Dr. Deep Kumar is a principal and Co-Chief Investment Officer of III Capital Management. Dr. Kumar joined the firm in March 2003 and has been with the firm since that time, except for a ten-month period during 2010. Previously, Dr. Kumar was at BNP Paribas in New York (1995-2002), where he was the Chief Risk Officer for the USD rates group and oversaw the day-to-day risk taking by the group. Dr. Kumar has also done a great deal of work on volatility smiles and skews, much of which is used by a number of Wall Street firms for pricing and managing risks associated with options. He is the co-author of “Managing Smile Risk,” published in Wilmott Magazine in July of 2002. Dr. Kumar holds a PhD in hypersonics (1994) from Cranfield University, as well as an MSc in aerodynamics (1992) and an MA in engineering (1990) both from Cambridge University. Dr. Kumar is a Registered General Securities Representative with FINRA and a Principal registered with the CFTC.