Kris Veeraghanta

About Kris Veeraghanta

Looking for full time or consulting opportunities with 30 years experience and 26 years in Risk Management in CCAR, Economic Capital, Basel Model Risk and Validation, Model Development, Software Engineering, Systems Integration and No-SQL Data architecture for global system analytics. Experience in ML, AI and neural network algorithms for model validation.Currently working on thesis on High Dimensional Vine Copula based financial models for valuation/pricing/risk of derivatives, PDEs/Factor models for risk metrics integration, Comprehensive Risk Stability Index and Optimal Decision Model for Financial Policy for economic capital and internal models for banks. Summary of Experience:• Twenty eight plus years of experience in Risk Management, Quantitative Finance, Trading/Hedging Strategies and Modeling, High-Frequency Trading models, Information Technology and Financial Services in the areas of Banking, Brokerage, Hedge Funds, Asset Management, Large Data analytics(no-Sql), Financial Modeling (all financial instruments and areas), Software Engineering, Systems Integration and Internet industries (dot coms and startups)• Strong Management experience within various structured organizations, managing multiple and complex projects, business entities; Proven record of relationship management across various departments, vendors and people; Managed teams of up to 70 individuals; Strong experience in working on trading desks and solving day to day trading support problems; trading environments include, Equities & Eq Derivs, Fixed Income (treasuries, munis, corporate bonds, variable rate preferred etc), Options, commodities, futures and contracts etc. Also extensive knowledge of hedge funds/asset management funds as well as prime servicesSpecialties: Capital Markets, Technology, Risk Management, Program Trading, Business Analysis, Derivatives Markets, STP, Operations, Back Office, Front Office, Trading Strategies, Alternate Investments, Compliance and Regulatory issues. Experience managing over $200B in assets.

Experience

1. Consultant

   Wells Fargo

   Jun 2019 — Present

Education

• The Ohio State University

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD), Operations Research & Financial Engineering

• The Ohio State University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Engineering/Operations Research

• The Ohio State University

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD), Ph.D Operations Research & Financial Engineering

Skills

• Commodity
• Hedging
• Credit Risk
• Fx Options
• Financial Risk
• Asset Management
• Trading
• Prime Brokerage
• Banking
• Hedge Funds
• Risk Management
• Financial Services
• Structured Finance
• Fixed Income
• Financial Modeling
• Market Risk
• Options
• Investments
• Trading Strategies
• Bloomberg
• Capital Markets
• Finance
• Asset Managment
• Equities
• Derivatives
• Middle Office
• Proprietary Trading