David M. Rowe is Group Executive Vice President for Risk Management at SunGard Trading and Risk Systems, having joined SunGard in July of 1999. In this role he advises operating units on risk management functionality and development priorities in their software applications. He also appears frequently at industry conferences and seminars and writes a monthly column for Risk Magazine. Previous to joining SunGard, David was Senior Vice President in charge of the Risk Management Information group at Bank of America in San Francisco. In that role, he was responsible for the design, deployment, maintenance and operation of market and credit risk systems for the bank's global FX, derivative and securities trading activities.

David has also held positions as Chief Financial Officer of Security Pacific Securities, Inc. (the broker-dealer subsidiary of the former Security Pacific Corp.), Executive Vice President and Director of Research for Townsend-Greenspan & Co. (Alan Greenspan's economic consulting company prior to becoming Chairman of the Federal Reserve), President of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates in Philadelphia. Dr. Rowe holds a Ph.D. in econometrics and finance from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in finance with a concentration in money and banking from the Wharton Graduate School of Business Administration and a BA in economics with distinction from Carleton College.