Thomas Rein Email & Phone Number

Durham, Nc, Us

Payments and lending - continuing to run the Hopscotch product and leading fintech product initiatives within Avalara.

New York, New York, Us

• Manage the Product, Engineering, and Design teams• Responsible for developing the business and product strategy, vision and roadmap, and lead the execution of all aspects of product development• In partnership with my teams, we have built a platform from zero to one that has been growing 35% MoM.

Mclean, Va, Us

Accountable for the vision, roadmap and build of products for the digital transformation of the Commercial Bank with a focus on the Commercial Real Estate, Risk Rating, and Pricing teams• Successfully lead five product, engineering and design pods in the redesign and rebuild of highly regulated processes and digital products for the commercial bank, resulting in improved efficiency, data capture and governance, risk management, and deal pricing• Define and execute the go-to-market strategy to drive user adoption• Leverage human centered design, and lean UX to design products that users enjoy and solve root problems • Manage relationships and expectations of all stakeholders from end users to senior management, building consensus for the strategy, vision, and execution of product roadmaps

New York, Us

One of the first 3 employees to develop from idea to revenue a fintech startup that offered a B2B2C SaaS credit platform in consumer lending• Co-authored Aliya’s business plan; conducted white-space and competitive analysis, and built pro-forma cash flow models to define Aliya’s strategy to profitably enter the unsecured personal and SMB lending space ecosystem• Defined and owned the roadmap for iOS and Android mobile apps, and a responsive website. Released in 6 months with limited resources by using an Agile framework and collaborating with a cross-functional team• Used human centered design to develop and iterate product features• Routinely presented to senior stakeholders, internal and external, to achieve consensus for product vision and manage expectations for delivery and go-to-market strategy• Created the marketing program for Aliya’s machine learning driven credit policy and balance sheet management products; defined the positioning statement, value proposition and messaging, and managed the design and copywriting teams • Established Aliya’s target customer list by defining the scoring framework for potential partners and managing a team of analysts that conducted research

Senior Analyst / Portfolio Manager on the $2B highly levered Fixed Income Relative Value Opportunity Fund focused on relative value opportunities in global sovereign debt, foreign exchange, and derivatives markets• Generated ideas for, executed and managed all positions in the Canadian fixed income and foreign exchange markets, and helped manage all US risk; generated profits in every fiscal year• Managed $5B in on-balance sheet assets and $5B in off-balance sheet assets• Integral in closing an initial $250MM investment from a major, public pension fund by creating the investor presentations to explain our arcane investment strategy• Regularly presented investment ideas to fund leadership for inclusion in the portfolio• Designed and built market valuation and P&L models for real-time trade opportunities and risk management

Thousand Oaks, Ca, Us

• Redefined how Amgen measured customer credit risk by evaluating and redesigning the tools, inputs, and processes used to perform credit risk assessments• Conducted an ROI analysis for co-pay programs of competitors of Enbrel, Amgen’s inflammation drug, and achieved buy-in from stakeholders to recommend modifying Enbrel’s program

London, Gb

Senior market-maker and principal trader on the FX Forwards desk responsible for G10 and emerging Asia currencies and short-term interest rates • Generated trading profits up to seven times annual budget through proprietary trading and market-making activities• Drove increased customer flow through the collaboration with sales to understand client needs in order to customize products and pricing • Constructed successful trade ideas by applying complex systems analysis to the global economy to understand how actions of economic and market players affect asset pricing and the reaction of other market participants• Mentored five junior traders by teaching proper risk and money management skills, and how to make decisions with imperfect information• Developed a proprietary foreign exchange forwards pricing model and emerging markets pricing model, utilizing programming skills to repurpose in-house fixed income analytics systems for the FX market

Mba

Physics, Computer Science

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