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Gazebo Team
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Roy K. McDonald
Mr.
McDonald is Chairman/CEO and Portfolio Manager of Gazebo. He has over
twenty-five years experience in a wide range of mathematical modeling,
including developing a factor-analysis based methodology and adapting
traditional risk-hedging alpha-models to risk-tilting models. In addition,
he performed internal ballistics, hydrodynamics (launch simulation), and
external ballistics modeling for the Dolphin sounding rocket, the world's
first privately funded, designed, engineered, manufactured and operated
space launch vehicle. Mr. McDonald is also the founding CEO of Connectix
Corporation, a successful PC software and peripherals company whose assets
were recently sold to Microsoft Corporation, following fifteen years of
profitable operations. Prior to Connectix, Mr. McDonald was corporate CFO
of Optrotech Ltd., a profitable publicly held (NASDAQ) industrial automation
firm based in Nes Ziona, Israel, now a division of Applied Materials. He
also held VP Sales and COO Operations positions at Optrotech's U.S.
subsidiary. Mr. McDonald was cofounder and VP Marketing of the American
Rocket Company, where he also managed the successful static engine and
vehicle launch test programs. He holds an honors degree in Physics from
Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Laurie C. Conner
Ms. Conner is
President and Chief Operating Officer of Gazebo. She joined the
Company in 2000 as a founding team member and Vice President of Marketing
and Business Development. Ms. Conner has over twenty-five years experience
in a broad range of high-technology industries. Prior to joining Gazebo,
she held the position of VP Worldwide Marketing and Sales for New Focus
Corporation, a publicly held manufacturer of optical networking and other
photonics products for telecommunications and industry (now a division of
Bookham Technology). She has held executive positions at Silicon Valley
Group, a leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, Crystallume, a
synthetic diamond coating company she helped take public in 1996, and
Raychem, an advanced materials company, now a division of Tyco. She began
her career in the oil business as a Process Engineer at Exxon's Benicia
Refinery. Ms. Conner holds B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Duke
University and Stanford University, respectively, and an M.B.A. from Harvard
Business School.
Edward E. Jenvey, Ph.D
Architect
Dr. Jenvey has a broad theoretical and empirical
background, with more than ten years experience in financial mathematics and
risk analysis. Dr. Jenvey received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford
University and also holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mathematics
and Physics with highest honors from the University of California at Davis.
His academic work focused on probability and applications of recurrence in
dynamical systems to problems in combinatorics. Dr. Jenvey's publications
include the following:
- Strong Stationarity and De Finetti's Theorem
- Multi-factor Modeling for Pricing of Bond Options in the Heath-Jarrow-Morton Framework
- Degenerate Parabolic Partial Differential Equations and Option Pricing Models
- An Introduction to the Mathematics of Option Pricing Theory
Working in collaboration with Gazebo's CEO, Roy McDonald, Dr. Jenvey
employs modern portfolio theory, state of the art techniques in
computational finance, and advanced techniques in statistical/mathematical
modeling to create efficient portfolios with a “point of view”
— portfolios that have a risk exposure to a particular investor issue
and limited exposure to other market variables.
Jonathan Seder
Mr.
Seder joined Gazebo in 2003 with extensive experience in financial decision
support systems, and investment and risk analysis. Previously, he worked at
SyntelSoft and Syntelligence as architect and principal developer of the
Underwriting Advisor® and Lending Advisor® expert system products,
commercial software packages which automate underwriting and account
processing for commercial property and casualty insurance and commercial
banking. This technology, now marketed as Moody's Risk Advisor™ from
Moody's Investor Service, is used by many international banks. Mr. Seder
also worked on analysis and management of international investments, foreign
currency trading, and a variety of technology-based products at Bank of
America. Mr. Seder holds a BA with honors from Harvard College and an MBA
from Harvard Business School.
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