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 John
Sauro
Senior Partner, highly qualified financial professional
with demonstrated success having
more than 27 years of banking and finance experience. Sauro’s
superior leadership and organizational abilities
facilitated by excellent written, verbal communication skills
is highly sought after by business leaders, major news networks
like
CNBC, FOX News, and Bloomberg TV,
as well as many financial publications like
Business Week
and
Wealth Manager who seek
his
financial advice. He is recognized as a financial expert by The
New York Academy of Law, and is proficient in sophisticated structured
finance strategies.
Sauro
founded The North Atlantic Mortgage Corporation in 1996, and
still resides as its president. The firm has recognition of
being one of the top finance companies.
Sauro is responsible for providing the most useful
and ethical finance
solutions in the
world connecting with clients and
financial institutions where he brings a client-centric
point of view to every project delivering unparalleled value
demonstrating outstanding service compiled of a vast variety of
financial services and products.
Formerly with Citibank, Sauro directed
his team of professionals in Marketing & Development for
the Western Hemisphere
responsible for meeting annual revenue targets and maintaining
the organization’s diversified funding base by developing
marketing opportunities. His
team
planned, developed and implemented testing strategies and
created
campaigns and optimized performance based analysis of marketing
campaigns. Citibank is the world's largest
financial services organization, and is a leader in numerous
financial markets and banking products around the world, ranging
from the most sophisticated financial solutions to basic
banking.
Sauro rose to further prominence with Home
Savings of America.
During his tenure he was highly
recognized as a leading finance consultant presenting
clients with a growing array of finance
solutions and products.
Implementing a variety of new business development
acquisition activities, reviewing prospective client portfolios
relative to their stated objectives.
Later as Home Savings of
America's Vice President of East Coast Operations leading a team
of senior finance consultants and leveraged subjec t
matter experts, peers, managers and specialists
with annual
production and corresponding profits of more than one
billion dollars.
Home Savings of
America had assets of nearly $50
billion and deposits of more than
$33 billion, was one of the nation's
largest full-service consumer banks.
Ranked as one of the country's top
mortgage originators, Home Savings
served more than 1.7 million
customers from 347 financial-service
centers in four states and 115
mortgage-lending offices operating
in nine states. Home Savings of
America was the principal subsidiary
of California-based H.F. Ahmanson &
Co.
A Harvard
Business School Graduate and former Treasurer of Pepsi. Mentor,
Robert H. Masson
was a major influence and
supporter of
Sauro. Other business Influences include, Jeremy Siegel,
Wharton School of business and Economist Harry S. Dent Jr.
 Peter
Watkins Senior
Partner formerly with EDS in
charge of – Americas
(United States, Canada, Latin America) for EDS’ Global Financial
Industries. Watkins shared responsibility for annual revenue of more
than $2 billion and corresponding profits with the geography
leaders, managing a team of senior financial industry demand
creation executives. Watkins overseen the development,
implementation and delivery of technology, process and
applications development services to both existing clients and new
industry customers within the insurance, banking and capital markets
segments. He also lead the development of strategy and thought
leadership for EDS’ Global Financial Services banking sector.
Watkins is the client industry executive for the Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce and for Citigroup. He also serves in the client
leadership role for new global focus accounts such as Sun Life
Financial.
Previously, Watkins was executive vice
president of Information Management and chief technology officer for
The McGraw-Hill Companies and a member of the corporation’s CEO
Council. The McGraw-Hill Companies own Standard & Poors, McGraw-Hill
Education, and Information and Media Services. McGraw-Hill is
a world leader in the development and management of information and
intellectual assets. He was responsible for managing, defining
and expanding McGraw-Hill’s leadership position in information
management.
Before this position, he was executive
vice president and chief information officer for the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce, one of the largest banks in North
America. Watkins’ responsibilities included the management of
a technology and operations organization of approximately 8,100
people and a technology budget of $1.2 billion, including more than
2,000 applications development and maintenance professionals.
Earlier, Watkins spent 10 years in
progressively more responsible positions, becoming national director
of information technology and financial services consulting and
management for Ernst & Young. During his tenure, he turned around a
poor performing practice and produced the highest performance and
profitability per partner for consulting in the history of the firm.
Watkins is a member of a number of
associations and recently served on the Executive Client Advisory
Council for AT&T, the Advisory Council for AT&T Wireless, the board
of the World Productivity Institute and the World Economic Forum
Digital Divide Task Force. He was recently awarded a Fellowship in
the World Academy of Productivity Science for his contributions to
productivity science.
Peter Watkins has a bachelor’s and a
master’s degree in computer science and an M.B.A. from the
University of Western Ontario.
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