Aram Andonian

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Aram Andonian’s Summary

Aram M. Andonian is proven leader with more than 20 years’ experience across all disciplines of contingency planning and disaster recovery, including developing overall contingency and recovery programs for trading floors, critical business functions and technology areas. He has also led significant infrastructure deployments and delivery of complex technology solutions to meet client expectations for functionality, risk, performance, cost and time to market.

Prior to joining Merrill in 1998, Aram spent over 10 years with Barclays in key leadership roles including Associate Director of Business Recovery Planning for North America, for the Barclays Group in New York. Before joining Barclays, Aram held various roles at EF Hutton, and Information Systems & Networks in Washington, D.C. Aram began his career in Washington D.C. as an analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In his role at Merrill, Aram has been a key contributor in managing the trading floor recovery program, and has provided the tools to address the gamut of business resumption and mass business relocations. As such, he was instrumental in ensuring Merrill’s swift and successful recovery efforts after the September 11th tragedies. Aram served in a lead relationship management role acting as the business aligned gateway to technology for services. Under his direction, Merrill Lynch recently completed a major deployment of a new prime brokerage infrastructure, operating system and application upgrade which has kept Merrill as a front runner in the prime brokerage business.

Aram earned a BA degree in Law Enforcement and Criminology from the University of Maryland. An active member of the community, he is a member of the Association of Contingency Planners, The Contingency Planning Exchange, a trustee for the Cedar Crest Homeowners Association and is active in UNICO -- an organization committed to foster unity, neighborliness, integrity, charity and opportunity to the local community.