Leon H. Tatevossian

Leon Tatevossian was a director in Group Risk Management at RBC Capital Markets from 2009-16, where his focus was securitized-products market risk in secondary trading, origination, and proprietary-trading areas. Leon has twenty-eight years of experience in the fixed-income capital markets (trader, quantitative strategist, derivatives modeler, and market-risk analyst); his product background covers US Treasury securities, US agency securities, interest-rate derivatives, mortgage-backed securities (MBSs), asset-backed securities (ABSs), and credit derivatives.

In addition to RBC, he held positions at several large sell-side firms, including Banc of America Securities, Countrywide Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs, Citicorp Securities, and Morgan Stanley. Currently Leon is also an NYU adjunct professor in the Finance and Risk Engineering Department (Tandon School) and in the Mathematics in Finance Program (Courant Institute). He received the SB (Mathematics) from MIT and was mathematics graduate student at Brown University.