Abed Shariff

About Abed Shariff

Senior Technology manager with extensive global experience in multi-asset Electronic…

Experience

1. Director, Advanced Electronic Execution Systems Control Officer, COO

   Credit Suisse

   Jan 2015 — Present

   Reporting to the Americas Equities COO, lead the electronic trading control agenda. Support the key stakeholders (Americas Equities head, Global electronic trading head, desk heads, sales and traders) in all aspects of Front Office control supervision. Strong understanding and relationship with business support partners such as technology, compliance, legal, litigation, audit, operations, operational risk and model risk. • Led the implementation of robust, consistent front office multi-asset electronic trading controls that resulted in reduced control, operational issues by 20% YoY. • Established ‘New product committee framework’ that helped in enhanced transparency, challenge and reduced algo product change related issues by 20% YoY. • Enhanced and enforced various sales and trading desk policies and procedures including the market access15c3-5, Reg NMS and marketing material approvals resulting in enhanced trading supervision. • Project managed large regulatory and trading controls initiatives such as successful implementation of FINRA \'Best Execution\' guidelines and \'Regulation SCI\' with constrained resourcing. • Key departmental representative to various internal audits and external inspections, queries. All audits, inspections outcomes resulted in high audit ratings and no major findings.

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer science and engg.

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  MS, Computers