Xavier Olave Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia

Greater New York City Area

• Lead publishing sell-side credit analyst formally covering Latin American energy, utilities/power, and telecommunications corporates.• Perform fundamental credit analysis and valuation (relative value/trends/credit dynamics) for Latin American hard currency corporate bonds (including sectors not formally covered) for internal (sales & trading) and external (buy-side) clients.• Provide individual credit recommendations, perform ongoing monitoring, and analyze/articulate covered sectors’ outlook and strategy.

New York, Ny

• Lead credit analyst responsible for coverage of twenty Latin American energy (downstream, upstream, services) and utilities/power corporate credits (primarily analyze bond issues/issuers located in South America).• Conduct on-site meetings with senior managements in the region, perform detailed financial analyses, prepare/present credit presentations to internal credit rating committees, and communicate credit decisions to issuers' senior management.• Write and publish investor notes/research reports, and interact with buy-side investors, sell-side analysts and the media.

New York, Ny

• Lead equity analyst at long-only Brazilian asset management firm responsible for coverage of telecommunications, utilities/power, and steel equities (primarily Brazilian companies and multinational companies with presence in Latin American markets).• Created company/industry models, and derived investment opinions through primary research (with minimal sell-side support). • Provided portfolio manager with stock/sector specific recommendations through daily communications and weekly formal presentations covering portfolio/coverage universe (presentations focused on industry/financial performance/trading/valuation analyses).

New York, Ny

• Developed/maintained financial/industry models in support of Senior Analyst covering large cap telecommunications/tower/cable stocks. Responsible for CMCSA, CTL, S, T, VZ, LEAP, PCS, AMT, CCI, ALSK, OTT, and WIN; wrote initiation reports for LEAP and PCS.• Monitored news flow, wrote market commentary (including daily research piece), and communicated with institutional sales and trading on potential stock movements (including presentations at morning call meetings).• Supported Senior Analyst’s communications with clients and institutional sales, generated custom analyses and research notes, and advised Senior Analyst on estimate and target price changes.• Promoted from Associate to Director position.

New York, Ny

• Developed company and industry models leading to coverage launch of Latin American telecommunications/cable/media stocks. Supported Senior Analyst on initiation of coverage for AMX, NIHD, VIV and TSU.• Monitored news flow, wrote weekly research publication, and communicated with institutional sales and trading.

New York, Ny

• Supported Senior Analyst's coverage launch of U.S. telecommunications sector. • Built and maintained financial models for seven telecom companies (T, BLS, Q, CZN, CTL, CTCO, and WIN) and developed wireline/wireless industry subscriber models.

Bedminster, Nj

Financial Leadership Program – Post-MBA rotational management training programPricing Analyst (February 2006 - June 2006)• Performed business analyses to develop plan for integrating legacy-AT&T custom pricing reporting into legacy-SBC reporting structure.Strategic Planning Analyst (April 2005 - February 2006)• Served as project manager during SBC-AT&T merger approval process to develop and execute merger integration plan.Senior Financial Analyst (August 2004 - April 2005)• Managed consolidation process of $3.0 billion budget for AT&T Consumer’s Product Management and Marketing & Sales groups.

Austin, Tx

• Created revenue model, pro-forma financial statements, and valuation model for media company’s start-up content division.

Highland Park, Il

• Forecasted outcomes and performed competitive analyses to determine the cost-effectiveness of clients’ pharmaceutical products.• Promoted from Analyst to Senior Analyst.

Dearborn, Mi

• Functioned in a sales/credit analyst role to expand Ford Credit’s wholesale credit business in the Latin America/Caribbean region.

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Graduate Finance Organization Consortium of Graduate Studies in Management National Society of Hispanic MBAs

Ba, Economics