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December 17, 2009
PRMIA Appoints Dennis Santiago and Teri Geske as Co-Regional Directors for a New Chapter in Los Angeles
PRMIA announces today the appointment of Dennis Santiago and Teri Geske as Co-Regional Directors for the PRMIA Los Angeles Chapter.
Dennis Santiago is the Chief Executive Officer of Institutional Risk Analytics. He heads company operations overseeing IRA’s objective ratings products and enterprise consulting services business. Dennis is the architect of the IRA Bank Monitor, IRA Corporate Monitor and IRA Corporate Filings products and the designer of its A+ to F Bank Stress Index and “shadow” CAMELS ratings systems. Mr. Santiago has been an analyst since 1981 initially working on U.S. military policy and strategy transitioning to finance in 1991. His service includes being a Senior Vice President at Data Broadcasting Corporation’s Capital Management Sciences Division, Chief Strategy Officer at Zacks Investment Research, Chief Technology Officer of Telescan, Inc. and was a founding member of boutique research firm Audit Integrity. He is a prolific civic volunteer involved with helping numerous projects in the Los Angeles South Bay. Along with PRMIA, he is a regional coordinator of alumni activities for UCLA’s Anderson School. Dennis holds a BSEE from UC Irvine and an MBA from the UCLA.
Teri Geske is a Lecturer/Executive in Residence at the UCLA Anderson Master of Financial Engineering Program. She is responsible for the Applied Finance Research Project component of the curriculum in addition to providing an ongoing practitioner’s perspective (via informal lectures and individual consultations) to students in the Financial Engineering Program. Teri has over sixteen years of experience with leading fixed income analytics provider, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics also known as Capital Management Sciences and CMS BondEdge, including Senior Vice President of Business Development, Product Development and Quality Assurance; and five years of experience with Security Pacific Merchant Bank. Teri holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School (concentration in Finance).
The Los Angeles chapter will work to provide a forum where risk management professionals in the area can network and take advantage of local expertise to expand their knowledge of risk management and other related topics. They will achieve this by working to publicize the existence of the chapter and tapping into current contacts to help activate support. They will start off by holding a few informal meetings and will gather feedback from attendees about the types of events they would find meaningful. In addition to events, the chapter will work to promote the PRM Certification and assist PRMIA in designing and evaluating academic partnership educational programs in the area.
PRMIA would like to acknowledge the Steering Committee members of the Los Angeles chapter that will help the chapter achieve their goals, please find the members below. PRMIA Los Angeles is seeking additional members for the Steering Committee, if you are interested in getting involved with the chapter leadership please contact losangeles@prmia.org.
•Shih-Po Chang, City National Bank
•Meleana Dunn, Amgen
•Szilard Pafka, EPOCH/Paycomm.net
If you are interested in receiving information about the Los Angeles chapter including event invitations, please edit your profile to include the Los Angeles chapter. Steps to do this are:
*Login to your PRMIA user account
*Click the 'manage my profile' link underneath the welcome message
*Click the 'edit my profile' link
*In the chapter listings tick the box next to the Los Angeles chapter
*Scroll down and click the update button
Posted by kgittins at December 17, 2009 08:20 AM