Omega Frater Carlos Whitaker named director of Investor Banking Division at Credit Suisse

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Carlos A. Whitaker, a 1994 Marshall High School honors graduate, recently was promoted to director in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse.

He has the responsibility for managing a team of professionals that sell and trade equities and equity derivatives for some of the largest hedge fund clients of the bank including SAC Capital, Moore Capital, Och Ziff Capital Management, York Capital, Magnetar and HBK Investments.

Whitaker also received an Investment Banking Outstanding Achievement award from the company for his skill in leveraging the bank’s resources to complete a large and complex transaction that was outside both his geographic and product coverage area for one of the bank’s largest clients.

Whitaker began working for Credit Suisse at their Houston office in 2000. After three years, he was transfered to Boston, where he worked for three years. He is currently based in the New York office.

Whitiker is a May 2000 University of Texas-Austin honors graduate. He earned three degrees – a bachelor of arts from the Plan II Honors Program; a bachelor’s of business administration in accounting; and a master’s in accounting from the Professional Program in Accounting. He was a sommerfeld Scholar for maintaining a 3.75 or better grade-point average. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.

Whitaker is the son of Willie and Faye Whitaker and has one sister, Angela Whitaker. He has a son, Bryce Whitaker, who is attending the York Preparatory School in New York City.

Credit suisse is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The bank earned accolades during the recent financial crisis for its prudent risk management and strategic allocation of capital. In 2009, Credit Suisse was recognized as “Bank of the Year” by the International Financing Review.

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