Christopher J. Simone Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

Underwriter for CRE Debt, Equity & Investment Sales:- Underwriter for the Capital Markets Team along with prior coverage for Investment Sales- Built and provide support for the Capital Markets Team’s analytical models- Contribute to monthly newsletter * Analyze: market, economic, rate and political news/events that may impact CRE * Co-author portions of the newsletter and compile economic data- Provide training and office hours for Greysteel, focused on underwriting and analysis

Greater New York City Area

Underwriter for a rapidly expanding Food hall company Primary underwriter for all active and prospective locationsBuilt the underwriting model and integrated it with key templates and evaluation tools used throughout the companyManaged the deal pipeline Wrote Investment MemorandumsWorked with the SVP of Finance to build the company’s cash forecasting tool Currently integrating the underwriting model into accounting/budget management for performance evaluation of approved locationsAnalyzed operating food halls and vendors to enhance underwriting, modeling & operations

Product manager of GE Capital’s Country Risk Management SystemProposed, secured, and allocated budget for phase II development of the Country Risk Management System ~$700kCreated a milestone driven strategy, with multiple quick deliveries to end users & business stakeholders - elements of AgileLed the development team to create a greatly improved country risk systemGreatly increased functionality, a simplified architecture and operating cost savings that pay for the development phase over four yearsDrove all aspects of the project: country risk subject matter expert, business requirements, contracting, data sourcing, prototyping, designing, building, testing, road-showing and supporting the platformReplaced all datasources, built a new stage environment, updated and expanded: system logic, reference data, data mart design, dashboards, process controls and data quality management - delivered on time and on budgetReceived a management award for the projectSpeaker at the 2016 SAS Analytics Experience in Las Vegas, NV

Underwrote transactions as large as $25B & analyzed & rated sub-sovereign and supranational entitiesPerformed daily risk management: monitored daily exposures/limits and enforced risk management policyManaged & participated in the Country Risk Management gap assessment to industry best practices & regulatory requirementsCreated & drove the iterative development strategy for GE Capital’s SAS based Country Risk Management SystemProduct manager of the Country Risk Management solutionIdentified business requirements, key metrics, key risks, identified critical datasources, mapped data flows, selected all system data elements and created the data aggregation logicDesigned: system prototype, dashboards, DQ rules, controls, processes, reference data layers and contributed to architecture designDelivered on time and ~30% under budgetManaged technical & risk management consulting teams for project deliveryPerformed ad-hoc & enterprise risk management committee level reporting Received 2 Management Awards and 1 Peer Award, Rated overall “Excellent” for 2014

Portfolio CFO for approximately 50 direct deals and 40 limited partnership investments with total equity of $2B in GE’s pensionDirected and coordinated accounting and finance teamsSupported the investment team with property/deal analysisPerformed monthly property budget variance analysis Valued properties quarterlySpearheaded annual portfolio reviewParticipated in multiple transaction closingsReceived 3 Management Awards for exceptional performance

Stamford, Ct

Covered over $26B in assets under management in: core, core plus, short-term, structured products & emerging markets Lean Six Sigma process improvement project: Reduced cycle time by 49%, increased scalability, timely delivery and met customer needsProduct Manager for in-house Emerging Markets Fixed Income performance attribution system- Created the attribution model, prototyped the system, worked with developers, UAT, integrated production systemImplemented external vendor analytic/performance & attribution systems for other sectorsContributed to the on-boarding of nearly $2B of new Fixed Income client assetsReceived 3 Management Awards and 6 Peer Awards