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Miami Beach, FL, US

Leveraged finance, strategy, operations and technology expertise to help organizations scale, optimize performance, and drive sustainable (organic & inorganic) growth

Miami, FL, US

• Led the migration of 100K debit card portfolio to a modern technology stack, enabling new product functionality and reducing unit costs by 45%, additionally boosted contribution margin 400bps through a $22.6M.
• Increased new account opening rate by 21% in 5 months through process improvements, policy revisions, vendor substitutions and recalibrations to the decisioning engine, surpassing growth targets for key segments by 4%

Miami, FL, US

• Headed the company’s largest department of 120 employees, insourced and optimized banking operations including payment processing, customer onboarding, BSA/AML transaction monitoring, fraud investigations, dispute.
• Accelerated product development 3X by building and scaling 6 complementary functions including Risk, Compliance, Fraud, Payments, Credit, and Business Process Management, reducing fraud and operational losses by 76%

New York, NY, US

New York, New York, US

• Held direct oversight of $67M technology investment budget aimed at enhancing digital capabilities and client experience while ensuring franchise stability, efficiency, and effective controls
• Led a cross-functional taskforce to remediate $16B exposure to LIBOR across products, minimizing impact on credit spreads
• Structured a data analytics and business intelligence team which developed self-service, real-time tools to support business development and product management

New York, New York, US

• Formed a 10-year bancassurance arrangement valued at $800M, leveraging Citibanamex omnichannel distribution for an international partner to introduce new products to the Mexican market and increase sales
• Right-sized operations in Venezuela through strategic asset runoffs and real estate sales as the only international bank in the country, additionally streamlined businesses and restructured headcount across Latin America

London, GB

• Oversaw a team of 10 analysts, associates and interns, led negotiations and due diligence, prospected new business, yielding several $100M+ in buy- and sell-side transactions across Financial, Petrochemicals, and.
• Designed strategy for a European pharma company to enter the Brazilian market through a joint venture, accelerating regulatory approvals for the introduction of new pain medications, resulting in a multi-million dollar.
• Secured fair compensation for Petrobras on its sale of Transierra to YPF Bolivianos

New York, NY, US

• Led a team of 5 analysts and interns, managed buy- and sell-side transactions for multinationals and local companies, identifying business drivers, building valuation models, preparing marketing materials, conducting.
• Coordinated Ally Financial’s sale of GMAC operations in Brazil as part of a global divestiture to accelerate the company’s repayment of the government bailout, maximizing value through collaboration with advisors.
• Drove market share gains in a new segment for Omron Healthcare through the acquisition of NS, generating improved sales and distribution channels for existing business lines
• Aligned shareholders of Brazilian petrochemical firm and shareholder strategic priorities, activating an improvement in the negotiating position and ultimately enabled the sale of the company

New York, NY, US

• Integral member of the team that crafted $145B of federal assistance to AIG, performing liquidity analysis that led to the initial $85B credit line that prevented the company’s bankruptcy and further stress on the.
• Structured Maiden Lane II & III transactions to stabilize AIG’s liquidity position; purchasing underlying assets to alleviate capital requirements from market pricing of $39B of RMBS and cash calls from credit default.
• Collaborated with executives to restructure the company, improve reporting and forecasting, and define the repayment strategy, successfully coordinated 60 divestitures with aggregate deals valued at $36B+

New York, NY, US

• Created a novel credit risk model to monitor counterparty, collateral, and concentration risk to the Federal Reserve resulting from emergency funding facilities during the financial crisis

Schaumburg, IL, US

Assessed and priced the credit risk of developed and emerging market banks, as well as the viability of the underlying projects, for trade credit and political risk insurance coverage for both public and private investors

New York, NY, US

Master'S Degree, International Economics

French, Political Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government, Languages

Spanish, Political Science