Chief Risk Officer, Partner, Exos Financial

Philippe Hatstadt

Chief Risk Officer, Partner, Exos Financial

Philippe leads Exos risk management across all buy-side and sell-side proprietary and asset management product lines and also heads the valuation and risk analytics of the firm. He is a strategic risk manager with extensive experience across fixed income products, fixed income derivatives and structured/exotic products, particularly in credit, securitized products and rates. Having been a global head trader, structurer and quant, he has a unique insight into the business lines and work closely with them to establish hedging strategies, capital allocations and setting of risk limits. He follows a systematic, quantitative approach to risk monitoring using technology and analytics for market, credit and counterparty risks and drives the development of the firm's risk management framework. This includes the risk-adjusted allocation of economic capital, optimization of funding, day-to-day management of financial and digital asset risks and setting of governance and core risk principles. He believes in the critical importance of the linkages between models, systems, analytics, data and communications amongst all of the key stakeholders. Prior to Exos, he held various Managing Director positions as Head Trader in rates, credit derivatives and structured financing at various places including Credit Suisse, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.