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Career Record

Physics and systems, to global risk leadership, to AI-enabled systems.

One arc, read forwards: physics and systems, to quantitative trading and modelling, to portfolio management, to global risk leadership, to hedge-fund chief-risk and investing roles, to institutional repair and regulation, to current analytical and AI-enabled systems. Dates are given to the month only where the evidence supports it, and to the year otherwise.

Chronology

YearsRoleInstitution
2025–FounderKindynos Advisory · Bangkok
2022–2024Head of Quantitative & AI ResearchEngineAI (formerly Dystematic) · London / Thailand
2018–2022MD, Risk Management & Investment AdvisoryCowen · New York
2014–2017Chief Risk Officer; Head of New York OfficeSilver Ridge Asset Management · New York / London
2012–2014Outsourced Chief Risk OfficerLong/short equity and private-equity fund · New York
2010–2012MD & Chief Risk Officer, Market and Counterparty Credit RiskAlly Financial · New York
2009–2010Outsourced / independent Chief Risk OfficerBroker-dealer · global macro fund · discretionary equity fund
2008President & Chief Investment OfficerWR Completion Fund (WR Capital) · Connecticut
2005–2008MD, Chief Risk OfficerPerry Capital · New York
2004–2005MD, Strategic Risk ManagementCredit Suisse First Boston · New York
1994–2001MD, Global Head of Market Risk; then Co-Head, Japan Equity DerivativesSmith Barney / Salomon Smith Barney / Citigroup; Nikko Salomon Smith Barney, Tokyo · New York / Tokyo
1991–1994VP, Listed DerivativesCredit Suisse First Boston · New York
1989–1991VP, Senior Portfolio ManagerWestern Asset Management · Los Angeles
1987–1989VP, Financial Strategies / International Monetary MarketsSecurity Pacific Merchant Bank · New York / Los Angeles
1986–1987VP, Quantitative Trading & Risk ManagementMerrill Lynch Capital Markets · New York
1984–1985Member of Technical Staff — applied physics researchAT&T Bell Laboratories · New Jersey

This record lists roles with resolved dates. Two periods — 2001–2003 and 2017–2018 — are omitted here rather than approximated.

Selected roles, in detail

Salomon Smith Barney — MD, Global Head of Market Risk; Co-Head, Japan Equity Derivatives · 1994–2001

Global head of market risk through the firm's succession of names — Smith Barney, Salomon Smith Barney, Citigroup — serving as the primary link between executive management and the trading businesses considered complex or high-risk, and briefing the executive committee. In 2000 I was sent to Tokyo to take control of the Japanese equity-derivatives business at Nikko Salomon Smith Barney following improper trading, co-managing trading, sales, and structured products with a staff of about thirty-five across three corporate cultures; the business produced revenue of approximately $90 million in 2000. Earlier in the tenure, I assessed the proprietary trading division's exposure as roughly twenty times its own estimate; the division subsequently lost in excess of $1 billion during the LTCM crisis.

Perry Capital — MD, Chief Risk Officer · 2005–2008

Built risk management for a $15 billion multi-strategy fund, integrating quantitative risk and portfolio-management technique into a discretionary investment culture: risk-factor modelling, portfolio optimization, and a performance-and-risk attribution framework that separated genuine alpha from beta — and ran a profitable, actively traded macro overlay that controlled risk and enhanced returns rather than only constraining them.

Ally Financial — MD & Chief Risk Officer, Market and Counterparty Credit Risk · 2010–2012

My mandate was the alignment and effectiveness of the risk organisation with the lines of business, across the residential-mortgage origination pipeline, the broker-dealer, the bank, auto-loan origination and in-house asset management. Separately, I served as primary regulatory liaison and managed a successful Federal Reserve market-risk examination, across CCAR, capital adequacy review, Basel 2.5, Market Risk Rule compliance, model validation and risk-systems compliance.

Independent and outsourced chief-risk mandates · 2009–2014

Four engagements as an outsourced or independent CRO — a major broker-dealer, where I was engaged directly by the chief executive to review credit and market risk practice; a global macro fund; a start-up discretionary equity fund; and a long/short equity and private-equity fund. These were consulting engagements under confidentiality, so I describe the work rather than the client. In each case the work was the same: assess what is actually there, build what is missing, and say plainly which the client is buying.

WR Completion Fund — President & Chief Investment Officer · 2008

Founded a fund-of-funds providing completion strategies to institutional clients with existing hedge-fund allocations, using quantitative and fundamental manager selection and hedge-fund replication on a managed-account platform. On a pro-forma basis it produced approximately 25% gross in 2008, net of underlying fees; the fund did not launch, as the promised funding was withdrawn in the crisis.

EngineAI and Kindynos — EVA and the event-intelligence line · 2022–present

At EngineAI (formerly Dystematic) I served as Head of Quantitative & AI Research, developing early-warning technology. At Kindynos Advisory, founded in 2025, I conceived and directed EVA — a large event-intelligence, risk-analysis and decision-support platform that models how events propagate through assets, stakeholders and interconnected ecosystems. By my project record it represents roughly three thousand hours over about eighteen months, with a substantial accumulated body of code, tests, analytical modules and modeled ecosystems. EOS and its language EPL are the newer, smaller successor I am extracting from EVA's lessons — a domain-independent execution core meant to rebuild the foundation more cleanly and verifiably. EVA is an extensively developed, pre-commercial platform, not a customer-deployed production service; EOS is earlier still. The technical account is here.

Selected recognition and publication

  • Named at several points in Jan Dash, Quantitative Finance and Risk Management: A Physicist's Approach, World Scientific — for bringing Prony analysis to his attention at Bell Laboratories, for the question behind his path-integral work in finance, and for ideas on firm-wide economic capital. The exact record is set out here.
  • Four chapters in Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return, edited by Rohan Douglas, Bloomberg Press, 2007 — credit-derivative risk management, four synthetic-CDO strategies, CDS valuation, and CDO valuation. Lectured on the same material at the NYU Courant Institute.
  • A five-part series on trustworthy AI architecture in regulated decision systems. On the writing page.

Formation

Princeton UniversityA.B. Physics, 1982 — undergraduate thesis under P. J. E. Peebles
École Centrale de ParisFinal year of the Diplôme d'Ingénieur, physics — research at C.E.A. Saclay
AT&T Bell LaboratoriesApplied Physics Research

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