William G. Pertusi

Mr. William G.
Pertusi, CFA, is a Co-Chief Risk Officer & Senior Managing Director at Graham Capital Management LP.
He is responsible for identifying, monitoring and acting upon financial risks relative to financial returns in GCM's diverse trading strategies.
He is also Chairman of the firm's Risk Committee and a member of the firm's Investment Committee.
He became an Associated Person of GCM effective July 24, 2006 and a Principal on November 28, 2006.
Prior to joining GCM in April 2006, he was a Director and Risk Manager at SAC Capital Advisors, where he was responsible for working with portfolios across all product areas.
From 1992 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2002, Mr. Pertusi was employed by Lehman Brothers in various roles: from 1999 to 2002, he was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Content (Internet e-Commerce) for Lehman; from 1995 to 1998, he ran the mortgage repo desk and acted as risk manager within the firm's Central Funding Unit globally; and from 1992 to 1995, he was Senior Vice President in mortgage sales and mortgage trading.
In 1998, Mr. Pertusi worked at CSFB as a proprietary trader before returning to Lehman in 1999.
Before joining Lehman in 1992, Mr. Pertusi worked in fixed income sales at First Boston and at Salomon Brothers, and before business school, he began his career at Merrill Lynch.
He received a B.S.
in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1983, an M.B.A.
from Harvard University in 1987, and an M.S.
in Mathematics from Fairfield University in 2006.
He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, is a member of the CFA Institute, and is a member of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association.