Deep Kumar Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Deep Kumar served as Principal & Co-Chief Investment Officer at AVM (Boca Raton). Dr. Kumar served as Co-Chief Investment Officer at III Capital Management. Dr. Kumar served as Head of Options Trading at AVM (Boca Raton). He leads the firm's option trading efforts, and is a member of III's Management Committee. He joined III in March 2003 and has been with the firm since that time, except for a ten month period during 2010. Prior to joining III, Dr. Kumar was at BNP Paribas in New York (1995-2002), where he was the Chief Risk Officer for the USD rates group and oversaw the day-to-day risk taking by the group. Dr. Kumar has also done a great deal of work on volatility smiles and skews, much of which is used by a number of Wall Street firms for pricing and managing risks associated with options. He is the co-author of "Managing Smile Risk", published in Wilmott Magazine in July of 2002. Dr. Kumar holds a PhD in Hypersonics from Cranfield University, UK, and an MSc in Aerodynamics as well as an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University, UK. Dr. Kumar is registered as a General Securities Representative with FINRA.