The FMI Team

FOUNDING PARTNERS

FMI Chairman and CEO Charles M. Seeger, J.D., is a senior attorney specializing in capital markets development for both transitional and developed economies. Mr. Seeger has served as a senior advisor to securities commissions, securities and commodities exchanges, central banks, finance ministries, and pension agencies. Since 1990, Mr. Seeger has implemented assignments to develop capital markets in emerging markets through international best practices, legal and regulatory reform, and private law. Mr. Seeger was Senior Vice President and Counsel for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and participated in the major developments between the U.S. SEC, CFTC, and Federal Reserve Board on the conversion regulatory issues. He has drafted commodities exchange laws and regulations for several nations seeking modern commodity futures regulatory regimes. In the private practice of law he served leading exchanges, broker-dealers, banks, insurance companies, and pension funds.
J.D., Catholic University; B.A., Johns Hopkins University.

FMI President Robert D. Bond, Ph.D., is responsible for the supervision of international capital markets development projects and the management of FMI’s SME practice. He has directed the successful implementation of FMI's securities commission legal and regulatory drafting and development projects in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. His project management responsibilities include strategy and work plan development, monitoring and reporting on the achievement of benchmarks, project finance, and client communications. Previously, Dr. Bond was a founder and principal of CARANA Corporation, an international trade and investment consulting firm, where he managed the highly successful Bolivia export and investment promotion project. He has also carried out numerous consulting assignments for the World Bank, USAID, and private clients throughout Latin America focusing on privatization, banking, development finance institutions, and stock exchanges. During the Latin American debt crisis, Dr. Bond was responsible for sovereign credit risk at First National Bank of Chicago. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Ph.D. (Political Science), Vanderbilt University; B.A. (Political Science), Summa Cum Laude, Gonzaga University.

FMI ADVISORS
Financial Markets International, Inc. is comprised of seasoned professionals with decades of practical experience in capital markets and institutional reform. FMI advisers have served as senior officers for the world's largest securities and financial futures exchanges, money-center banks, broker-dealers, financial corporations, SROs, pension funds, and insurance companies. Experts who have worked on FMI projects include senior regulators for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Resolution Trust Corporation, FDIC, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Treasury, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the U.S. Community Services Administration, and state cabinet level departments.

Peter M. Levine, Vice President
An experienced professional with expertise in project management, marketing, and business development, Mr. Levine provides technical and management services for FMI’s international projects. He researches financial and development topics, assists in identification and evaluation of new project opportunities, and carries out marketing efforts directed at private and public sector clients in the U.S. and abroad. His management duties include the recruiting and fielding of international consultant teams, contract negotiation, and logistical support. Mr. Levine has designed and implemented customized training and education study tours for regulators and private financial markets executives from Ukraine, Romania, and Central Asian countries which have included extensive sessions in New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago. He recently participated in the start-up and organization of FMI's USAID projects in India and Nicaragua. He also served for a year as Acting Project Manager and technical adviser on a corporate governance training initiative for Ukraine’s securities exchange under the USAID FMI Capital Markets Project.
M.S. (International Business), Johns Hopkins; B.A. University of Michigan.

Charles M. Seeger IV, Vice President
Mr. Seeger manages the SME Finance Practice. A former Army Officer and West Point Graduate with 10 years of experience developing software solutions and managing projects with IBM and Accenture. Mr. Seeger served as the Director of Sales and Business Development for Looking Glass Systems until February of 2007. During his time at Accenture, Mr. Seeger was the Software Release Manager for the Delivery Operations Information System to the United States Postal Service. The System was deployed to over 6,500 post offices and was one of the largest software deployments Accenture had done to date. Mr. Seeger was responsible for deployment of the system to the Northwest and Southeast United States to include deployment management, training, readiness assessments, and site activations working for the Global Partner for Accenture’s Postal Supply Chain Practice. Mr. Seeger has provided project management and software solutions to the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Postal Service. 
B.S., Systems Engineering; United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

Christopher R. Thompson, Research Associate
Mr. Thompson researches financial and international development topics, assists in the identification of new project opportunities, and participates in the drafting and preparation of proposals.  For FMI’s commodity futures exchange clients, he carries out field and market research, researches and writes academic studies, and assists in their representation at international finance and futures industry conferences.  In support of FMI's existing project portfolio, Mr. Thompson participates in the fielding of consulting teams and performs contract management, liaising with numerous international donor agencies.  Prior to joining FMI, he served as a New Business Analyst for the Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs (CNFA), an agri-business development firm.  Mr. Thompson has also worked as a Trade Assistant intern in the Office of NAFTA at the US Department of Commerce.  He has written extensively on the Social Cohesion and Asian Muslim Communities in Britain which earned him Honors at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and is conversational in Spanish.
B.S. (International Relations), Georgetown University

Ann E. Berg, Of Counsel and Commodity Markets Specialist
Ms. Berg is a leading expert in commodities and capital markets with over 30 years experience. Beginning her career as a grain exporter, she engaged in international contract negotiations, hedging, execution, shipping, arbitrage, cost/risk analysis, and physical swaps. In 1982, she became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and operated as an independent futures trader for 18 years.  She was twice elected to the Board of Director of the CBOT and served on the Executive Committee of the National Grain Trade Council in Washington DC. She has advised foreign governments, the United Nations, Catalyst Institute, and multinational and foreign corporations on a variety market related issues. Since 2000, Ms. Berg has served as an arbiter for the North American Export Association. She has worked on commodity/capital markets projects in Turkey, Puerto Rico, United Arab Emirates, Canada and most recently India as a member of the FMI’s Commodity Futures Market Project team.  In 2007, she organized a commodity exchange conference for the UN-FAO in Istanbul that included participants from dozens of countries. She also writes frequently for financial publications and is an exhibiting artist.
B.A., Carleton College

Barry Pitts, Capital Markets Specialist
Barry Pitts has over thirty years of financial markets experience, including seven years managing highly successful international projects connected with capital markets and accounting/audit reform in Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.   Mr. Pitts’ areas of expertise include capital markets, accounting, SME finance, improving legal and regulatory and tax environments, strengthening capacity of non-governmental associations, and training and capacity building.  He has served the chief financial officer for leading North American investment banks, telecommunications firms and real estate brokerages, and is a Certified Public Accountant.  Presently, Mr. Pitts is Chief of Party of FMI’s USAID-funded Ukraine Capital Markets Project.
B.S., (Business/Accounting), Mississippi State University

David Bardsley, Non-Bank Financial Institution Expert
B.A., Carleton CollegeA senior non-bank financial institution (NBFI) and pension sector attorney with over 30 years direct experience in legal/regulatory reform, pension fund and insurance company operations/supervision, institutional strengthening and training.  Mr. Bardsley’s career spans positions as Senior Legal Adviser on USAID funded projects in Romania, Central Asia, and Russia; Senior Counsel to a leading full-service Wall Street financial institution; and, stints as Counsel and Secretary to the New York City Retirement System for Savings Institutions and as a Pension Specialist with the IRS.  He spent 5 years as a Pension Specialist for the I.R.S., providing advice to the White House, U.S. Congress and leading private practitioners on ERISA issues, drafting rulings, internal guidelines and procedures.  Presently, Mr. Bardsley serves as Senior NBFI Adviser on FMI’s USAID-funded Capital Markets Project in Ukraine.
J.D., New England School of Law; M.A., York University; B.A., Nasson College.

Carlos Bravo, Project Manager
Mr. Bravo is a senior international consultant with over fifteen years experience in the management and implementation of economic development, agriculture, and trade projects throughout Central/South America and the Caribbean. He has a unique understanding of development issues having held senior positions with USAID, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, and international agribusiness firms. For USAID, Mr. Bravo has served as a Program Development Specialist in the Dominican Republic, the Mission Environmental Officer in Paraguay, and Administrative Program Officer in Honduras. As an agricultural specialist with the USDA he developed new markets for US agricultural products, and as a department manager for Ciba Geigy he implemented agricultural development programs. He holds advanced degrees in marketing and business and is fluent in English, Spanish, and French. Presently Mr. Bravo serves is Chief of Party of FMI’s USAID funded DR-CAFTA Implementation Project.
M.S. (International Business Management), University of Provence, France; B.S. Le Havre, France.

Rami Khoury, SME Finance Expert
Mr. Khoury is a highly skilled business and finance professional with four years of hand-on experience in accounting and auditing, business analysis, and corporate turnaround and restructuring. He is currently working as a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Finance expert on FMI’s FOR-Jordan project. Previously, he served as Deputy Chief of Party on FMI’s FMR II Project in West Bank / Gaza (WBG), and as an Investment Officer for the IFC in WBG. Before joining the IFC, he served as a Senior Auditor with KPMG, auditing financial statements of companies in Bahrain and WBG, valuing businesses, and evaluating company performance. Mr. Khoury has a strong background in assisting SMEs in the Middle East acquire credit, improve production, and engage in more effective business and strategic planning. A CPA, Mr. Khoury is bi-lingual in English and Arabic.
M.B.A. (Finance) DePaul University; B.S. DePaul University.

In addition to its full-time staff, FMI has a cadre of over 200 experienced consultants, specializing in specific fields of international finance and investment, economic development, bank reform, securities and commodities markets, corporate governance, pension fund reform and development, information systems, employment restructuring, alternative dispute resolution, commercial law, bankruptcy, privatization, and regulatory reform.