
Mathematician, Financial engineer, Biotechnology and Medicinal Chemistry professional
Israel

Mathematician, Financial engineer, Biotechnology and Medicinal Chemistry professional
Israel
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
August 2004 — June 2007 (2 years 11 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CGEN; Biotechnology industry)
May 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 3 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Banking industry)
April 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 2 months)
LabMorgan's representative in Israel:
• Sourcing and screening potential investments in Israel
• Screened dozens of potential investments, was part of a team that did the whole process from screening to term sheet
Helped establishing J.P.Morgan's Israeli office.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Banking industry)
September 1994 — April 2000 (5 years 8 months)
Global head of derivatives research for credit portfolio and structured finance
• Managed a group of PhDs, and was in charge of the methodology for a system which employed many programmers and a multimillion dollar annual budget. The system was used to determine a reserve in the hundreds of millions of dollars
• Developed, implemented and supervised the construction of many models and algorithms in the field of financial engineering, mainly in interest rates and credit
• Interacted very closely with traders and marketers on pricing transactions and risk management issues
• Provided end products for traders and marketers to price financial derivatives, with Excel front end.
• Spent considerable amounts of time making sure people understand the issues at hand and make educated decisions
Post Doc , Mathematics , 1992 — 1994
Ph.D. , Mathematics - non linear P.D.E. , 1988 — 1992
M.Sc. , Mathematics , 1984 — 1987
In paralel to Army service
B.Sc. , Mathematics & Physics , 1980 — 1983
As part of the IDF's Talpiot program