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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, GA, United States

Greater Atlanta Area And Dallas/Ft. Worth Area

Atlanta, GA

• Provided investment banking services to public entities throughout the Southeast and Midwest.
• Pioneered new business opportunities for the firm in the Chicago, DC and Atlanta metropolitan areas.

New York, New York

• Managed the national derivatives practice of Dexia, which was the largest provider of financial products to municipalities worldwide.
• Increased fiscal year 2008 revenues by 85% over prior year despite significant challenges in the financial markets and exceeded expectations in fiscal year 2009.
• Leveraged other marketing groups through increased product awareness which resulted in new business.
• Coordinated with legal, compliance and trading groups to develop best practices.

Chicago, IL

• Provided transactional expertise to municipal clients throughout the Southeast and Midwest by prospecting, identifying clients’ needs and goals, and presenting and implementing solutions.
• Initiated new business efforts in geographical areas that had not been a focus resulting in revenue producing transactions.

Chicago, IL

• Identified, evaluated, and executed hedging strategies for public entities.
• Achieved Tax Exempt Risk Management Group’s most successful year since inception. Revenue for 2002 exceeded $12 million, over 3.6 times prior fiscal year revenue for the group.
• Marketed risk management products including forward purchase agreements, indexed investment contracts, extendable/cancelable swaps, swaptions, forward rate lock products, and options. Coordinated documentation process.
• Developed and maintained relationships with tax-exempt issuers, financial advisors, and investment brokers to ensure access to negotiated and competitively bid swap and investment products.
• Collaborated with credit team to maximize revenue and minimize credit exposure.
• Directed tax and bond counsel to structure customized hedging and re-investment product documents as market conditions changed.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Provided all derivatives marketing, financial analyses, bond structuring and bond fund investments.
• Developed product marketing material and presented financing analyses.

Atlanta, GA

• Opened new business opportunities throughout the Southeast.
• Developed department wide management policies and new business development strategies as a member of senior management committee.
• Coordinated efforts of attorneys, accountants, consultants, and underwriting team to execute municipal bond transactions.
• Developed marketing strategies for optimal pricing and sale of municipal bonds.
• Presented financing ideas to clients, investors, bond insurance companies, and credit rating agencies.

New York, New York

• Marketed a buy-out of workers’ compensation liabilities.
• Executed appropriate short-term and long-term financing techniques such as bond sales, loans, and liquidity facilities.
• Conducted municipal credit condition research.
• Collaborated with other areas of the company ( i.e., AIG Financial Products, AIG Global Investors, Inc., and AIG Credit Corporation).

New York, New York

• Managed deal teams and performed quantitative analyses to execute financings for municipal bond issuers.
• Executed financings for municipal bond issuers.
• Performed quantitative analyses to structured taxable and tax-exempt bond financings for public sale and private placement.
• Provided analyses of capital market conditions to clients.
• Prepared post-bond sale analysis to record market conditions.

Mba, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics