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New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Provided leadership to a team of credit risk analysts and credit administrators, managing a $25 billion portfolio composed mostly of US municipal bonds, student loan ABS and project finance loans. Main accomplishments include updating the rating models and developing a new loss-given-default model, updating the student loan ABS analysis framework and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Greater New York City Area

Provided leadership to a team managing credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk and operational risk of entities investing proceeds from Guaranteed Investment Contracts and leveraged lease transactions. Said entities were retained by the group after the divestment of a financial guarantee insurer. Investment portfolio amounted to $23 billion invested mostly in private label RMBS, US agency bonds, US municipal bonds, military housing bonds and various other ABS.Main accomplishments include running the provisioning model for private label US RMBS and ensuring compliance with the contractual structure surrounding the divestment of the financial guarantee insurer.

Istanbul, Turkey

Provided on-site leadership to the integration of the Turkish credit risk management activities into Dexia group after the acquisition of DenizBank by Dexia group. DenizBank’s portfolio amounted to approximately $15 billion loans mostly to corporates, SMEs and consumers. Integration activities included organizing the credit approval process; establishing a Basel II compliant internal rating system for Turkish corporate and mid-corporate borrowers; defining general and niche-specific credit guidelines and limits; liaising with the head office retail competence center on credit policy, credit scoring and reporting; and liaising with other risk management functions such as permanent control and internal audit.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Provided leadership to a team of credit analysts and credit administrators managing a portfolio of $5 billion composed mostly of mid-corporate loans, trade finance and residential mortgages. Reorganized the credit risk analysis function, optimized of the credit decision workflow with head office, implemented the Basel II internal rating based methodology, aligned the company in the group risk appetite and integrated the residential mortgage credit process.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Led the team tasked with structuring, negotiating and re-structuring corporate credit facilities withmid-corporate customers bilaterally and in credit syndications.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Laws - Llm