KHURSHED F.

BIRDIE
New York, NY 10023 Khursh@northstarplus.com www.linkedin.com/in/khurshedbirdie Tel.: (212) 267-4342 Cell: (917) 859-4119

Chief Information Officer Chief Technology Officer Partner Senior Executive and Corporate Officer, with extensive experience in technology and business operations leadership. Strong background in technology and financial services industries. Highly adept at building programs and organizations. Expertise in strategic planning, business development, product development, and technology implementation. Consistent record in revenue growth and cost control. Previous and current experience as Board Member and Chief Strategist. Excellent leadership and troubleshooting skills. Corporate-level Management Strategic Planning Start-Up Operations Practice Leadership Business Development Product Development Business Funding P&L Management Recruiting Web-Based Technologies Re-engineering Agile Development Off-Shore Services Entrepreneurship Budget/Cost Control Consulting Problem Solving Technology Assessment Global Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NORTHSTAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC., New York, NY 1991 - Present President & Chief Technology Officer Established and managed a top performing consulting firm servicing Wall Street client base. Oversaw all business operations, including hiring, RFP responses, budgets, procedure development, and project leadership. Delivered services in areas such as Management Consulting, Internet/WWW practice, Recruiting, Product Development, Capital Management, and Professional Services for client base that included NYSE Euronext, Nomura America Services, Citibank, Dun & Bradstreet, First Boston, JPMorgan, Lehman Bros., and many others. Developed global technology strategies for clients. Managed re-engineering, application development, QA, and technology deployment. Supervised personnel in US and India for customers. Reviewed enterprise-wide software development practices for the worlds largest and most liquid exchange group. Presented senior management with the current state, recommendations for significant improvements and a road map to implement the recommendations. Facilitated 51% revenue growth for large retail brokerage firm by selecting trade processing software and hardware, and recommending vendor. System grew trading volume 37%. Interim CIO for Surfbuzz.com. Developed worlds first vertical portal with membership awards. Directed international team in developing strategic business plan for equity, fixed income, and derivative trading departments for major bank. Project instrumental in success of banks merger. Carried out technology evaluations and set strategic technology goals for global private bank. Led US technology operations for global B2B business information firm. Reduced costs 35% while increasing quality. Supervised 900 professionals. Managed re-engineering of application development process. Implemented middleware. Coordinated software QA in off-shore/on-shore business model. Established relationships with venture capital firms to serve as technical expert for business activities. Led design and development of industry leading trademarked applications, in areas such as commodities, web portals, online deal management/trade execution, travel, car navigation system, and other areas. FIRST BOSTON CORP. (FBC), now known as CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, New York, NY 1984 - 1991 Director/Head of FBC Technologies Head of FBC Technologies, an advanced technology group within multi-billion dollar international investment bank and brokerage firm. Recruited over 200 personnel and supervised staff of 340. Administered $46 million budget. Provided leadership for database administration, software middleware & application development, real-time pricing, sales & trading workstation, CASE tool development and a start-up venture with IBM.

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Managed conceptualization, design, and construction of $62 million integrated global trade processing system called New Trade Processing Architecture (NTPA) and $5 million CASE technology tool, the High Productivity System (HPS), to implement NTPA. Reduced data entities from 55,000 to fewer than 3,000 by implementing normalized databases. Enabled 24-hour global trading support in multi-currency, multi-entity environment by successfully implementing all NTPA transaction processing systems. Increased efficiency and productivity by introducing in-house Real Time Pricing System and Windowsbased workstations for Trading and Investment Banking departments. Enhanced software distribution levels and software security by managing design, development, and implementation of systems software for application execution environment. NTPA and HPS technologies led to a start-up of a joint-venture with IBM (Seer Technologies, Inc.) and created $100 million in five years resulting in an IPO. MORGAN STANLEY & CO., New York, NY 1977 - 1984 MIS Director Joined the Firm as manager of On-line Systems, was later promoted to MIS Director. Staffed department, installed all online systems software, and managed development of online trade processing systems. Key member of conceptual design team for global Trade Analysis and Processing System (TAPS). Led development of Wall Streets first in-house ticker plant and first sales & trading workstation. The ticker plant and sales & trading workstations replaced over 500 market data terminals supplier by an external vendor resulting in $9 million annual savings.

EDUCATION
MBA in Finance & Computer Applications and Information Systems New York University, New York, NY BS in Electrical Engineering NED University of Technology and Engineering

AFFILIATIONS
Chairman, Board of Directors, NorthStar Technologies, Inc. Member, Advisory Board, Enterprizer Technologies. Inc. Past Member, Board of Advisors, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Past Member, Board of Directors, Trade Wind Associates, Inc. Past Member, Board of Directors, Surfbuzz.com Inc. Past Member, Board of Directors, Personal Travel Technologies Inc.

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