sentences:  From 1978 to 1986, he served in Atlanta as senior corporate officer of the Southeast office of Citibank.From 1987 to 1988, he was head of the firm's Latin American debt-to-equity swap investment program, designed to restructure sovereign debt.He worked for thirteen years (1988-2001) at Heller Financial, where he served as executive vice president and director of the parent company and as president of Heller International Group until Heller was purchased by General Electric in 2001.