Jake DeSantis

Current

• President at Little Engine Foundation Inc

Past

• Executive Vice President at AIG Financial Products
• Director at Union Bank of Switzerland
• Intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Connections

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Industry

Financial Services

Jake DeSantis’s Summary

My recent professional experience includes structured financial transactions, trading and risk management of derivative portfolios, and development of market access vehicles for for institutional and retail investors.

Though these endeavors were interesting and rewarding for a time, my immediate goal is to launch a not-for-profit foundation to bring very small businesses together with operating charities in their community using a novel variant on traditional microlending.

My passion (to use the unfortunate mot du jour) is to kick a dent in our currently unsustainable energy framework.

Jake DeSantis’s Specialties:

Commodities. Energy. Derivatives.
Microlending.

Jake DeSantis’s Experience

• President

  Little Engine Foundation Inc

  (Philanthropy industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Founded, designing, and launching a non-profit foundation with a focus on economic development.

• Executive Vice President

  AIG Financial Products

  (Public Company; Capital Markets industry)

  May 1998 — May 2009 (11 years 1 month)

  Commodity investment structuring and execution. Equity derivatives structuring and market risk management.

• Director

  Union Bank of Switzerland

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Banking industry)

  1992 — 1998 (6 years )

  Equity derivatives trading.

• Intern

  Los Alamos National Laboratory

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  1989 — 1992 (3 years )

  Summers and one term during time at MIT. Conducted thesis research.

Jake DeSantis’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  S.M. , Materials Science , 1987 — 1992

  Thesis "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Iridium and Rhodium from Organometallic Precursors" conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Additional Information

Jake DeSantis’s Groups:

•    MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni

Jake DeSantis’s Contact Settings

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