Dr. Andrew Aziz
Executive Vice President, Risk Solutions
Dr. Andrew Aziz is Executive Vice President, Risk Solutions at Algorithmics, responsible for leading business development and product direction. In addition to defining in-house implementation strategies, Andy is also responsible for leading the ASP and Managed Services initiatives for market risk and the buy-side markets.
Prior to his current role, he was Vice President of Products and, prior to that, Executive Director of Financial Engineering. Since joining Algorithmics in 1994, he has led the design, positioning, implementation and consulting of numerous risk management solutions and client driven initiatives. During this time, Andy has personally led the functional pre-sales and/or implementation efforts for over 40 market and credit risk software implementations worldwide.
In addition to publishing several refereed articles on financial engineering and risk management, Andy has spoken extensively at risk management and financial engineering conferences worldwide as well as lecturing and providing training to various business schools and financial institutions.
Prior to joining Algorithmics, Andy was an instructor at York University and Wilfrid Laurier University in their MBA and BBA programmes, respectively. Previous to that, he was in the Corporate Banking group at the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Corporate and Government Banking Division at the Bank of Montreal.
Dr. Aziz holds several degrees, including a Ph.D. in Finance from York University, an MBA in Finance from Queens University and a B.Sc (Honours) in Chemistry from McMaster University.
Related Information
Risk Leadership
Algorithmics ready for market with new managed service (Buy-Side Technology / March 2007)
A consistent framework for integrating assets and liabilities (Life & Pensions / October 2006)
Brisk Business (Banking Technology / June 2006)
Fusing risk and finance (Risk magazine / April 2006)