MFX Management

• Brian Cox, Executive Director
  In January 2008, Brian was hired as the full time manager of the MFX project to bring it to an operational stage. Brian has day-to-day responsibility for managing and funding MFX. Prior to joining MFX, Brian ran the Europe and Eurasia Division at the U.S. Treasury Department and oversaw a $70 million fund supporting bank-based microfinance in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also served as Executive Vice President of the US-Russia Business Council, as a consultant to microfinance investors, and as an analyst in a venture capital firm. As an entrepreneur, he started a company building houses in Eastern Europe and Africa. Brian has a BA and MBA both from Stanford University. Brian is fluent in French with basic Spanish and Russian.

• Jorge Santisteban, Director of Hedging Services
  Jorge joined MFX in November 2008 to manage front office and client services functions. He will also take a lead role in designing MFX's education and consultancy programs. Jorge has 15 years experience trading currency derivatives and working with small business clients on their currency risk management needs. He began his career in the foreign exchange department of Banco Nacional de Mexico and built the derivatives department at Bank Mifel which focused on small and medium sized clients. More recently his been a manager at American Express Bank and Citi Private Bank in their currency derivative operations. Jorge graduated from Universidad Panamericana. He speaks fluent Spanish and English.

• Anmol Chandan, Director of Operations
  Anmol joined MFX in July 2009 to manage the operations, finance and the back office functions.  He will take a lead role in designing and setting up MFX’s operations. Anmol has over 15 years experience in finance and accounting including a strong background in treasury operations. He is a Chartered Accountant having qualified in London, UK. He began his career in finance with Deloitte & Touché and more recently as a Manager in Lafarge North America and Fannie Mae. He has considerable international experience including having worked and lived in UK, Botswana and Canada. Anmol graduated from the University of Bombay and speaks fluent English and Hindi.

• Sonia Mukhi, Senior Analyst
  Sonia joined MFX in April 2009 to assist with hedging operations and other business related activities, including its education programs. Prior to MFX she worked in consulting, as well as with an MFI in rural India through the organization Ashoka. She received her Msc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics, where she focused on exchange rate policy in developing countries. Sonia also holds a BS in International Politics from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.