JOHN P. SAKOWSKI

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Employment Experience

Prudential Global Investment Management Newark, NJ

Vice President: Money Market Portfolio Manager January 2019 – September 2020

●Member of a 4-person team responsible for managing over $75 billion of front end taxable fixed income assets spread across multiple portfolios including 2a-7 Money Market Funds, liquidity portfolios, 1-3yr enhanced spread lending portfolios, 1-3yr corporate bond funds and the PGIM Ultra Short bond ETF.

●Develop and execute top-down fixed income strategies for individual portfolios understanding the credit, liquidity, cash flow, interest rate, compliance, and performance sensitivity for each.

●Monitor and manage daily compliance to all portfolio regulations and guidelines.

●Understand, prepare and distribute daily, weekly and monthly cash flow reports that dictate liquidity needs and security selection for each portfolio.

●Provide best execution on all purchase and sale transactions in a product mix of time deposits, repurchase agreements, treasuries, agencies, commercial paper, certificates of deposits, and IG corporate bonds both fixed and floating rate.

●Manage day to day administrative issues to support trade and settlement activities by partnering with trading operations.

●Assist and/or represent client services in quarterly client meetings to provide market updates, portfolio metrics, scenario analysis and return forecasts.

●Build and maintain relationships internally with IG credit teams, client management, compliance, risk, long term portfolio managers and cash management to facilitate the efficient management of all front-end portfolios.

●Established external relationships with the banking and broker dealer community to allow for best execution on all transactions and to provide a timely flow of pertinent market information.

Prudential Financial Newark, NJ

Vice President Treasury: Investments August 2007 – January 2019

●Desk head responsible for managing Prudential Financials’ three directly issued commercial paper programs.

●Effectively develop and maintain commercial paper pricing strategies that take advantage of market opportunities to achieve low-cost short-term financing that are at or through the Federal Reserve’s benchmark rates.

●Develop and manage liquidity guidelines that offer the appropriate amount of funding for insurance company subsidiaries and holding company affiliates, evaluating cost, leverage, and rating agency constraints.

●Monitor daily the capital market, interest rate and liquidity environment to determine overall impact on all three programs from a liquidity and cost perspective.

●Daily monitoring and management of various cash flow and risk reports for all three commercial paper programs as well as PICA’s General Account and PFI investment portfolios.

●Manage the intercompany loan portfolio in order to fund subsidiaries in an appropriate manner and provide efficient deployment of holding company liquidity.

●Provide regularly to senior management updates on liquidity positions for all three commercial paper programs, intercompany funding portfolio and holding company investment portfolio.

●Develop strategies for the investment of firm wide excess cash that provide the appropriate mix of capital preservation, liquidity and yield that fall within investment policy guidelines.

●Oversee the marketing process which includes the management of significant direct buy side institutional relationships and commercial and investment banking relationships as well as the management of several junior investment and operation associates.

●Responsible for leading a large diverse team that included multiple internal and external parties tasked with structuring and launching the currently second largest funding backed commercial paper program in the market. Pricoa Short Term Funding, LLC is a cash flow matched spread lending program that has conservatively added north of $7MM in earnings on an annual basis.

●Partnered with PGIM’s securities lending desk and Enterprise Risk Management to develop one of the industry’s first ever large-scale direct securities lending model in the market. The program has reduced overnight borrowing cost on average by 10 basis points and added $7MM -$8MM in earnings on an annual basis to the PICA General Account investment portfolio.

●Member of the team in Treasury responsible for the issuance of Prudential Financials’ long-term debt. This team develops strategy around pricing, market timing and communication, allocation of capital, leverage impacts and firm wide liquidity.

SG Americas Securities, LLC New York, NY

Associate Fixed Income and Money Markets November 2002 – August 2007

●Distributed the banks liability products, which include Societe Generale’s North America

commercial paper, euro time deposits, certificates of deposit, repurchase agreements

and extendible notes to institutional investors, to provide funding for the banks USD

balance sheet.

●Responsible for the marketing and sale of asset-backed commercial paper, extendible asset-

backed commercial paper and MTNs issued by Societe Generale sponsored special purpose

vehicles.

●Provided secondary markets in Societe Generale supported commercial paper programs to

the institutional investor community. Evaluate daily pricing and funding costs of

inventoried securities owned as result of secondary trading.

●Accountable for the sale of all new issue consumer ABS and RMBS bonds where Societe

Generale acted as either a co-lead or lead manager on the offering.

SG Cowen Securities New York, NY

Treasury Bond Trading and Sales Assistant August 2001 –November 2002

●Supported the trading and sales desk in monitoring proprietary portfolios and facilitating client inquiries.

●Monitored all broker orders, curve exposure, and market risk.

●Calculated daily P&L and performed daily position reconciliation.

●Performed trade execution, trade entry and position analysis in a product mix consisting of US treasury bills and notes, repurchase agreements, and Federal Funds and Eurodollar futures.

●Maintained a constant dialogue with treasury and future exchange brokers for the purpose of obtaining pertinent market information.

GARBAN, LTD. New York, NY

Institutional Broker, Zero-Coupon Desk September 1996 - August 2001

●Responsible for handling large volume order flow, ensuring accurate and timely

execution of transactions via voice or electronic platforms in U.S Treasury principal and coupon STRIPS for major institutional accounts.

EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Rutgers University - Rutgers Business School Newark, NJ

MBA, Finance May - 2015

Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA

Bachelor of Arts, Economics May - 1996

Continuing education

Series 24 September 2008

Series 63 June 2001

Series 3 July 1999

Series 7 November 1997

Bucknell University Football Lewisburg, PA

Team Capitan September - 1995

First Team All Patriot league November - 1995

Skills: Proficient in Bloomberg, Aladdin, Tradeweb, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, various Prudential proprietary systems.

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