Biographical Background
Consulting
June 1987–Present: Independent Consultant, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Instructional Products
1. Classroom instruction: lectures, case workshops, computer simulations.
2. Consulting: content–expert review and customized curriculum development for training in capital markets; corporate hedging strategies.
3. Development of training products: lecture materials, self–instructional modules, workshops, manuals, computer–based tutorials and simulations.
4. Areas of expertise: capital markets math, Euromarkets, Derivatives including interest rate and foreign currency swaps, interest rate futures and options, synthetics, asset sales and securitization.
Partial Client List: Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Citibank, Calyon Investment Bank, ABN AMRO, Merrill Lynch, American Express, Royal Bank of Canada, Union Bank of Switzerland, Rabobank Nederland.
Jan 1986– Senior Consultant: Capital Markets Products
May 1987 The Globecon Group, Ltd., N.Y., N.Y.
Responsibilities included developing and delivering training programs in capital markets products.
Corporate
Sep 1981– Managing Director – Financial Investments and Risk Management
Dec 1985 Central Resources Corporation, N.Y., N.Y., a private venture capital firm
Responsibilities included managing asset portfolio, banking relationship, forecasting, hedging and funding decisions.
Education
Spring 1979, Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Boston, Mass.
Spring 1975, B.A. with Honors in Economics and English, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Taught at Barnard College and Columbia University as Visiting Professor. Taught at Rutgers University as Assistant Professor of Economics and Management Science.
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