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Gerard

Operations, Transformation and Lending/Trading Operations Specialist

About Me

Strategic financial services leader with deep expertise in delivering large - scale transformation and operational change across banking and capital markets. Skilled in designing and executing global operating models that enhance resilience, compliance, and performance. Proven record of embedding governance and control frameworks that enable sustainable growth.

Jurisdiction

United States | United Kingdom

Experience

Seniority LevelC-Suite
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Chief Operating OperatorFIFTEEN Marketplace,
2025 - Present

• Leading the build, delivery and scale of an AI - powered financial services marketplace, connecting buy - side institutions with the top 15% of global financial specialists, and enterprise. training, and solutions partners • Driving international expansion, including the US buy - side launch, with structured onboarding of enterprise clients, vetted professionals, and partner firms • Aligning internal functions of product, legal, finance, and partner solutions into a unified execution framework, ensuring speed, quality, and governance across global operations • Establishing operational excellence frameworks covering compliance, contracts, and delivery standards to support investor readiness and client trust • Acting as the operational bridge between commercial growth and day - to - day delivery, ensuring investor strategy matches business development and translated into executable business outcomes • Embedding a culture of control, intelligence, delivery, and impact, balancing entrepreneurial agility with the structure required for scale

Director, Banking & Wholesale LendingAcuity Knowledge Partners,
2024 - 2025

• Lead strategic and transformational engagements with clients across Wholesale Lending • Partnering with clients to provide strategic solutions to Lending Operations and Capital Markets infrastructure • Managing multiple global delivery teams to ensure efficient and quality execution to clients across the US • Developed a Middle Office Center of Excellence spanning capital markets to present cross - product capability • Responsible for setting up and providing delivery oversight to large offshore teams located across delivery centers in Costa Rica, India and Sri Lanka

Banking, Capital Markets, Advisory & Wholesale LendingCITIBANK PLC,
2022 - 2023

• Partnering with Product Managers and COO Team to execute regulatory driven end - to - end infrastructure review for Wholesale Lending, Banking and Capital Markets to highlight business, operational & market risk ◦ Senior stakeholder management on project progress and execution ◦ Accountable executive for Operations on managing timeline for delivery • Consideration of regulators' Consent Order and determining prioritization of review and resolution steps • Implementation of operating improvement opportunities for Lending Operations and Capital Markets • Partnering with wider Operations teams to implement new workflow for Wholesale Lending • Analysis and development of new technology platforms for middle office across Loans, Equity and Bonds

Head of US Wholesale Loan Operations & Transformation LeadBARCLAYS,
2018 - 2022

• Delivered a new global operating model and business plan for Lending Operations, restructuring the support model for the syndicate business. Stabilized the group following multiple location moves over five years and re - designed support for the front office syndicate origination and secondary trading desks • COO role as Product Manager for Loans; ownership and accountability for all transformation initiatives • Partnered with trading desk to explore new trading concepts including variations on warehousing and new CLO modeling and the operational viability of such structures with advanced trigger mechanisms • Engagement with Compliance and Front Office to ensure securitization of CLOs could be as automated as possible to ensure regulatory compliance and internal efficiency • Delivery of new control process for Lending, overseeing regulatory deliveries for US Lending Operations, and a training program to deliver excellence across the teams and management control infrastructure Capital Markets • Leading the Capital Markets and Wholesale Lending Operations mobilization for LIBOR Reform, including engagement and analysis across internal partners ensuring a one - firm approach minimizing risk and leveraging technology and operations process / delivery • Represented Barclays at industry forums for LIBOR reform, discussing and negotiating with regulators and market peers to coordinate remodeling of market mechanics • Accountable executive for operations LIBOR Reform regulatory compliance • Loan IQ implementation accountable executive – liaison between technology and business for execution

Director; Senior BA & Project ManagerVOX FINANCIAL PARTNERS,
2018 - 2018

• Developed company presence in the Loan Trading and Origination markets in North America and Europe supporting Operations, Compliance and Technology, to deliver strategic solutions to clients • Selected and managed support teams at leading investment banks and hedge funds • Reset strategic approach to Syndicated Loan market for existing clients including both operational workflow models and location strategy execution to deliver seamless delivery of operational and technology projects

Associate Director; Senior BA, SME & Project ManagerSYNECHRON BUSINESS CONSULTING, INC.,
2016 - 2018

• Drove partnership opportunities with investment banks to broaden client base through project execution and supplementing Capital Market Operations teams • Delivered strategic operational and technology Target Operating Models (TOMs) to clients and managed ongoing relationship development during pre and post implementation phases • Conducted client training and capital markets education courses for clients in Toronto and New York

Business Development & Program ManagementSAPIENT GLOBAL MARKETS,
2014 - 2016

• Detailed analysis of new regulatory reforms, leading internal and market discussion around guidance and impact - leading to multiple client engagements • Leveraged knowledge of regulatory change to broaden client base internationally by expanding business coverage from Houston to Toronto, also pivoting the knowledge from big banks to hedge funds • Delivered projects at a leading energy company for technology implementation improving the cost efficiency of LNG tankers around the world and reducing operational processing risk

Head of US Loan Trading OperationsBARCLAYS,
2010 - 2014

• Restructured the operations team to deliver improved market performance, and internal and external client experience while trading volume increased YoY by 200%, and resolved several legacy client relationship issues • Loan IQ migration from existing in - house platform – accountable Loan Operations executive • Represented Barclays as Speaker at LSTA industry conferences on settlement and operational risk awareness Head of US Derivative Operations • Ownership of the Documentation and Settlements functions for Equity, Interest Rate, Credit and FX Derivatives. Group comprising of 7 teams and ~120 headcount • Execution of Target Operating Model across multiple asset classes and regions. • Completed a high profile 2013 global location strategy and outsourcing engagement of Operational functions from New York to Houston and Mumbai, with complex products residing in New York

Director, Loan Trading OperationsMORGAN STANLEY,
2004 - 2010

• Managed groups performing trade support and operational functions for Distressed and Par Loan Trading desks • Managed Loans Agency Team and TRS product through severe market disruption and significant volume fluctuations

Manager, Emerging Markets OperationsDEUTSCHE BANK,
2002 - 2004

• Re - designed the Sovereign Loan Trading operations' infrastructure restoring customers' confidence and business • Managed physical settlement of Prom Notes processed liaised with small businesses in Japan and South America

Manager, Agency LoansJP MORGAN PLC,
2001 - 2002

• Partnered with Credit, Debt Capital Markets & Legal personnel for closing new financing deals with critical timing across Europe and South Americas, supervising the delivery team

Project Finance SpecialistCREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON,
1998 - 2000

• Managed problematic deals in the Project Finance portfolio; high profile deals financing energy plants in Indonesia, covering issues affecting the project such as supplier default, project reliability tests and company budgeting

FX Analyst, Supervisor, Credit OperationsJP MORGAN PLC,
1994 - 1998

• Reviewed FX client utilization and limits, rising to Supervisor role and improving credit risk processes across products

Education

Degree of EconomicsHayes College, London
1992 - 1994

Skills

Core skills1
Languages3

Skills

Financial Services, Banking, Bond Markets, Operating Systems, Governance, User Controls, Financial Services, Governance, Operations, Operational Excellence

Languages

English
French
Spanish