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Richard Bierbaum earned his MBA from the University’s Owen Graduate School of Management with a Concentration in Finance/healthcare. While working toward his graduate degree, Richard Bierbaum received the John and Edna B. Morris Scholarship, as well as the Owen Merit Scholarship. Before his matriculation at Vanderbilt University, Richard Bierbaum attended Trinity College for his Bachelor of Arts in Art History, writing his senior thesis on the life and works of Picasso. Previously with Bear Stearns & Cos. Inc., Richard Bierbaum was a Junior Trader and Analyst with the Bear Stearns High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund L.P. desk. In this position, Richard Bierbaum traded credit default swaptions, employing credit and equity volatility arbitrage strategies. Richard Bierbaum performed top down analysis on volatility and correlation trends across North American markets, identifying credits that displayed vulnerability to levered action and then recommending appropriate trading strategies. Chip Bierbaum advanced through Bear Stearns to Junior Trader and Analyst from a previous position as a Trading Assistant in the Operations Management Training/Rotational Program. In the Operations Management Training/Rotational Program, Richard Bierbaum executed equity trades and relayed price, volume and market participant information for large retail brokers in order to assist the equity derivatives desks in position and hedge analysis.During the summer of 2009 he was an associate with New Capital partners; a private equity company that invests in small cap growth stage health care technology companies. He performed due diligence, and financial modeling among other functions. Currently he works as an intern for Faultline ventures, while pursuing his MBA> Richard Bierbaum is a member of the Society of Chartered Financial Analysts, the Finance Club, , and the Investment Management Club, and he is a past member of the Athena Society of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his free time, Richard Bierbaum enjoys reading everything from science fiction to 19th century Russian literature;
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