Fadi BouKaram

•Co-led the FATCA team, ensuring compliance with the law before July 2014.
•Managed mining and migration of the Bank’s database for AML and FATCA purposes.
•Led the development and implementation of the Bank’s FOREX business.
•Managed the development of the Bank’s Systematic Futures Fund.

•Successfully initiated and headed the Risk Management department while simultaneously heading inter-departmental coordination, namely: IT, Compliance, Back Office, Capital Markets, and Treasury.
•Maintained a clean record of Non-Performing Margin Loans during three-year tenure.
•Developed a VaR-based tool to monitor the Proprietary Trading portfolio and transactions.
•Co-led the upgrade of the Dubai subsidiary into a Category 3 institution as per DFSA rules.
•Automated MIS reporting for the Risk Management, Treasury & Finance, and Compliance departments.
•Developed a Central Bank-approved monitoring software for AML and fraud detection purposes.
•Implemented an effective disaster recovery plan, maintaining full business continuity during area’s unrest.
•Liaised with the Banking Control and Special Investigative Committees during their periodic field visits.

•Automated Program’s financial reporting system, through a SQL Server database and a VB user interface, reducing idle time from 1 week to 1 day.
•Performed financial stress and Scenario analyses, ensuring funding for 3 fiscal years.
•Recruited, interviewed, and hired more than 100 candidates over two years.
•Managed over 30 employees
•Received faculty’s “Excellence Award for Leadership.”

•Consulted and successfully managed Telecommunications projects for companies and agencies such as: Schlumberger, Intel, Ministries of Education in UAE and KSA, Embassies of France and Kuwait in Beirut.
•Increased operations from 2 to 7 concurrent projects.
•Managed 10 people dispersed over 2 remote locations.

•Developed multi-lingual information systems for educational facilities.
•Implemented an on-site customer service program.
•Co-developed, with a multi-discipline team, a financial credit scoring system.