Functional Skills

Business Unit Strategy
Business Planning
Process Design / Re-engineering
Organizational Design
Program Management

Certifications

CFAChartered Financial Analyst

Sector Experience

Business Services
Energy
Financial Services
Technology
Big 4 Accounting
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

El Porto Consulting, LLC Management Consulting
Owner
10/2012 - Present
Lead Management Consulting Engagements related to Strategy, Operations and Technology.

Representative Consulting Projects:
• Large Global Asset Manager – Delivery leader for standing up an Organizational Readiness team to support a $200M global business transformation across the front-, middle- and back-office:
o Designed an approach for conducting Investment Value Chain Analysis;
o Led the Organizational Readiness team in the implementation and transition to business as usual.
• Large Global Asset Manager – Leadership for a MiFID II compliance operating model using Bloomberg products as
the core trading technology:
o Designed operating model components focused on global investment decision and global trading processes.

State Street Management Consulting
Managing Director
9/2021 - 3/2023
Responsible for transitioning asset managers to State Street's Alpha platform, a fully integrated front-to-back technology platform that combines proven industry leading components, including Charles River Development, Alpha Data Platform, middle-office processing, and a comprehensive set of data and back-office services.

Accenture Management Consulting
Senior Manager
4/2015 - 12/2016
Senior Leadership Activities:
• Member of the North America Fintech Team leading the Capital Markets space.
• Led the creation of an internal white paper on trends and opportunities in buy-side trading.

Representative Consulting Project:
2015 – 2016
• West Coast Based Top Tier Global Asset Manager – Delivery Leader for a $10M program designed to enhance legacy front-office trading applications to support expanded derivatives trading (products and volume):
o Led a 25-person team in the analysis, estimation, and delivery of 15 enhancements to legacy applications with primary impact on front-office and secondary impacts on back-office applications;
o Built and managed relationships with multiple stakeholders including fixed income portfolio managers, investment strategists, head of fixed income trading, investment operations, derivative operations, head of fixed income technology, global portfolio accounting and senior project managers.

Sapient Management Consulting
Senior Manager
9/2013 - 3/2015
Lead Management Consulting Engagements related to Strategy, Operations and Technology.

Representative Consulting Project:
• Public Insurance Company – Led projects that enabled the company to trade rates and create structured trades: o Led cross functional teams of both Sapient and client resources in developing a Target Operating Model
and implementation roadmap, and participating in implementation and go-live;
o Managed impact analysis including the impacts to current functions and the creation of new functions to
support rates trading and the creation of structured trades;
o Interfaced regularly with company officers including: Chief Financial Officer, Chief Investment Officer, Chief Actuary, Head of Investments and Treasurer along with Operations Leaders.

Booz Allen Hamilton Management Consulting
Senior Associate
6/2011 - 2/2012
Senior Leadership Activities:
• Played a key role in starting the Firm’s Capital Markets Group, including market research and go-to-market plans.

Representative Consulting Projects:
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Directed and supported multiple projects as a capital markets SME: o Led multiple workstreams that improved the regulator’s interactions with other market regulators and
supported multiple additional workstreams as part of a large organizational change initiative.
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Devised a strategy for the creation of a new government agency:
o Led a segmentation analysis of the U.S. consumer financial marketplace based on proposed legislation.
• Federal Reserve System – Conducted a study on special lending facilities implemented during the financial crisis:
o Led the analysis of market data and the impact of special lending facilities on various market segments.

Capco Management Consulting
Managing Principal
6/2010 - 6/2011
Senior Leadership Activities:
• Developed a white paper on the regulatory impacts to hedge funds and how hedge funds will need to adapt.

Representative Consulting Projects:
• Large Canadian Bank – Delivered strategy and execution for the Wealth Management division:
o Partnered with executive leadership in identifying projects to deliver benefits in 2011 and beyond;
o Project delivery manager for a broad wealth user interface (WUI) strategy for front- middle- and back-
offices along with IT delivery of the first increment of business value.
• Major Prime Broker – Led an IT portfolio management assessment and provided recommendations:
o Orchestrated a small team of business and IT professionals in execution of the assessment and identified opportunities for additional business.

Booz Allen Hamilton Management Consulting
Associate
5/2009 - 6/2010
Senior Leadership Activities:
• Played a key role in starting the Firm’s Capital Markets Group, including market research and go-to-market plans.

Representative Consulting Projects:
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Directed and supported multiple projects as a capital markets SME: o Led multiple workstreams that improved the regulator’s interactions with other market regulators and
supported multiple additional workstreams as part of a large organizational change initiative.
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Devised a strategy for the creation of a new government agency:
o Led a segmentation analysis of the U.S. consumer financial marketplace based on proposed legislation.
• Federal Reserve System – Conducted a study on special lending facilities implemented during the financial crisis:
o Led the analysis of market data and the impact of special lending facilities on various market segments.

Deloitte Management Consulting
Manager
7/2004 - 5/2009
Practice Building Activities:
• Identified and built numerous client service offerings.

Representative Consulting Projects:
2004 – 2009
• Large Endowment – Led a team that performed an alternative investments governance and process review:
o Assessed adequacy of key governance policies, procedures and practices relating specifically to the $3.5B
alternative investments portfolio;
o Reviewed and assessed investment due diligence policies and procedures including operational due diligence
and approval along with subsequent monitoring procedures and sale triggers.
• Top-Tier Fund of Hedge Funds – Led the development of a cutting edge operational due diligence program:
o Developed new due diligence operating model and facilitated the firm-wide program roll-out.
• Large Global Asset Manager – Led acquisition due diligence on a target real estate focused Private Equity Firm:
o Managed the Mergers and Acquisitions team performing financial statement review and due diligence.

Wells Fargo Finance
Portfolio Manager
2/2000 - 12/2002
Managed nearly $100 million of fully discretionary portfolios for high-net-worth clients based mostly in California.

Capital Group Finance
Senior Fund Accountant
9/1996 - 2/2000
Senior fund accountant responsible for the most complex global equity and fixed income funds.