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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 marathon. | 