Ardi Tavakol, Managing Director, Client Technical Services
joined Kamakura Corporation in January 1997
 as
a Vice President to serve as product manager for all Kamakura software
products in North America. Mr. Tavakol's responsibilities include
serving as liaison between Kamakura's software developers and clients.
Mr. Tavakol, promoted to Managing Director in charge of Client
Technical Services, is now responsible for product design, quality
control, documentation, implementation, training, software support, and
related consulting projects.
Prior to joining Kamakura Corporation, Mr. Tavakol spent almost three
years at Treasury Services Corporation in product development,
marketing, documentation, and support capacities. A primary
responsibility was his role as product manager for the TSER/Option-Adjusted
Valuation module, the Treasury Services version of Kamakura Risk
Manager. This responsibility was part of a development partnership
between Treasury Services and Kamakura Corporation.
Mr. Tavakol has ten years of experience working at financial
institutions in California. From 1991 to 1994, he was vice president and
manager in the corporate finance department of Fidelity Federal Bank
with responsibility for developing and implementing analytical tools and
models for senior management. From 1989 to 1991, he served as a senior
financial analyst at First Interstate Bank of California in various
capacities relating to risk management software modeling and analysis.
From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Tavakol was a commercial lending officer at Bank
of America.
Mr. Tavakol received a Master of Business Administration degree from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1990. He also holds a Master
of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Los
Angeles, which he received in 1986. Mr. Tavakol graduated magna cum
laude from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1985. Mr.
Tavakol has spent much of his life in Iran and speaks Farsi fluently.
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