- Janet Tavakoli - President, Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.
- Chicago, IL USA
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- Janet Tavakoli
President
Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
USA
- Contact Phone: 312-540-0243
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Janet Tavakoli
Derivatives and Securities Expert, Consultant, Author, Professor
Janet Tavakoli is the founder and president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. (TSF), a Chicago based consulting firm that provides expert experience and knowledge about maximizing value in the capital markets in the face of complexity and uncertainty. TSF provides consulting services to financial institutions, institutional investors, and corporations.
Ms. Tavakoli is frequently published and quoted in financial journals including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Week, Fortune, Global Risk Review, RISK, IDD, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, LIPPER HedgeWorld, Asset Securitization Report, Journal of Structured Finance, Investor Dealers' Digest, International Securitization Report, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Magazine, Credit, Derivatives Week, TheStreet.com, Finance World, and others.
Television appearances include CNBC, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV and First Business Morning News discussing current topics in the derivatives and securitization markets.
Ms. Tavakoli is a world renowned author and speaker on derivative products and securities and their risks and rewards. She has appeared as an expert before forums of the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tavakoli is a former adjunct associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business where she taught "Derivatives: Futures, Forwards, Options and Swaps".
Janet Tavakoli has over 22 years of Wall Street experience in finance. Tavakoli has traded, structured and sold derivatives and structured products at major financial institutions in New York and London. Prior to that, Tavakoli was the manager of financial strategic planning for two Fortune 500 companies.
Janet Tavakoli is the former Executive Director, Head of Financial Engineering in the Global Financial Markets Division at Westdeutsche Landesbank in London. She headed market risk management for the capital markets group for Bank One in Chicago. Tavakoli headed the asset swap trading desk at Merrill Lynch in New York, headed mortgage backed securities marketing for Merrill Lynch in New York, and headed mortgage backed securities marketing to Japanese clients for PaineWebber in New York. She also worked for Bear Stearns heading marketing for fixed income quantitative research.
Plaintiff engagements include Bank of America N.A. et al. v. Bartmann, JPM Chase, et al. Total claims in the consolidated litigation exceeded $1.2 billion. Engagements include representatives of plaintiffs or defendants depending on the issues. Tavakoli produces exceptional quality expert report writing as well as crisp, persuasive testimony. Representative clients: Helms Mullis & Wicker, Day Edwards, Mayer Brown and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
During her career, she has been registered and licensed with the SFA, NASD, ASE, CBOE, NYSE, PSE and the NFA and has passed the series 7, 63 and 3 qualifying exams.
Illinois Institute of Technology: B.S. in Chemical Engineering
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business: MBA in Finance
Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance (1999 and 2000).
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