Instructor

Jack Foster

Practical Experience:

Jack Foster has unique qualifications to design and lead credit seminars. Over the past 13 years, he has conducted over 150 Corporate, Bank, Hedge Fund and Derivative Credit Risk Judgment and Management Seminars in over 15 countries. During this period Jack has provided quality in-house training programs to a wide variety of U.S. and international institutions. The courses are for entry level as well as experienced investment bankers and financial professionals.

Formerly he was with JP Morgan for 20 years (1974-1994) where he started and was former Chairman of the Rating Committee which rated all bank credit exposure. While at JP Morgan he was also Chairman, NACHO (North American Foreign Exchange Clearing House Organization) and a Member, Executive Committee, ECHO (European Foreign Exchange Clearing House Organization) and Represented Global Markets' Credit in developing a single bank-wide credit system to calculate portfolio exposure for all derivative products. He also rewrote and redesigned the credit policy manual for bank-wide credit policy, including new sections on derivatives.

He was also a banker for Citicorp for three years in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and served for three years as a LTJG in the U. S. Navy in intelligence in Manila.

Areas of Expertise:

Corporate Credit Risk Judgment

Financial Institutions Credit Risk Judgment

Hedge Fund Credit Risk Judgment & Management

Derivative Credit Risk Judgment & Management

High Yield Credit Risk Judgment & Management

Education:

Harvard Business School

Williams College

Publication(s):

The Management of Racial Integration in Business, McGraw Hill

Membership(s):

Capital Markets Credit Analyst’s Society

Risk Management Association

Fixed Income Analysts Society