Wes Millard Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Ky, Us

The Agricultural Retailers Association advocates, influences, educates and provides services to support its members in their quest to maintain a profitable business environment, adapt to a changing world and preserve their freedom to operate.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Leading a team of food and agribusiness bankers serving a $5bn portfolio over 11 states.

Denver, Colorado

Greater Denver Area

Denver Colorado

- Coordinated risk management projects for senior business leaders, including C-Level management. Presented analytical findings, valuation analysis and strategic recommendations to ensure stakeholders understood the rationale, risks and potential outcomes of various strategies. Implemented strategies to remove key business risks.- Executed over $65 billion of interest rate and currency derivatives on behalf of client treasury teams. Hedged both major and minor currencies, including non-deliverable contracts. Managed trade settlement process. Reduced bank fees and transaction friction by 10% - 50% on a typical transaction.- Provided international cash management analytics and support services including: market liquidity assessment, spot foreign exchange, recovery of missing wires and trade settlement. Executed over USD 5.4bn equivalent in spot FX transactions in both major and minor currencies.- Managed derivative trading relationships on behalf of clients including: establishing credit for new trading lines, negotiating terms of trading agreements and hedging relationships (ISDA and CSA documents), collateral management, counterparty exposure, Dodd-Frank compliance and structuring of fees. Ensured efficient pricing and distribution of business and credit exposure among bank group members.- Advised on application of hedge accounting standard (ASC 815) for cash flow and net investment hedging. Tailored hedging strategies to comply with ASC 815 requirements and coordinated in-depth analysis by accounting team specialists ensuring desired economic and accounting results.

- Led initiative to improve key organizational processes. Overcame concerns from leadership to implement changes, improving team output. New processes used by leadership as a template to restructure other teams, optimizing intelligence support.- Managed the production of strategic intelligence analysis to identify trends and foreign capabilities in the areas of nonproliferation, nuclear deterrence and ballistic missile defense. Detailed risk assessments enabled informed decisions by command leadership and policy makers.- Provided ad hoc crisis support including: rapid assessment of developing situations, recall of appropriate analytical specialists, coordination with various intelligence collection platforms and delivery of initial analysis to intelligence and operational commanders. Enabled effective initial crisis response and ongoing analytical support.- Led squadron administrative support staff. Focused on establishing new procedures and streamlining existing processes. Eliminated backlog of overdue reports and maintained a 100% on time rate.

Bs, Foreign Area Studies

Mba

Agribusiness Seminar