Timothy James Hodges
Summary
25 Years + of investment experience in Equities, Fixed Income, Futures, Crypto, Real Estate, Fund Management, VCC Set-up and business/product development across International Investments Banks, Boutique Investment Managers and the Wealth Advisory business at a senior level.
Versatile Managing Director with proven abilities across all levels of organizational management. Talented in developing businesses, overseeing personnel and developing tactical plans to meet strategic and client goals. Proven leader with significant background in all areas of Finance, Trading, Fund Raising, Investor relations, Sales, Product Development, Operations and Risk Management.
Personalized Employment Pass in Singapore (PEP).
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Managing Director – Global Head of Sales
Namara Wealth Advisors Pte Ltd
04.2022 - Current
- Responsible for Global Sales for Singapore Wealth Advisory business with funds in Crypto, Equities Systematic, Macro Systematic, Real Estate and Energy as well as VCC Fund set up and deployment, wealth advisory for Family Offices and Multi-Family Offices
- Grew database of clients dramatically, raised firms profile in highly competitive environment as well as executing successful raises for new external funds and in-house strategies
- Signed of first external VCC Funds to Namara (Energy sector, Real Estate and Debt Finance)
- Secured talent to commence firms Real Estate Department
- Successful raise and deployment of funds for Purpose Built Student Accommodation in NTU Singapore (VCC Debt Finance Fund)
- Signed a distribution agreement for a large Non-Asia Fund to Namara
- Grew number of clients that had signed mandates with Namara significantly.
- Coordinated and upgraded all marketing material that went out to extended client list
- Coordinated and upgraded website
- Formulated firm strategy on Carbon Credits as well as met with significant investors and industry professionals in the field
- Help formulate start up financing phase of tokenization business
- Represented Namara at industry events, conferences and round table events
CEO
Coleman Investment Management Asia PTE Ltd
12.2020 - 04.2022
- Responsible for setting up office, applying for regulation from MAS, hiring relevant staff and building Investment Management company in Asia for Coleman Group
- CIM Asia aimed to be a respected and recognized Investment Manager for Coleman Multi Strategy Fund, the Coleman Fixed Income Fund and the Coleman Mid Cap Asia Event Fund.
- CIM Asia was closed due to underperformance of the underlying Funds in Europe
CEO
Coleman Group, Coleman Investment Management Asia PTE. Ltd
03.2020 - 11.2020
- Hired to set up Coleman Investment Management Asia PTE.Ltd as the Asia Hub for the Coleman Group of companies
- CIM Asia will be the sub-advisor on the Asian Bond portfolio of the Fixed Income Strategy of the Coleman Multi Strategy Fund SPC as well as responsible for the sales and marketing of the fund to Asia based investors
- CIM Asia will be regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a RFMC prior to commencing operations.
Director - Equity Platform Sales
Citigroup Global Markets
09.2018 - 11.2019
- Equity Platform Sales – Wholesale and Execution to Custody (E2C) Division – Equities and Securities Services
- Responsible for Wholesale Execution and E2C sales in UK, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Middle East as well as other markets where required
- This role required significant technical knowledge of the entire trade cycle in Equities and ETF’s, from electronic execution, algos, Central Risk Desk, High Touch Execution, as well as an in-depth knowledge of settlement, clearing and custody business
- Purpose of department was to sell the front to back services of Citi’s Execution and Securities Services Division
- Responsibilities included origination of sales and clients, and relationship management and expansion of existing clients across a defined territory
- Main client base and focus was centred on regional banks, online banks or brokers, wealth managers, investment platform providers, broker dealers and proprietary trading houses
- Successfully grew business, generated new clients, managed existing clients and innovated new product lines to form sales campaigns.
Director – Head of Equities Product
Citibank
03.2017 - 08.2018
- Development Division – Equities and Securities Services
- Responsible for the Product Development Team for EMEA Equities Division reporting into the Head of Trading and COO
- The role of product development is to innovate new products and project manage delivery from inception through to delivery to the relevant desk/business
- This encompassed managing requirements, technology, compliance, legal, vendor onboarding and business sponsorship
- Key projects were
- Liquidity Hub
- Central risk Desk trading
- IOI Strategy
- Liquidity/Execution Strategy (post Mifid II)
- Algo enhancement
- ETF Algos
- Wholesale Execution strategy
- Execution to Custody Strategy
- Electronic Execution Product Development
Managing Director/Co-Founder
Coleman Street Management Ltd
01.2016 - 12.2016
- CSML (founded in Jan, CSM was launched, in Jan 2014
- CSM has successfully hired and backed traders, attracted talent and joint venture partners as well outside investment capital in a short space of time
- My responsibilities as MD were to start and structure the firm, raise capital, hire and manage traders, back traders, marketing, FCA authorized representative application, compliance (including MiFiD ii assessment working with traders, legal and external providers to implement change where required), risk management, public relations and management of IT consultants as well as general day to day strategy decisions for the firm
- CSM provides trading facilities and first loss capital for the purposes of trading in Equities, Options and Futures
- CSML backs and houses promising traders with track records in their chosen products
- We do this through joint ventures with top tier proprietary trading firms with cutting edge risk management and trading tools
- Traders are principally based in CSM offices and managed by our team throughout the process
- CSM has traders in equities, equity indices, fixed income indices, commodity and FX Futures, ETF’s, across a variety of strategies.
Managing Director/Founder
Azul Seis Management Consultancy S.L, Azul, S
01.2006 - 12.2016
- Advisory & Consulting, Introducing Agent
- Azul Seis acted as an introducing Agent or consultant within the financial markets for a range of clients (buy and sell side)
- The firm has a network of deep relationships that enable it to locate the best brokerage and clearing rates across the Equity, Futures and Options markets on behalf of its clients
- In addition, we have carried out highly sensitive consultancy contracts for Tier 1 investment banks and brokers, identifying new markets and clients and formulating business plans and marketing material
- Azul Seis also maintains a network of experts that can be called upon to assist in specialist areas, or in the case that additional personnel are required.
Vice President/Executive Director
Goldman Sachs
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Execution and Clearing
- In 2002, Goldman Sachs International decided it wanted to complement its existing US clearing and execution business (SLK/FOC) by launching a European equivalent specifically aimed at Market Makers/ Proprietary traders and Equity brokers
- I Was asked to sink my existing team into this new business and be Head of Sales for this venture and the existing PrimeAccess business
- This new product has involved a significant 12-month project from both a sales perspective, in educating the sales team and lining up prospective clients to playing a part in the management team responsible for ensuring we were able to be successful in this sector
- The new business went live on Sept 29th, 2003 with six initial clients and has been highly successful in attracting further clients who have made firm commitments or otherwise gone live
- This business has subsequently merged with the Electronic Transaction Services Group and the Institutional Futures Execution/Clearing business
- The main business focuses on the following - Electronic Execution of Equities and Derivative Instruments - Supplying Front end trading technology to clients - Providing Clearing services to NCM’s - Cross Product, cross margin haircut calculations - Margin and Trade financing - Stock Lending/Borrowing - Structured loans in the form of sub-ordinated debt if required - Dedicated Client Services/Reporting - Custody Services
- This role has come with a large degree of independence in identifying target clients, designing and implementing sales pitches and strategies to single clients and in seminar and road show formats as well as managing the overall sales team made up from 4 VP’s in London, 1 Sales person in Amsterdam and 1 Sales person in Milan
- In this role I reported directly to the head of Goldman Sachs Trading and Clearing Services
- In addition to this, the existing business that I managed (see below) has grown revenues in excess of 100% on 2002 in the same period that we were growing out the new business
- This is due to the extraordinary efforts made by the team over the past 12 months
Executive Director Head of PrimeAccess
Goldman Sachs International, Leeds, Kellogg
03.2000 - 01.2003
- Electronic Execution and Custody Equities Division Originally requested to formulate and lead a team building a new business for Goldman Sachs International (GSI) in the E-commerce International Trade Execution, Clearing and Custody arena
- This involved designing the strategy for Business Development, Marketing, Account Management and Execution and Client Services
- Due to the successful launch of this new venture (Oct 6th 2000) the group that I managed grew to 20 individuals including 5 Executive Directors plus consultant advisors
- GSPrimeAccess is the one of the most significant E-commerce venture for Goldman Sachs International in Europe in recent times and involved the marketing and management of Equities Trading Execution (for 6 months in 2001), Clearing and Custody solutions to a wide variety of European Online and established Retail Brokers in a B2B environment as well as institutional clients and statistical arbitrage hedge funds
- The departments under my control grew to reflect the following - PrimeAccess Custody - Custody Marketing – London - - Custody Account Management - Business Development London - Business Development Milan - Spear
Executive Director
Spear Leeds and Kellogg Operations
07.2001 - 12.2001
Executive Director
Goldman Sachs International
03.1998 - 03.2000
- Europe/Middle East and Africa – Network Management Managed a team of 5 Network Managers responsible for the maintenance and relationship management of the Network of custodian banks and executing brokers that were used by Goldman Sachs International for the execution of the following businesses - Equities - Fixed Income - Futures - Options - New Issues This involved extensive travel around the network, contract negotiation, relationship management and analysis to advise the Firm on the potential risks of commencing/continuing business in existing and emerging markets.
Associate Manager
Goldman Sachs International
05.1996 - 03.1998
- Fixed Income Operations Responsible for 6 operations analysts on the Low Yield Euro governments Operations desk and Frankfurt Fixed Income Operations
- This desk covered all support functions concerning Euro – Government Securities including domestic and international settlements of cash, sales and repo businesses.
Senior Analyst
Goldman Sachs Japan Ltd
02.1996 - 05.1996
- Fixed Income Operations
- Tokyo Responsible for a feasibility study in Tokyo, Japan in order to roll out a new system with IT
- In this role I was required to quickly learn new functions and report back feasibility finding to senior management in Europe.
Senior Analyst
Goldman Sachs Japan Ltd
11.1995 - 02.1996
- GS Funding Group Responsible for organising the Firm’s funding for cash, Sales and Repo business for a variety of countries within the funding team
Senior Analyst
Goldman Sachs OHG
04.1995 - 11.1995
- Responsible for learning and understanding the functions of a small department in Frankfurt in order to be able to train London analysts in the functions so that Goldman Sachs could rationalise its European Fixed Income Operations.
Analyst
Goldman Sachs International
04.1993 - 04.1995
- After initial rotation I had responsibility for all domestic high yield settlements including Emerging markets such as South Africa
- During this time, I worked extensively on projects for the desk and co-ordinating testing
- Overseas Development Administration
Administrative Officer
Overseas Development
09.1992 - 03.1993
- Responsibilities in helping with the co-ordination of Britain’s Aid Programme for Angola and Mozambique, including financial control to a high level and review of work proposals from Non-Governmental Organisations, logistical support to embassies and field workers.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree BA (Hons) - Politics and Economics
Guildhall University
07.1992
A Levels
Branson’s College
O Levels
King Edwards School
Skills
- Negotiation
- Capital Raising
- VCC Fund Management
- Sales
- Marketing
- Product Development
- Investor Relations
- Operations
- New Business Development
- Leadership and Team Management
- Multi Product management
- Innovative business leader
Certification
Financial Conduct Authority - Investment Advisor (TJH01080) 2003 Goldman Sachs International
Financial Conduct Authority - Client Dealing (TJH01080) 2017 CitiGroup Global Markets
ISMA Foundation Certificate Securities Institute Affiliate.
Monetary Authority of Singapore - Representative 2022 Namara Wealth Advisors Pte Ltd
Affiliations
Singapore Institute of Directors
Languages
Spanish
Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Managing Director – Global Head of Sales
Namara Wealth Advisors Pte Ltd
04.2022 - Current
CEO
Coleman Investment Management Asia PTE Ltd
12.2020 - 04.2022
CEO
Coleman Group, Coleman Investment Management Asia PTE. Ltd
03.2020 - 11.2020
Director - Equity Platform Sales
Citigroup Global Markets
09.2018 - 11.2019
Director – Head of Equities Product
Citibank
03.2017 - 08.2018
Managing Director/Co-Founder
Coleman Street Management Ltd
01.2016 - 12.2016
Managing Director/Founder
Azul Seis Management Consultancy S.L, Azul, S
01.2006 - 12.2016
Vice President/Executive Director
Goldman Sachs
01.2003 - 01.2005
Executive Director
Spear Leeds and Kellogg Operations
07.2001 - 12.2001
Executive Director Head of PrimeAccess
Goldman Sachs International, Leeds, Kellogg
03.2000 - 01.2003
Executive Director
Goldman Sachs International
03.1998 - 03.2000
Associate Manager
Goldman Sachs International
05.1996 - 03.1998
Senior Analyst
Goldman Sachs Japan Ltd
02.1996 - 05.1996
Senior Analyst
Goldman Sachs Japan Ltd
11.1995 - 02.1996
Senior Analyst
Goldman Sachs OHG
04.1995 - 11.1995
Analyst
Goldman Sachs International
04.1993 - 04.1995
Administrative Officer
Overseas Development
09.1992 - 03.1993
Bachelor’s Degree BA (Hons) - Politics and Economics
Guildhall University
A Levels
Branson’s College
O Levels
King Edwards School
Financial Conduct Authority - Investment Advisor (TJH01080) 2003 Goldman Sachs International
Financial Conduct Authority - Client Dealing (TJH01080) 2017 CitiGroup Global Markets
ISMA Foundation Certificate Securities Institute Affiliate.
Monetary Authority of Singapore - Representative 2022 Namara Wealth Advisors Pte Ltd
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