Leading Experts in Structured Finance Experts

Susan Abbott is a Managing Director at New Harbor, a Connecticut-based investment banking consulting firm. Ms. Abbott currently participates regularly in expert witness cases related to the ratings agency industry. In addition, she also chairs and moderates vaious panels focused on this industry. ...

Steven Alonso is the President and Co-Founder of Citon Group, a joint venture property and casualty insurance originator. Mr. Alonso continues to be active in the consumer financial services space as an investor and board member for various companies. He also continues to consult in the consumer and...

Amanda Atkins is the CEO of Afinia Capital Group. Afinia is backed by Deutsche Bank, Eos and Atkins Capital and assists insurance companies release capital and streamline mature or discontinued liabilities. Concurrently, she is the CEO of Atkins Capital, a consulting firm which provides financial, strategic...

Rick Baldwin is the Chief Executive Officer of Excelsior Management Group, an equity mortgage banker based in Lake Oswego, OR. Most recently, he was the Director of Capital Markets at Meritage Mortgage, a wholesale sub-prime mortgage lender and subsidiary of Netbank. Mr. Baldwin has been in the sub-prime...

James Bass is currently an independent consultant focusing on the non-prime auto finance industry. Until early 2007, he was a Consultant at InterActive Financial Marketing Group, an auto lending firm. He is also the former Chairman of the National Automotive Finance Association, the only trade association...

Tom Bohlinger is an Executive Vice President in the Investment Properties Institutional Group at CB Richard Ellis in Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Bohlinger is an office market expert and leader within the CB Richard Ellis Investment Properties-Institutional Group. As Executive Vice President, Mr. Bohlinger...

Maureen Bolton is the Principal in Global Capital Access, an investment consultation firm specializing in developing securitization programs for domestic and international clients. She specializes in advising clients on creating funding programs for a wide variety of consumer assets, structuring efficient...

David L. Boyle is a Director on the board of RAM Re, a Bermuda-based reinsurer serving the financial guaranty industry. In addition, Mr. Boyle serves as a Trustee of Wittenberg University (Springfield, OH). Until July 2005, Mr. Boyle was Vice Chairman of Ambac Financial Group. Mr. Boyle joined Ambac...

Bill Bradway is the Founder and Managing Director of Bradway Research. Previously, Mr. Bradway lead the Banking Practice at Financial Insights, a strategic advisory firm to banks, insurance companies, asset management firms, securities brokerages, and diversified financial institutions globally. The...

James Butler is the Managing Director of Rigley Financial, LLC, and the Senior Partner for Rigley Capital, LLC, an Illinois-based origination and consulting firm specializing in providing advisory services to Municipal, Governmental-Issues, Consumer, Energy, Commercial, and Mortgage industry-related...

Robert Canter is the President and Founder of Performance Realty Solutions, a commercial real estate consulting firm. Mr. Canter has more than 35 years of experience in brokerage, sales, consulting, asset management and business development. Prior to starting Performance Realty Solutions in 2004, Mr....

Anthony H. Catanach Jr., PhD, is a Professor in the Strategic Initiatives Group of the Villanova University School of Business. He also is a Director at DI2 Associates, a Pennsylvania based accounting and reporting consulting firm. Dr. Catanach has expertise in the areas of business risk management...

Ankush “Andy” Chawla is the President and Chief Consulting Officer of Enterprise Business Solutions, LLC, a consultancy focusing on enterprise and executive advancement, organizational structuring, risk management infrastructure, credit policy, modeling and collections strategy, and risk and executive...

Andrew Dickson was the Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Capital Markets, of Commercial Capital (CCI), a Private Money Lender in commercial real estate. He serves as Equity and Controlling Trustee for Aircraft Finance Trust, a securitization of leased commercial aircraft. Prior to CCI,...

Louise Epstein is the President of Charge-Off Clearinghouse. She has over 20 years of experience in the debt business, including executive-level structuring, issuing, managing and selling. Ms. Epstein is responsible for all activities related to the acquisition and sale of charged-off consumer debt....

Paul Equale is the President of Equale & Associates, where he consults on financial services issues, including credit cards, subprime mortgages, GSEs Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, online gaming, state, federal legislative and regulatory insurance issues, as well as domestic and international political and...

Jerome Fons, Ph.D., is the Principal of Fons Risk Solutions, a firm providing advisory services in the areas of measuring and pricing credit risk, developing statistical credit risk models, and Basel II implementation. Mr. Fons also advises asset managers on investment strategies with respect to rating...

Joe Garrett is the Principal of Garrett, Watts & Company, a San Francisco-based advisory firm offering mortgage banking consulting to banks, warehouse lenders, thrifts and mortgage companies. Mr. Garrett served as CEO and President of Sequoia National Bank and as Chairman, President and CEO of American...

Christopher Goode is the President of Granada Advisors, a mortgage market consulting firm. He has over 20 years of experience in the mortgage industry especially residential lending capital markets pricing and operations. From 2001 until 2004, Mr. Goode was the Senior Vice President of Transaction Management...

Prakash Gupta is a principal consultant at PG SCHAUM Inc. He consults with major investment banks and hedge funds in the area of fixed income derivatives encompassing CDS, indexes, GIC, distressed and default security workouts. He also provides expert opinions on structured product and derivative product...