Knox Analytics LLC specializes in creating custom Excel and Visual Basic based cashflow models for securitizations, and is based in Dallas, Texas. Before starting his own firm, Mr. Vafai worked at three major financial companies for more than ten years in New York City, Tokyo (Japan) and Frankfurt (Germany). That experience allows him to provide his clients with big firm experience. Because cashflow modeling and risk analysis is a document and Excel intensive service, Knox Analytics LLC uses the latest technology and software to provide its clients with services in a professional, efficient manner.
Consultant Profile
Prior to founding Knox Analytics LLC, Mr. Vafai was a senior quantitative analyst at the structured finance and credit derivative group at Ambac Financial Group (www.ambac.com) in New York. Prior to joining Ambac, Mr. Vafai worked at Financial Security Assurance (www.fsa.com) in New York as a Vice President in the Asset Finance Group. Previously, he worked at Commerzbank (www.commerzbank.com) in various positions in Japan and Germany. In Japan, he headed the structured finance team and implemented the structure for a bank sponsored Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Conduit. Mr. Vafai graduated from the Freie University of Berlin, Germany after only 4 years (average graduation time is between 6 to 7 years), while building up a successful student consulting and spending a summer session at Yale University.
Articles on Mr. Vafai
1. Asset-Backed Alert - January 8, 2001 - Page [ ]
2. International Financing Review (IFR) 1365 - January 6, 2001 - Page 13
3. International Financing Review (IFR) 1216 - January 17, 1998 - Page 15
4. Berliner Zeitung - November 6, 1990 - Page 19
5. Handelsblatt - June 22, 1990 - Page K3