Marc Gratacos

Current

• Independent Consultant at Self Employed (Self-employed)
• FpML Consultant at International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.

Past

• Business Process Independent Consultant at Winged Keel Group, Inc
• Consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting
• Consultant at SGO Software

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Connections

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Industry

Capital Markets

Websites

• My Website
• FpML
• ISDA

Marc Gratacos’s Summary

I provide consulting around the implementation and management of XML standards including modelling, technology evaluation, and training courses. I also provide consulting around organizational structures and business processes.

My main area of expertise is OTC Derivatives and FpML. I work as a consultant for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA). ISDA is the global trade association representing participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, a business covering swaps and options across all asset classes (interest rate, currency, commodity and energy, credit and equity). For ISDA, I am helping to develop FpML, the industry-standard XML vocabulary for complex financial products. I participate in all the working groups, putting together proposals, giving technical support, editing the specifications, and chairing the FpML Business Process Working Group. In addition, I work consulting and giving training courses in FpML and developing a variety of projects in the OTC derivatives industry.

I live in Badalona, my hometown located near Barcelona, but I travel frequently to London and New York.

Marc Gratacos’s Specialties:

Consulting, derivatives, integration, messaging, FpML, XML vocabularies, model-driven technologies, data modeling, business processes.

Marc Gratacos’s Experience

• Independent Consultant

  Self Employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

• FpML Consultant

  International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.

  (Capital Markets industry)

  December 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

  Leading FpML development and documentation participating in all technical and product specific working groups and committees. Technology evaluation using FpML as basis. Chair of the FpML Business Process Working Group. Designed training course for extending and processing FpML. Presented FpML internationally in training courses, conferences, and workshops.
  
  Representing ISDA in ISO 20022 and other standards groups.
  
  Consulting through FpML Services for global organizations developing their messaging based on FpML. In-house training courses. Integration projects between front-office and back-office systems (Murex, Kondor+, OPICS). Representation of complex structured products. Clients include central banks, investment banks, asset managers, custodians, technology companies.

• Business Process Independent Consultant

  Winged Keel Group, Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Insurance industry)

  September 2003 — December 2003 (4 months)

  Developed a complete project proposal and presented it to the client. Described and analyzed internal business processes of the organization.

• Consultant

  PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting

  (Management Consulting industry)

  December 2000 — August 2001 (9 months)

  Successfully implemented a Siebel application for the sales department of Gas Natural (Spanish energy firm). Implementation and programming with VB to implement extended functionality. Data migration. Coached and mentored new consultants in the project. Completed training in project management methodologies.

• Consultant

  SGO Software

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2000 — December 2000 (6 months)

  Managed the development of a CRM prototype for a Spanish bank. Acted as liaison between clients and technical staff.

Marc Gratacos’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Masters , Information Management and Systems , 2001 — 2003

  Management of Technology Program (joint program between Haas School of Business, College of Engineering, and School of Information Management & Systems), Center for Document Engineering

• Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  BA , Economics , September 1996 — June 2000

Additional Information

Marc Gratacos’s Websites:

• My Website
• FpML
• ISDA

Marc Gratacos’s Interests:

sailing, soccer, movies, new technology

Marc Gratacos’s Groups:

•    Asociación de Becarios de la Fundación Rafael del Pino
•    UC Berkeley School of Information
•    Montages Community
•    Syndicated Loan / CDO / CLO Network
•    UPF Alumni - Antics UPF
•    Capital Markets
•    ISDA - International Swap and Derivatives Association
•    Collateral Management
•    Financial Product Markup Language
•    ISITC - International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication
•    Portfolio Recs
•    Freelances IT Barcelona

Marc Gratacos’s Honors:

2001-2003 Rafael del Pino Foundation. Fellowship to pursue Graduate Studies abroad.
2001 Coulter Alumni Fellowship - University of California, Berkeley.

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