Paul Richardson
Risk
Paul oversees the firm’s portfolio risk management function and serves as Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining Pine River in 2010, Paul was the Director of Quantitative Research at Stark Investments from 2006 to 2010, where he was responsible for all modeling and analytics and was a member of the firm’s Risk Committee. From 1992 to 2005, Paul worked at the financial markets division of Cargill and its successor Black River Asset Management. From 1989 to 1992, Paul served as a Vice President of Fixed Income Research and as an MBS Trader for Lehman Brothers. Paul was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan from 1987 to 1989 and at the University of Minnesota from 1983 to 1987. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a Regents Scholar. Paul has several refereed publications in academic journals.