28 East Rocks Road Norwalk, CT 06851w. (203)541-4255
c. (646) 417-3822

Sarah Lutkus

EDUCATION

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYMALIBU, CA 1998-2002

  • Received B.S. in Business Administration April 2002
  • Studied accounting, finance, organizational behavior, and service leadership
  • Selected as the Teacher’s Assistant for Organizational Behavior and Human Relations and Values classes during the International semester in Scandinavia

WORK EXPERIENCE

KAMUNTING STREET CAPITAL STAMFORD, CT MAY 2009-

VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS PRESENT

  • Oversee all financial and operational aspects of a convertible arbitrage hedge fund
  • Point of contact for three prime brokers and multiple swap relationships
  • Responsible for the selection and management of service providers and negotiations of all docs with brokers (ie ISDA’s, new pb accounts, compensation CDS agreements, etc)
  • Responsible for all securities settlements including Equity, Convertible Bonds, High Yield Bonds, Bank Loans, Credit Default Swaps, OTC Options, and Futures etc
  • Meet with current and potential investors for the marketing and due diligence reviews of the fund
  • Draft various monthly and quarterly reports for internal and external use
  • Formulated responses for corporate actions: dividends, splits, and initiated DWAC exchanges
  • Monitors and investigates Foreign Currency balances and initiates trades with the FX desk to mitigate exposure
  • Implemented straight thru processing trade file including cancel/correction amendments from the Kynex front office system to Citco Fund Service’s Aexeo platform
  • Review administrators' accounting packages to insure accuracy of NAV, journal entries, corporate action processing
  • Input all receivables and payables into Peachtree Accounting system to help prepare year-end balance sheet and income statement
  • Work directly with CFO and Ernst and Young Auditors to finalize year-end financial statements
  • Worked directly with CFO to finalize FIN 48 Analysis and FAS 157 list
  • Prepared and submitted quarterly 13F report

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.SALT LAKE CITY, UT MAY 2008-

EQUITY DERIVATIVES TEAM MANAGER FEBRUARY 2009

  • Worked with the team managers in the London, Hong Kong, and New York offices to build a new team in the Salt Lake City office tailored for US Hedge Fund clients trading equity derivatives
  • Managed a team of 5 employees while overseeing all client relationships with US Hedge Fund clients
  • Helped automate the Contract for Difference trade implementation system to reduce manual errors
  • Reported directly to the head of equity derivatives in Salt Lake City

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.NEW YORK, NY JUNE 2005-

PRIME BROKERAGE ASSOCIATE MAY 2008

  • Member of the Client Services team providing direct client support to Hedge Fund clients with AUM up to $2 billion
  • Managed the relationships of 15 Hedge Funds (ranging from small start up funds to over $2 billion) with new funds constantly added
  • Primary contact for CFO’s, Portfolio Managers, and Head Traders of Hedge Funds resolving any issues involving trade breaks, trade fails, accounting issues and appropriate resolution
  • Successful cross selling of all Goldman Sachs products including synthetic products, money market funds, REDI electronic trading platform
  • Helped clients liaise with different departments within Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage,such as Capital Introduction, Sales, Stock Loan, and Consulting Services
  • Participated in all client meetings, preparing presentations on the services of Goldman Sachs to gain business from other prime brokers
  • Assisted clients with inquiries on setting up new strategies for the fund, adding new market profiles for existing clients

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.SALT LAKE CITY, UT APR. 2003-

PWM OPERATIONS ANALYST JUNE 2005

  • Principal analyst for GSMoney Market and Mutual Funds, ensuring all manual orders and trade breaks are corrected in a timely manner
  • Daily execution of Position Reconciliation for all Money Market and Mutual Fund breaks and appropriate rectification
  • Responsible for working directly with the fund to rectify trade corrections requested from the CA’s and IP’s
  • Participated in diversity recruiting trip with senior management to the University of New Mexico
  • Protect firm capital by providing oversight on client asset movements and regulatory breaks
  • Primary analyst responsible for the Chicago, Philadelphia, and International handoff for all PWM International Offices
  • Principal analyst for Month end Interest issues and Remit population
  • Responsible for training new analysts on Goldman Sachs & Co internal systems (AMS/AMR, Sprints, Spectra, Vision, Rumba/Mainframe, Cool Report Viewer)

JOHN PAUL RICHARD, INC.CALABASAS, CA JAN 2002-

DESIGN/OPERATIONS ASSISTANT MAR. 2003

  • Worked in a team to assign fabric codes, style numbers and verify pattern numbers and color codes for garments
  • Verified and tagged garments received from both Domestic and International factories
  • Received and entered all orders for both John Paul Richard and Vince labels
  • Responsible for all domestic costing by using Accumark software

LICENSES

  • Series 7and Series 63
  • Licensed Notary Public in the state of Connecticut

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

  • Extensive volunteer work with the organization No More Homeless Pets in Utah
  • Approached by Senior Management to coordinate the 2004 United Way Campaign at Goldman Sachs
  • Member of Goldman Sachs Community Teamworks in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Member of the Division 1 Varsity Women’s Swimming and Diving Team at PepperdineUniversity
  • Enjoy snowboarding, traveling, triathlon, working with animals and environmental conservation

References available upon request

28 East Rocks Road Norwalk, CT 06851 w. (203) 541-4255
c. (646) 417-3822

Sarah Lutkus

REFERENCES

John Kanellitsas

Portfolio Manager

Geologic Resource Partners

George Marinopoulos

Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer

Kamunting Street Capital Management

212-490-4350

Michael Fazzari

Chief Financial Officer

Oskie Capital

646-470-7279

Jason Abrams

Chief Financial Officer

Capstone Investment Advisors

646-839-9908