Akash Rastogi Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

• Spearheading the efforts to build EY Canada’s Blockchain practice• In addition, responsible for leading multiple competencies nationally - Capital Markets, Payments and Commercial Banking; Includes playing a central role in formulation and execution of go-to-market strategy, sales and engagement delivery• Recipient of multiple awards for exemplary performance for leading complex client engagements, thought leadership, coaching and sales culture

Toronto

• Responsible for delivery of strategic advisory engagements across all LoBs in Financial Services industry, including Retail, Small Business, Commercial Banking and Capital Markets• Domains include:- Enterprise Transformation- Current State Assessment, Target Operating Model- Strategic Roadmap, Business Case- Industry Benchmarking, Business Analysis & Financial Modeling- Process Design, Operational / Performance Improvement, Business Requirements• Authored multiple Point of Views on leading industry issues and helped develop PwC’s Thought Leadership• Played a critical role in formulation and execution of PwC Canada’s Go-To-Market strategy across multiple leading industry opportunities• Awarded couple of PwC Canada awards for exemplary individual performance for delivery of complex client engagements

Toronto, Canada Area

• Mandated by the CEO to lead cross-functional initiatives on strategic issues across the firm and present independent and objective recommendations to the SET and Management Committee; projects included:- Assessing CIBC’s exposure to various market/industry events and recommending potential responses- Conducting review of various businesses across asset classes and regions and providing an assessment of key risks and opportunities associated with them- Redefining methodology for valuing certain non-trading books and the allocation of their P&L• Led a cross-divisional initiative to design, develop and deliver an online risk system that provided senior management with a near real-time comprehensive view of market and credit risk exposure across the firm; culminated in identification and resolution of key systemic issues between different parts of the firm

Toronto, Canada Area

• Trader on US$, C$ interest rate swap books; responsibilities included:- Pricing and trading of flow trades, including vanilla, cross-currency, new-issue, asset swaps, OIS, FX Forwards, FRAs and various associated Basis markets (3s/1s, BA/Libor)- Management of swap book, including reset risk and unsecured funding- Providing sales teams, other trading desks and senior management with daily market commentary• Member of Strategic Positioning Group, a proprietary risk-taking initiative across rates trading; included formulation and development of an Algorithmic Trading System geared towards futures markets• Wrote various papers and built trading models that got institutionalized on the desks and the firm; notable- Development of model for pricing CMB and Maple books on an Asset Swap basis- Development of a real-time statistical-arbitrage relative-value trading model for GoC trading- Inception & development of a new OIS-based approach for pricing probabilities of BoC policy moves

Toronto, Canada Area

• Performed Competitive Benchmarking of CIBC’s Personal & Commercial Banking group’s Q2/04 operating performance; modeled and formulated the supporting analysis and presentation made for the Analyst Bank Day• Wrote a working paper on the Canada Mortgage Bond, CIBC Mortgages’ (CMI) securitization program; worked closely with CMI, Treasury and Securitization desk at CIBC World Markets• Developed financial model for 3 year (FY05 – FY07) Strategic Planning and Forecasting of CIBC’s Retail and Infrastructure SBU performance; prepared the supporting presentation made by the CFO to the SET• Participated in the financial due-diligence on various CIBC-level initiatives as part of Capital Budgeting

Toronto, Canada Area

• Established the Wireless Services practice of the firm; developed partnerships with two leading wireless vendors, Rogers Wireless and BroadBeam, and won proof-of-concept project from Enbridge • Managed multiple high-volume, mission-critical systems as a technical-architect/project lead; projects included:- Development of B2C site and order fulfillment system for Sunoco that supported financial transactions of $300,000/year; rated by Microsoft as among top-10 enterprise-level applications built using its software- Architecture/Design of an online system for GE Capital that automated the origination, financial analysis and approval process of Equipment-Leasing applications; led to an annual saving in excess of $650,000- Architecture/Design of workflow management system used by Toronto Star’s newsroom; led to process redesign and enhanced the operational efficiency of the newsroom • Subject Matter Expert on Microsoft’s .Net and Web Services technologies; advised and made presentations to VP and CIO level executives of client organizations on application potential of new technologies• Initiated, formulated and implemented a formal mentorship program that partnered 45 employees

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Promoted to Technical Lead of B2B system that corporate clients used to electronically track invoices, quotes and orders in excess of US $140 million• Managed an 8-member team comprising members from 3 different consulting firms

New Delhi Area, India

• Promoted to Product Lead, youngest in the history of the firm; led development of the firm’s first web-based proprietary Computer-Based-Training product, NetVarsity, which achieved sales in excess of US$ 300,000/year• Part of 3-member core technology-strategy team that reported to and advised the head of 600-member product development division on technologies to focus on; NetVarsity was a result of such recommendations

Mumbai Area, India

• As part of a niche group focused on the cross-section of Finance and Technology functional areas, developed financial software that was deployed within Citibank globally• Work included programming, participating in code review, performing unit tests and writing documentation

Lead: Corporate Innovation

Mba, Finance, Recipient Of Dean’S List Honors, 3M Canada Mba Fellowship

Activities and Societies: Co-President of Ivey Gourmet Club, Ivey Finance Club

B.Tech, Engineering

Activities and Societies: “Outstanding Contribution” awards for Music “Outstanding Contribution” awards for Dramatics Recipient.

Education record