Christopher Wheeler Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

I lead the development of a firm-wide onboarding Know Your Client (KYC) tool capturing and maintaining account and regulatory data, creating new accounts feeding downstream trading. Overseeing a global organization of 300+, I cultivate a lean team culture, ensuring AML compliance, and managing eight global Client Lifecycle Management teams across six worldwide locations. I also manage initial and ongoing client due diligence, reviewing client activity, suspending and reactivating accounts, and conducting high-risk transactions in a risk-averse environment. Collaborating with internal stakeholders, we identify business opportunities, process improvements, and service delivery initiatives.• Established and met monthly key performance indicator (KPI) targets of 95% or higher for global teams.• Combined and cross-trained several teams to manage multiple processes creating leaner efficient team, improving client service and reducing costs.• Directed annual budget of approximately $29M.• Served as application owner for three client data systems, ensuring user functionality, data quality, and control.• Prepared written and oral responses to regulatory inquiries, file productions, and process walkthroughs to demonstrate operational sustainability.

New York, New York

I was also the Global Co-Head of LDD, KYCD IDD, and Enablements. I directed multiple operations of five global teams across client onboarding and KYC initiatives, legal due diligence, agreement data processing, and electronic trading in a risk/control environment. Conducting legal negotiations with key stakeholders, I ensured trading compliance with global regulations, embedding requirements into existing processes. I partnered with internal and external stakeholders to ensure adherence with service level agreements. • Managed vendor resources, including third party legal negotiators and paralegals, overseeing 80% of all legal negotiations.• Oversaw International Swaps & Derivatives (ISDA) negotiations for key clients, reducing risk weighted assets by $14Bn.• Led committee allowing for replication of ISDA non-standard terms for key accounts, empowering negotiators and decreasing time to market to one week.• Oversaw urgent remediation of Portfolio Swap Agreements (PSA) of approximately 800 clients over six months. • Coordinated approximately 925 Master Repurchase Agreement (MRA) and Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreement (MSFTA) negotiations in nine months.

New York, New York, United States

I led a seven-member global team managing legal negotiations for trading agreements and facilitating onboarding process for more than 900 clients for multiple products without missing a fund launch. Collaborating with the technology team, we developed a user-friendly workflow tool and documentation approval portal, improving response times, functionality, and transparency.• Reduced time to market to approximately 25 days for all legal trading agreements.• Opened 2500 accounts to meet Dodd Frank deadline for futures trading in less than one month.

New York, New York, United States

I maximized trading opportunities and profit potential, negotiating ISDA documents, including the master agreement schedule, credit support annex, and ancillary documents supporting firm policies and procedures for all lines of business. I streamlined derivative process documentation, addressing and resolving negotiation issues with key stakeholders.

New York, New York, United States

Led negotiation teams to record Prime Brokerage, FX, Hedge Fund and High Net Worth business lines; executed 200+ ISDA Master Agreements and Credit Support Annexes each year.Ensured compliance to firm policies and procedures, and protected company and client interests; collaborated with sales and trading to establish legitimate counterparty priorities to optimize results.

New York

Negotiated various Credit Master Confirmation Agreements ensuring DTCC compatibility. Drafted TRS and Vanilla Confirmations on T+1 basis.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance, General