JOSEPH T. BRENNAN201-920-8888- celljburdjac@aol.com

80 Oak StreetBayonne, NJ 07002

CAPITAL MARKET OPERATIONS MANAGER- FINANCIAL SERVICES

Account Development / Global Capital Market Operations/ Operational Risk / Marketing / Startup / Process Improvement

Rapid Growth / CRM / Compliance / Strategic Alliances / Business Planning / Internal Audit

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Entrepreneurial operations professional with deep experience across all asset classes, with an emphasis on Fixed Income. Possess Senior Management experience in financial services firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), TowerGroup, BearingPoint, Countrywide Capital Markets, JPMorgan Chase, First Albany and Salomon Brothers Inc (Citigroup). Skilled in creating and implementing business development strategies to grow revenue and assets. Expertise includes operations, operational risk, new market development and promotion, building and operational/financial controls effectiveness.

Completed startup and doubled Solar operations/maintenance revenue at Barrier Electric year on year. Significantly contributed to the growth of PwC’s market leading Hedge Fund Advisory Practice. Developed $5M in revenue opportunities within nine months at TowerGroup. Increased ROI 300% on personal real estate revitalization project. Increased projected fixed income revenues from $2M to $5M for BearingPoint’s managed service client. Improved Countrywide’s operations & technology infrastructure, increasing capacity by 330%. Reduced annual financing expenses by $3M adding $500K to bottom line for Countrywide. Implemented the industry’s first free retail Cash Management Account at First Albany Corporation. Created executive forum at JPMorgan to identify global business plan reducing operating costs $100M. Grew Salomon’s Mortgage Backed Securities operations monthly volume capacity 10X. Significantly increased Salomon’s operational/financial controls effectiveness as Assistant Audit Manager.

Special Skills: Managing multifunctional teams; developing business architecture; reorganizing and revitalizing organizations; managing complex capital market operations; turning around poor operating results and developing high performance staffs; working closely with top management and strategic partners; managing client relationships; strong oral and written communication skills.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Contributed over $5M plus in revenue opportunities to PwC’s newly established Hedge Fund Advisory Practice. This included both competitive account wins and follow on pipeline opportunities.

Developed $5M in revenue opportunities within nine months at TowerGroup. Participated in several competitive account wins, realizing $1mm in revenue and presenting approximately $4mm in pipeline revenue opportunities.

Increased ROI 300% on personal real estate revitalization project. Under-valued real estate required updating and revitalization. Created plan and cost estimates, hired contractors and managed project significantly increasing ROI.

Increased projected fixed income revenues from $2M to $5M for BearingPoint’s managed service client. Appointed as member of matching utility’s temporary C-level staff. Determined business plan did not produce sufficient revenue to maintain organization. Developed plan to Board to capture 35% of global fixed income transaction volume. Board approved plan, which was critical to sustaining seed investment.

Improved Countrywide Capital Markets operations & technology infrastructure, increasing processing capacity by 330%. Legacy systems and processing methodologies led to under-performance and poor capacity usage. Developed short-term plan to address needed improvements. Gained executive approval and implemented plan increasing firm’s processing capacity from $15B to $50B per month within one year.

Reduced annual financing expenses by $3M adding $500K to bottom line for Countrywide. Poor processing controls, omissions and clerical errors caused excessive operating costs effecting bottom line.

Created executive forum at JPMorgan to identify global business plan reducing operating costs $100M. Firm was struggling to operate efficiently as three divisions had separate processing systems. With aid of company’s President, formed Operations Management Team (OMT). Reviewed all in place processes and identified targets for replacement. Created plan and gained Board of Directors approval for implementation. Reduced on-going maintenance expenses by 50%.

Implemented industry’s first free retail Cash Management Account (CMA) at First Albany Corporation. Executive sales management identified the introduction of new cash management services as one of its top priorities to sustain and grow the retail business. This was particularly critical given backdrop of new impending SEC mandates providing firm with the opportunity to increase total assets under management. Worked with sales, marketing and technology management to successfully design and launch new product offering within fourteen months. Accounts included free checking and money sweep services.

Grew Salomon’s Mortgage Backed Securities operations monthly transactions 10X. Growth in business was beginning to exceed operations capacity, increasing firm’s exposure. Asked to join management team. Immediately completed full assessment of operations. Developed model emphasizing technology applications in lieu of manual technical skills with emphasis on throughput and capacity. Obtained management approval and implemented plan. Reduced errors, operational expenses, increased capacity and contributed over $100M to bottom line profit.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Barrier Electric Company Inc. 2012 - 2014Operations Manager Manage the start up for a newly established Solar Operations/Maintenance Contract business. Services include completion of annual scheduled maintenance (re-commission) as well as daily-unscheduled maintenance services as directed by clients. Total project sites managed increased 100% year on year, doubling revenues.

CYBERVISION INC., Fort Lee, NJ 2012 - 2013Contract EVP Business Development, NAProvide business development expertise to Cyber Vision Inc., a custom IT Services and Solution Company providing both onshore and offshore services. Activities are directed primarily towards financial services clients and include: Project Based Software Development, Applications Maintenance, Quality Assurance and Applications Support.

PRIVATE INVESTOR AND INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT 2009 - 2012Advised Barrier Electric in successfully receiving NJ MFA funding for solar energy projects. Provide Trust accounting services for Florida legal/clients.

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, New York, NY 2006 - 2009DirectorSignificantly contributed to the growth of PwC’s Investment Management and Hedge Fund Advisory Practice providing clients with operations performance improvement opportunities to obtain additional scale and enable growth. Client relationship building, delivery and referrals enabled significant growth. PwC currently serves over 50% of the top largest 100 global hedge funds. Also served as part of the advanced leadership team providing the U.S. Treasury with an initial operations risk assessment and operating model for its newly enacted Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

TOWERGROUP, New York, NY 2005 - 2006Senior Manager Participated in the start up of TowerGroup’s Securities and Investments Consulting practice. Provided leadership in business development and account relationship activities which contributed $1mm in realized revenue, while growing existing pipeline opportunities to approximately $4M within nine months.

SELF EMPLOYED, New York, NY 2003 - 2004Private Investor and ConsultantEstablished consulting firm providing services to financial institutions in the area of pre-engagement assignments for fixed income capital market operations. Principal for personal real estate development projects.

BEARINGPOINT, New York, NY 2001 - 2003Senior ManagerSelected to lead newly formed Management Services segment of Financial Service Practice. Provided solutions for straight-through-processing (STP) requirements of major capital markets industry participants. Managed the sales and promotion of a global fixed income trade matching utility sponsored and owned by major capital market institutions.

COUNTRYWIDE CAPITAL MARKETS INC, Calabasas, CA 1998 - 2000SVP OperationsManaged staff of 50 securities operations professionals specializing in primary and secondary trade support for fixed income and mortgage-backed securities. Improved operations and technology infrastructures providing methodologies to grow capacity from $15B to $50B per month in 12 months. Managed budgets to $3.5M.

JPMORGAN CHASE, New York, NY 1995 - 1998VP Global OperationsManaged a newly created Reference Data Services Group providing day-to-day information services globally to all capital market business units. Served in a staff capacity for a newly formed executive management team responsible for facilitating development of long-term strategic business and technology architectures to reduce global operating costs.

FIRST ALBANY CORPORATION, Albany, NY 1993 - 1995SVP OperationsManaged a staff of 65 operations professionals providing both retail and institutional trade processing and support services. Worked closely with sales management to successfully introduce several new mutual fund networking and retail cash management services to sustain and grow total assets under management by 20 %.

SALOMON BROTHERS INC (CITIGROUP), New York, NY and Tampa, FL 1979 -1993VP Group ManagerAfter five years in Internal Audit accepted an internal offer to join the Firm’s Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) operations management team. Immediately completed a full process assessment and identified a business process model emphasizing technology applications to maximize P/L contribution, increase throughput and capacity, enhance product knowledge, reduce human error and provide superior service to trading and sales clients. Maintained a leadership role to influence constructive industry change within the Bond Market.

EDUCATION SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, NY B.S. Accounting