About Goff Capital

Goff Capital provides consulting in financial engineering and risk management, particularly quantitative finance, derivatives, modeling and model validation, risk analysis, and business development in these areas. Goff Capital, founded in 2004, is based in Manhattan. Previous clients include hedge funds, investment banks, consulting companies, a software company, and startup ventures.

Bill Goff, Ph.D.
President

Bill has worked for and consulted with large corporations and small companies in the banking and financial services industries for the past 12 years. He has gained broad capital markets experience in analytics and risk management working with many asset classes such as interest-rate derivatives, credit risk and derivatives, energy, and insurance.

Bill was previously Head of Quantitative Research and interim Head of Risk Management at a Manhattan-based credit-neutral hedge fund where he was responsible for developing analytics for equity, debt, and credit products and overseeing the firm's risk strategy. Prior to the hedge fund, Bill was a consultant with Risk Capital Management, a risk management consulting company that he helped grow from five people to its award by Euromoney for Best Risk Management Firm for North America. During that period, Bill managed and delivered on a diverse range of risk and derivative projects in the financial, chemical, insurance, and energy industries. Before Risk Capital, Bill worked at NumeriX, a world leader in advanced derivative analytics software, where he hired and managed a team of Ph.D.'s in all facets of client, developer, quantitative, and sales support, and helped the firm grow from startup to 55 employees. Bill began his financial career at Bankers Trust in New York. While at BT, Bill was a fixed-income quantitative analyst in the Global Derivatives Group, a statistical analyst and modeler for a proprietary trading desk, and an analyst for the Market Risk Analytics group where he managed and wrote a complete corporate review of market reserves.

Bill received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and later conducted postgraduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught and conducted research at the University of Toronto. He is also a graduate of the inaugural class of Carnegie-Mellon University's Computational Finance program, the first financial engineering program offered by any university.

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