Oliver Fochler
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Oliver is Managing Partner and CEO of Stone Mountain Capital, a London, Zurich and Dubai based alternative investment advisor, providing alternative investment research, structuring and placement solutions to hedge funds, private assets and corporate finance, and of Stone Mountain Capital Partners, providing European direct lending to the lower middle market. He is Senior Advisor to Rapid Ratings International, an alternative rating, research and analytics firm. Oliver has over 20 years of experience. Prior, Oliver was a Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of Prytania Investment Advisors, a credit asset manager in London. As Head of Origination & Client Management he marketed the credit fund range to institutional investors globally and developed investment and risk advisory for legacy asset holders in bad banks, governmental agencies, central banks and insurers. Prior to which he was Head of Global Business Solutions at Moody's Analytics in London. Here he developed client solutions around risk analytics and advisory services in the area of valuation and risk assessment of structured finance and derivatives, credit portfolio management, liquidity risk and Solvency II. He initially covered Moody's KMV's global accounts in banking, insurance and asset management in relation to credit portfolio and risk management solutions. Prior, he was responsible for business development of strategic solutions encompassing Basel II credit risk, structured products, ALM, and IAS39 in Reuters Trade & Risk Management in Zurich. Prior, he did marketing research for a global corporate in Switzerland and co-founded two service businesses in Germany and London. Oliver is a regular speaker at international finance conferences and seminars and publishes articles around the topics alternative investments, credit, modelling, regulation and quantitative risk management. Oliver is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) of GARP. He holds a BBA from the University of Augsburg in Germany and an MBA and Licentiate in finance and computer science with honours magna cum laude from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where he did his PhD studies (ABD) in quantitative finance.