SUMMARY:

Analytical Director of Public and Corporate Investments and Manager Research and Institutional Investment Consultant with extensive experience as Confidential fiduciary setting investment strategy, performing investment due diligence, managing liability driven investments (LDI), evaluating optimal asset allocation alternatives, researching new asset classes, managing communications, and writing/reviewing requests for proposal. Strong presenter with ability to effectively communicate financial concepts to diverse audiences. Self - starter with Confidential serious work ethic and demonstrated ability to negotiate cost efficiencies and optimize risk-adjusted returns within investment programs. Valuable team builder within the group dynamics of the organization. Strategic thinker with attention to detail and Confidential passion for helping plan sponsors/participants achieve superior outcomes. Chicago Booth School of Business MBA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Practice Management Development Program Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Management development in wealth management advisory for institutions/ultra high net worth private clients.

Confidential, Millburn, NJ

Institutional Investment Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed investment manager and vendor searches and asset reviews across asset classes including absolute return (ARS), real assets, and other alternatives; presented recommendations to Plan Sponsors. Led investment presentations and performance reviews to Trustees.
• Revamped plan investment line-ups, researched non-traditional asset classes to expand the opportunity set of investment options. Supported ongoing dialogue with investment managers. Presented strategic asset allocation studies helping portfolios improve efficiency of returns. Recommended/implemented strategy using diverse vehicles such as mutual funds, ETFs, comingled trusts, & separately managed accounts.
• Led portfolio manager meetings. Recommended, designed, & communicated investment line-ups covering the risk-return spectrum from low-fee indexed strategies to esoteric alternatives/high conviction portfolios.
• Authored quarterly research pieces on markets, investment trends, specific asset class dynamics, and other timely topics for the benefit of the institutional fund audience, and participated in and presented at major industry conferences, such as Institutional Investor and Pensions & Investments.

Confidential, Tenafly, NJ

Senior Institutional Investment Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Executed analyses for pension systems/institutional portfolios in such areas as Board education, investment policy review, manager selection, and asset allocation and performed independent consulting on behalf of investment management firms.
• Performed and presented robust strategic asset allocation analyses demonstrating efficient alternatives for increased expected portfolio returns concurrent with reduced expected volatility.
• Consulted investment managers and their representative parties on issues relating to investment manager selection, reputation and agency issues, and other relevant decision factors in the due diligence process.

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Chief Investment Officer / Director of Retirement Plan Investments

Responsibilities:

• Implemented quantitative/qualitative screening tools to identify appropriate investment managers by target risk-return characteristics and to configure optimal asset allocations. Conducted meetings with institutional marketers, client portfolio managers, and portfolio managers. Recommended, hired, and replaced investment managers within the institutional portfolios. Revamped the Company Stock option.
• Regularly presented initiatives and recommendations to Trustee Committee comprised of the Treasurer, Chief Legal Counsel, and VP of Human Resources and completed analyses for the Board of Directors.
• Issued up to $5.5B of ST commercial paper as part of recurring Corporate Treasury management function.
• Negotiated investment management agreements, significantly cutting investment fees as much as 5 times; improved participant satisfaction, expected outcomes, and understanding of their investment options.
• Mobilized cross-functional teams to reduce portfolio risk exposure by executing seamless investment manager transitions in response to market dislocations/portfolio restructuring needs. Rebalanced portfolio.
• Initiated and implemented full transparency return reporting after independently uncovering misleading reporting practices by certain legacy investment managers; revamped disclosures and manager line-ups to higher standard, eliminating legal exposure, and improving returns and risk-adjusted participant outcomes.
• Researched/executed pension asset-liability duration matching (LDI) solution in collaboration with senior fixed income portfolio manager, effectively mitigating risk by aligning asset and liability durations.
• Improved investment policy guidelines/procedures. Customized benchmarks. Led meetings with PMs.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Management Level Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led investment manager selection, performance analysis, retention decisions, and portfolio transitions contributing to greater risk-adjusted relative returns versus benchmarks and peers.
• Presented reviews and new initiatives to Trustees. Overhauled fund manager/marketer/strategic partner relationships and advanced investment manager accountability for performance. Executed portfolio analytics, performance attribution, and portfolio construction and rebalancing.
• Facilitated portfolio construction process and worked with the Board to revamp the asset allocation strategy to initiate the addition of alternative asset classes such as Private Equity and thereby increase portfolio diversification and risk-adjusted returns.

Confidential, New York, NY

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Structured effective financial solutions for major Fortune 100 and emerging growth clients across industry groups by customizing products that included exchangeable securities, convertible bonds, equity-linked derivatives, and Confidential & Confidential /spin-off structures.
• Performed structuring, corporate finance, and Confidential & Confidential functions in collaboration with industry/product groups including Technology, Media, Confidential & Confidential, Consumer Products, Industrial Products, and Natural Resources, successfully promoting the bank’s capabilities and building relationships with key clients.
• Led modeling, due diligence, committee/offering memoranda creation, and efficient deal executions, directly supporting the generation of significant banking fee revenues, e.g., from Confidential $355MM bond and Confidential $130MM convertible debt offering.