UNPARALLELED ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Brett Friedman
Mr. Friedman has managed risk for over 30 years and has broad experience working with financial institutions in risk management and operations. He has built and managed three risk management organizations from scratch, as well as two trading startups, and has transacted on numerous exchanges and OTC markets, He brings a vast amount of first-hand management, operations, and valuation experience.
Mr. Friedman was formerly the Chief Risk Officer of Ospraie Management, an $8 billion natural resource-based hedge fund and private equity group. Mr. Friedman has experience in all asset classes and specializes in options risk, hedging, and valuation.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Friedman served as a Partner at Risk Capital Management, Chief Risk Officer for three energy trading firms, worked for 10 years as a futures and options trader, and traded foreign exchange futures and options for the Union Bank of Switzerland. He started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY.
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Mr. Friedman earned a BA in Economics from Columbia University.
Dr. David Shimko
Dr. David Shimko has worked in banking and risk management consulting for over 30 years, providing innovative solutions to risk management problems in risk strategy and hedging, risk policy, performance measurement, and capital management. Clients have included top U.S. banks, proprietary trading shops, pensions, global commodity producers, and numerous non-bank financial institutions including sovereign authorities.
Dr. Shimko’s expertise ranges from risk assessment, risk management strategy, product design, valuation, and expert witness advisory. His work has focused in all asset classes and structures, including exotic and illiquid option products and structures. Dr. Shimko has been awarded three U.S. patents in innovative collateral management techniques.
He is currently an Industry Full Professor of Finance at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering where he teaches Financial Engineering courses including Valuation, Risk Management, and Credit.
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Dr. Shimko is widely published, speaks frequently at industry conferences, and has held numerous prestigious academic positions in finance, including adjunct positions at the Kellogg School at Northwestern, the Courant Institute at NYU, and the Harvard Business School. He earned his B.A. in Economics and PhD in Finance from Northwestern University.
New York, NY; Salt Lake City, UT
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