1. Mark Azzopardi
176 Highbury Hill London, N5 1AU
Mobile: +44 7941 828749 Home: +44 20 75036115 E-Mail: markazz@blueyonder.co.uk
Summary
With 27 y ears in the Financial Markets, 12 of which specializing in electronic broking systems, I’ m looking to return to
the City following an 18- month c areer break. I’ m interested in Sales and Business Dev elopment, as well as
opportunities to use my specialist knowledge to help organisations identify and define new business channels and
streamline process to enable efficiencies. Team management, both loc ally and internationally. Open to international
travel.
Skills
Electronic Trading FX Options FX Derivatives Fixed Income
Interest Rate Derivatives Hedging Trading Currency Equity Derivatives
Bloomberg Money Market Options FX Trading Interest Rate
Swaps
Trading System s Swaps FX Swaps Equities
Experience
ICAP 07/2002 – 10/2014
Senior Sales Manager e-broking - London, Scandinavia, Luxembourg, Brussels and Central Europe - Poland,
Hungary, Czech Republic and Romania.
Sales and Marketing of electronic trading platforms - specializing in G10 Forward FX Swaps, Asian NdF,
Deliverable swaps, IRS, FRAs, BASIS Swaps, OIS and Fixed Income
Advised on and developed a global FX Swap trading screen called Datatec, worked directly with voice brokers,
traders and on-boarding teams to achieve a viable trading platform.
Trained all brokers globally on use of Datatec as a broker interface and trade capture system.
Identifying and approaching new customers, arranging visits to demo the trading platform. Acting as point of
contact for on-boarding, liaising with the deployment, compliance and legal teams.
Customer Relationship Manager, making daily contact with clients to identify and resolve screen issues, and to
encourage the use of ICAP as the trading venue.
Keeping CRM (Salesforce) updated, monitoring screen usage, using Qlik View, for log in rates, volume of
orders, order to execution ratio, and all KPIs.
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Promoting mid point matching as an enhanced revenue stream.
Scandinavian Interest Rate Swap broker 11/1999 to 04/2002
Serviced Tier 1 and Tier 2 Banks, taking and working orders in OTC market, protecting the customer’s interest.
Bonus paid at 33% of brokerage made.
Harlow Meyer Savage 01/1999 to 11/1999
Scandinavian broker - IRS and Forward Rate Agreement Luxembourg
Serviced Tier 1 and Tier 2 Banks, taking and working orders in OTC market, protecting the customer’s interest.
Bonus paid at 33% of brokerage made.
Garban 04/1997 to 01/1999
Scandinavian broker - IRS and Forward Rate Agreement London
Extensive visits to Copenhagen and Stockholm, building a new customer base.
Guy Butler International 04/1987 to 04/1997
EUR US$ broker London
Covered US$ deposits, Forward Rate Agreements and IRS.
Spent 3 months in the Tokyo office setting up FRAs. Main responsibility was coordinating the global link,
which had 9 offices all competing with prices, disseminating those prices to a room of 60 brokers.
Dealt with GBI offices in New York, LA, Toronto, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney and
Wellington – all on one open line.
Paid a discretionary bonus on meeting desk targets.
Halifax Building Society - Cashier 10/1986 to 04/1987
Burton Group - Retail Sales Manager 05/1986 to 10/1986
Kibbutz - Volunteer, Tel Aviv 05/1985 to 05/1986
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Education
A-Levels: English, Economic and Maths 1985
St Dominics College London
GCSE: Maths, English, English Lit, History, Geography, Physics, German and Computer Studies 1983
Salvatorian College London
Interests
Parish Finance Committee member for 10 years.
Cycling, both touring and racing.
Arranging cycle tours for friends.
Watching football and rugby both home and abroad
References
David Casterton CEO ICAP +44 20 7000 5000 david.casterton@icap.com
Dean Berry CEO Electronic Broking ICAP +44 20 7000 5000 dean.berry@icap.com
John Herbert CEO ICAP (retired) jh4254@gmail.com
David Gibbs Senior Director US$ R.P. Martins (retired) davidgibbs583@gmail.com