Michael G.

Perez Pertinent Career Summary

Summary of Qualifications
An accomplished consultant that has led multiple finance transformation initiatives including: current state assessment of operations,

reporting and technology; strategic solutions for the improvement of operational and technology processes; business process

outsourcing assessments; financial systems conversions and implementations; process improvement/reengineering and regulatory

reform. Leadership skills including stakeholder management, relationship building, and influencing and negotiation skills has been

instrumental in the success of numerous enterprise wide digital projects and integration solutions. Project management track record of

success in leading diverse financial services organizations through business transformation, increased innovation and revenue growth.

Clients leverage Michael’s business experience, his insight into their organizational needs, clear verbal and written communication skills

and his technical background in software engineering.

Work Experience
Michael Gary Consulting, Inc. (MGCI)- Owner 1999 - Present
 President and Owner of MGCI, a technology consulting firm established in 1999, dedicated to providing professional services

to private banking, trust and custody wealth management operations, reporting and technology. MGCI clients have included

some of the oldest investment banks and trust companies in the U.S. that provide personal wealth management to some of the

wealthiest individuals and families.

Grant Thornton, LLC New York, NY (Formerly LECG SMART Business Advisory) May 2011 – April 2015
Manager Business Advisory Services (BAS)
 Manager in BAS with a focus in the banking/wealth management sector. Merger and transition work including system

conversion and implementations. Provided leadership and supervision to multiple teams responsible for developing

and implementing information technology initiatives that supported multiple clients’ strategic objectives.
Fiduciary Trust International Company, New York, NY Dec 1994 – July 2002
Vice President – Wealth Management Support and Enterprise Application Services
 Managed staff of 20+ programmers, analysts and consultants that worked on the core domestic and multi-currency trust

accounting systems and ancillary systems that supported the asset management businesses. Work included production

support as well as new development including a build of a proprietary data warehouse.

 Designed interface for Master Limited Partnership processing, derivatives and futures work sheets and reports and interfaces

and tax reporting for State of Florida Intangible Personal Property Tax clients.

 Technical project manager that restored all pertinent client sensitive materials, mission critical application software and

documentation at disaster recovery site in aftermath of 9/11/2001. Restored company’s client statement software and

processes and insured client statements were delivered.

Chase Manhattan Private Bank New York, NY July 1991 – Nov 1994
Vice President – Asset & Wealth Management, Private Banking
 Project manager and developer on three (3) projects that converted accounts and transferred assets of three (3) large private

bank acquisitions.

 Developed software with team to convert the domestic trust accounting platform to address multi-currency trust accounting.

 Supported day to day operations and new development work.

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Engagement Summaries
Top 5 Private Bank in Los Angeles, CA Jan 2020 – Present
SME / Project Manager
 Providing SME to business units responsible for executing a business transformation effort including: legacy wealth platform

to new wealth platform; proprietary database mapping (legacy to target) / downstream remediation of applications; business

readiness including workflow and procedures; proof and control (balancing) and data validation; training; and onboarding

functionality integration w/APIs future state recommendations.

Leading Financial Group/Bank in Israel, New York, NY Oct 2019 – Feb 2020
SME / Project Manager
 Led team on a custodian and clearing arrangement consolidation effort with the objective of identifying a new provider /

solution set that allows the optimal mix of technology capabilities and services to support the organization’s current and

prospective strategic business objectives. Advisory services included an RFP facilitation, scorecards and future state strategy

and recommendations.
Leading Law Firm and Fiduciary Services, Boston, MA May 2019 – Present
Business Advisory / Project Manager
 Provided trust SME and project management leadership to address client’s objective to identify the optimal technology

platform(s) and provider(s) to support its near and longer-term business goals for its fiduciary services and family office

business. The deliverables include current state assessment, requirements, future state recommendations, RFP facilitation

and provider selection, business process re-engineering and implementation to a new wealth platform.
Top 5 Private Bank in San Francisco, CA July 2018 – Dec 2019
SME / Project Manager
 Provided SME and leadership to business units and PMO responsible for executing multi-phased business transformation

effort including: Account/asset data migration; cutover and Day 1 activities; future state recommendations for implementation

on a new wealth platform.

Leading Private Bank in Spain, Miami, FL Jan 2018 – June 2018
SME / Project Manager
 Provided SME and leadership to Miami branch business units and PMO responsible for executing multi-phased business

transformation effort including: a detailed current state assessment, SWOT, requirements gathering, gap analysis, build out of

future state workflows including integration with future tax service providers and core banking application, future state

recommendations, executive summary for a new wealth platform.

Leading Private Bank and Trust Company, Bedminster, NJ July 2017 – May 2018
Business Advisory / Project Manager
 Led client team thru a rigorous current state assessment to support the client’s overall strategic planning initiative with the key

objective of ensuring the wealth management division in the organization continues to be profitable, mitigates or transfers

risks, increases operation efficiencies while growing organically, making RIA acquisitions and integrating them into its

operating model. Performed interviews with front, middle and back office personnel for the retail, corporate and private

banking, operational, compliance, investment, tax and technology stakeholders and the entire executive management team at

all client locations

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  Delivered business requirements document (BRD) including current and future state workflows, SWOT analysis/metrics and

gap analysis. Future state recommendations in the form of an executive summary, proposed technology initiatives, alternative

approaches, changes to culture, technology spend strategies and other operating model improvements.
Leading Financial Group/Bank in Israel, New York, NY Sept 2010 – Oct 2017
Business Advisory / Project Manager
 Developed strategic plan and implemented an outsourcing solution for the global custody operations, investment management

and trust businesses. Provided SME and leadership to team responsible for executing multi-phased strategic approaching

including: a current state assessment, facilitated RFP and vendor section process and the implementation of a global

custodian, and multi-currency wealth management platform, netting the following operational objectives: cost reductions,

new product features and expedited time to market, new information requirements and legacy system replacement.

 Used SME to implement onboarding web services (both retrieval and initiation) for the creation of clients and account on the

new wealth platform. The required onboarding data was populated and captured electronically and facilitated workflow for all

three (3) books of business, domestic investment management and trust, global custody & investment management and trust.

 Re-engineered tax operations and reporting workflows to integrate new tax service provider and tax bridge including planning

for conversion year and consolidation of retail and private bank tax reporting.
 Led RFP / vendor selection to implement a new portfolio management platform addressing client requirements for

strategy/model portfolios, research, overlay management services and investment proposal generation tools which supported

the investment management and trust SMA/UMA accounts.

Savings Bank and Trust Company, Enfield, CT Sept 2016 – Oct 2016
SME / Technical Analyst
 Provided balancing proof and control conversion support from legacy system to new wealth platform.

 Assessed Business Process Management (BPM) technology to achieve scale and efficiency within the trust operations area.

Confirmed and documented current state high priority processes in place and documented future state processes modeled on

BPM technology capabilities applying best practice for account/client onboarding including KYC, AML and other services.

Addressed all requirements and flows for integration of DocuSign, proprietary CRM and new wealth platform; presented future

state strategy and findings.

Independent Fund Administration Firm, New York, NY May 2013 – Dec 2013
Project Manager / Business Analyst
 Managed the current state assessment and gap analysis of clients’ customer on-boarding process; to provide client with a

roadmap to address FATCA compliance requirements from its client base with the objective to be more efficient, enhance the

end client’s overall experience and reduce operational risk. Provided guidance on client on-boarding, information tracking and

tax reporting regarding FATCA, AML and KYC.

International Investment Company, Kuwait City, Kuwait Jan 2013 – July 2013
Project Manager / Business Analyst
 Developed strategic plan and implemented a prioritized approach to FATCA compliance and readiness; including

understanding of tax implications and tax reporting requirements including scope/gap analysis and on-going compliance

considerations.

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Large International Private Bank and Trust Company, New York, NY Nov 2012 – April 2013
SME / Business Analyst – Asset and Wealth Management, Private Banking
 Gathered, and documented all requirements and functional specifications for fees, chart of accounts and management

reporting for conversion of legacy system to new software solution and wealth management platform.
Private Bank and Trust Company, Effingham, IL June 2011 – Dec 2011
SME / Technical Consultant
 Developed plan and process to convert accounts, clients, securities, ticklers; to transfer assets, positions, tax lots and

securities from legacy trust accounting system to a new wealth management solution and platform.
Large Private Bank and Trust Company, Wilmington, DE
July 2011 – Dec 2011
SME / Technical Consultant – Wealth Advisory Services
 Gave advisory and support to conversion team utilizing the proprietary report programming language on legacy trust

accounting system.
UK Global Bank, Stamford, CT - London UK June 2009 – June
2011
Project Manager - North American PMO – Treasury
 Provided leadership and supervision to multiple teams responsible for executing a gap analysis, developing and implementing

IT initiatives that supported the strategic liquidity reporting regulatory framework and capital requirement objectives of the

bank. The final proprietary solution developed met the requirements imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) which

reformed liquidity reporting. The reform requirements met included: (1) Liquidity Policy and Compliance, (2) Stress and

Scenario Testing and (3) Liquidity Reporting.

UK Global Bank, Stamford, CT May 2009 – June 2009
Business Analyst
 Interviewed personnel from compliance, credit, market and operations including SOX to determine current state netting current

state diagrams and noting opportunities for improvement in a future state diagram and proposal.
Large Private Bank and Trust Company, Jersey City, NJ Nov 2007 – May 2009
Wealth Management Transition Team
Project Lead Business Analyst - Income Processing and Corporate Actions
 Developed approach and strategy for converting all sweep income, dividends, interest, maturities and other payments from

acquired bank’s system to new platform.

Project Lead/Technical Analyst – Data Warehouse (Data Validation Hub)
 Technical contributor to design and creation of an integrated environment for validation of legacy conversion and related files.

Technical liaison to FIS Asset Management for client.

Project Lead/Business Analyst – Proof and Control (Balancing)
 Implemented approach and strategy to ensure a proof and control process for both the synoptic and financial data conversion.

Project Lead/Business Analyst - Fee Transition

 Led legacy fee schedule and related data mapping exercises to new platform.

Project Manager/Business Analyst – Security and Trust Ops Conversion Reporting

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  Managed effort across both organizations in all lines of business to implement critical Security Operations and Non-Security

Operations conversion reporting.

Business Analyst/Technical Analyst – Open Orders
 Developed process, reports and extract files and implemented unexecuted and open trade orders from primary legacy trading

platform.
Securities Software Industry, New York, NY July 2007 – Nov 2007
Consultant (Developer) - Project Manager – Integration Team/Variable Rate Municipal Bond Trading Application
 Developed project plans to convert legacy system that provided access to both buy side and sell side users and allows

remarketing agents to automate all aspects of trading variable rate instruments, including re-pricing and billing in the municipal

bond sector.
Large Canadian Financial Group, Jersey City, NJ Mar 2006 -July 2007
Consultant (Developer) – Integration Team/Trading Application Development
 Led development and successfully implemented a solution that allowed brokerage clients to use Checking/DDA Account

services including debit cards provided by large Canadian bank, in the overall back office conversion initiative to a new

platform. Worked closely with LOBs and Fiserv at vendor headquarters with deployment, training and post-deployment

phases to ensure efficient operation and collect feedback for the next release.
International Private Bank, New York, NY Jan 2005 – Mar 2006
Consultant (Developer) – Asset and Wealth Management, Private Banking
 Technical consultant on plan and build teams for trust accounting consolidation effort, developed conversion plan and built

process (code) to convert accounts, transfer assets, positions, tax lots and securities from several domestic and multi-

currency-based systems to one multi-currency platform.

International Private Bank, Boston, MA Jan 2003 – Jan 2005
Consultant (Developer) – Wealth Management Services
 Developed comprehensive conversion process and implemented including build work (coding) that converted accounts and

transferred assets from international private bank, a 200-year-old private asset management business on a new platform

using the vendor’s proprietary reporting tool and supporting PERL scripts
German International Private Bank, Jersey City, NJ July 2002 – Jan 2003
Consultant (Developer)– Private Wealth Management, Corporate Trust Agency Services
 Developed core logic modules for the proprietary debt obligations processing system including backup/restore programs and

implemented programming standards for staff. Managed programming staff at Malvern, PA location.
Large Private Bank and Trust Company, Wilmington, DE
Mar 2002 – July 2002
Consultant (Developer) – Wealth Advisory Services
 Developed critical daily activity report for investment managers, which included cash balances, cash projections, upcoming

corporate actions, maturities, calls redemptions and monthly transactions in vendor’s proprietary reporting language from their

trust accounting system. Developed training modules and programming standards for staff.

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Education and Professional Development
ACAMS Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (in process), SEI Wealth Platform (SWP) Certified Basic and Advanced Global Plus

Vision Programming-SunGard, CompuSet Programming-Document Sciences, Six Sigma Training and certificate, Crystal Reporting-

Chubb Institute, PERL Programming- Microsoft Certified, County College of Morris Business Administration/Computer Science,

Thomas Edison State University, New Jersey.

Technical Skills
SEI Wealth Platform (SWP), Trust 3000, FIS Global Plus, VISION, AddVantage, TrustDesk, Charlotte, Innovest SPAR, Innotrust, Citi

OpenWealth, Fi-Tek Trust Portal / GlobalWealthES, Accutrust Gold / Cheetah, Advent Geneva, Moxy, Eagle STAR,PACE, Charles

River, Linedata Longview OMS, Envestnet (Envestnet, Tamarac, FoloDynamix), Portfolio Center, InvestEdge Compliance (Reg 9),

Bloomberg, SalesForce, OneSource, GlobeTax, Broadridge ProxyEdge, Prospectus , Pershing NetX360, Glass Lewis, Global

Securities Class Actions Services, SWIFT messaging, ServiceNow, Mantas, Prime, Navaera AML, InterSystems Caché, Perl, Crystal

Reporting, AppWorx, AIX, VMS, Windows NT, Solaris 7, Unix shell scripting, Document Science’s Visual Compuset Programming, RR

Donnelley, ERWIN, MS SQL Server, Oracle, HTML, XML, UML, use Case. Proficiency with PM tools and software (strong MS Suite -

Project, Power Point, Excel, Access and Visio skills.)

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