Team

Senior Management

Samuel K. Won

Founder/Managing Director

Samuel K. Won is the Founder and Managing Director of Global Risk Management Advisors, Inc., a leading and independent risk management advisory firm that provides unparalleled risk and investment management advisory services to asset managers and asset owners.

Mr. Won has close to 25 years of risk management, capital markets, trading and portfolio management experience at major financial institutions in the public and private sectors. In the investment management industry, Mr. Won was Chief Risk Officer at Brencourt Advisors, Chief Risk Officer at Ospraie Management, and he headed up investment risk management of over $44 billion in alternative assets for Citigroup Alternative Investments. On Wall Street, Mr. Won led trading risk management for customer trading, proprietary trading and capital markets for Citigroup Global Markets, and he played a similar role as Global Head of Risk Management at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. In the public sector, Mr. Won was in charge of risk management for the capital markets portion of the bailout of the Savings and Loan industry during the 1980s. Mr. Won played a leading role in creating the risk management section of the Managed Funds Association’s Sound Practices for Hedge Fund Managers. He has advised leading hedge funds, private equity funds, other asset managers, institutional-investors and regulatory agencies, including the SEC, the CFTC, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FSA, on major risk management, trading and capital markets issues and policies.

Mr. Won has extensive experience in investment risk management, risk architecture and analysis, asset allocation/risk budgeting, portfolio strategy, and investor relations/marketing for a wide range of asset classes and investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, real estate and long-only investments. In addition, Mr. Won served on the investment and risk committees at several major financial institutions, where he headed up investment risk management.

Mr. Won completed a BA at Northwestern University, attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and received a Masters degree from Columbia University with a concentration in International Finance and Economic Policy Management.

Timothy Wilson

Managing Director/Senior Principal

Mr. Wilson has over 24 years of experience in the fields of finance and financial risk management.

Mr. Wilson served as Chief Risk Officer for the investment management company Caxton Associates LP for eight years through 2011. As the head of risk management for Caxton hedge funds, Mr. Wilson directed risk analysis, control of tail risk, optimization of portfolio return relative to risk, risk-adjusted performance measurement and allocation of capital across a wide range of investment strategies and portfolio managers.

Prior to joining Caxton, Mr. Wilson worked for almost ten years in the firm-wide risk function at Morgan Stanley including heading the market risk function for Europe and Asia based in London. He had previously served as an Economist in the Division of International Finance of the Federal Reserve Board and as a Research Fellow in Economic Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has over time played a leading role in a wide range of industry and joint public sector - private sector efforts to promote enhanced financial risk management practices.

Mr. Wilson was a founding chairman of the Managed Funds Association’s Chief Risk Officer Forum and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. He received a B.A. in engineering from Harvard College and studied in the doctoral program in economics at Stanford University.

M. Christian Saxman, CFA

Chief Operating Officer/Managing Director

Mr. Saxman has close to twenty years of experience in capital markets, corporate strategy, general management and corporate operations.

Most recently, he was a co-founder of CE Interactive, Inc. ("CEI") and served as its Chief Financial Officer. He raised $5 million from venture capitalists and angels and helped to craft a corporate strategy that allowed the company to adapt successfully to the 2008 financial crisis. He served on the board of directors of CEI. Before CEI, Mr. Saxman helped to found and served as the Executive Director of New York Angels ("NYA"), the largest angel investment group in New York City. Prior to joining NYA, Mr. Saxman served as a Principal and founding member of AIG Highstar Capital, a $400 million private equity fund focused on infrastructure investments, and as an associate in emerging markets private equity for AIG. Earlier in his career, he traded and sold Latin American local currency securities for the Weston Group, an investment bank focused on Latin America. He began his career at Brown Brother Harriman as a money market trader.

Mr. Saxman holds a BA in Economics and Government from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance and Economics from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Ken Shoji

Senior Advisor

Mr. Shoji has over 25 years of experience in hedge fund management, research and due diligence, product development, risk management, derivatives trading, structuring and sales at major financial institutions.

As principal of Stissing Lake Advisors, Mr. Shoji advises institutional investors on their hedge fund investment programs. He recently served as the Chief Investment and Risk Officer of HedgeMark Advisors, a hedge fund managed account platform. From 2005 to 2009 Mr. Shoji was a Managing Director and Head of the Alternative Investment Group for Dresdner Kleinwort in the Americas, where he built and managed a multi-billion dollar hedge fund investment and financing platform. Prior to joining Dresdner in 2005 he was a Managing Director at the Mayfair Group, a private alternative investment firm. From 1998 to 2003 he advised corporate clients on risk management strategies as a Managing Director in the Strategic Equity Transactions Group at Deutsche Bank. From 1986 to 1998 Mr. Shoji held a variety of positions at J.P. Morgan, including Head of Derivatives and Structured Products for the Private Bank, Head of Emerging Markets Equity Derivatives, and various positions in Equity and Fixed Income Derivatives in New York, London and Tokyo.

Mr. Shoji is a CFA charter holder and received a MA Degree with Honours from the University of Edinburgh and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.

William M. Rubin

Managing Director, Client Services

Mr. Rubin has been involved in business development, sales and sales management for over 25 years, with a focus on financial services. He has over 18 years of sales and trading experience at major financial institutions, dealing with a wide variety of institutional fixed income asset managers and asset owners in all major fixed income securities.

Most recently, Mr. Rubin was a Partner and Managing Director of On Point Group LLC, an executive level business conference company, where he concentrated his efforts on financial services and the hedge fund industry. Mr. Rubin served as a Vice President at JPMorgan Securities, where he spent nine years in institutional fixed income sales and trading, and as a Vice President of Institutional Sales and Trading at Oppenheimer & Co. and Chemical (later Chase) Securities. He also spent several years managing his personal investment portfolio and providing independent financial consulting services.

Mr. Rubin received his BA degree from Columbia College, Columbia University, with a major in English Literature and a concentration in Economics.

David X. Martin

Senior Advisor

Mr. Martin has over 35 years of senior risk management experience, capital markets, trading, and portfolio management experience at major financial institutions in the private sector. Mr. Martin was Chief Risk Officer of AllianceBernstein which encompassed over $800 Billion in AUMs, 62 mutual funds, 10 alternative funds with offices in over 30 locations and client contact with the most prestigious institutional investors and US and overseas regulators. He also was the first enterprise risk manager at Citibank in it's heyday that included oversight over $400 Billion in balance sheet assets and the development of the first ever enterprise risk management system. Mr. Martin has also managed a fund of hedge funds, was the CEO of a hedge fund incubator and has extensive consulting experience at PWC where he started his career. Mr. Martin has extensive experience in investment risk, risk architecture and analysis, valuation issues, global operational risk, securitized assets, emerging markets and counterparty risk.

He was founding chair of the Investment Company Institute's (ICI) risk committee and has co chaired a group of the Chief Risk Officer's of the 20 largest investment managers. He is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Business at NYU Stern and is the author of the book, Risk and the Smart Investor published by McGraw Hill. Mr. Martin completed his BBA at Baruch College, is a CPA and received his MBA from NYU Stern School.

GRMA Team

GRMA has assembled a team of leading risk management and quantitative analysts, risk programmers and due diligence professionals to enable us to deliver the highest quality institutional risk and investment management to our clients. Our team members have extensive industry experience as front line practitioners in risk and investment management.