Stephen Graves Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York, US

CertifiedTrue is a B2B SaaS company focused on eliminating the potential for image fraud by providing a platform built on proprietary technology, that enables certification and verification of digital images so that they are reliable as evidence in court and for commercial purposes. Our SaaS solution, PhotoProof, provides a secure process to capture.

New York, New York, US

Beijing, CN

• As a consultant to the Legal and Compliance Department, I led multiple large-scale initiatives and managed programs focused around Digital Transformation and Operational Excellence of Risk Management processes and tools.
• Implemented and program managed a continuous improvement program comprised of 22 sub projects across 10 departments, focused on data automation, data analysis and digitization. Monthly reporting to the Steering.
• Project Manager for a Digital Intelligence Dashboard for Sanctions, overseeing data typology and algorithm development for artificial intelligence derived filtering to produce analysis in a Qlik Sense dashboard to.
• Lead between PMO, Computer Department, offshore Programming and Development company and Sanctions Department to develop business requirements and a User Interface for a department-wide Case Management Tool. Including.
• Took over as Program Manager for large multi-year compliance regulatory initiative to drive on time, on budget delivery of high value strategic objectives.

San Jose, California, US

* Drove operational improvements across Business Unit & Operations teams in cross functional management systems & led multiple programs & strategic initiatives to improve business unit performance.* Directed initiative (reporting to Chief Product Officer) to transform New Product Introduction. Results included reduced innovation cycle time by over 3 months.

New York, US

• Drove corporate reorganization process optimization for utility application service provider, resulting in 40% productivity increase in primary resource team & development of an enterprise web application as.
• Oversaw reorganization of e-commerce business for commercial enzyme maker with $10 million in annual online sales, including complete front and back-end web development & design, strategic SWOT analysis of competitive.
• Created and implemented marketing plan for bio-startup’s new product release, including: competitive market analysis, product design, positioning, pricing, testing, packaging, company & product branding, ecommerce web.
• Supervised creation of advisory board program for the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce, comprised of multiple industry sector specific boards for discussion & advocacy that increased Partners memberships by 30%.
• Senior strategy & data management roles on 15+ campaigns for public office (local, state & national) including strategic plan & metrics analysis for 500k CRM database that improved email open rates of 30%+ and CTR of.

Islamabad, PK

• Led strategic plan to establish $300 million Pakistan American Enterprise Fund created by US Congress. Drafted Investment Policy Statement and successfully redirected BOI into securing $80 million USAID.
• Lead strategic advisor during two rounds of US Pakistan Bilateral Investment Treaty negotiations with US Trade Representative that secured 2 agreed articles. BOI lead for negotiating team that secured $4 million+.
• Performed strategic review of Agency 5 year operations plan, identifying 2 new revenue sources (representing 10% of budget) and provided implementation plan for revenue capture.

New York, New York, US

• Deputy Head of Project Board (PMO) comprised of managers, consultants & vendors that successfully implemented a $150 million+ legacy election system replacement for 5 counties of NYC including all software, equipment.
• Direct management and coaching of 7 Assistant Staff Analysts as well as shared supervision for approximately 100 full time (including 10 supervisors) and 100+ part time staff spread over 6 separate facilities.
• Successful management of 30+ geographically dispersed projects, budgets ranging up to $5M+, requiring overcoming highly uncivil rivalries & partisan bias within & across departments, including: incident management.
• Streamlined preventative maintenance testing process, reducing cycle time by 66% & failure rate by 20%.
• Designed improved process for Election Day VMF call center, worked with MIS to redesign & test proprietary software & train staff, resulting in 50% reduction in average waiting time between call receipt & technician.

As part of Kashmir’s outreach efforts that led to the US increasing aid from $100,000 initially pledged to over $156 million, coordinated & created agenda for 20+ meetings with various UN & USA officials at State Department, Commerce, House and Senate to facilitate logistics and urge support for humanitarian relief of 2005 earthquake victims.

• Provided analysis of USA’s political affairs in regards to Pakistan’s actions toward its economy, engagement with the USA and joint anti-terrorism efforts. Organized and attended 50+ meetings with Bhutto and various.
• Organized the establishment of Foreign Relations Institute of Pakistan and secured its initial operational funding.

• Lead research, extraction and processing of investigative new compounds in nutraceuticals and sports medicine and managed laboratory operations.
• Directed the creation, development & administration of ecommerce website & 3 target market focused internet forums & grew them to 100,000+ registered members, responsible for increasing customer base by 300% & sales by.
• Established supply chain, pricing, product distribution channels, sourcing & manufacturing for 20 product lines.
• Negotiated sale of the company and managed transition of assets in acquisition.

• Founded network security and digital certificate authority startup, created original strategic plan, oversaw development of proprietary software for application service (now SaaS) and built a talented team of 10.
• Secured $75K in first and $250K in second round angel financing as well as $1.5 million deal with PSINet (now Cogent) to be Application Service Provider for their network customers. Also negotiated $7 million.

• NFA Registered Principle (0274572) for Commodities Trading Advisor and Commodities Pool Operator.
• Raised $5 million in assets for trading cross-currency contracts on FINEX & arbitrage purposes.

• Responsible for all FOREX and commodity trades, with discretionary AUM over $35 million and AAR of 26%.
• Managed team of research analysts and traders in modeling, back testing proprietary trading systems as well as portfolio management and designing proprietary technical high frequency trading system modeled for high.
• Oversight on setup of new trading facility including hardware, data feeds & trading & portfolio management software.
• Team Lead for restructuring fund and establishing hedge fund under Bahamian Law, including writing new prospectus.

• Supervised all trading activities for a group of 10 traders and later was promoted to supervising all traders (50+) during US trading hours.
• Exercised discretionary trading authority for $1.5 million of firm’s account in FOREX and precious spot metals market.
• Responsible for market research and analysis provided to traders in pre-opening daily direction meeting.
• Responsible for hiring and training new traders for the European Group and later for US markets.

• Traded FOREX and precious metals for portfolio of 50+ clients with discretionary trading authority over $250k of house funds using technical analysis methods for high frequency short term trading on trend adjusted.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

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Strategic Intelligence, National Security

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Professional Certificate, Capital Markets

Business Administration And Management, General

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