Seema Mohanty

Ms. Mohanty has 30 years in the tax-exempt finance business as both a banker and derivatives marketer. She currently advises on interest rate and commodity derivatives and capital markets products for corporate and municipal and not-for-profit issuers. She has advised on approximately $50 billion of derivatives and structured bond transactions including deal contingent hedges and natural gas prepay transactions. Prior to founding MG in 2008, Ms. Mohanty was a Managing Director and the Head of Derivatives Marketing and Structured Products at UBS. In this role, she managed a group of 20 professionals responsible for issuer and investor derivatives marketing, quantitative bond analysis and lending. Ms. Mohanty oversaw the allocation of a multi-billion dollar lending book, the first at UBS, to provide letters of credit and liquidity facilities to tax-exempt clients. Prior to UBS, Ms. Mohanty was a Managing Director and Head of Issuer Derivatives Marketing at Morgan Stanley where she structured, marketed and executed a variety of derivative transactions including interest rate swaps, swaptions, knockout swaps and inflation-linked structures for major clients. Ms. Mohanty began her career as a housing banker at CS First Boston, and then was an infrastructure and transportation banker in municipal finance at J.P. Morgan. In 1999, Ms. Mohanty joined JPMorgan’s Risk Management Marketing Group where she focused on developing and providing structuring ideas for tax-exempt clients, and marketing interest rate derivatives. Ms. Mohanty has a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago, and holds her Series 50 and Series 54 Certification. She is a former board member of the MSRB, the Eastside Settlement House, and Women in Public Finance and currently serves on the Industry Diversity Advisory Committee of FINRA.