Craig Hunter

I am a senior investment banking professional, with a background in accountancy, and an impressive record of maximising and retaining key client relationships for top tier organisations including JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. I have consistently demonstrated an outstanding ability to grow revenue and profit, leveraging wide ranging knowledge of hedge funds and prime brokerage with an intuitive understanding of potential growth areas. Heavily client focused, I achieve outstanding success in growing and preserving key customer relationships through: • Ensuring a comprehensive knowledge of client accounts and maximising opportunities for cross-selling • Implementing industry leading systems and platforms, and enhancing client support and reporting • Fostering a fastidious approach to resolving account issues • Organising first class sports and entertainment events which secure attendance from top level clients I am skilled at aligning resources and processes to facilitate business objectives and utilise a deep expertise in regulation and tax regimes to structure products and procedures around financial transactions. Additionally, I build high performing teams through perceptive recruitment and development. Key career achievements include: • JP Morgan: o Generating a <600% growth in synthetic business in two years o Implementing a world leading swap platform o Establishing a multi-asset class prime brokerage model • Lehman Brothers: o Developing a cross selling strategy which increased revenues and mitigated counterparty risk for clients o Simplifying dividend arbitrage opportunities for clients in equity swaps • Morgan Stanley o Collaborating with trade desks to devise trade strategy solutions for fund managers, which increased profitability. O Developing strong relationships with risk management to create an enhanced margining protocol and refined daily margin call calculation.