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Robert Zekraus
Based in New York, Bob is responsible for leading Pirum’s geographic expansion and America’s strategy focusing on business development, relationship management, and innovation. Bob has over 20 years of experience in Capital Markets working at leading global financial institutions.Full Bio
Based in New York, Bob is responsible for leading Pirum’s geographic expansion and America’s strategy focusing on business development, relationship management, and innovation. Bob has over 20 years of experience in Capital Markets working at leading global financial institutions. Prior to joining Pirum, Bob was Managing Director and Global Head of Prime Services Client Capital Management & Funding at Scotiabank. This mandate focused on managing the asset and liability profile, client pricing and risk, and strategic deployment and oversight of scarce financial resources for secured funding products. In addition, Bob and his team worked on developing customer-focused financing solutions that align with the risk appetite, liquidity, capital, and balance sheet strategies for the firm.
Bob served on the Board of Directors for Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and was a member of the Prime Services Executive Management team, New Business Governance Committee and other leadership forums, including being a mentor in the bank’s Diversity and Inclusion Council, and senior advisor/super champion to the U.S. Green Employee Resources Group which promotes environmental, sustainability and climate awareness. Bob formerly served on BNY Mellon’s Government Securities Services Corp. Client Advisory Board and is widely recognized across the industry as a frequent speaker at major industry conferences, events and symposiums.
Bob has also worked as a strategic advisor at Equilend where he helped with the development and initial launch of a market viable product for Next Generation Trading (NGT) platform.
Before Equilend, Bob was at Barclays where he was a member of the Global Equity Finance Management team. He held various senior leadership roles in prime brokerage, equity finance trading, collateral management and funding, and financing sales. He was part of the original team that established the Collateral Finance Group at the firm in 1999.
Bob holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Management from Cortland College.Minimize
Bob served on the Board of Directors for Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and was a member of the Prime Services Executive Management team, New Business Governance Committee and other leadership forums, including being a mentor in the bank’s Diversity and Inclusion Council, and senior advisor/super champion to the U.S. Green Employee Resources Group which promotes environmental, sustainability and climate awareness. Bob formerly served on BNY Mellon’s Government Securities Services Corp. Client Advisory Board and is widely recognized across the industry as a frequent speaker at major industry conferences, events and symposiums.
Bob has also worked as a strategic advisor at Equilend where he helped with the development and initial launch of a market viable product for Next Generation Trading (NGT) platform.
Before Equilend, Bob was at Barclays where he was a member of the Global Equity Finance Management team. He held various senior leadership roles in prime brokerage, equity finance trading, collateral management and funding, and financing sales. He was part of the original team that established the Collateral Finance Group at the firm in 1999.
Bob holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Management from Cortland College.Minimize