Further to a Ph.D in Managerial Engineering, Andrea entered the investment banking arm of UniCredit, moving to CFO and then to CRO Departments. Then, within the Supervisory Affairs team, he held the position of relationship manager with Supervisory Authorities regarding risk and finance and SREP.

Tom Ho is CEO of Thomas Ho Company Ltd (THC), in New York, and Editor of the Journal of Derivatives. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President at BARRA, Inc., Research Professor at Owen School of Business, Vanderbilt University, and Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Tom received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. The Ho-Lee model (1986) was the first ever arbitrage-free interest rate model and Tom’s paper was ranked 17th of the most cited papers over 20 years by Risk Magazine.