Whitney Watson Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for the risk management and portfolio construction of over $1 trillion in assets ranging from hedge funds to money market funds• Reports to co-CIOs• Member of Fixed Income Strategy Group (FISG), Fixed Income Management Committee and Business Development Committee• Manage a global team across NY, London, Salt Lake City & Bengaluru• Oversight of the cross sector research team which works with the CIO's to determine magnitude, composition and structure of our credit positioning• Oversight & prioritization of strategists/modelers who develop and maintain GSAM Fixed Income's proprietary, multi-factor risk & performance attribution model used daily by risk takers & PM’s globally• Working across the Asset Management Division's (AMD) public businesses to integrate and enhance our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aware investment process• Work with portfolio managers to establish investment strategy risk allocations• Ensure consistent implementation across accounts given the mandate & constraints• Calculation & daily exception monitoring of risk metrics eg tracking error, tail loss, drawdown and beta• Quantitative resource for risk takers/PM’s for ad hoc analysis eg geopolitical events• Work with Technology to build & enhance portfolio construction tools• Regularly meet with existing & prospective clients• Oversight of data integrity team responsible for accuracy of economic data feeding trading & risk systems• Coach for the Black and Hispanic Analyst Initiatives, Informal & Formal Mentor, IMD Women's Network MD Advisor

New York, New York, Us

• Reported directly to the Chief Risk Officer of GS Asset Management and Private Wealth Management• Managed a team responsible for the Division’s cash management policy, modeling and monitoring liquidity thresholds for levered funds, monitoring and reporting asset liquidity for AIFMD and Form PF and sizing and negotiating back-up liquidity facilities• Active participant in the ICI's liquidity risk working group focused on 40Act liquidity risk regulation• Regular presentations to various mutual fund Board of Directors

New York, New York, Us

• Worked with various Firmwide groups to develop comprehensive, independent metrics, thresholds and reporting to understand and monitor the market, counterparty, liquidity, valuation and operational risk associated with IMD’s ~$1trillion assets under management in long-only, long/short and fund of funds• Regularly met with existing and prospective clients globally • Member and coordinator of the IMD Risk Committee and PWM Risk Committee• Member of various Valuation Committees, the New Product and New Instrument Sub-Committees and the Operational Risk Working Group • Selected by the IMD Executive Committee to participate in the 2013 VP Leadership Acceleration Initiative

New York, New York, Us

Agency ARMS and Non-agency Prime and Alt-A Hybrid and Option ARMS Trader• Made markets and worked to facilitate liquidity in the illiquid markets of 2007/2008 • Valued several loan and security portfolios for SIV’s, CDO’s and private side advisory projectsNew issue ARMS Trader• Bid pools of hybrid and option arm loans• Led several new issue hybrid deals which included bidding collateral; determining structure and pricing; coordinating collateral, finance and structuring teams; marketing bonds and talking with clients• Traded all parts of the capital structure at issuance

New York, New York, Us

Participated in summer internship training program, assigned to the agency mortgage trading desk

Master'S Degree, Materials Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance, General