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Mill Valley, Ca, Us

Award-winning simulations for FinTech, Retail Lenders and Bankers. Think "flight simulators for bankers": bank executives, risk managers, and staff can rapidly improve their skill sets to address more strategic and technical challenges with the right training tools.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

PortfolioQuest - fully digital, single player simulation by popular demand and incubated by BankersLab!

London, Gb

Entrepreneurs, bankers, etc -- find a way to give back to the ecosystem.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

Woomentum is an online community platform for entrepreneurs and business leaders to connect to experts, mentors and investors. Woomentum focuses on gender diverse teams. The vision is to see more women FULLY participate in the engine of growth and innovation that we are living today.1. Woomentum.com an expert-driven Q&A online portal that connects entrepreneurs to experts and professionals.2. Woomentum Fund is the first reward-based crowdfunding platform to launch in Asia for both women-led businesses and businesses with products serving the advancement of women.

Singapore, Sg

Mentor for this accelerator programme focused on financial technology, also known as FinTech. FinLab is a partnership between UOB, one of the leading banks in Asia and IIPL, one of the largest venture capital funds in Singapore.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Provide mentorship and feedback to startups in the program.

London, England, Gb

Created comprehensive risk management training course for consumer bank risk executives. Provided subject matter expertise, training content and case studies for areas such as Basel II, Analytics, Stress Testing, Decision Tool Usage and Risk Management Strategies. Conducted delivery and refinement of the new course.

London, England, Gb

- Provided thought leadership and methodology for Basel II risk modeling. - Created best practices infrastructure, toolkit, and training program for usage of Credit Bureau data across the bank. - Obtained investment funding and building or upgrading credit bureau interface infrastructure across six countries. - Provided leadership for usage of and investments in the bank’s risk infrastructure. This includes account management and underwriting platforms. - Provided analytic leadership for Value-at-risk and risk appetite analysis of the portfolios. - Participated in Microfinance task force to build technical assistance program for MFIs.

Bozeman, Montana, Us

- Built client facing analytic team in Bangalore, delivering retail credit risk models as well as business consulting to global clients. Provide mentoring, training, quality and process review and guidance for rapid team development. - Consistently met aggressive revenue and chargeability targets, as leader of Asia/Pacific Analytic P&L Unit. - Created Basel II modeling methodologies for retail credit risk. Steer and direct Basel II research efforts.- Industry presentations to advance thought leadership for IRB compliance, economic loss forecasting, best practices, and profitable portfolio management. - Extensive experience in developing and conducting client training seminars. Seminars range from 20 to 100 participants.- Focus on bringing best practices to emerging markets and linking Basel II results to Value at Risk methods for risk management.- Built some of the first credit scoring models for the microfinance sector.

Washington, Dc, Us

- Participated in technical assistance missions in the area of Macroeconomic and Fiscal Management. Developed and demonstrated a sectoral simulation model for the Finance Ministry Authorities for the purpose of fiscal projections and analysis. - Developed and maintained models to calculate industrial country fiscal indicators which are used the Board of Directors discussions and IMF publications. These are statistical indicators which are regularly used in the world financial markets to understand the impact of public finance on the macroeconomy and for the Maastrict convergence criteria in Europe.- Developed cash flow model of public pension schemes for several industrial and developing countries, in order to compute a net present value position of each fund, and to simulate policy solutions for aging populations. This is a partial equilibrium model which utilizes detailed demographic cohort groups and exogenous macroeconomic conditions.

Gb

- Analyzed risk and return of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s largest mortgage insurance fund. Developed model of past and future cash flows of program. Conducted an econometric analysis of the probability of a borrowers’ default and prepayment, using the results as input to the cash flow model.- Conducted econometric study of housing market leading indicators in order to develop an econometric model to explain the movement of housing prices.- Prepared various technical reports and government proposals.

Chicago, Il, Us

- Researched impact of import competition on US manufacturing. Explored the quantitative relationship between industry concentration, profit margins, and import penetration through the use of panel data econometric techniques. Utilized a fixed effects panel data model with error correction matrices.- Assembled panel database for all Savings and Loans institutions in the US in order to test cost-estimation econometric models.

Ba, Economics, Applied Mathematics

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