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October 01, 2005

About Chris Whalen

I am a Senior Vice President and a Managing Director of Institutional Risk Analytics (IRA) with responsibility for sales, marketing and business development. I have worked as an investment banker, research analyst and journalist for more than two decades.

After graduating from Villanova University in 1981, I worked for the U.S. House of Representatives and then as a management trainee at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where I worked in the bank supervision and foreign exchange departments. I subsequently worked in the fixed income department of Bear, Stearns & Co, in London.

After returning to the U.S. in 1988, I spent a decade providing risk management and loan workout services to multinational companies and government agencies operating in Latin America. I provided due-diligence and credit workout services to a number of multinational clients operating in Mexico, including the Export-Import Bank of the US, Kroll Associates and Weyerhaeuser, and served as an adviser to the presidential campaign of Cuauhtémoc Cardenas Solórzano.

In 1997, I returned to Wall Street, working as an investment banker in the M&A Group of Bear, Stearns & Co. and later Prudential Securities where I focused on the technology sector. I then served as the managing director of The Free Internet Group Ltd., one of the largest independent Internet service providers in the UK.

In 2001, I returned to investment banking, working as a banker at Fechtor, Detwiler & Co. and an equity research analyst at Ramberg, Whalen & Co., following names such as IBM, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems.

I edit the free IRA newsletter, The Institutional Risk Analyst, and the IRA research service, Washington & Wall Street, and contribute regularly to publications such as Barron's, The International Economy and The Washington Times. I have appeared before the US Congress to testify on a variety of financial issues and speak on topics such as investing and corporate governance.

Posted by whalenc at October 1, 2005 11:26 AM