David B. Email & Phone Number

United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

I am the Director of Risk Solutions at Fastmarkets. The business is focused on providing, presenting and communicating risk management solutions to commercials and investors in products that are exposed to commodity prices. https://www.fastmarkets.com/our-products/risk-management

New York

Established the Organic and Non-GMO commodity price discovery and risk analysis vertical at The Jacobsen. Help transact the first-ever organic corn derivative transaction. Worked with traders, merchandisers, refiners, consumers, and feed mills to establish benchmark pricing in the specialty grain sector.

Manage portfolio and design trading strategies, in many areas of the capital markets. Strategies include credit long short, fund of funds, commodity arbitrage, and wine.

Capital Markets Analyst, providing market analysis to over a dozen online providersProviding trading ideas to content providersOngoing consulting engagements on hedging strategies for energy and fixed income products Consulting engagements for risk management productsCompose white papers, solution briefs, and news articles

Manage 20 million dollars in assets for long short equity strategiesStrategies include - directional (single stock or ETF sector plays) - mean reversion pair trades, mean reversion volatility plays.Trades are discretionary and systematic - systematic pair trades have been back tested using logical information machine

Oversaw the commodity business, which created financial solutions for Citigroup's corporate and investor clients. Traders would manage the principal residual risk from financial hedges through commercial hedging trades or investor speculation, as well as, initiate positions within the futures or over the counter marketsManaged group of 35 traders, marketers and administration professionals across five continents. Managed portfolio of futures and options on futures using… Show more Oversaw the commodity business, which created financial solutions for Citigroup's corporate and investor clients. Traders would manage the principal residual risk from financial hedges through commercial hedging trades or investor speculation, as well as, initiate positions within the futures or over the counter marketsManaged group of 35 traders, marketers and administration professionals across five continents. Managed portfolio of futures and options on futures using Petroleum, Natural Gas, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange instrumentsCommunicated with other Global group heads to create synergies between business'sCreated and presented business plan to grow Citigroup physical power businessDesigned and forecasted market risk and credit risk liquidity provisions as an adjustment to new dealsEvaluated cost structures for banking clients and provided commodity finance solutions Enhanced commodity system to handle new derivative structuresReturn on Economic Capital (Capital and Credit) exceeded 30% Show less

Managed group of 15 traders located in NY, London, Sydney and Hong KongAdded 8 new traders which enhanced global business presenceProfits exceeded 50 million dollars in each yearTraded futures, Swaps, Options and Exotic options in Petroleum, Natural Gas, Precious Metals, Base Metals and Soft CommoditiesDeveloped Trading strategies for Crude Spreads, Crude Arbitrage, Heat Crack, Gas Crack, Heat Arbitrate, Natural gas calendar spreads and BasisProprietary Portfolio averaged 15… Show more Managed group of 15 traders located in NY, London, Sydney and Hong KongAdded 8 new traders which enhanced global business presenceProfits exceeded 50 million dollars in each yearTraded futures, Swaps, Options and Exotic options in Petroleum, Natural Gas, Precious Metals, Base Metals and Soft CommoditiesDeveloped Trading strategies for Crude Spreads, Crude Arbitrage, Heat Crack, Gas Crack, Heat Arbitrate, Natural gas calendar spreads and BasisProprietary Portfolio averaged 15 million dollars per year Show less

Traded Petroleum products such as crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, jet fuel and numerous locations for natural gas.

Responsible for initiating and managing positions within the US, European, and Asian debt markets as well as the Global Foreign Exchange market. Positions where initiated by applying statistical, technical, and fundamental analysis. Strategies where developed using Logical Information Machines historical database and application.

Responsible for managing a portfolio of Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Commodity products. Designed trend following, mean reverting and ad hoc trading strategies.

Designed trading strategies and risk parameters for Foreign Exchange Trading Group

Ten month program which outlined Morgan Stanley business's and taught classes in systems developmentProgramming Languages included C, C++, Small Talk, Natural and JCL. Worked in client-server environment as well as mainframe. Worked in Datacenter, managing job flow across the Morgan Stanley global network.

Analyzed institutional credit

Ba, Econimcs

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Franklin and Marshall Tennis Team

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics

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