The Team

CDO Software was co-founded by Brett Paton and Sunay Shah in 2005. Geoff Chaplin joined CDO Software in October 2005 as a Director of the company and Head of Quantitative Finance. CDO Software’s management team has a wealth of experience in financial markets and specialises in credit derivatives, with a proven track record of delivering systems to major financial institutions.

Sunay Shah - CEO

Sunay has worked at leading institutions, including: BZW and CSFB (Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions), Goldman Sachs (Fixed Income), CSFB, Deutsche Bank, Sanwa International and Mizuho International (Risk Management). He has delivered business and risk management solutions to help firms implement strategies and build global businesses that contribute to their ongoing success. Sunay is a graduate of the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology.

Brett Paton - CTO

Brett has led global projects and implemented cutting-edge solutions for a variety of established institutions including Deutsche Bank (Back-office Derivatives), Merrill Lynch (Middle-office - Equities & Fixed Income P&L), Commerzbank, CSFB, DrKW and Mizuho International (Front-office Derivatives) and Enron (Risk Management). He has worked with senior traders, quants, risk management and finance personnel to help firms achieve their technology objectives and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer in .NET technologies.

Geoff Chaplin – Director, Asia

Geoff studied mathematics at Cambridge (MA 1972) and Oxford (MSc 1973, DPhil 1975) and qualified as an actuary (FFA 1978) while working in a life insurance company. He moved to the City in 1980 and has worked for major banks including HSBC, Nomura International and was Head of Structured Credit Derivatives at ABN AMRO NV in London , as well as consulting to hedge funds, corporate treasurers, and institutional investment funds. He has been involved in the credit derivatives market since 1996 and has both traded portfolio products and developed risk management systems for these products.

He has also published many articles (in Risk, the Journal of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and others), speaks regularly at conferences on credit derivatives and is the author of the widely acclaimed book “Credit Derivatives: Risk Management, Trading and Investing” (John Wiley & Sons, July 8, 2005).

In addition to consulting and training for the major financial institutions, Geoff has maintained strong academic interests and was a visiting (emeritus) professor at the University of Waterloo ( Canada ) from 1987 until 1999.