Lawrence "Laz" Hansen Email & Phone Number

Technical Director

New York, Ny, Us

- Capital Projects Manager at the New York Film Academy- Techical Director Musical Theater & Acting For Film Stage Productions

- Market Infrastructure- Regulatory, Compliance and Reporting advisory- Derivatives, FX and Bitcoin advisory- Blockchain capabilities- Investment and Trading technologies- Program and project management

Consult full time and on contract to significant financial groups in Europe, North America and the Middle East on best business practices and the development of technical and operational infrastructure capabilities. Previous assignments include:- Market infrastructure subject matter expertise advisory as related to DMA/EMS/OMS, High Frequency Trading, Algo's, TCA and Low Latency Data Management to several buy and sell side firms.- Program Management and subject matter expertise advisory related to OTC and Listed Derivative capabilities and change management for financial institutions as required due to global regulatory change and Dodd Frank to a major global bank.- Advisory on Enterprise wide trading technology,data management, trading, treasury and corporate Risk Management.- Product management and business development advisory to SEF, and to an institutional services group on Investment products, ETF's, Hedge Fund products and start ups, Prime Brokerage, Investment administration and related technology products.- Venture capital for technology and financial market infrastructure projects.- Capital Introduction from sovereign wealth funds to institutional and hedge fund managers.- Personnel recruiting for program mgmt, project mgmt, and financial industry subject matter expertise.

confidential assignment completed

www.rulefinancial.com

Boston, Ma, Us

As Vice President I have been engaged as the Head of Canada the past year having overall responsibility for major consulting assignments with Canada's leading financial institutions, investment banks, asset managers, stock exchanges as well as public authorities, regulators and the central bank. Major projects have included executive management to formulate the Canadian financial institution response to OTC Derivatives regulations, Dodd Frank, as well as key industry initiatives such as the Volcker Rule. Given the success and strong foothold created in Canada, more recently my attention has turned to new business development both in Canada as well as the rest of North America.

Management consultant under contract with NYC based financial services group. Lime Brokerage LLC is a technologically advanced brokerage firm based in New York City that caters to a diverse and sophisticated customer base. Lime's clients include high frequency and low latency professional traders, hedge funds, asset managers and other broker-dealers.

Strategic Product Management to fulfill Lime Brokerage's diversification strategy. Lime Brokerage LLC is a technologically advanced brokerage firm based in New York City that caters to a diverse and sophisticated customer base. Lime's clients include high frequency and low latency professional traders, hedge funds, asset managers and other broker-dealers.

Reported to the CEO, served on the company Management Committee, and responsible for managing two RealTick EMS system product business units with full responsibility for P&L.- Managed the Content Division which supplies advanced securities trading and market data applications, terminals, data feeds, trade analytics and news services to financial institutions.- Managed the Exchange Services Division, managed ATS, Dark pool and Stock Exchange technology installations on the back of Townsend Analytics ARCA development history.- Transformed the company from a retail driven service provider to an institutional client focused, multi institutional broker service platform.- Managed the effort to increase the Equity EMS product offering and capabilities to include Fixed Income, FX, Options and Futures. - Selected and procured a multitude of content, news and risk information services which were integrated into the EMS environment.

Oaks, Pa, Us

SEI INVESTMENTS - Global Wealth Management Program

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Global Technology re-engineering

London, Uk, Gb

Working for and advising significant financial service groups in Europe, North America and the Middle East in regards to best business practices and the development of technical and operational infrastructure capabilities. In this period I:- Advised leading financial institutions in the capacity of CIO and Program Director on investment, technical and operational business practices and standards alongside several product and market development opportunities, each involved large system development opportunities.- Structured technology, investment, trading, operations, and administration functions facilitating the launch of products and core business systems. Managed development and deployment cycles. - Managed several assignments to advise financial firms on potential opportunities in investment product deployment, joint ventures and product development and the technology infrastructure.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, Ae

Program and Project Manager on very large investment management technology operation, technology and front office re-engineering and implementation effort. Led multiple business project streams as the business Subject Matter Expert. Initially began the role as a management consultant from Capco and was hired full time by ADIA at the end of the consulting contract.

Responsible as COO for all business administration, compliance, operational and technical support divisions for all investment management entities. - Developed several products, business groups and several green field sites procuring and managing operational staff and conducting technical implementation of front to back office system solutions.- Responsible as the COO, CIO and regulatory approved CFO for overseas entities. - Created and launched three separate investment management entities in London, New York and Bahamas, developed, managed and marketed Equity, Fixed Income and Private Equity Fund products. - Deployed globally to create hedge fund and private equity product development opportunities.- Handled all relationship issues with bank, marketing, security trading and administration entities, technology vendors, regulators and high profile investment client relationships.

London, Greater London, Gb

Responsible for the management of UK and European investment business services. - Managed technology group, central investment trading, operations, global custody banking operations, and unit trust and fund administration services. Managed Business Unit Heads on all critical projects. - Initiated multiple business best practice projects and critical technical projects including the deployment of banking and trading systems supporting continual change management efforts.- Managed several business critical projects related to the Baring’s collapse to safeguard client assets

Managed the global investment operations and fund administration groups in London and New York. Worked with CEO, Chief Investment Officer, and marketing and investment teams on global investment product management and development of the investment management processes.- Developed funds support technology and operational groups for all of Bankers Trust’s International fund products. Implemented new suite of investment management technology vendor products and established unitized fund accounting and client administration operations in New York, London and Tokyo. - Managed the technical development of business systems, implemented trading systems, performance, attribution and risk analysis tools, and portfolio analysis utilities. Evaluated investment management products and operational business groups for operational and cost efficiencies. - Worked around the globe leading the investment product, business development and organizational structuring in new territories.

London, Gb

Recruited to join a new private client wealth management service, involved primarily in client relationship management, product development and portfolio management.- Developed the technical and operational processing capabilities, integrating the parent company private banking capacities with the fund operations and investment systems processes. Deployed a new portfolio management system for all client investment trading, operations and reporting requirements.- Investment assistant to the senior portfolio manager overseeing client relationship matters, invested all cash and traded foreign exchange, fixed income and global equities to facilitate investment objectives.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited as a business analyst out of university. Conducted research on and subsequently prepared sales and marketing materials for international debt and foreign exchange products to introduce these to institutional clients and commence trading. Managed the department operating budget and completed product cost/profit analyses. Responsible for reengineering the International debt and foreign exchange trading support, settlement and administration groups. Achieved 40% reduction in operational expenses for all International securities processing support in response to 1987 market crash through operational process development, introduction of new technology, vendor consolidation and organizational restructuring.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Economics, Political Science, History

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