By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JULY 16, 2021 | Routinely, we bump into or hear about young people from Gwinnett who have achieved greatly, sometimes elsewhere, and at other times, locally. We spoke to another one the other day, this one who has become successful in the finance industry in New York City.
He is Andrew Haskell, 37, son of Christine and Channing Haskell of Peachtree Corners. He got his education at Peachtree Elementary, Pinckneyville Middle and Norcross High, before completing his last two years at Riverside Military Academy. He has both an undergraduate and master’s of science in finance from Georgia State, and plans this fall to begin work on a Ph.D. program from Georgia State.
Today he is product manager for the Bank of New York Mellon, the oldest bank in the USA, founded in 1784 by Alexander Hamilton. The bank has assets of $381 billion and employs 48,000 people around the world. It is a custodial bank, meaning it caters to large corporations and other banks, having no retail banking accounts.
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Andrew lives in midtown on the east side of Manhattan. He’s been in New York for eight years. Prior to that, he worked locally with FundTech in Technology Park, which makes software that banks use in their operations.
Andrew’s job is to manage a money transmission system, either ACH (automatic clearing house) or wire transfers, between companies. “Think of it this way. Once a buyer and seller negotiate a contract, the buyer must pay for the goods or services by transferring funds to the seller. That’s where we come in, and the faster they want to move the money, the more it costs to move it. An ACH transfer might take a couple of days, where a wire transfer may take a couple of hours.”
The bank’s customers are Fortune 500 companies and other banks, and Andrew essentially deals in large volumes of money transfers any day.
He is the director of immediate payments. His team makes dozens of transfers each day. But he modestly says: “Oh, there are a lot of bigger cheeses above me.” Before he joined the Bank of New York, he did similar work for Capital One Bank.
He enjoys living in New York, which he says is challenged by proximity and density. He likes the variety and diversity of scenery, people, food, culture and other elements. He spends a lot of time in the 843 acres of Central Park, running, biking and enjoying nature. “The park’s a 15 minute walk away. I especially enjoy the waterfall, the reservoir, the castle , really a little of everything. I go often and really like it.” He also is pleased with the varied architecture of the city “…where you see such a combination of modern and historic buildings.”
This fall Andrew will begin an ambitious three year, in-person monthly residence program at Georgia State in their Ph.D. program. “It’s an intensive once-a-month weekend in Atlanta. I’ll fly down on Wednesday night and stay with my parents. Then it’s all day on Thursday-Friday-Saturday, then I’ll fly back to New York on Sunday.”
Andrew is another Gwinnettian who is distinguishing himself in today’s world.
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