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Risk Management for Fund Managers
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Irwin Speizer
HedgeWorld
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Irwin Speizer is conference manager for the HedgeWorld suite of conferences, responsible for creating the agenda and selecting speakers and panelists. Mr. Speizer is a professional journalist with experience covering hedge funds and the financial sector, including a stint as a staff writer at Absolute Return magazine.
Mr. Speizer has written for Alpha magazine, Institutional Investor, Fast Company, Business.com, On Wall Street, Crain’s Chicago Business, Workforce Management, the Los Angeles Times and the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer. In addition to covering hedge funds and Wall Street, Mr. Speizer has written about the banking industry, energy, retail, real estate (both residential and commercial) and human resources.
Mr. Speizer holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Andrew Aziz
Algorithmics
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| Andrew Aziz is Executive Vice President, Risk Solutions, at Algorithmics, which provides enterprise risk solutions to financial institutions. He is responsible for business development and product direction, including ASP and Managed Services initiatives for market risk and the buy-side markets. Prior to his current role, he was Vice President of Products and, prior to that, Executive Director of Financial Engineering at Algorithmics.
Before joining Algorithmics in 1994, he was an instructor at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University in their MBA and BBA programs, respectively. Previous to that, he was in the Corporate Banking group at the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Corporate and Government Banking Division at the Bank of Montreal. Dr. Aziz holds several degrees, including a Ph.D. in Finance from York University, an MBA in Finance from Queens University and a B.S. (Honors) in Chemistry from McMaster University. |
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Kelsey Biggers
K2 Advisors
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| R. Kelsey Biggers is Managing Director of Risk Management for K2 Advisors, a fund of hedge funds headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with $6.2 billion under management. He joined the firm in 2002 and is responsible for risk management and sits on the management committee. Previously, he served as CEO and President of Measurisk, a web-based service company that he founded in 1998 to provide provides risk analysis to institutional investors. Before that, Mr. Biggers served as executive vice president for sales and marketing for Wall Street-based information technology company, Plural, a firm he joined in 1996. Mr. Biggers worked for Bankers Trust; in 1993 as a managing director, he developed the Bank.s RAROC 2020 risk measurement service that commercialized mark-to-market, Value at Risk and stress testing methodologies. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia University Business School in 1980. |
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Oleg Movchan
Vara Capital Management
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| Oleg Movchan, CFA, is President and Chief Risk Officer at Vara Capital Management LLC, a global macro hedge fund manager, where he plays a key role in formulating and executing Vara’s business strategy and oversees the firm-wide risk management program covering market, counterparty and operational risks of the firm and its funds. Prior to Vara, Mr. Movchan served as a Chief Risk Officer at Alexandra Investment Management LLC, a 15 year-old multi-strategy hedge fund manager and was responsible for integrating risk management into the investment decision-making process. He also led the development and implementation of the enterprise-wide risk measurement and portfolio management platform. He joined Alexandra from Ritchie Capital Management LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager, where he played a similar role. He has also served as Head of Risk Management (Americas) at UBS Global Asset Management and as a Structuring Analyst at an investment banking unit of a large reinsurance broker involved in insurance securitization. He holds an MS in Financial Mathematics and an MBA in Analytic Finance, both from the University of Chicago, as well as an MS in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Kharkov State University, Ukraine. He is a CFA charter holder and a member of Professional Risk Managers' International Association. |
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Boryana Racheva-Iotova
FinAnalytica
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| Ms. Boryana Racheva-Iotova is President of FinAnalytica. She leads FinAnalytica's Research & Development team and product development of the Cognity platform that offers risk and portfolio construction analytics for funds of funds, hedge funds and asset managers. She was co-founder and CEO of the Bravo Risk Management Group - the originator of the Cognity product suite, which was later acquired by FinAnalytica. She holds M. Sci. in Probability and Statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University. Her many articles have recently appeared in premier scientific journals and her forthcoming book will appear in Wiley-Finance. She has nearly 10 years of experience in building risk management solutions and utilizing the latest analytical advancements to meet the needs of financial industry practitioners. |
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