Onuoha “Onu” Odim is a Bates Testifying Expert and senior financial executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience at major investment banks, hedge funds, and asset managers. He has served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Banking Risk at Credit Suisse, Global Head of Equities at Merrill Lynch, and Global Head of Equity Derivatives at CS First Boston.
Onu’s expertise spans risk oversight, securities trading, derivatives, hedge funds, valuation of complex instruments, and compliance. He has managed multi-billion-dollar businesses, directed proprietary trading and hedge fund strategies, and led crisis management responses to international sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He has appeared before internal and external committees governing financial risk, capital allocation, and crisis response, giving him deep insight into industry standards, supervisory practices, and regulatory expectations.
Onuoha is a consultant and subject matter expert in these Practice Areas and Services:
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Securities and Financial Services Litigation & Consulting
- Alternative Investments
- Asset Backed Securities (ABS)
- Auction Rate Securities (ARS)
- Auto-Callable Securities
- Banking
- Broker Dealer (BD)
- Callable Yield
- Capital Markets
- CDOs
- Clearing & Settlement
- Closed End Funds
- Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs)
- Collateralized Mortgage Bonds (CMBs)
- Commodities
- Complex Products
- Corporate Bonds
- Corporate Debt
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Currency Funds
- Currency Trading
- Currencies
- Damages Analysis
- Dark Pools
- Data Breach & Risk Management
- Distressed Securities
- Employment
- Energy
- Equity Financing
- Equities
- ETFs
- ETNs
- ETRACS
- Exchanges
- Fiduciary Duties
- Fixed Income
- Foreign Exchange Trading
- Futures
- Hedge Funds
- High Frequency Trading
- High Yield Bonds
- Introducing Firm/Clearing Firm Relationship
- Investment Advisory
- Investment Management
- IPOs
- Margin
- Market Evaluations
- Market Manipulation
- Money Laundering
- Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)
- Municipal Securities
- Municipal Trading and Underwriting
- Mutual Funds
- Non-Publicly Traded Alternative Investments
- Oil and Gas
- Operations
- Options
- OTC Derivatives
- Out-of-Pocket Losses Analysis
- P&L Analysis
- Portfolio Management
- Preferred Securities
- Prime Brokerage
- Private Equity
- Private Placements
- Private Securities Transactions
- Quantitative Analysis
- REITs
- Research
- Risk Management
- Securities Lending
- Senior Investors
- Structured Products/Structured Notes
- Suitability
- Supervision
- Trade Processing
- Trading
- U-5 Reporting
- Unauthorized Trading
- Underwriting
- Volatility Linked/Leveraged Products
- Wrongful Termination
- Yield Enhancement Strategies (YES)
- Data Analyses and Analytics
- Forensic Accounting and Economic Damages
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BD-RIA Compliance
- Risk Assessments
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Fintech and Banking Compliance
- Fraud & Risk Management
- Third Party Risk Managment
- Valuation
Credentials
EXPERIENCE
Bates Group, Testifying Expert, 2026 – Present
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Bank Risk / Head of Americas Business Risk Management, New York, NY, 2021 – 2024
Wolverine Asset Management, Senior Portfolio Manager, Chief Risk Officer, Head Business Development, New York, NY, 2010 – 2021
Titan Capital Group LLC, Senior Portfolio Manager – Equity Linked Strategies, New York, NY, 2008 – 2010
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Managing Director, Global Proprietary Trading, New York, NY, 2004 – 2008
Merrill Lynch Inc., Managing Director, Global Equities Division, New York, NY, and London UK, 2002 – 2004
GDO Capital LLC, Partner , New York, NY, 2000 – 2002
Merrill Lynch Inc., Managing Director, Global Equity Linked Products (GELP), New York, NY, 1997 – 2000
Credit Suisse First Boston, Managing Director, Global Equities Division, New York, NY, 1995 – 1997
Credit Suisse Financial Products, Director, Equity Derivatives Trading, London, UK and New York, NY, 1992 – 1995
O’Connor & Associates, Senior Options Trader, Chicago, IL, 1989 – 1992
Salomon Brothers, Sales and Trading Summer Intern, New York, NY, 1988
Westinghouse Electric Corp, International Sales Engineer / Project Engineer, Jericho, NY and Pittsburgh, PA, 1985 – 1987
EDUCATION
Merrill Lynch Strategic Leadership Program, Harvard Business School Interactive, Cambridge, MA
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Entrepreneurial Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Science (BS), Engineering, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
- Captain of Varsity Basketball Team (NCAA III)
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/LICENSING
- Certified Financial Analyst: Level I and II
- Fundamentals of Engineering (FE), Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification
- Previously Held FINRA Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 30, 63
PREVIOUSLY HELD MEMBERSHIPS
- Museum for African Art, Co-Chairman
- Dodge YMCA, Trustee
- Archipelago Exchange, NYSE Arca, Board Member
- Media Metrix Inc, MMXI, Board Member
- Viamericas Inc., Board Member
- Juritas Inc., Board Member
- Ethos Technologies Inc., Board Member
- Element Inc., Board Member
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Member