Dr Alex Pilato

Alex Pilato, TradeRisks’ principal shareholder, founded the company in 2000. He was the founder of JP Morgan’s risk advisory businesses. He pioneered the development of sophisticated modelling techniques. He established a market reputation in risk management as a trusted advisor to central banks, sovereign debt agencies, ministries of finance, major corporates and financial institutions. He developed, maintained and supervised debt benchmarks for sovereign borrowers and debt agencies. 

He is a regular speaker on sovereign asset and liability management issues at World Bank and IMF conferences. Chairman of key industry conferences on credit and market risk, and speaker at internal seminars organised by central banks and financial regulators. After 7 years at JP Morgan, Alex moved to HSBC to lead the bank’s global risk advisory services and then to Tokai Bank Europe (TBE) as head of Capital Markets and Merchant Banking. 

Alex is an experienced manager of trading teams. He managed the client trading teams at TBE over a number of years which included periods of extremely volatile market conditions such as the Asian financial crisis. He was a member of TBE’s Executive, Risk and New Products Committees which were also responsible for the extensive proprietary trading activities of the bank. He has considerable experience on the totality of issues surrounding the management of proprietary trading operations, e.g. capital allocation, recruitment, traders’ compensation, risk management, compliance and regulatory issues.

EDUCATION

Theoretical Physics First Class Honours Degree,
Queen Mary College, London

Mathematics D.Phil.,
Magdalen College, Oxford