Key Note Speaker Financial Engineering Orientation @ Columbia University

Ms. Tanya Beder Chairman, SBCC

Key Note Speaker

With over 25 years of experience in the global capital markets, Ms. Beder founded and served as President of SBCC from 1987 to 1994, returning as Chairman in 2006. During the interim, Ms. Beder held two senior positions in the asset management industry. She was CEO of Tribeca Global Management LLC, a $3 billion dollar multi-strategy fund with offices in New York, and Singapore and Managing Director of Caxton Associates LLC, a $10 billion asset management firm in New York. At SBCC, Ms. Beder heads the global strategy, risk, derivatives, and asset management practices. Clients include banks, asset management companies, broker dealers, family offices, pension funds, mutual funds, funds, companies and corporations from around the world. She especially works with Senior Management and Boards of Directors in assessing their firm’s position in the current financial landscape.

Her consulting clients have included banks, broker dealers, insurers, hedge funds and companies such as CalPERS, Microsoft, Metropolitan Life, Bankers Trust, Orange County, The Common Fund, Alliance Capital, Credit Lyonnais, National Australia Bank, Mitsubishi Bank, Grupo Financerio, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, PT Cibinong, Anglo Irish Bank, among hundreds of firms on six continents. Ms. Beder also served as President of Capital Market Risk Advisors and was a Vice President of The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse) where she focused on mergers and acquisitions in London and New York and then on mortgage-backed securities, derivatives trading and fixed income research.

Ms. Beder is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Financial Engineers where she co-chairs its Investor Risk Committee. From 1998 through 2003 Ms. Beder was Chairman of the Association. Euromoney named Ms. Beder one of the top 50 women in finance around the world and The Hedgefund Journal named her one of the 50 leading women in hedge funds. While CEO of Tribeca, awarded the prestigious Institutional Investment Manager of the Year Award.

In academia she is on the Advisory Board of Columbia University's Financial Engineering Program and is an appointed Fellow of the International Center for Finance at Yale. Ms. Beder has taught numerous courses on the adjunct faculty of the Yale University's School of Management, Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and Financial Engineering and the New York Institute of Finance.

She serves on the National Board of Mathematics and their Applications. She appeared as an expert in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services regarding Mark-to-Market Accounting and whether financial firms in the current crisis should follow different rules for valuing complex derivatives and mortgage securities. Previously she has appeared as an expert before the United States Congressional Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance regarding derivatives and leverage, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development regarding risk in the global financial landscape, IOSCO regarding valuations, the U.S. Senate Special Committee regarding the Year 2000 Technology Problem and the World Bank and IMF regarding private equity and hedge funds Ms Beder was an author of the Risk Standards for Institutional Investors and Institutional Investment Managers and has written numerous articles in the financial area that have been published by The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Financial Analysts Journal, The Harvard Business Review, The Journal of Financial Engineering, Probus Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, and Simon & Schuster.

Ms. Beder holds a M.B.A. in finance from Harvard University and a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Yale University.