Juan C. Arismendi earned a Master in Finance at IESA, and a Financial Engineer Diploma at UNIMET – Caracas (2007). He’s Computer Engineer from Universidad Simon Bolivar (2001). He also has a Master in Computer Science in Artificial Intelligence (2005), and he’s finishing the PhD of Mathematics in the same University (2006).  He is PRM (Professional Risk Manager – PRMIA), FRM (Financial Risk Manager – GARP), CQF (Certificate in Quantitative Finance – 7city – Wilmott), and has passed the Series 65 Investment Advisor Law Examination, and the Certificate of Investment Management from the Securities and Investment Institute (Unit 6  FSA Principles of Financial Regulation + Unit 5 Investment Management) from the United Kingdom.

Juan  was Vice-president and partner of Clever Financial an investment advisors and wealth management company based in Caracas, Venezuela (2003 – 2008). Also was  CEO of Financial Intelligence Systems, a company that works with Clever Financial in development of automata for trading the FX, Stocks, Bonds Futures and Options market.His principal duty was to develop investment portfolios that range from low risk Agencies – Treasuries mixed portfolio to Emerging Markets Bonds and High Yield Bonds.

He is pursuing his Doctoral research on new Risk Measures, tail risk,  sampling statistical methods with applications to risk management under the supervision of Professor Chris Brooks and Dr Marcel Prokopczuk.