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Distinguished Speaker Series: Risk Management
Featuring Jacques Longerstaey and Scott Johnston
7:30 AM Breakfast, 8:00-9:00 AM Speakers
Complimentary for members and guests
The UMass Club presents a panel of distinguished speakers with a decorated background in Risk Management. The Club welcomes Jacques Longerstaey, Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at State Street Global Advisors and Scott Johnston, Risk Manager for Columbia Management’s Cash and Fixed Income Funds. These days businesses are fighting for every dollar. Why fight over a dollar when you can save a dollar? Discover the tactics and analytical techniques that can be applied to your everyday work environment that will make a difference in your bottom line. Take a look at your business from a whole new perspective!
Jacques M. Longerstaey
Jacques is an Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of State Street Global Advisors. Prior to joining SSgA in April 2008, Jacques was Managing Director and head of the Risk & Portfolio Analysis Group (RPAG) at Putnam Investments. This group had oversight over investment risk, counterparty credit as well as operational risk across the fund complex. It was also responsible for providing performance attribution and other analyses to both internal and external clients.
Prior to joining Putnam in November 2003, Jacques was co-head of the risk management group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. From 1987 to 1998, he held various positions at J.P. Morgan and Co. (economist and fixed income researcher for the Benelux, head of the Bond Index Group and originator of the RiskMetrics value-at-risk methodology).
Jacques holds a Licence en Sciences Economiques from the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals). He also is President of the FAST Sailing Foundation, based in Newport, RI.
Scott Johnston
Scott Johnston has held senior risk management roles with Bank of America and its predecessor organizations for 12 years. Scott is currently risk manager for Columbia Management’s Cash and Fixed Income Funds. Prior to this role, Scott was head of Bank of America’s equities market risk function. Prior to that, Scott was Fleet's Senior Market Risk Manager for Interest Rate Derivatives and Foreign Exchange, a position Scott held since joining BankBoston (later acquired by Fleet) in 1997.
In the nine years before his move to BankBoston, Scott held quantitative and/or market risk positions in New York City with Morgan Stanley (4 years), PaineWebber (now UBS, 3 years), and Fuji Securities (2 years).
Scott earned a bachelor's degree in Physics and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University. |
