Mehrdad Nasser, Cim® Email & Phone Number

Canada

OTC Global Equity Derivatives (GED) • Spearheaded initiatives to reduce the number of trades in members' portfolios, simplifying position management, and freeing up capital. Reduced the outstanding YTD Total Notional of USD 1,867,612,460,393.01.• Identified limitations, raised awareness through presentation decks, implemented test cases, scheduled stakeholder meetings, and facilitated rollouts.• Constructed a comprehensive risk tracking process, identifying, and addressing entity-wide problems and recommending solutions.• Collaborated with business partners to propose effective solutions, implementing critical controls, mitigating risk, and resolve operational weakness to advancing automation (STP).• Reengineered processes and procedures implemented governance and controls.• Emphasized eliminating redundancy and streamlining trade completion times, resulting in a remarkable 30% reduction in turnaround time, equating to annual time savings of approximately 150 hours.• Contributed significantly to enhancing client service quality, leading to the consolidation of the client base.• Ensured transparent communication with executive management, providing timely updates on project status.Product Delivery• Successfully lead various end-to-end projects and testing initiatives across diverse market products - FX, Global Metals, Equities, Derivatives & Fixed Income• Manage services for a broad spectrum of clients, including those in Canada, the U.S., Southeast Asia, Dublin, and Europe, spanning corporate and institutional sectors.• Follow project management methodologies, project delivery processes, and implementation management process:• Proactively identified and escalated blockers, risks, and issues to maintain a proactive and responsive approach.• Managed and drove project components, including project plans, timelines, deliverables, risk and issue management, scope change management, and weekly touchpoint meetings.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Orchestrated and oversaw the end-to-end delivery of products on a global scale.• Initiated the creation of intake forms, facilitated communication with upstream/downstream stakeholders, and managed Clarity chargebacks.• Managed and coached the team to cultivate a positive culture and support their career growth.• Shared a compelling vision and goals to align teams towards achieving desired outcomes, promoting values of integrity and vulnerability.• Established and nurtured relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.• Maintained open lines of communication, addressed concerns, and proactively mitigated potential risks that could negatively impact transactions.• Actively sought opportunities to standardize, optimize, and automate existing processes and procedures.• Focused on enhancing productivity by implementing streamlined approaches.• Created robust systems, controls, and procedures related to the life cycle of equity derivatives.• Ensured adherence to best practices, fostering efficiency and minimizing risks throughout the process.

Toronto, Ontario

• Monitor and track TD Securities’ Real Money client base to ensure overall trade ready compliance on a day to day basis;• Provide advocacy and responsiveness to Senior Executives, increasing business participation, and maintaining profitability goals;• Apply leadership and influencing skills to foster key relationships with Clients in order to promote customer loyalty and retain existing business;• Cultivate excellent long-term relationships with upstream & downstream stakeholders, maintaining ongoing communication and facilitating solutions to address concerns.• Assist with developing and enhancing procedures, policies and to streamline current process and promote consistency and transparency; • Identify key risks and work with project teams to create a development plan and set objectives;• Work with teams to define architectural plan to implement changes to streamline and automate processes in order to optimize performance, efficiencies, productivity and revenue for the business;• Present updates to Global Client Management (GCM) upper management to ensure the department is kept informed of the project status and escalates all issues, concerns or deliverables specifically impacting GCM;• Actively managed a client base with AUM $100 million +;• Provided proactive leadership to motivate team to deliver exceptional service quality and improved client satisfaction;• Responsible for oversight of: Global Regulatory Framework, Credit, Legal, AML/KYC, CRS and FATCA.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Manage and Lead a team of 9 people covering all aspects of confirmation and settlements in the Foreign Exchange, Global Metals, Derivatives and Bullion Products space within or without an ISDA framework. Servicing Canadian, U.S., South East Asia and European clients (corporate and institutional) • Helped expand our operational business to London, taking on a holistic approach of the Global Delivery Model – to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues overseas• Assisted with onboarding of new high-profile Global Metals business clients, resulting in over $20 million in revenue.• Fostered business relationships and provided significant increase in client service, resulting in solidification of client base and significant review expansion• Initiated and developed new Partner and stakeholder relationships, providing strategic alliances and business opportunities• Reviewed, evaluated, formulated and executed project plans, schedules and budgets for the Global Metals and FX Options desk.• Took agile approach by restructuring the current system and processes, with goal of increasing efficiency while reducing cost and mitigating risk –Result: increased productivity by 50% and reduced cost and employee turnover by 67% and 20%, respectively.• Redefined all departmental operational procedures increasing efficiency and decreasing production errors and lead time.• Implemented monthly metrics reporting for operations activities such as error ratios, unit cost, and volatility measures.• Identified operational gaps and designed solutions for Agile development team during high volume, mitigating risk gaps and procedural deficiencies in order to exceed client expectation• Motivated and developed team members, resulting in resolution of issues and improvement in team cohesiveness and overall performance. A results-driven professional with strong client-centric skills and an agile approach to project management.

Manage and Lead a team of 5 people covering all aspects of confirmation in the Foreign Exchange, Global Metals and Derivatives Products space within or without an ISDA framework. Servicing Canadian, U.S., South East Asia and European clients (corporate and institutional) • Identified and managed risk to ensure appropriate controls are in place and also ensured team operates in compliance with applicable internal and external requirements with no incident reports to date. • Initiated a comprehensive issue tracking process that improved communication and issue resolution for cross-functional teams and senior management.• Cultivated excellent long-term relationships with clients, maintain ongoing communication and facilitating solutions to address concerns.• Spearheaded numerous projects and testing, including Dodd-Frank regulatory practices regarding OTC derivative products; identified problems, recommended improvements, and worked in collaboration with business partners to implement issue resolutions.

Responsible for performing control function by reviewing and approving all derivative confirmations for Interest Rate Derivatives, Foreign Exchange Derivatives, Derivative Options, and Exotic products in compliance with the TD Securities Confirmation Policy and procedures. Interacting with internal and external counterparties, global middle office, traders, treasury documentation and settlements unit•Analyze service delivery issues and identify potential solutions that enhance both the internal & external clients experience and support the firms’ business objectives; •Achieved and exceeded all position objectives, applying attention to detail and methodical approach to fulfill goals. •Reengineered processes & procedures which lead to increased productivity and overall efficiency of the daily tasks, with the focus of eliminating duplication and reducing the time to complete the trades – Reduced turnaround time by 30% & saving the team approximately 150 hours annually•Spearheaded numerous projects and testing, including but not limited to Dodd-Frank regulatory practices regarding OTC derivative products, and helped resolve critical control and operational weaknesses; identified problems, recommended improvements, and worked in collaboration with business partners to implement issue resolutions. Seek out potential opportunities where the confirmations process can be fully automated (STP)

77 King Street West

•Review, prepare and track all derivatives documentation accurately and on a timely basis; Ensured timelines in resolving economics breaks and outstanding trades and comply with the bank’s confirmation policy and procedures•Mitigated economic risk through promptly investigating and resolving all documentation issues escalating as required, and handle crucial high risk issues, determining the most appropriate and expeditious course for the successful and timely resolution of same•Prepare and send out comprehensive escalation reports detailing South East Asia, London, North America and Dublin long-aged outstanding trades and key issues to front office and senior management, ensuring reporting deadlines are met.•Introduced automating macros into day-to-day processes, in order to minimize operational risk, and increase overall team efficiency; saving the group approximately 150 hours annually

•Analyzed client financial information and made investment recommendations to increase revenue volume in excess of $500,000.•Met and exceeded individual sales goals by 230%•Collected and analyzed data on financial industry trends, investment risks and economic influences•Advised customers about GIC's, fixed income instruments, and TD mutual funds available to suit their needs and investments objectives

• Performed financial transactions for customers• Balanced mid and end-of-day cash-on-hand totals as well as secure desk operator• Developed and maintained customer relationships