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Nellie Levchin

Partner at SciFi Investor

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2017 - Current

  • Board Member

    2014

  • Member, Board of Directors

    2014 - 2021

  • Member of the Board

    2012 - 2019

  • Trustee

    2012 - 2018

  • Partner

    2014 - 2017

  • Chief Risk Officer

    2008 - 2010

    CRO for global macro hedge fund with $8 billion peak assets under management with multiple accounts trading a growing range of instruments in multiple jurisdictions with numerous counterparties. Oversaw and trained risk management staff. Managed counterparty risk during the 2008 financial crisis, maintaining full credit facilities while avoiding counterparty losses. Responsible for all other duties previously performed as Clarium’s VP, Risk Management.

  • VP, Risk Management

    2005 - 2008

    Developed risk control policies and enforcement system for a global macro hedge fund across multiple instruments, asset classes and jurisdictions. Worked on position structure (instruments, size, and other variables) with portfolio manager, position and scenario modeling, interpretation and enforcement of risk policies. Served as primary point of contact for investor, counterparty and regulatory risk due diligence. Worked with firm’s portfolio managers and head of research on development and testing of trading themes and with legal and operational staff on reporting, regulatory, and compliance matters.

  • Director, Operations

    2003 - 2005

    Established operational framework for the hedge fund, working with the CFO and managing director, managed counterparty relationships, investor reporting, contributed to marketing materials of the fund

  • Analyst, FP&A

    2002 - 2003

    Maintained and updated the financial model and transaction reporting for the company's approximately $5B annual payment volume. Designed and delivered monthly and weekly key metrics reports to the company's executive team. Produced cohort analysis of the fundamental transactional behavior of a rapidly growing user base. Developed P&L reports for new and proposed products. Additional responsibilities post-eBay acquisition included bottom-up budgeting for ~800 person customer service center , IT and SG&A cost centers.

  • Product Manager, Financial Systems

    2000 - 2002

    Created product specifications and ensured the development for back-end systems, required to support appropriate logging of transaction history and accurate reporting for the finance teams. Interfaced with back-end engineering, front-end product and engineering, treasury, accounting and FP&A.

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