Barry Schachter is Chief Risk Officer at Woodbine Capital Advisors LP.

Since 2000 and prior to joining Woodbine in 2011, Barry led the risk management function at four hedge funds. He began his career in academia in 1980 at Rutgers University. His last full-time academic role was at Tulane University, which he left in 1990. From 1990 to 1997 he worked in Washington, DC, first at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and subsequently at the US Comptroller of the Currency. He left government service to join Chase Manhattan bank in the Market Risk Management function, where, among other things, he worked on market risk measurement issues.

He is active in PRMIA (the Professional Risk Managers International Association), was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel, and contributed the “Stress Testing” chapter to the PRMIA Risk Manager's Handbook. He is on the Advisory Board of the IAFE, a Fellow of the Program in Mathematics in Finance at the Courant Institute of NYU, and a Research Associate of the EDHEC business school in Nice, France.

In 1996, he established and still maintains www.GloriaMundi.org, a website for risk management. He also maintains a blog (belranto.tumblr.com), co-edited How I Became A Quant (Wiley 2007), and has published in academic and practitioner journals. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Derivatives.

He received his PhD (and MA) from Cornell University, and received his BS (and AS) from Bentley University.