Gareth Sylvester

Experience

1. SVP, Senior Foreign Exchange Advisor

   Bridge Bank

   Apr 2016 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Actively market and sell the Bank’s FX execution and hedging services to drive fee income.• Manage a portfolio of clients ensuring maximum wallet share capture.• Explore new FX related opportunities within the banks existing book of business to generate previously unidentified fee income.• Work closely with bank relationship managers to promote the bank’s international banking capabilities.• Train treasury and relationship managers on how to identify FX related opportunities as well as banks capabilities to satisfy client’s needs.• Conduct needs assessment calls with prospective and new clients to highlight banks international capabilities.• Responsible for negotiating FX pricing for clients.• Design and implement FX hedging programs for portfolio companies.• Perform quarterly analysis on client’s flows to monitor for performance drop off or increase. Use finding as basis for quarterly business review which provides a platform to review current approach to managing clients FX risk. Look to discuss any new services international team has to deepen the relationship and satisfy client’s needs.• Actively monitor fundamental economic releases as well geopolitical developments and broader market conditions in order to present hedging strategy/execution advice to clients.• Write weekly FX market commentary both for internal and external distribution.• Spearhead FX platform development and work directly with developers to resolve issues, design and add new functionality.• Present FX service strategy roadmap to senior Western Alliance management

Education

• University of Brighton

  BA Hons, Accountancy with Law

  1997 — 2001

• International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA)

  Certified Financial Technician (CFTe), Techinical Analysis

  2005 — 2005

Skills

• Hedging
• Fx Options
• Strategy
• Sales Management
• Finance
• Currency
• Financial Risk
• Options
• Derivatives
• Financial Analysis
• Direct Sales
• Bloomberg
• Business Strategy
• Financial Modeling
• Investments
• Foreign Exchange
• Fx Hedging
• Capital Markets
• Financial Services
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Management
• Financial Markets
• Trading