David Pelleg has over 30 years of experience in the financial industry and is an internationally recognized expert in structured finance, alternative asset management (especially hedge funds and private equity), derivatives trading, structuring, and risk, as well as digital assets. After 30 years on Wall Street/City as well as main street, he is now a full-time professor of finance at Kent State University. David’s expert litigation consulting work includes CLOs, derivative-based Exchange Traded Products, Bitcoin-exchange litigation, private equity real estate, as well as cases related to private equity investments and structures. He has experience with both plaintiffs and defendants. His core skill lies in digesting complex financial and economic concepts and then translating them into the language of other domains, whether it be undergraduate and graduate students, or investors, clients, judges, juries, and lawyers.
While still at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago completing his MBA in Analytic Finance and Statistics, David worked for SBC O’Connor (subsequently UBS) in their newly-launched emerging Alternative Asset Management business. His role included the empirical analysis of hedge fund returns leading to a proprietary Bayesian-analysis hedge fund- of-fund model (“NewMAT”), which became the basis for the SBC (now UBS) Multiadvisor Portfolio. David moved to London as the quantitative analyst and head of options execution at the SBC (subsequently UBS) Currency Portfolio, a global macro hedge fund. His role included trading in spot FX, vanilla and exotic FX options, as well as fixed income and futures.
After UBS he joined the burgeoning structured finance space with Zurich Capital Markets, who were among the first to offer structured hedge-fund linked products such as principal-protected notes, Black Scholes call options, CFOs, and BOLI/COLI/IOLI structures. He subsequently moved to the buy-side as Head of Structured Solutions for Ivy Asset Management (a subsidiary of BNY Mellon).
After the Great Financial crisis, David left Wall Street for Main Street where he became the CFO of a medical IT firm, MBS/Net Inc., leading a private-equity fundraising and then successfully selling to another private-equity-funded firm, MedSphere. David helped Medsphere raise debt capital from venture lenders.
Now a full-time professor of Finance (rank of Lecturer) at the Ambassador Crawford School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Kent State University, his teaching focuses on fixed income analysis and investment, financial derivatives and structured products, credit analysis, and financial modeling (intro and advanced), as well as financial markets and institutions.
David received his MBA in analytical finance and statistics from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree in finance and honors economics magna cum laude from Miami University.
EXPERTISE
Hedge funds / private equity / alternative asset management
Structured finance (CLO, CDO, CBO, CFO)
Derivatives especially vanilla/exotic/exchange traded options
Digital currencies and trading
Hedge-fund-linked structured products
Cases which are nonstandard, hybrid or with many moving parts
EDUCATION
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
MBA, Analytic Finance and Statistics
Miami University
B.S. Bus, Finance and Economics
WORK HISTORY
SEDA Experts
Managing Director
2024-Current
Kent State University
Professor
2018-Current
BlockDelta Consulting, LLC
Principal
2018-Current
Medsphere Systems Corporation
Director Of Business Development (Finance, Sales, Marketing, Capital Markets)
2016-2018
MBS/Net Inc
Chief Financial Officer (Venture Capital, Management, Mergers, Finance)
2007-2016
Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Adjunct Professor
2012
Ivy Asset Management
Head of Structured Solutions Group (structured products, derivatives, hedge funds, capital markets)
2004-2007
Bank Of America
Principal - Structured Hedge Fund Products Group, London (structured products, hedge funds)
2003-2004
Zurich Capital Markets
Managing Director, NY & London (structured products, derivatives, hedge funds, capital markets)
2001-2003
PlusFunds.com
Executive Director (hedge fund indices, hedge funds, capital markets, technology)
2000-2001
UBS Investment Bank
Director, New York & London (fund of hedge funds, macro hedge fund, trading, FX, options trading)
1994-2000
Boise Cascade
Financial Analyst (mergers and acquisitions, quantitative analysis)
1991-1992
Security Pacific Merchant Bank
Financial Analyst (capital markets, credit analysis, investment banking, cash flow analysis)
1989-1990
Structured Finance Expert Witness
Hedge funds / private equity / alternative asset management
Structured finance (CLO, CDO, CBO, CFO)
Derivatives especially vanilla/exotic/exchange traded options
Digital currencies and trading
Hedge-fund-linked structured products
Cases which are nonstandard, hybrid or with many moving parts
Contact
David Pelleg
1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
+1 646-626-4555