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Mark Mesler, Managing
Director, KRIS Default Probability Services
 has been a member of the Managing Committee at
Kamakura since May 2003. Mr. Mesler heads the information production for
Kamakura Risk Information Services (KRIS), Kamakura's innovative Basel II -
compliant default probability service. Mr. Mesler has been in charge of the
daily production of the KRIS Merton model, reduced form model, and hybrid
model default probabilities since joining Kamakura in early 2002. Mr. Mesler
has 20 years experience in the financial services information and systems
field and is a veteran of State Street Bank, KPMG, Oracle, and the Bank of
America.
Prior to joining Kamakura Corporation, Mr. Mesler was Vice President at
Askari Risk Management Solutions, at that time a subsidiary of State Street
Bank in Boston. At KPMG, Mr. Mesler was a project manager in financial
services consulting and worked on projects that involved two of the largest
banks in the world. Before joining KPMG, Mr. Mesler was a managing principal
in the risk management area for Oracle Corporation, where he worked on
projects from Amsterdam to Singapore. Mr. Mesler also spent eight years at
Bankers Trust Company and Bank of America in New York, London, Los Angeles
and San Francisco as an expert in foreign exchange dealing systems. Early in
his career, Mr. Mesler worked on the 'Star Wars' strategic defense
initiative at Hughes Aircraft.
Mr. Mesler has an MBA from New York University and a bachelor's degree in
mathematics from Michigan State University, where he was captain of the
cross-country team and qualifier for the U.S. Olympic trials in the
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