekly and monthly sales targets and conducting sales team's quarterly appraisals of all staff.

Tradition UK Ltd

May 1992– December 1992 (8months) Money Market Dealer Board boy, (junior position) ensuring all verbal orders from trading floor were transferred accurately and speedily to the board for all the inter dealer brokers to see on the entire floor. I was promoted to open currency desk due to flair and ability for figures and excellent coordination skills