Donald R. van Deventer, Chairman & CEO
 founded
the Kamakura Corporation in April, 1990 and is currently Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer. Dr. van Deventer's emphasis at Kamakura
Corporation is enterprise wide risk management and modern credit risk
technology. His newest book, Advanced
Financial Risk Management (with Kenji Imai and Mark Mesler) was
published in 2004 by John Wiley & Sons. In 2003, Dr. van Deventer
co-authored Credit Risk Models and the
Basel Accords with Kenji Imai. Dr. van Deventer's first book
Financial Risk Management in Banking
(with Dr. Dennis Uyemura, Probus Publishing, 1993) is one of the best
known books in its field. His second book, also with Kenji Imai, is
Financial Risk Analytics: A Term Structure
Model Approach for Banking, Insurance, and Investment Management
published by Irwin in 1996. Dr. van Deventer is currently editor of the
Finance Focus Series from John Wiley & Sons with Professor Stuart
Turnbull of the University of Houston. He has served on the editorial
board of the Journal of Credit Risk since 2005. Dr. van Deventer's
primary financial consulting and research interests involve the
practical application of leading edge financial theory to solve critical
financial risk management problems.
Dr. van Deventer has been involved in financial advisory assignments
including both risk management and mergers and acquisitions. He has
worked on assignments for the municipalities affected in the Orange
County bankruptcy, in a major derivatives dispute between JPMorgan and a
Korean securities firm, for Bank Negara Malaysia, the Department of the
Treasury of the United States, governments of two of the OECD countries
and many of the world's largest financial institutions.
Prior to founding Kamakura Corporation, Dr. van Deventer was senior vice
president in the investment banking department of Lehman Brothers (then
Shearson Lehman Hutton) from 1987 to 1990. During that time, he was
responsible for 27 major client relationships including Sony, Canon,
Fujitsu, NTT, Tokyo Electric Power Co., and most of Japan's leading
banks. Dr. van Deventer completed three of the first four mergers and
acquisitions assignments for a Japanese client by Lehman Brothers and
the first domestic Japanese corporate straight bond underwriting by the
firm.
From 1982 to 1987, Dr. van Deventer was the treasurer for First
Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles. In this capacity he was responsible
for annual bond financing requirements in excess of $1 billion, a $1.5
billion commercial paper program, and a multi-billion dollar derivatives
hedging program for the company. During this time, First Interstate
became the first issuer of medium term notes in the Euro market and
first issuer of bank medium term notes. Dr. van Deventer also served as
senior planning officer for acquisitions, new ventures and corporate
strategy, participating in the 1986 attempted take-over of BankAmerica
Corporation. Dr. van Deventer was a Vice President in the risk
management department of Security Pacific National Bank from 1977 to
1982, where he initiated the duration-based futures hedging program for
the bank.
Dr. van Deventer holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics, a joint degree of
the Harvard University Department of Economics and the Harvard Graduate
School of Business Administration. He was elected to the Harvard
University Graduate School Alumni Association Council in 1999. In 2002,
he was named one of two appointed directors of the Harvard Alumni
Association representing the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He
was elected a director of the Hawaii Bicycling League in 2005. He also
holds a degree in mathematics and economics from Occidental College,
where he graduated second in his class, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta
Kappa. Mr. van Deventer speaks Japanese and English.
Dr. van Deventer may be reached by clicking
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1-808-791-9888. |
