Lee A. Deappolonio Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

• Manage the day-to-day activities performed by client services team members.
• Work directly with financial advisors and and clients to open and fund their accounts on the high net worth investment management platform.
• Orchestrate and manage the completion of various projects aimed to enhance our internal “back end” and external “client facing” investment management process.
• Led initiative to change the accepted signature method to electronic and responsible for consolidating required paperwork; reduced number of required forms/signatures by 80%.
• Responsible for the development of a 100% "straight-through-processing" digital client onboarding solution that streamlines and simplifies the paperwork generation process in account onboarding; reduced the processing.
• Actively work with internal/external, audit, risk and compliance teams to develop procedures and workflows that are in line with industry and regulatory rules and standards.

• Organized events, conferences and meetings with clients and affiliated partners
• Developed and executed targeted marketing campaigns to generate new leads and grow book of business
• Finalized sales with clients; assure high quality service is performed and delivered
• Designed marketing materials and communication strategies that amplified overall business presence

• Interact directly with financial representatives to help execute business and resolve various investor related requests
• Serve as primary contact in the onboarding of new investors and financial professionals; perform a high level of quality service to ensure confidence
• Responsible for giving the final approval for trade execution by reviewing and performing due-diligence
• Actively developed and maintained relationships with new and pre-existing financial representatives and clients
• Designed and implemented the running of weekly exception reports for penny stocks and pink-sheet security transactions that isolated trades that may not confirm to clients objectives
• Facilitated order entry for financial representatives and investors

Mba Candidate, Technology Commercialization, Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Concentration In Finance