AFT Bolsters Analytics Support Staff With Additional Three Hires

San Francisco, Calif. – Applied Financial Technology (AFT) is pleased to announce that Dr. Richard Zhao, Philip Chen and Mason Holding have joined its San Francisco office to bolster analytics support for the growing firm.

Dr. Zhao comes to AFT from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he was a postdoctoral fellow in computational physics. “Dr. Zhao’s superior analytic skills combined with his modeling and mathematical background make him the perfect fit for our team” says Michael Bykhovsky, President and CEO of AFT.

Also recently joining AFT as Senior Consultant is Philip Chen. Philip was formerly a Financial Engineer at Gifford Fong Associates where he was responsible for financial modeling, application development, fixed-income securities valuation and litigation support. Philip will ensure client support for AFT.

Mason Holding joined AFT in 2004 as an Analyst. Mason previously worked as a Systems Engineer in the Future Technologies Group at the NERSC – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and as a Java Consultant. “By hiring Mason, Philip and Richard, AFT takes another large step forward in the process of augmenting our robust analytics capabilities” says Graham Williams, Chief Operating Officer at AFT. 

Contacts:
Liz Hall
415.989.9809
lizhall@aftgo.com

Applied Financial Technology provides prepayment analytics to the nation’s largest broker/dealers, lenders, insurance companies, institutional investors, and hedge funds.  Among its clients are five of the nation’s largest U.S. banks.  Since 1996, Applied Financial Technology has delivered high-quality risk analytics to the mortgage industry through its highly regarded quantitative methods.  AFT offers pre-payment models for fixed, adjustable, prime and sub-prime mortgages and home equity lines as well as asset-backed securities.  The company also provides interest rate processes and other valuation and risk management tools for mortgage- and asset-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations.  The Applied Financial Technology library is integrated with all major analytics providers, including Bloomberg L.P.  Learn more about the company by visiting www.aftgo.com.