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Liquidity & Inflation: How does it all end?

  • The Union League Club of New York

  • May 17, 2023

  • 6:00pm ET

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Liquidity & Inflation: How does it all end?

Featuring

Steven Bush, Chairman, President & CEO, Apple Bank
Paul Kalamaras, Former Senior EVP & Chief Risk Officer, Investors Bank
Robert Savage, Head of FX Sales Americas, BNY Mellon

Moderated by
Eva Ados, Partner, COO & Chief Investment Strategist, ERShares

Wednesday, May 17, 2023
6:00-8:30pm ET

The Union League Club of New York
38 East 37th Street
New York, NY 10016

Pre-registration is required. This event is free for HABA members in good standing (2023). Friends of HABA are always welcome – non-member admission is $50. If you’d like to apply for membership, please contact info@haba.org

 

About the panel:


Steven C. Bush
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Apple Bank

Steven Bush is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Apple Bank. In this role he oversees all aspects of Apple Bank’s operations. Before being named CEO in April 2016 he held leadership roles in various areas of the Bank, most recently as EVP, Chief Operating Officer from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President from 2005 to 2013, with responsibilities in finance, risk management and lending, and Senior Vice President from 1993 to 2005. He joined Apple Bank in 1992 having previously served in the Finance and Capital Markets Divisions at Chemical Bank, where he was a Vice President in the Asset and Liability Management and Finance Divisions, beginning in 1985. He has served as a member of the Apple Bank Board since 2012.

Mr. Bush’s significant experience includes:

  • Management responsibility for Commercial Real Estate lending at Apple Bank from 1999 to 2016.
  • Management responsibility for the Bank’s Corporate and Industrial lending from 2009 to 2016, including initial development of such lending programs.
  • Significant management roles in overall business planning, financial reporting and forecasting, and risk management throughout his tenure at Apple Bank, with focus on Asset & Liability Management modeling and investment portfolio analysis.
  • Management responsibility for the Bank’s investments and derivatives from 1999 to 2016.
  • Extensive involvement in all regulatory and compliance matters relating to Apple Bank.
  • Community Reinvestment Act Officer at Apple from 1994 to 2002.
  • Management profitability reporting for global banking while in the Finance Division of Chemical Bank from 1985 to 1989.
  • Vice President of Asset & Liability Management at Chemical Bank from 1989 to 1992.

Education:

  • B.A., University of Chicago Business School, 1985, Concentration in Finance & Economics
  • A., University of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, 1983, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude

Paul Kalamaras
Former Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer
Investors Bank

Paul Kalamaras served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Investors Bank, a $27 billion asset commercial bank headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey with banking offices throughout New Jersey and New York through the sale of the company to Citizens Bank in 2022. He was responsible for the overall risk management of the company, including the credit, compliance, information security, BSA/AML and enterprise risk functions and was a member of the bank’s Executive Committee.

Before joining Investors, Paul served in a number of executive leadership positions in middle market, retail and business banking lines of business in several regional and community banking organizations.

Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts and is on the Board of Directors of Cosmos FM Hellenic Public Radio.


Robert Savage
Head of FX Sales Americas
BNY Mellon

Bob Savage runs Americas FX Sales for BNY Mellon.  He joined the firm in April 2019 adding to his 30+ years of experience in the industry. He is an foreign exchange thought leader writing about markets daily throughout his career and actively speaking at conferences and events. Bob has a broad set of experience from the variety of roles he’s held across in the industry, from the hedge fund space (FX Concepts and IKOS), to the sell-side (with more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs both as a FX trader and as an MD running institutional FX sales), as a consultant (McKinsey) and most recently at a quant-based FX advisory (CC Track Solutions).


Eva Ados
Partner, COO & Chief Investment Strategist
ERShares

Eva Ados is Partner, COO & Chief Investment Strategist at ERShares, where she oversees their portfolios of investments in global, publicly-listed entrepreneurial equities. She is highly regarded as a market expert and appears on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, FOX Business and Yahoo Finance. She is also often quoted in the financial press with her perspective on the global economy, financial markets, technology trends and entrepreneurial companies. In addition to her role at ERShares, she is also the COO of Apeiron Capital Investment Corp and the Founder of Entrepreneura Capital, a women-focused fund. She is a Fulbright scholar with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and Finance and a Master’s in Innovation and Technology.

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