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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

+ Leading Branch Treasury as an independent unit with a US$ 5 bn liability book; Managing investments; risk hedging; compliance with regulatory requirements; overseas funding of Axis Bank HO and other offshore offices+ Led Axis Bank for it's first ARR linked funding deal. Implemented legal and system changes in response to LIBOR cessation.+ Reduced foreign exchange trading costs by through improvement in bid-ask spreads by 40% by developing new relationships with new market makers for foreign exchange+ Developed new sell side treasury business, enrolling 5 new clients and achieved 200% of the margin revenue target for FY 2017-2018

Mumbai

Axis Bank is the 3rd largest private sector bank in India. It had balance sheet size of USD 134 billion at end of March 2021. Axis Bank has strong presence in retail and corporate segments. It's foreign exchange business is one of the biggest among Indian banks and reckons several blue chip names as its clients.Highlights of my work at Axis Bank:+ Global Markets sales – FX and derivatives products to a portfolio of Large Corporate (Alpha) clients+ Achieved 400% growth in business (to INR 19 bn in 2014) by building relationship with 2 large corporates+ Increased business in non-INR foreign exchange & derivative products by 80% in one large client account+ Developed FxConnect (Axis Bank’s online dealing platform) for institutional clients and FxConnect Mobile app for corporate clients+ Led the FxConnect project within the Customer Forex team; collaborated with IT team and external vendors to develop the apps+ Achieved >50% shift of Exchange House business from manual dealing to FxConnect; marketed the platform to sign up new clients+ Won the Finnoviti Award in 2013 (by Banking Frontiers magazine) in the category of ‘Best Technical Innovation in Banking Space’ for FxConnect+ FxConnect Mobile - the mobile FX trading platform launched in 2015 - was first ever from an Indian bank

Jung-Gu, Seoul, Korea

Daeyang Shipping was one of the leading ship chartering firms in Republic of Korea. In addition to an aggressively managed portfolio of dry bulk derivatives, the company had active investments in commodity, equity and currency derivatives.I worked in Seoul as a Proprietary trader in Commodity Markets with focus on energy sector. Highlights of my role as a trader are:+ Set up systematic trading plan to organize proprietary trading desk of 10 traders; developed and implemented risk management policy+ Recommended implementation of this plan to the company management consisting of Korean managers+ Initiated the plan for trading in US commodities to capture price volatility in US hours, increasing profits by about 400% + Achieved turnover of USD 24 million in Natural Gas futures trading with Profit to Loss ratio of 2:1 over 8 weeks+ Attended company’s shipping training program; and team building activities with colleagues of 3 different countries

Noida Area, India

Impetus Infotech is one of the leading software development organisation in India. Besides developing its own products, the company also partners clients in product development. With evolution of technology, Impetus has added focus on mobile, big data and cloud computing.During my stint in IT industry, I developed enterprise software for large US based clients working in team based in India and US. Highlights of my performance at Impetus are following:+ Designed & implemented algorithm for ‘Pattern Identification’ in US property address data, unlocked potential revenue of US$100mn; the algorithm became an important break-through for the client and was used as a plugin in several of their products+ Created knowledge repository with information on new technologies in the project; Set up a test server to deploy new developments+ Delivered best quality of software code ever in the project by the team of 9 engineers; the code had only 2 out of max. 5 allowed bugs as per the performance criteria agreed with client; the team was recognized by client for this effort+ Appreciated by a US client for identifying & fixing a critical bug in their portal; the bug could have downed the website and cause of 60% of business

Mba, Finance, Computer Aided Management

Activities and Societies: Systems Club+ 1st runner up among 400 teams in International ‘Banking Treasury Simulation & Management’ Contest.

Geec, Finance, Post Graduate

– Grande Ecole Exchange Student in SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis (previously CERAM Business School) - Class topper.

Bachelor Of Technology, Electrical Engineering, Under Graduate

+ Developed content for IIT’s internet website – department, faculty and student pages; created content for hostel website (2004) +.