Experience

• Served as Treasury Manager and Capital Markets Manager for a major American bank.

• Served as a confidential consultant for a fortune 100 corporation in a high profile case involving questionable purchases of foreign exchange (FX) and derivative products from a major American bank.

• Testified as an expert in a binding arbitration involving a large (billion dollar) foreign exchange transaction between a major European bank and a fortune 500 corporation.

• Testified as an expert in a major Federal case involving a conspiracy among several professional traders and brokers.

• Served as a confidential consultant in a case involving trading abuse and fraud; conducted investigations and analysis of trading activity and possible breaches of fiduciary responsibility.

• Testified as an expert in a case involving fraud and potential misappropriation of funds.

• Led a team charged with reviewing abusive trading activities for a private bank. Determined existing risk, made recommendations to management with respect to liquidating positions, developed a tracking system for FX derivative trades with imbedded options, and interacted with regulators to ensure the bank's continued operation.

As a management consultant for a major international management consulting company

• Team member conducting a one-month long derivative product review of a major regional bank. Review was performed at the request of the Board of Directors.

• Conducted an FX Operations review for a major European bank.

• Analyzed and reviewed FX and derivative trading activity of a large Latin American bank for audit team. Mr. Scala uncovered a number of hidden transactions that put the bank at an unsafe and unsound level of financial risk.