As a member of the senior leadership team of 1st line risk Chris played a key role in the development and embedding of the Risk Management Framework and led a multi-disciplinary first line risk team with responsibility across a number of operational risk areas:• Product Governance – Approval of all new products and the approval of complex structured transactions• Governance – Ensuring Commercial Banking has an appropriate and effective governance structure in line with… Show more As a member of the senior leadership team of 1st line risk Chris played a key role in the development and embedding of the Risk Management Framework and led a multi-disciplinary first line risk team with responsibility across a number of operational risk areas:• Product Governance – Approval of all new products and the approval of complex structured transactions• Governance – Ensuring Commercial Banking has an appropriate and effective governance structure in line with regulatory requirements and best practice• Policy Embedding – Development, implementation and management the policy embedding framework • Financial Promotions & Marketing - Review and approval of financial promotions & marketing materials • Cross Border – Development, implementation and management of the cross border risk framework• Credit - Ensuring there are appropriate procedures and controls to manage credit risk and that they are operating effectively• Country Risk – Developed and implemented framework to ensure that country risk remains with risk appetite• Mandatory Training - responsible for mandatory training for Commercial Banking• Conduct - As programme lead for product governance and sales processes Chris led the successful development and implementation of an enhanced product governance framework, including sales processes, in order to place conduct at the heart of the development, distribution and on-going oversight products. This included the development of Conduct Risk Appetite Metrics, the Client Fair Value Concept and the introduction of Behavioural Economics• Established and embedded the Commitment Committee the senior management approval forum for transactions, transaction types and related activity within Commercial Banking and developed enhanced risk reporting across all risk categories for the Board and GEC Show less

Development and provision of end-to-end oversight of all risks arising from the origination, underwriting and distribution of securities and for complex structured transactions including business plan development, business selection, suitability & regulatory matters, reputational risk due diligence, conflict identification and resolution, transaction documentation, connected research, major shareholding reporting, transaction management, deal pricing and stabilisationSecretary to and… Show more Development and provision of end-to-end oversight of all risks arising from the origination, underwriting and distribution of securities and for complex structured transactions including business plan development, business selection, suitability & regulatory matters, reputational risk due diligence, conflict identification and resolution, transaction documentation, connected research, major shareholding reporting, transaction management, deal pricing and stabilisationSecretary to and global manager of the Global Commitment Committee, the Board sub-committee responsible for new business approvalActive interaction with senior management, transaction teams, Compliance and other support functions in order to ensure that the bank takes on the right sort of business, consistent with its overall strategy and risk appetite and that it is executed efficiently.Specific responsibility for reputational risk management from general business or transaction-specific activity, including the development of general principles, policies and processes and advising the media management teamsSignificant role in the development of the principles driven approach to reputational risk management across the entire Dresdner Bank and Allianz groupAct as an internal regulator for the investment banking businessWork closely with Compliance and act as an escalation point for Compliance, particularly for high risk businessWork with business line management and unit heads to develop policy in many areas including reputational risk management, connected research, self-referencing credit derivatives, complex and structured transactions, loan pre-hedging, debt and equity underwriting, SPV approval and conflict management Show less

Member of the Equities Division Management CommitteeResponsible for sale/syndication of all international issues in the USACoordination of the institutional sales force for all new equity and equity-linked issues salesIntegral part of the international origination effort for equity and equity-linked businessInvestor relationship responsibility for corporate broking clientsNotable transactions included Telecom Italia privatisation, Gencos II, Pace Micro… Show more Member of the Equities Division Management CommitteeResponsible for sale/syndication of all international issues in the USACoordination of the institutional sales force for all new equity and equity-linked issues salesIntegral part of the international origination effort for equity and equity-linked businessInvestor relationship responsibility for corporate broking clientsNotable transactions included Telecom Italia privatisation, Gencos II, Pace Micro Technology, Standard Life/Bank of Scotland, Zhejiang Expressways, Shanghai Industrial, Petronas Gas, Cho Hung Bank Show less

Responsible for syndication of all Asian new equity and equity-linked issues. Notable transactions completed included TECO, Hindustan Development Corp, Advanced Agro

County NatWest - Manager, Equity Capital Markets (1992 – 1994)Helped raise equity and equity-linked financing for a number of US and European companies including Abbey Healthcare, Thermo Electron Group, Amer and Smedvig TankshipsNatWest Capital Markets (1990 – 1992) Initially worked in swaps and options marketing, marketing interest rate and currency swaps and interest rate options to mid-cap UK companies. Later moved to debt capital markets, originating bond mandates from UK… Show more County NatWest - Manager, Equity Capital Markets (1992 – 1994)Helped raise equity and equity-linked financing for a number of US and European companies including Abbey Healthcare, Thermo Electron Group, Amer and Smedvig TankshipsNatWest Capital Markets (1990 – 1992) Initially worked in swaps and options marketing, marketing interest rate and currency swaps and interest rate options to mid-cap UK companies. Later moved to debt capital markets, originating bond mandates from UK companies. Show less