Alain Mandy
Operations Senior Advisor @First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
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WORK HISTORY
Operations Senior Advisor @First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
Abu Dhabi Emirate, AE
Joined First Abu Dhabi Bank Asset Management as a Senior Advisor, leveraging extensive experience in operations. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency and streamline processes. • Provided strategic insights to improve asset management practices, ensuring alignment with industry standards.
EDUCATION
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Oxford Blockchain strategy programme, Blockchain
Université catholique de Louvain
Master's degree, Business Administration and Management, General
University of California, Berkeley
Business Strategies and Application, Artificial Intelligence
HEC Liège
Master in control and auditing, Accounting, Auditing and internal control
Universite Catholic Louvain
Engineer's degree, Business and Finance
SKILLS
ABOUT ALAIN MANDY
A perceptive and dynamic trilingual business leader and change agent, I have over 25 years’ experience in six countries and global businesses with multicultural environments. With an extensive industry network, I am well connected to other leaders in Asset Management, as the Chair and Member of a number of working groups and valued for my ability to drive growth, efficiency, digitalization and technological innovation for global leaders in asset management and their clients. I have extensive board experience in the oversight of fund vehicles in the US, EMEA and APACIn my role as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Transformation Officer for Wellington Management or PIMCO previously, I have delivered tens of millions of dollars in cost savings, through efficiency, technology adoption, better pricing approach and product innovation as well as the rationalization and renegotiation of our relationships with service providers. I have pioneered the adoption of Gen AI and blockchain technology to increase speed and efficiency, boost transparency and lower cost. I have also made the business more competitive and enhanced levels of client satisfaction by digitizing, automating and outsourcing to specialist providers many of the more burdensome manual processes.A strategic thinker who consistently delivers value and impact, I leverage my detailed knowledge of investment products, investment fund governance and oversight, the regulatory and sustainability environment, wealth platforms, distribution, and operation. I also bring my experience of the full array of products across fixed income, equities, commodities, private markets and hedge funds, and ETFs to deliver change across systems and processes, adopting innovative technology to boost performanceI have consistently improved performance by conceiving and implementing business transformations, from product development and launch to radical improvements in speed and cost efficiency in fund servicing, distribution and reporting. I align products and services to evolving client demand, ensure regulatory compliance and establish robust governance frameworks while optimizing partnerships and relationships with service providers and vendors, outsourcing and offshoring lower-value processes.Valued for my ability to establish strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, I build consensus across functions and geographies, persuade and influence at all levels, and champion innovation.I have recruited, developed and empowered high-performing teams of diverse talent working from Americas, APAC and EMEA.
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