Karla Brom Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Kinshasa, Congo (Drc)

Board member and chair of the Risk Management Committee.

Board member and member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Worldwide

Expert Advisor to executives, investors and board members worldwide on strategic issues related to risk management and corporate governance. I am currently an independent director and member of the audit and risk committees of a microfinance bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a Haitian microfinance institution, and frequently teach and present on these topics.

Brooklyn, Ny

Manage the business and financial activities of this nationally acclaimed ensemble, with revenues of 1.8 million and over 100 performances annually. Manage payroll, 1099 payments, vendor and insurance payments. Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with presenters. Liaise with board and external auditors on financial matters. Liaise with artistic directors, development team and head of production on budgeting and cash flow management.

Managua, Nicaragua

San Salvador, El Salvador

Multiple Locations Globally

Develop and deliver risk management training materials for microfinance institutions in collaboration with partners at Womens' World Banking. Adapted and customized Citi risk management reports and policies for use in the microfinance sector and recruited Citi market risk managers from selected countries to guest lecture. Training materials including a set of excel based tools that were used for exercises and for an ALCO simulation at the end of each training. Developed and delivered a set of training of trainer materials and certified others to train on the topic. Program Management - Coordinated all details of trainings: outreach to local microfinance network partners, created standardized agenda and tracked expenses and outreach for all trainings. Recruited 37 Citi risk managers as co-presenters during the length of the program.Marketing and outreach: Met with microfinance networks and organizations in the US and in target countries to publicize the training and partner with them to deliver it; publicized the training within Citi by attending meetings, making presentations, writing reports and blog posts; attended conferences and meetings of donors, foundations and non profits involved in technical assistance to the microfinance sectormarketed the training materials to make them available to select other training centers = eventually the materials became part of the curriculum at the Boulder Microfinance Institute.Trainings delivered to 180 participants from 95 MFIs and 15 countries worldwideTwo training of trainers delivered to 33 participants, one in Washington, DC and one in Delhi, India

New York, Ny

Senior Vice President, Global Market Risk Management, Latin America regional team (June 2000-June 2005). Approved limits and evaluated stress tests to support treasury activities of corporate and consumer franchises in 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries with total treasury revenues of $1.8 billion. Evaluated liquidity management plans and approved liquidity limits, including scenario planning. Supervised businesses’ implementation and on-going adherence to all relevant corporate and investment bank policies. Vice President, Capital Markets Credit (1998-June 2000). Set cross border limits for the firm’s business by product and country across the emerging markets and helped design systems to track usage against limits. Liaised with management to integrate credit and risk management policies and procedures related to country and cross border risk, including appropriate risk measurement per product and reconciling with regulatory reporting requirements.

Paris, France

Advised governments in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia on policy related to privatization, corporate governance and financial sector reform. Organized high-level focus groups with experts from OECD-member countries – identified and analyzed issues, selected experts, prepared agendas and background papers, moderated meetings. Wrote white papers summarizing resultant recommendations. Developed training seminars in subjects such as enterprise restructuring and investment fund operations, regulation and management. As in-house expert, spoke on a wide range of privatization topics at conferences across Europe.

New York And Paris

Rated structured transactions including commercial paper, repackaged and guaranteed Eurobonds, and industrial revenue bonds. Wrote press releases aimed at financial journals, and special reports for Moody’s publications. Evaluated and approved other analysts’ rating recommendations. Created and implemented marketing plan to increase market share in the industrial development bond sector. During six-month assignment in Paris, responsible for educating bankers, lawyers and regulators about securitization, and for rating securities in French and European markets and writing market updates.

Ma, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Senior editor at the Fletcher Forum, head of the Fletcher women's groupconcentrations in international business.

Ba In History

Certificate In Creative Producing, Visual And Performing Arts

This was an 8 week comprehensive course in the development of new music opera works from inception to premiere and international touring..