CDOs and The Subprime Market Live Teleconference Speakers
Paul Colonna, CFA
President & Chief Investment Officer
GE Asset Management
Paul leads the Fixed Income Business Team and oversees more than $120B in fixed income assets. Paul is a Trustee of the GE Pension Trust and also serves on the GEAM Asset Allocation Policy Committee. Most recently he was Senior Vice President, Head of Total Return Portfolio Management. Paul chaired the Fixed Income Asset Allocation Committee and had oversight over Structured Products, Leveraged Finance, Investment Grade Credit and Municipal debt. He also served as Portfolio Manager specializing in Structured Products. Prior to joining GE, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp where he headed the $60B CMO trading desk and oversaw all mortgage derivative trading. Before Freddie Mac, Paul worked for First Virginia Mortgage Company. Paul received his MBA from the University of Maryland and his BS in Business Administration from Villanova University. Paul is the holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Phoebe J. Moreo
Partner, CDO Team
DeLoitte and Touche LLP
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Edward J. O'Connell
Partner
Jones Day
Ed O'Connell has an extensive practice in the structured finance and derivatives area, concentrating particularly in collateralized debt obligations, both cash and synthetic. He is also experienced in the representation of issuers, underwriters, services, investors, credit enhancers, trustees, and rating agencies in connection with asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities.
Ed is a frequent speaker and writer on the subject of structured finance. Recent articles include "ABCs of Synthetics ABS," Journal of Structured Finance (Spring 2006); "Developments in Credit Card Securitization," The Review of Banking and Financial Services (August 2006); "Tracking the Growing Popularity of CDOs of ABS," Capital Markets (June/July 2005); and "Understanding ISDA's Credit Derivative Rules" International Financial Law Review (August 2003).
Kedran Garrison
Associate, CDO Research
JP Morgan Chase
Kedran Panageas is a vice-president at JP Morgan Securities in CDO Research. Kedran has been with JP Morgan since 2005 after working at State Street Research & Management in their CDO investments and issuance group from 2001-2004. Kedran is responsible for an array of regular research publications, including the Global CDO Weekly Market Snapshot and CDO Monitor, and is part of a global team currently ranked #1 in the North America Institutional Investor poll and #1 in the European Institutional Investor poll. Kedran holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Economics as well as a BS in mathematical economics from Wake Forest University.
Vishwanath Tirupattur
Executive Director of Research
Morgan Stanley
Vishwanath (Vishy) Tirupattur is an Executive Director in the Structured Credit Strategy group at Morgan Stanley. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in September 2004, he had portfolio management / risk management responsibilities at The Chubb Corporation, American International Group (AIG) and The Lincoln National Corporation, managing interest rate, equity and credit derivatives positions. Vishy has also been a post-doctoral associate at the University of Illinois and holds a master's degree from Virginia Tech and doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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