Emile Avanessian Email & Phone Number

Barcelona Area, Spain

Founded in 2018, Granablau Consulting provides a comprehensive range of investment research and corporate communications services, offering the expertise comes with more than a decade of experience in strategic consulting, freelance communications, corporate finance and investment banking and research.Granablua's signature is a tone that conveys exhaustive research and analysis in an approachable and engaging manner. We work with companies of all sizes, helping to focus and solidify their messages:* Technical and analytical industry-, company- and project-level models; research reports and case studies; project planning, management and reporting* Written web content; marketing and sales materials and presentations; public relations; press packets; adaptation and optimization of existing materials; strategic content planning* Original creative contentBreadth of knowledge spanning a variety of industries, with particular expertise in: casino gaming, video games and eSports, professional sports, sports media, from a private equity and venture capital perspective, with a focus not only on the United States, but Southern Europe as well.

Greater New York City Area

Hardwood Hype (www.hardwoodhype.com) is the online source for basketball fans in search of intelligent NBA content that's exhaustively researched and written with care.Regularly featured on Yahoo Sports, ESPN.com, SI.com and The Big Lead, as well as several prominent team-specific sites on ESPN’s TrueHoop network and SB Nation. In December 2011, formally joined ESPN-affiliated Los Angeles Lakers-focused site Forum Blue & Gold as contributor.Grew base of Twitter followers by over 500% in 24 months, from 280 in December 2010, to 1,720 in January 2012, a compound monthly growth rate of 7.9%.Worked with corporate and non-profit sponsors to arrange interview opportunities with the top pick in 2010's NBA draft, John Wall, as well as former US Senator and New York Knick, Bill Bradley. Also, wrote a Top 50 Lakers of All-Time article, published in October 2010, which was featured on front page of the LA Times website on Opening Night of the NBA season.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Conducted comprehensive analyses of high-risk investment banking clients, including gap analyses of required KYC documentation, verification beneficial ownership, and enhanced due diligence. Worked closely with senior bankers and relationship managers on detailed reviews of clients' expected and actual transactional activity, to provide risk-based assessments of relationships.Assumed a leading role, alongside senior Compliance and Legal department members, in the sampling and quality assurance of customer profiles and supporting documentation, submitted for assessment to internal auditors and Federal examiners.

Greater New York City Area

Conducted investigations of activity in accounts exhibiting behavior suggestive of unauthorized or potentially illegal activity, including terrorist financing, money laundering, counterfeit sales and merchant fraud.Analyzed account activity and attributes to identify accounts victimized by identity theft and unauthorized access, exhibiting suspicious activity without the true account holder’s authorization.

Greater New York City Area

Established and implemented of Virtual Economy Monitoring function, providing analysis of the in-game economies of Grand Theft Auto V and Online games, and ongoing identification and monitoring of real-money sales of Grand Theft Auto Online gaming accounts and virtual currency and assets.Worked closely with senior members of Game Development, Game Security and Legal teams to establish tools and methodologies by which gaming activity would be monitored, including the definition of thresholds of potentially suspicious gaming activity, and development a proprietary tool designed for the analysis of data regarding IP addresses from which Grand Theft Auto Online game servers were accessed, in order to identify geographically inconsistent account activity.Created and maintained databases of information on all observed sales of Grand Theft Auto virtual currency and in-game assets, as well as a central repository of all individuals and independent websites identified as sellers of virtual currency and assets.

New York, Ny

Oversaw the development and implementation of Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) classification processes across North America, ahead of the Internal Revenue Service’s 2014 deadline.Liaised with firm’s central project team in London and local teams in the United States, Argentina, Mexico and Brazil to ensure compliance with global firm policy, while accounting for local processes.

New York, Ny

Ensured accuracy and integrity of information gathered as part of a broad Know Your Customer (KYC)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) remediation undertaken by a leading, global institution.

Greater New York City Area

Performed regular due diligence on corporate cash management accounts to identify high-risk clients and transactions. Communicated results of findings and worked with Client Relationship Managers to identify appropriate risk mitigation strategies.Led an internal audit of 450+ cash management accounts to identify those issued in bearer form. Subsequently updated internal systems to reflect findings and, as necessary, work with Client Relationship Managers to ensure clients’ compliance with firm policy.Established procedures and oversaw lookback encompassing over 16,000 reprocessed transactions from a three-year span and, as necessary, created Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).

Greater New York City Area

As part of a broad remediation project, designed and implemented strategy to integrate data from multiple data sets of 15,000+ transactions into a single database, with no unique identifier for individual data points.Based on criteria laid out by a previous regulatory investigation, performed due diligence to identify prospective high-risk clients and transactions.

Greater New York City Area

Prior to company’s launch, performed detailed analyses of both the independent equity research market and competitive landscape for online equity research, in order to identify addressable market.Post-launch, worked as the company's primary generator of equity research content, publishing “The Fast Five”, a daily domestic equities review, highlighting emerging market trends, individual company shares making significant moves and identifying value-driven investment opportunities.Created financial models and research reports for companies across a variety of industries, with a focus on casinos & gaming, new media and wireless communications.

Greater New York City Area

Maintained internal databases, one of more than 10,000 financial sponsor-involved transactions, another of a similar number of current and previous portfolio companies, used to identify actionable situations.Created presentation materials used by senior bankers and firm executives in meetings with clients and industry conferences, including profiles of financial sponsor firms and sovereign wealth funds, fundraising histories, management information and detailed summaries of relevant transactions, including presentation materials highlighting funds raised and investments in the gaming and infrastructure industries.Prepared agenda for weekly conference call with global heads of firm’s Financial Sponsors Group.

Worked with Reebok on an interview and article highlighting the company's launch of a signature shoe for 2010's #1 overall pick in the NBA Draft, John Wall. Had the honor of interviewing Senator Bill Bradley, during which we discussed Beyond Sport, an international organization focused on using sports to unite traditionally divided peoples, and affect social change and cultural understanding.

New York, Ny

Led 6-member team in annual Know Your Customer (“KYC”) document update, researching more than 1,900 clients and 5,500 accounts. Monitored team’s progress and regularly reported to senior management.Identified prospective high-risk clients and transactions through due diligence performed using Lexis-Nexis, MANTAS, World Check, and proprietary applications, and prepared written summaries of results yielded by due diligence, including Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and communicated to management approval or rejection, along with recommendations for any necessary actions.

New York, Ny

Built financial models for companies within coverage universe, as well as those focused on the overall wireless industry, and authored and edited research reports used to launch coverage or provide updates on individual companies, as well as those examining broad themes within the wireless sector.Spearheaded creation of the ThinkEquity Wireless Index, a weekly research publication tracking 100 wireless companies across 6 subsectors, and featuring articles on industry developments.Created presentation materials for in meetings with institutional investors, as well as with the firm’s internal sales team.Organized and conducted meetings with company executives, industry professionals and institutional investors, input from which contributed to team’s research reports.

La Crescenta, Ca

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics: February 2011 Founder & President- Fordham.

Bachelor'S, Finance

Activities and Societies: General Education Honors Student