Alok Agarwal
Transformational Leader |Smart Negotiator| Strategic Product & Business Development | Champion of Innovation and Operational Excellence | Electronic Trading
- Role
- Product Manager at Citi
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alok Agarwal
An accomplished hands-on product and business leader with experience in electronic trading space across asset classes (Equities and Options) and across regions (Americas, EMEA). Spearheaded initiatives in different capacities, which helped business achieve better outcome across major pillars of success – client, cost, product, performance, profitability, analytics, technology, regulation, and risk control. Results focused with a process driven and workflow-based approach, embracing a growth mindset, and a passion for continuous learning. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to successfully deliver complex and challenging projects.Specialties: Equities Electronic Trading coverage and Product leadership. I like to be involved across all aspects of electronic trading with ownership and accountability. I am a strong believer in optimizing processes and achieving efficiency across all aspects of business. Some of the cost optimization initiatives implemented by me across organizations saved millions of dollars in exchange fees and other costs.
Experience
Product Manager
Sep 2022 — Present · NY, US
Involved in better understanding the Brazilian Equities and Canadian Equities market structure and utilized it to help define clear future roadmap. • Helped achieve multi million dollar savings through process optimization and cost-efficiency initiatives.• Partnered with a third-party vendor to accurately calculate explicit costs at trade level – a functionality critical to win mandate from quantitative and high frequency clients.• Partnered with Quant Research team to incorporate estimated passive fund volumes into close estimation within volume curves for Index rebalance days.
Education
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
PGDM (MBA Equivalent), Finance, General
2005 — 2007
CFA Institute
Chartered Financial Analyst, Finance
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance
altMBA
AltMBA41 Ruby Cohort
2020 — 2020
Skills
- Low Latency
- Options
- Business Analysis
- Finance
- Electronic Trading
- Credit
- Quantitative Finance
- Equity Derivatives
- Fx Options
- Trading
- Investment Banking
- Strategy
- Mutual Funds
- Equities
- Hedge Funds
- Derivatives
- Financial Analysis
- Capital Markets
- Business Strategy
- Trading Strategies
- Financial Services
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