With over 25 years of experience in the global capital markets, Ms. Beder founded and served as President of SBCC from 1987 to 1994, returning as Chairman in 2006. During the interim, Ms. Beder held two senior positions in the asset management industry. She was CEO of Tribeca Global Management LLC, a $3 billion dollar multi-strategy fund with offices in New York, London and Singapore and Managing Director of Caxton Associates LLC, a $10 billion asset management firm in New York.  At SBCC Group, Ms. Beder heads the global strategy, crisis and risk management, derivatives, workout and fund launch practices.  Clients include banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance companies and corporations from around the world. 

Ms. Beder’s career includes numerous projects borne from the financial distress of the stock market crashes of 1997, 2001 and 2008; the asset/liability and savings & loan crises of the late 1980s, the derivatives losses of the 1990s (Orange County, Bankers Trust, David Askin’s Granite Funds, CMOs, inverse floaters, kitchen sink bonds), the LTCM and currency crises in 1998, and the bursting of the credit bubble and meltdown that started in 2007.  Early on in this crisis she was called upon by the Florida State Legislature to assist in the multi-billion dollar run on the Local Government Investment Pool.   Currently she assists numerous institutional investors, boards of directors, senior managers, legislators and regulators regarding the liquidity crisis, valuations and losses in the credit space (default swaps, CDOs, CLOs, CBOs, CDSs, ABCP and derivatives).  She is called upon frequently to speak on the current state of the markets and how to reengineer market risk, credit risk and operational risk management going forward. 

Ms. Beder also served as President of Capital Market Risk Advisors and was a Vice President of The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse) where she focused on mergers and acquisitions in London and New York and then on mortgage-backed securities, derivatives trading and fixed income research. 

Ms. Beder is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Financial Engineers where she co-chairs its Investor Risk Committee. From 1998 through 2003 Ms. Beder was Chairman of the Association.  Euromoney named Ms. Beder one of the top 50 women in finance around the world. While CEO of Tribeca, Absolute Return awarded the prestigious Institutional Investment Manager of the Year Award. 

In academia she is on the Advisory Board of Columbia University's Financial Engineering Program and is an appointed Fellow of the International Center for Finance at Yale. She also serves on the Board of Directors of The Speyer Legacy School, a new independent school in New York City whose mission it is to meet the needs of advanced learners through a unique, accelerated and enriched curriculum.  Ms. Beder has taught numerous courses on the adjunct faculty of the Yale University's School of Management, Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and the New York Institute of Finance.  

She recently was appointed to a second term on the National Board of Mathematics and their Applications. She has appeared as an expert before the United States Committee on Financial Services regarding mark-to-market and modeling practices for complex financial instruments, the United States Congressional Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance regarding derivatives and leverage, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development regarding risk in the global financial landscape, IOSCO regarding valuations, the U.S. Senate Special Committee regarding the Year 2000 Technology Problem and the World Bank and IMF regarding private equity and hedge funds.

Ms Beder was an author of the Risk Standards for Institutional Investors and Institutional Investment Managers and has written numerous articles in the financial area that have been published by The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Financial Analysts Journal, The Harvard Business Review, The Journal of Financial Engineering, Probus Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, and Simon & Schuster.

Ms. Beder holds a M.B.A. in finance from Harvard University and a B.A. in mathematics from Yale University.