OBJECTIVE
Strategic Talent Advisor to corporate management with mandate to optimize performance and potential of the Executive Team and staff.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Egon Zehnder
Partner 2001-2013
New York, N.Y.
Egon Zehnder is the world’s premier executive search and talent management firm, and a leader in the field of executive assessment.
• Acted as a trusted talent advisor providing executive assessment and senior-level search services principally in the financial sector.
• Driver of substantial growth of the firm’s U.S. Asset Management and Banking practices by winning new clients. Generated more than $30 million of new revenues.
• Served as the Head of the U.S. Financial Services Practice through the financial crash of 2008 and its aftermath.
• Established and managed several of the firm’s core client relationships including Alcoa, Bank of America, Barclay’s Global Investors, and Citigroup (the firm’s largest billing client globally.)
Notable Talent Management Experience
• Originated and led the management and team effectiveness review of the Citigroup Executive Team in 2009 as mandated by the FDIC. Reporting to the Chairman of the Board, the team assessed executives including the CEO, CFO, CAO, CEO CitiHoldings, CTO and others. Report was presented to the Citigroup Board of Directors, the FDIC, OCC and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
• Partnered with the CEO of CitiHoldings in the creation of an Executive Development and Retention Program, leveraging Egon Zehnder’s proprietary executive assessment model, for his executive team.
• Assessed the competence of a global bank’s mortgage business leadership (50 executives).
• Designed and lead an assessment and team effectiveness review of the Standard & Poor’s executive committee following its creation under the new President in 2011.
Notable Executive Search Experience
• Originated and executed C-Suite level search assignments in asset management and banking. In early years, developed and led the firm’s relationship with Alcoa yielding executive search/assessment experience in the industrial space.
• Key projects included reconstruction of the GMAC (now Ally Financial) Board in the midst of the financial crisis which resulted in the placement of the successor CEO. Recruited the Chairman and CEO of CIT Group.
• Specialized in search for strategic leaders including the CFO, CRO, CHRO, Treasurer, Chief Auditor, and Head of Compliance.
Dexia Bank
Group Head – Project Finance and Telecommunications – The Americas 1998-2001
New York, N.Y.
Recruited and established a new professional team and repositioned the bank as a financial underwriter of significant projects. Established co-lead relationships with banking industry leaders. Managed the profit and loss of the bank’s project finance and telecommunications portfolio. Increased annual revenue 120% and profitability (ROE) 70%. Responsible for strategic planning and execution, client relationship management, new products and marketing.
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Union Bank of Switzerland
Director – Global Project Finance 1997-1998
New York, N.Y.
Managed key client relationships and originated and led negotiation for non-recourse financings of industrial infrastructure in the mining and energy sectors in Latin America and the US. Negotiated the industry’s first non-recourse financing of a merchant power plant. Team was disbanded upon the bank’s merger with Swiss Bank.
Credit Suisse First Boston
Vice President – Global Project Finance 1992-1997
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