Vuk Magdelinic, Founder, Overbond.
Before founding Overbond, Mr. Magdelinic’s career spans over 15 years in capital markets and technology. As PwC Risk and Regulatory consulting manager, Mr. Magdelinic led large digital transformation programs at Deutsche Bank and BNY Mellon in New York City. Mr. Magdelinic has played lead roles in several multi-billion dollar digitization and regulatory reporting programs at top tier financial institutions in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Caribbean. Over the course of his career Mr. Magdelinic has had extensive experience leading teams in strategic risk and compliance transformation, shared services implementation for financial institutions, impact assessment, operational target state development, governance structure development and regulatory driven change.
Mr. Magdelinic led the team of 30 consultants in development of the Shared Services Model for enterprise wide Regulatory Reporting Program staffed with 300+ client employees for a large financial institution.
Mr. Magdelinic assisted the client in Product Matrix Review against US regulatory requirements formulating key business impact and change management strategy for complex Fixed Income derivative structures.
As an engagement lead, leveraging industry best practices and subject matter experts from UK, US and Canada Mr. Magdelinic guided large capital markets dealer in design of their risk metrics control and governance structure with respect to Volcker Rule requirements. Mr. Magdelinic led a team of consultants and implementation engineers in development of the Future State Architecture and Target Operating Model for strategic integration of front and back office workflow functions realizing key cost benefits. Prior to PwC, Mr. Magdelinic worked at CIBC Fixed Income trading floor in Toronto in structured products origination capacity. Mr. Magdelinic modeled and priced exotic risk and structured fixed income investments for institutional, corporate and retail investors. Mr. Magdelinic delivered attractive risk adjusted returns that raised over 300 million dollars. During his tenure at CIBC, Mr. Magdelinic also spearheaded and led development of high-frequency booking platform, incorporating process engineering models, with streamlined operation for OTC trading to utilize internal books risk offsetting, manage liquidity, optimize term funding and credit exposure.
Mr. Magdelinic has collaborated on numerous publications addressing key trends in fintech innovation. Mr. Magdelinic mentors entrepreneurs at Founders Institute and Tech Stars programs in Toronto and New
York. Mr. Magdelinic holds Electrical Engineering degree from University of Toronto, MBA from Ivey School of Business and is an avid skier and abstract painter.