Van Simmons

Current

• Head of IT for Fixed Income, FX and Structured Finance at Fortis Investments

Past

• Director of Fixed Income Development at Invesco
• President at VNP Software
• Consultant at Sun Microsystems

• Consultant at Lam Research
• Consultant at First National Bank of Chicago
• Principal at Symmetrix
• Software Engineer at IBM

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Education

• Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
• Vanderbilt University
• David Lipscomb University

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Connections

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Industry

Investment Management

Van Simmons’s Summary

Since 1991, I have been designed, written and deployed custom financial systems in variety of languages and environments.

My current interests and work are centered on the large scale computation and data storage problems which surround structured finance products such as CMO, CDO, CLO, CPDO, and CPPI. I'm particularly interested in the use of derivatives in these structures and how one does cash flow modelling and pricing of them.

Van Simmons’s Experience

• Head of IT for Fixed Income, FX and Structured Finance

  Fortis Investments

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; FORTSY; Investment Management industry)

  January 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  Responsible for software development and implementation in support of Fortis Investments' Fixed Income, FX and Structured Finance operations.

• Director of Fixed Income Development

  Invesco

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AVZ; Investment Management industry)

  February 2001 — January 2006 (5 years)

• President

  VNP Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1990 — January 2001 (10 years 9 months)

• Consultant

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

• Consultant

  Lam Research

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years)

• Consultant

  First National Bank of Chicago

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  May 1991 — December 1993 (2 years 8 months)

• Principal

  Symmetrix

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  May 1988 — May 1990 (2 years 1 month)

• Software Engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Telecommunications industry)

  May 1982 — August 1984 (2 years 4 months)

Van Simmons’s Education

• Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management

  MBA, Operations Management, 1984 — 1987

• Vanderbilt University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, 1980 — 1982

• David Lipscomb University

  Engineering 1977 — 1980

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