Master of Business Administration (Financial Services)

upon developing a culture of financial engineering in order to increase awareness of itsimportance within the corporate and investment bank. Courses developed and taughtincluded derivatives, financial engineering and risk management, corporate valuation,mergers & acquisition finance, financial mathematics, and financial product marketing.• Equity Derivatives Specialist, Citibank, New York, New York, June 1993 - June 1995Responsible for the origination, structuring and marketing of derivatives strategies forthe equity derivatives group. Directly involved in all phases of new productdevelopment from idea origination , product risk analysis, and pricing through to designand implementation of the marketing strategy. Clients included high net worthindividuals and groups, pension funds, other institutional investors, and corporates.Developed a proprietary portfolio risk analytic methodology for analyzing a client’sinvestment portfolio or a corporate’s ALM portfolio for derivative applications.Academic Experience• Assistant / Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, September 2002 - PresentProfessor for both core undergraduate and graduate corporate financial managementcourses. Designed and delivered MBA elective courses on corporate finance, derivatives,investments, capital budgeting and risk management. Additionally designed anddelivered a for credit prep course for the Chartered Financial Analysts program that wasconducted at St. Mary’s University. Initiated and mentored a student run Finance Clubthat brought in a variety of speakers from the Canadian Financial industry.• Mathematics Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 1999, 2000Co-developed, designed and delivered the course “Applied Corporate Finance andCapital Markets” in the Financial Mathematics Program at the University of Toronto.This financial engineering seminar series focused on the development and marketing ofderivative products to both the corporate and institutional investor markets. Was also anoriginal member of the program’s Advisory Board.• Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,1996, 1997Redesigned and delivered a second year MBA course on Financial Management. Topicscovered included risk management, derivatives, financial structuring, valuation, EVA,mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and alternative financing, and stakeholdermanagement.• Rotterdam School of Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1993, 1994275