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Dr. Paul Richardson is a Partner & Chief Risk Officer at Pine River Capital Management LP.
Dr. Richardson is responsible for vetting every trade, investment strategy and counterparty relationship at Pine River to ensure they fit within our stringent guidelines.
He serves as Chairman of Pine River’s Risk Committee and serves on the Counterparty Credit Committee.
Prior to joining Pine River, Dr. Richardson was the Director of Quantitative Research at Stark Investments from 2006 to 2010, where he was responsible for all modeling and analytics and was a member of the firm’s Risk Committee.
From 1992 to 2005, he worked at the financial markets division of Cargill and its successor Black River Asset Management, where he was most recently a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager focused on capital structure arbitrage.
From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Richardson served as a Vice President of Fixed Income Research and as an MBS Trader for Lehman Brothers.
He was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan from 1987 to 1989 and at the University of Minnesota from 1983 to 1987.
He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1983 and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1979, where he was a Regents Scholar.

Former positions of Paul Richardson

Companies	Position	End
Stark & Roth LLC Stark & Roth LLC Investment ManagersFinance Stark & Roth employs a multi-strategy investment approach that focuses on risk management, portfolio construction, asset valuation, securities trading, financial structuring, quantitative modeling and credit, equity and legal analysis. The firm's investment strategies include: (1) commodities (2) credit (3) distressed (4) equity (5) derivatives and convertibles (6) long/short equity (7) event-driven (8) fixed-income (9) macro (10) private investments (11) real estate (12) reinsurance and risk-linked securities (13) risk arbitrage and (14) structured finance.	Corporate Officer/Principal	30/12/2009
Black River Asset Management LLC Black River Asset Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Black River Asset Management manages a wide variety of alternative investment strategies including rates, equities, commodities, emerging markets and private equity. The firm's rates strategy seeks consistent absolute returns with low volatility through the exploitation of relative value anomalies. The portfolio is net long liquidity, flat to long volatility, and long event risk. Products include sovereign debt (G10), supranational debt, federal agency debentures, pass-through securities semi/quasi governmental debt, futures and options. Black River focuses on macro-and micro- relative value strategies that include primarily arbitrage trading disciplines. Black River's equity strategy seeks consistent absolute returns through fundamental research driven strategies that combine both relative value and directional trading to capture bottom up and top down edge across multiple sectors and geographic regions. Event driven strategies include risk arbitrage, share class trading and the exploitation of holding company discounts. They also employ time series analysis and other modeling techniques to trade global equities using a systematic-driven quantitative approach. Their commodities strategy seeks consistent absolute returns in agricultural and energy commodities. They employ two broad strategies: directional and relative value. Directional trades, long or short, are generally driven by fundamental views based on supply and demand model assessments that identify prices that are inconsistent with market fundamentals. These trades include futures, swaps, equities or options in the underlying instruments. Relative value strategies may include intra-market positions (such as curve spreads, time spreads or geographical spreads), inter-market positions between correlated markets (such as soybean vs. meal), overlay strategies between market classes (such as equities overlay on commodity markets) or basis trades. Black River's emerging markets strategies include local markets and fx trading, sovereign fixed-income trading, equities trading and emerging market corporate credit trading. They employ a bottom up approach that allows portfolio managers to use allocated capital at their discretion within defined risk limits. Strategies are both directional and relative value, with a strong focus on macro economic fundamentals and political assessments. They measure and assess risk exposure across investments and down to the individual strategy level within each sub-fund, using a range of methods including VaR, stress tests and scenario analysis. They regularly review portfolio risk and investment opportunities across all sub-funds, re-allocating capital to maximize risk-adjusted returns. Black River's global private equity approach seeks to identify management teams, developers and entrepreneurs capable of capturing value in transitional environments due to macroeconomic factors, regulatory or political change and globalization. They participate in expansion capital, recapitalizations, structured equity and credit/project finance. They are particularly interested in the following sectors: food, sustainable agriculture, agriculture supply chain, renewable energy, traditional energy, natural resources, environmental sciences, infrastructure, transportation and logistics and general industrial.	Corporate Officer/Principal	30/12/2005
Lehman Brothers, Inc. Lehman Brothers, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides investment banking services	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
University of Michigan University of Michigan Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Corporate Officer/Principal	30/12/1988
University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Corporate Officer/Principal	30/12/1986

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Private companies	9
Lehman Brothers, Inc. Lehman Brothers, Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides investment banking services	Finance
Cargill, Inc. Cargill, Inc. Wholesale DistributorsDistribution Services Distributes agricultural commodities, animal feeds and food products	Distribution Services
Harvard University Harvard University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Stark & Roth LLC Stark & Roth LLC Investment ManagersFinance Stark & Roth employs a multi-strategy investment approach that focuses on risk management, portfolio construction, asset valuation, securities trading, financial structuring, quantitative modeling and credit, equity and legal analysis. The firm's investment strategies include: (1) commodities (2) credit (3) distressed (4) equity (5) derivatives and convertibles (6) long/short equity (7) event-driven (8) fixed-income (9) macro (10) private investments (11) real estate (12) reinsurance and risk-linked securities (13) risk arbitrage and (14) structured finance.	Finance
University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Black River Asset Management LLC Black River Asset Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Black River Asset Management manages a wide variety of alternative investment strategies including rates, equities, commodities, emerging markets and private equity. The firm's rates strategy seeks consistent absolute returns with low volatility through the exploitation of relative value anomalies. The portfolio is net long liquidity, flat to long volatility, and long event risk. Products include sovereign debt (G10), supranational debt, federal agency debentures, pass-through securities semi/quasi governmental debt, futures and options. Black River focuses on macro-and micro- relative value strategies that include primarily arbitrage trading disciplines. Black River's equity strategy seeks consistent absolute returns through fundamental research driven strategies that combine both relative value and directional trading to capture bottom up and top down edge across multiple sectors and geographic regions. Event driven strategies include risk arbitrage, share class trading and the exploitation of holding company discounts. They also employ time series analysis and other modeling techniques to trade global equities using a systematic-driven quantitative approach. Their commodities strategy seeks consistent absolute returns in agricultural and energy commodities. They employ two broad strategies: directional and relative value. Directional trades, long or short, are generally driven by fundamental views based on supply and demand model assessments that identify prices that are inconsistent with market fundamentals. These trades include futures, swaps, equities or options in the underlying instruments. Relative value strategies may include intra-market positions (such as curve spreads, time spreads or geographical spreads), inter-market positions between correlated markets (such as soybean vs. meal), overlay strategies between market classes (such as equities overlay on commodity markets) or basis trades. Black River's emerging markets strategies include local markets and fx trading, sovereign fixed-income trading, equities trading and emerging market corporate credit trading. They employ a bottom up approach that allows portfolio managers to use allocated capital at their discretion within defined risk limits. Strategies are both directional and relative value, with a strong focus on macro economic fundamentals and political assessments. They measure and assess risk exposure across investments and down to the individual strategy level within each sub-fund, using a range of methods including VaR, stress tests and scenario analysis. They regularly review portfolio risk and investment opportunities across all sub-funds, re-allocating capital to maximize risk-adjusted returns. Black River's global private equity approach seeks to identify management teams, developers and entrepreneurs capable of capturing value in transitional environments due to macroeconomic factors, regulatory or political change and globalization. They participate in expansion capital, recapitalizations, structured equity and credit/project finance. They are particularly interested in the following sectors: food, sustainable agriculture, agriculture supply chain, renewable energy, traditional energy, natural resources, environmental sciences, infrastructure, transportation and logistics and general industrial.	Finance
University of Michigan University of Michigan Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Two Harbors Investment Corp. Two Harbors Investment Corp. Real Estate Investment TrustsFinance Operates as a real estate investment trust with a focus on residential mortgage-backed securities	Finance