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Winston Xie

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Vice President of Financial Engineering at Reval
📍 New York, New York, United States

Winston Xie is the Vice President of Financial Engineering at Reval, specializing in building sophisticated risk management systems like VaR and CVA. With a PhD, he has led quantitative teams at UBS and Morgan Stanley, focusing on pricing models for complex multi-asset class derivatives. People he has worked with describe him as a "trusted advisor" and "thoroughly good natured".

His academic background from Columbia University and The University of British Columbia appears to be a point of interest, suggesting a strong appreciation for higher education and research. He has consistently worked at the intersection of advanced finance and technology throughout his career.

At Morgan Stanley, he was the lead quant who designed and built a historical VaR system for thousands of hedge funds.

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Current Role
Vice President of Financial Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Financial Risk Systems
Heads the team building risk management systems (CFaR, EaR, VaR, CVA) and has co-led the design of new firm-wide risk platforms at UBS.
Derivatives Pricing Models
Has deep expertise in designing and coding pricing models for a wide range of exotic IR, FX, EQ, and CR derivatives.
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Career

Work history

Vice President of Financial Engineering
Reval
Director, Risk Management IT Quantitative Lead
UBS
Vice President, Prime Brokerage Risk IT, Desk Strategist
Morgan Stanley
Head of Quantitative Research and Development, North America
Principia Partners, LLC
Senior Financial Engineer
SunGard Data Systems, Inc.
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Education
1988 - 1991
PhD
The University of British Columbia
1987 - 1988
PhD program
Columbia University
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