Peter U. Vinella has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry as a consultant and an executive with major financial institutions. His areas of expertise include trading and investment management, risk management, quantitative analyses, operations, trading and investment-related accounting, technology (including software development), trust administration, and fund administration. He has first-hand experience with a wide variety of investment products including equities, debt instruments, repurchase and securities lending, listed and over-the-counter derivatives, credit default swaps, commercial and consumer loans, and structured credit products such as credit default swaps (CDOs) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS). He has also developed business plans and strategic marketing plans for a number major financial institutions and vendors including JP Morgan, Daiwa Securities, Smith Barney, ADP, Sun Microsystems, Perot Systems, and Sybase. Additionally, Mr. Vinella has extensive experience working in international markets.

In addition, Mr. Vinella has served as a testifying expert on more than a dozen major lawsuits since October 2009. During this time, he has logged more than 150 hours of testimony and depositions and authored numerous reports and rebuttals. The matters involved a wide-range of issues including securities and derivatives valuation, algorithmic trading and investments in general, commercial lending, loan servicing and administration, securitization, monoline and mortgage insurance, repo and securities lending, trust and fund administration, hedge fund customs and practices, regulatory compliance, broker-dealer customs and practices, and custody.

Further, Mr, Vinella has testified before the U.S. Congress, had a white paper read into the congressional record, and worked with the General Accountability Office (GAO) on a number of topics including derivatives legislation, the vulnerability of the U.S. financial system to terrorist attack, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and securitization.

Prior to his work in the financial industry, Mr. Vinella was an assistant professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science department at California State University, Hayward, as well as a junior research fellow at NASA.  

Education

• University of California, Berkeley
  Enrolled Ph.D. Program, Mathematics, 2011
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  M.A., Mathematics, 2011
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  Attended Ph.D. program in Applied Mathematics (3 years), 1984
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  B.A., Applied Mathematics, 1978

Employment History

• LECG
  Managing Director
  2009 - 2010
• Wilmington Trust Conduit Services
  President and CEO
  2006 - 2009
• PVA International
  Chief Executive Officer
  1995 - 2006
• Smith Barney Shearson
  Executive Vice President
  1993 - 1995
• Drexel Burnham Lambert
  Head of Taxable Fixed Income Research
  1989 - 1990
• Berkeley Investment Technologies
  Executive Vice President
  1986 - 1993

Professional Affiliations

• Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
  Bank Representative (past)
• European Securitization Forum
  Bank Representative (past)
• Loan Syndication and Trading Association
  Bank Representative (past)
• International Swaps and Derivatives Association
  Bank Representative and Member of the FpML Loan Working Committee (past)
• American Mathematical Society
  
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  
• From the Top (a nationally syndicated TV and radio program)
  Member of the Board of Overseers