Black Swan Risk Advisors and Robert Mark
Black Swan Risk Advisors, started in November 2004 by Dr. Carlos Blanco, Dr. Kevin Dowd, and Chris Mammarelli provides risk management advisory services to energy, commodity and financial firms. It entered into a formal working relationship with Robert mark, former CEO of infamous Xamplify, a firm that is now defunct, but which in its short tenure, set high standards in apparent corporate fraud, and unethical and possibly illegal acts of racial discrimination.
Earlier, Carlos Blanco was head of global support services at Financial Engineering Associates (FEA) in Berkeley, CA. It was owned by Barra, a company that was later sold by Andrew Rudd (former chair of Xamplify) to Morgan Stanley. Kevin Dowd is the author of books like Laissez-Faire Banking, Measuring Market Risk and Beyond Value at Risk : The New Science of Risk Management. He seems to be the professor of financial risk management at Nottingham University Business School.
(Last Updated: March 27, 2005.)
Xamplify Watch presentation.