Olivier

PROMOTED TO FULL PROFESSOR (Education Track Faculty)
HEC Best Professor Award 2019

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MSc FINANCE
In charge of HEC MSc in International Finance (MIF), both Business Track and Accelerated Track.
2011-2021 Financial Times ranking: #1 worldwide Masters in Finance (10 times out of 11 years!)
https://rankings.ft.com/rankings/2864
Also responsible for the “Finance Major” in the Grande Ecole Program (MiM, Master in Management).
190+ amazing students, 80%+ international, from 40+ nationalities.

PROFESSOR OF FINANCE
- [GEM2FIB009] Financial Engineering (21 hours) - eval 2021: 4.88/5.00
- [GEM2FIB006-EN02] Derivatives (3x 18 hours) - eval 2021: 4.83/5.00
- [GEM2FIE013] Exotic Products and Structuring (30 hours) - eval 2021: 4.94/5.00
- [GEM2FIA003-EN01] Empirical Methods in Finance (4x 12 hours) - eval 2020: 4.92/5.00
- [GECCELM065] Derivatives Trading (18 hours) - eval 2019: 4.82/5.00
- [GECCACAB3] Trading Academy (24 hours) - eval 2019: 4.97/5.00
- [GEM2FIE14] Advanced Asset Pricing (30 hours) - eval 2018: 4.47/5.00

THESIS DIRECTOR
Responsible for guiding and supervising 6-15 MSc Finance & "Finance Major" (MiM, Master in Management) students in their dissertation work.

PROFESSOR OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
Teaching for 21 consecutive years the Financial Engineering & Derivatives course (30 hours) at:
- HEC MSc in International Finance (MIF), both Business Track and Accelerated Track
- HEC Grande Ecole ("Finance Major" / MiM, Master in Management)
- Ecole Polytechnique Year 4 - Dual Degree with HEC Paris

In Qatar, HEC Paris offers a complete portfolio of management programs in English. Our programs and research activities build corporate competitiveness for the global economy and the "new normal". HEC Paris has been ranked consistently as one of the top providers of executive education programs by the Financial Times. In 2020, FT ranked HEC Paris #2 in the world for customized programs such as the ones delivered in Doha and the MENA region.

HEC Paris programs are designed to meet the specific needs of high-potential professionals and executives already in senior management positions. All our degree programs are in executive-friendly formats that enable participants to fit their studies into their busy life.

The Executive MBA (EMBA) offered in Doha, Qatar and Paris was ranked #1 in the world by Financial Times in 2021.

Ad hoc entrepreneurial strategy & operations talent for building ventures. Fractional strategy & operations support, special projects, coaching, strategic advisory, and specialized team-based engagements.

• {Operations transformation; strategy and analytics} Directly supporting VP Global Ops of biomedical company $3.5B USD division
• {Private equity transformation; scaleup and operations strategy} Supported scaleup of growth equity-acquired small business, on journey from 40 to 2,000 units over 3 years; stood up supply chain planning team and S&OP processes; supported C-suite team in strategy and analytics projects; led weekly executive operations reviews and prepared inputs for weekly private equity reviews
• {Startup launch and scale} Advise healthtech analytics CEO regarding strategy, product ideation, team leadership and hiring, business development; sourced and advised 4 international team members in product strategy and business development project; sourced and prepared experts and facilitated advisory meetings with cofounders (maintain ongoing Strategy Advisor relationship, >1 year)
• {Nonprofit; interim management} Relaunched ministry reaching 200+ people at large church as volunteer interim ministry director; created strategic plan; managed 9 volunteers with administrative, creative, technical, and marketing responsibilities; diversified and improved communications; designed and launched recurring programming
• {Startup strategy and talent sourcing} Developed 5 global startup business and investor communication strategies; recruited 6 top tier contractors, 5 specialized consultancies to create entrepreneurial talent marketplace for early-stage venture management consultancy
• {Communications} Edited or wrote 200+ pages cryptocurrency analysis for startup; ghost wrote blog articles for career coach

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The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.

Our activities are shaped by a unique institutional culture founded on the stakeholder theory, which asserts that an organization is accountable to all parts of society. The institution carefully blends and balances the best of many kinds of organizations, from both the public and private sectors, international organizations and academic institutions.

We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.

SPECIALLY APPOINTED PROFESSOR - 特任教授
Executive Education - 企業向け研修プログラム

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR - 客員教授
担当授業: 資本市場 (Capital Markets course) - MBAプログラム (MBA Program)
[F 20-21 T3(2)] CM Capital Markets - eval 2021: 4.9/5.0

Teaching the Financial Derivatives (金融衍生工具) course at the Master of Finance of Tsinghua SEM (School of Economics & Management) 清华大学经济管理学院
[70510973] Financial Derivatives - eval 2018: 95/100

Our custom programs address the strategic challenges of individual organizations and are tailored to their specific professional development and training needs. We establish close working relationships with our corporate clients to co-create the architecture and content of the training modules to optimize the added value and impact of the program. Throughout the delivery stage, all the components of the program are carefully analyzed, monitored and adapted to ensure the objectives of both the organization and the participants are achieved.
HEC Paris, one of the world's top 3 providers of Executive Education programs for the last 8 years!

- [FINM-32214] Volatility Trading - eval 2016: 4.88/5.00

Jomini Group, registered in the UK and HK, has been founded as a boutique advisory business, currently run by Olivier alone.

Jomini offers unique tailor-made advisory services to financial institutions across a wide spectrum of areas, and across most of asset classes (Equity, FX, Commodity and Rates):
- risk management and associated infrastructure (portfolio analysis, tools development)
- analytical models and quantitative developments (from specifications to implementation)
- product-specific analysis and bespoke solutions (structuring and financial engineering)
- Derivatives, and more specifically Exotic Products engineering : in-depth modelling, structuring, trading and risk-management solutions
- generic Financial Education, from entry-level Graduate Programs to Executive Committee and Board level seminars and 1-on-1 executive coaching.

Jomini Group has a Service-Level Agreement in place with an established FCA-regulated cross-asset broker for transaction-related services.
Upon request, Jomini can also team up with sell-side providers to provide tailor-made solutions and tender product offers.

Nimble and highly selective in what services it can offer or not, Jomini Consulting provides its clients with opportunistic services based on two decades of academic teaching and practitioner experience in Trading, Financial Engineering and Risk Management at the forefront of capital markets sophistication.

Over its past 12 months of operations, Jomini has been involved in:
- designing a confidential business plan for reshaping the Equity Derivatives activity of a Tier One Investment Bank.
- designing a web-based training program to educate further in financial markets the middle-office staff (150+ personnel) of a financial services provider.
- offering a tailor-made 1-on-1 training program to an ExCo member upon him gaining responsibility of a new Division in an asset class he was unfamiliar with.

Hired as Head of Derivatives Trading Europe:
Equity Derivatives (Index Flow, Stock Flow, Exotics) + Structured Products on FX & Commodities.

October 2010: additional responsibility for US Derivatives books.
December 2010: additional responsibility for South-Africa Derivatives Trading (based in Cape Town).
July 2011: promoted Senior Managing Director.
August 2011: additional responsibility as Co-Head of Equity Derivatives Division, EMEA.

Division Headcount:
- 39 Front Office (13 Traders, 12 Sales, 6 Structurers, 2 Quants, 1 Business Development, 5 Legal).
- 46 Support functions (14 Middle-Office, 29 IT, 3 Finance).

see company profile above.

Managing Director, member of the Global Equities Management Committee.
Head of Structured Products and Exotics, Trading & Structuring, European Equities.

Over 10 years, developed from scratch and led the phenomenal growth of Lehman’s European Equity Derivatives business.
Beyond Europe, also responsible for the ‘World Book’ Trading, with a global remit.

Latest responsibilities included managing 60 resources across the platform:
- Trading Desk: 21 traders based in London + 1 in Asia covering Hong-Kong
(5 Index, 6 Single-stocks, 4 Structured Flow, 2 Fund Derivatives, 2 Rates Books, 2 Warrants & Structured Retail, 1 HK Retail).
- Product Development and Structuring Department: 14 resources based in London
(1 Head + 3 Institutional, 3 Private Banks and Retail, 3 Hybrids and Fund Derivatives, 1 Structured Flow Products, 1 Legal, 2 Research and New Underlyings).
- Financial Engineering and Pricing Hub: 24 resources based in Mumbai, India
Team of 1st year and 2nd year analysts providing pricing, analytics and admin support function to the trading team with timing advantage (5.5 hours ahead of London) and extremely low cost base.

Also co-owner of several JV efforts across the firm:
Hybrids Equity-Rates, Equity-Commodities, Equity-Credit, Structured Emerging Markets,
Structured Asset-Management (JV with Lehman Brothers’ Asset Management division).

Additional responsibilities:
- since November 2007, member of the Global Equities Management Committee.
- in March 2007, awarded the President’s Corporate Citizenship Award
(for Diversity and Inclusion, Philanthropy and Leadership).
- Chairman of the Equity Model Control Committee (since January 2006).
- since March 2005, organized yearly floor-wide Derivatives Training sessions for Sales personnel across Cash, Program and Equity Finance businesses.
- representative of the Equity Derivatives business at the Promotions Committee (since 2006).

Has led the complete build-out from scratch of the Exotics and Structured Trading desk, across both Fixed Income and Equity Divisions.
By 1998, San Paolo became No 1 market-maker and OTC provider on Italian BTPs and MIB index.