William Ahmuty

Joined SPDR ETFs as an individual sales contributor and grew the role into a new business unit with end to end responsibilities for $90BN US SPDR Fixed Income franchise. Accountable for US SPDR Fixed Income Annual Net New Revenue and AUM across active and beta funds.

• Lead a team responsible for client coverage and provide subject matter expertise to drive new assets into SPDR Fixed Income ETFs; meet with over 150 clients and partners annually
• Responsible for developing, socializing and driving business plans to achieve annual Fixed Income revenue targets; focusing on channel specific opportunities
• Work with SPDR Product team and business partners to develop new products, assess market demand, and create sales plans
• Lead SPDR Insurance team; hiring, strategic planning, development of individual and team metrics, manage sales pipeline, provide regulatory insight to clients
• Launched production of a quarterly global fixed income publication (Bond Compass) in 2018 in partnership with State Street Global Markets, reaching nearly 17,000 clients and prospects
• SPDR lead for partnership with Bloomberg in ETF industry development of 'YAS' analytics page for Fixed Income ETFs and for development and deployment of 'BSKT' ETF basketing tool
• Present to SPDR Board, SPDR Executive Management Group and speak at client and industry conferences and webinars

Recruited to establish Institutional, multi asset class client facing ETF Sales and Trading desk

• Developed desk infrastructure by collaborating with compliance, operations, sales, IT and risk management resulting in profitability in the first year of operation
• Managed ETF trading relationships with Hedge Funds, RIAs, Index Managers and Global Pension Funds in the U.S., Europe and Latam
• Initiated first ever ETF creations and redemptions with fixed income assets, international ID market securities and multi country baskets

Responsible for overall development of ETF client facing business including achieving revenue targets, hiring a managing a team, daily PNL and client relationships

• Generated $9mm in revenue from ETF customer facilitation, fixed income ETF arbitrage strategies, and ETF lending strategies
• Managed a team of 4 traders; produced daily market commentary for clients
• Partnered with commodities team to facilitate swap based creations for natural gas ETF
• Responsible for developing and managing key client relationships

Responsible for trade execution and risk management for institutional ETF clients. Developed client facing materials and met with clients across our institutional channel to promote our ETF business.

• Managed a team of 5 traders and analysts and facilitated trades for institutional clients
• Increased desk profitability every year, including growth of 200% from 2006 to 2008
• Developed new sources of profitability by expanding desk scope to include index share rebalance trades, custom creations and redemptions, equity financing strategies, index arbitrage, and proprietary trading

• Traded arbitrage strategies on Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 index futures
• Executed futures and options trades directly for Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Index managers

• Analyst focusing on trade settlement and reporting for Corporate Buy Back Programs and Restricted stock transactions