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Roger Lord

Head of Quantitative Analytics at Cardano

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Roger joined Cardano in 2009 and has 17 years of experience in the industry. As Head of Quantitative Analytics and member of the management team of Cardano Risk Management B.V. he is responsible for Cardano’s quantitative division on a group level. His responsibilities are to keep Cardano’s models and methodologies up to date with the constantly changing financial markets.

Prior to joining Cardano Roger worked in various roles at Rabobank International, both in model validation and front office, developing pricing models for interest rate derivatives. He holds Master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Econometrics (Tilburg University), and wrote his PhD thesis titled Efficient pricing algorithms for exotic derivatives at Erasmus University Rotterdam.