Senior Advisory at the Intersection of Strategy, Regulation, and Enterprise Transformation
Over two decades of executive leadership across the Federal Reserve System, U.S. Bank, World Bank Group, and global financial markets — delivering programs that satisfy regulators, pass audit, and produce measurable outcomes.
CAPIM Financial brings together a rare combination of regulatory authority, enterprise program execution, and global market expertise. The practice is built on direct experience leading the programs that define institutional credibility: a Federal Reserve System Privacy Program that passed audit with no major findings, an $85M LIBOR Transition program mobilizing 600+ FTEs, and a $500M IFC/World Bank portfolio spanning emerging markets across Asia and beyond.
Every engagement draws on firsthand experience navigating oversight and regulatory frameworks across central banks and financial regulators worldwide — briefing boards, managing regulators, and building the governance frameworks that hold under scrutiny. The approach is disciplined, evidence-based, and oriented toward outcomes that matter to institutions: audit readiness, regulatory alignment, and enterprise-scale execution.
- Transformed a fragmented, enterprise-wide privacy program facing compliance gaps and governance breakdowns across the Federal Reserve System
- Developed and executed a multi-year strategy across six newly defined program areas, building stakeholder coalitions and realigning risk frameworks
- Established executive forums for cross-functional leadership, shared accountability, and disciplined oversight
- Accelerated enterprise adoption of compliance platforms (OneTrust, SAFR); passed the 2025 System Privacy Audit with no major findings
- Built and led the bank's LIBOR Transition program from inception — a complete start-up effort affecting hundreds of thousands of contracts and clients
- Mobilized 600+ FTEs across legal, finance, operations, and technology; designed enterprise-wide communications plan
- Created an AI-driven legal remediation capability — one of the largest such undertakings executed by the bank
- Conducted periodic briefings to the Management Committee, Board, the Federal Reserve, and the Office of the Comptroller of Currency
- Managed day-to-day operations of an ETF sub-advisor; oversaw AUM growth from $1B to $3B
- Served on the Investment Committee; instituted a risk management framework for rebalance-related trading
- Managed regulatory interaction with the SEC and reporting for annual examinations and on-site due diligence
- Co-managed a $500M global portfolio providing financing to supplier firms in international markets
- Designed program entry into new Asian markets requiring regulatory approvals; achieved 18% growth in portfolio reach
- Structured a cotton price hedging strategy in the futures market for Burkina Faso's agricultural cooperatives (CRMG)
- Designed hedging solutions for real estate and private equity clients; advised on debt management in emerging currencies (BRL, TZS, INR, KRW)
- Negotiated ISDA documentation with counterparties including attorneys and ratings agency personnel
- Assisted financial services clients with strategy and operational process design
- Built a risk management analysis framework for a retail brokerage during acquisition of a broker-dealer with an $850M book of business
Degrees
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Frankel, Jeffrey A. and Poonawala, Jumana (2010). "The Forward Market in Emerging Currencies: Less Biased than in Major Currencies." Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 585–598.
University Teaching
Lecturer, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2023–present)
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