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Managers - Risk Management
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Ezra Zask
Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC
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| Ezra Zask is Founder and President of Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC, which provides investment management services for hedge funds, funds of funds, family offices, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Functions include hedge fund risk management, including value-at-risk methodology; due diligence; and quantitative asset allocation; and portfolio construction. He is also Professor in the Practice of Finance in the Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Zask is frequently called upon as an expert witness in cases involving hedge funds, securities, and securities fraud. Mr. Zask has held a variety of positions in the banking, finance and hedge fund industry. From 1991-1998, he was Founder & President of Ezra Zask Associates, LLC, which managed all aspects of a CFTC-registered hedge fund/CTA with $200 million in assets under management using currency and interest rate arbitrage and trend following futures trading programs. He has also taught courses in finance at Yale University, Princeton University, Carnegie Melon University, Columbia University, Fordham University, Barnard College and Marymount University. Mr. Zask received his M.A. and M. Phil. in 1975 from Columbia University. He received a Columbia University President’s Fellowship; New York State Herbert Lehman Fellowship; and a National Science Foundation Thesis Grant. |
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Philip Gocke
Options Industry Council
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| Philip H. Gocke has been a Managing Director of the Options Industry Council since 2005, responsible for research and education for institutional investors. The OIC is a non-profit industry association, sponsored by the seven U.S. options exchanges and the Options Clearing Corporation and is dedicated to educating the investing public, brokers and pension funds, hedge funds and money management firms, about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded options. Mr. Gocke is also the founder and President of the options trading firm, Brite Sky LLC. Previously Mr. Gocke was a Managing Director and CEO of Van Der Moolen Options U.S.A. LLC. In this position Mr. Gocke was responsible to the Dutch parent, Van der Moolen N.V., for all trading, marketing, compliance and financial disclosure for the options specialist & market making activities on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, International Securities Exchange and Eurex/Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to those responsibilities Mr. Gocke was a Managing Director of Tague Van Der Moolen LLC and held a similar position for 15 years with Tague Securities Corporation /BancAmerica Options, Inc. Before moving to Philadelphia, Mr. Gocke was a Vice President and Chief Advisor for Bank of America’s Financial Market Advisory Group and a senior foreign exchange trader for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Gocke received an MBA degree from New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Lafayette College. |
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Damian Handzy
Investor Analytics
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| Damian Handzy is Chairman and CEO of Investor Analytics, a firm he cofounded in 1999 to provide risk management services to the investment management industry. He has over 15 years' experience in the risk management industry. While at Deloitte in the mid-1990's, he consulted to many of Wall Street's largest asset managers on risk management, Internet-based reporting and data management. Mr. Handzy has been a vocal advocate of improving risk management in the investment industry by incorporating advancements from other disciplines such as natural selection/evolution, cognitive science, complexity theory/emergence and behavioral science. His background is in experimental sciences and numerical techniques applicable to securities analysis, and he has experience in advanced technology applications, numerical simulations and mathematical modeling. He is extensively published in scientific peer-reviewed and financial journals. Mr. Handzy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his doctorate in nuclear physics while working on Correlation Functions at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory in Michigan. He is a regular guest on London hedge-fund radio program The N@ked Short Club. |
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Peter Niculescu
Capital Market Risk Advisors
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| Peter Niculescu is a partner and heads Fixed Income Advisory at Capital Market Risk Advisors, a risk management firm providing consulting and litigation support services to U.S. and international financial services companies and institutional investors. Mr. Niculescu specializes in portfolio strategy, return attribution, options-based strategies, risk analysis, asset valuation, and stress testing. His areas of expertise include options, structured and hedging products especially RMBS, CDOs, and CLOs and other derivatives including interest rate products and credit default swaps. Prior to joining CMRA, he was at Fannie Mae, where he ran the Capital Markets division, responsible for acquisition of securities and loans on balance sheet and for their hedging and funding. The balance sheet size ranged between $700 billion and $1 trillion during his time at the company. During the 1990s, Mr. Niculescu was at Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director responsible for running Mortgage Research and at various times the global fixed income strategy effort. Mr. Niculescu is a Director of Two Harbors Investment Corporation and is a member of the Advisory Board of Netezza Corporation. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1985. |
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Michael Woodrow
Risk Talent Associates
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| Michael Woodrow is President and Founder of Risk Talent Associates, a risk talent recruiter. Prior to founding Risk Talent in 2001, Mr. Woodrow ran an IT search firm while completing his MBA at the University of Chicago. Under Mr. Woodrow’s direction, Risk Talent has completed over 150 retained searches in risk management and financial compliance for clients including Wells Fargo, Fidelity, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, The Federal Home Loan Banks, and others. In addition to his work with Risk Talent, Mr. Woodrow leads seminars on recruiting in the risk and compliance fields across the globe. Risk Talent has offices in Chicago, New York and London. Mr. Woodrow is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown University with ten years of corporate finance experience prior to beginning his career in executive search and recruiting. |
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