Role Fit
Where I can contribute now
My background spans risk leadership, investment management, quantitative finance, and analytical-system design. I am actively open to a senior employed role — permanent or interim — as well as fractional, advisory, and special-situation mandates where that combination is useful.
Role families, forms of engagement, location and working model, and the documents a recruiter needs — set out directly.
My most recent technical evidence is EVA: a substantial pre-commercial event-intelligence, risk-analysis and decision-system estate that I conceived, specified, directed, tested and repeatedly challenged over roughly eighteen months. It demonstrates the ability to move from a difficult domain problem to explicit architecture, implemented software, verification and executive explanation. My strongest contribution is as systems architect, financial-domain authority, technical director and independent challenger, working with engineering teams. The technical account is here.
Three primary lanes
Recruiters search by title, so these are named concretely.
1 · Risk and investment leadership
Chief Risk Officer, Head of Risk, market risk, investment and portfolio risk, and special-situation risk leadership.
2 · Quantitative and risk-technology leadership
Risk analytics, quantitative research, financial decision systems, model challenge and risk-technology architecture.
3 · Independent strategic assignments
Interim or fractional CRO, independent review, investigations, consulting-expert support and board advisory.
Hybrid roles are particularly relevant where more than one of these capabilities is required.
Forms of engagement
Any of the following, depending on the situation:
This range is deliberate: I am not signalling interest only in a conventional full-time CRO role, nor only in consulting.
Location and working model
Based in Bangkok, with substantial experience in New York, Tokyo, London, and Los Angeles. Available for international, Asia-focused, remote, hybrid, and travel-based work, subject to role requirements. Two hours from Singapore; working hours overlap Asia, the Gulf, and Europe, with US overlap by arrangement.
Documents
The always-current source is the career record on this site. Three targeted résumés are below, plus the full record. If your search does not match any of the three, send the mandate and I will send the right one.
- Executive CRO & Board Risk Leadership
Enterprise and market risk, function build and repair, regulatory examination.
- Investment Risk & Buy-Side CRO
Hedge funds, global macro, portfolio construction, attribution and overlay.
- Quantitative Risk & Risk Technology
Physics formation, derivatives and portfolio analytics, decision-system architecture.
- Full career record
The complete chronological record. Longer, and not written for speed.
Endorsements
First-rate risk professional, especially in capital markets. For Santa, the more complicated, the better. Especially valuable for the uplines of risk-takers, who seek to thoroughly size up and monitor risks in a digestible way.Barbara Yastine · former Chair and CEO, Ally Bank · managed me directly
I have known Santa since we were both at Bell Labs in the 1980's and both went up to the Street. He has a distinguished and unusual career with expertise in risk management, trading, portfolio management, and quant issues — fluently speaking many languages of finance professionals. Santa provides deep insight with practical analysis and advice. I recommend Santa without hesitation.Jan Dash · author, Quantitative Finance and Risk Management
Santa has deep experience across a wide area of the capital markets. He is a pragmatic, detailed, and professional risk manager, a pleasure to work with and a strong communicator on even the most complex subjects. I recommend him wholeheartedly as someone who can be relied on to both understand and communicate difficult risk problems.Rohan Douglas · Founder and CEO, Quantifi
Santa is a consummate risk-management professional and a seasoned veteran, having helped firms on both the sell side and buy side manage risk through multiple boom-and-bust cycles. He is highly technical but also has the rare ability to communicate esoteric topics in a way that is effective and digestible to a lay audience.Lance Rosen · investor and adviser · managed me directly
As comfortable explaining complex risk exposures to a board as he is engaging with quants, portfolio managers, or regulators.Dr Bob Mark · Black Diamond · co-author of standard risk-management texts
Have a role that does not fit neatly into one category?
Send the mandate or job description. I will respond candidly about fit.