Honolulu-based risk management software company, Kamakura Corporation has elected Risk Capital Management Parners president, Dr. David Shimko to the board of directors of its new Delaware holding company.
Shimko is the former head of risk management research for JPMorgan Securities and former head of the risk management advisory group at Bankers Trust. While at JPMorgan, Shimko was responsible for commodity derivatives research on Morgan’s trading desk.
"I have been an admirer of Kamakura’s risk management software and information products since we first worked jointly on a project valuing commodity derivatives for one of the three largest banks in the world in 1992," says Shimko.