Ron Elkounovitch has over 10 years of experience providing valuation and risk management consulting services to clients.

He is a specialist in the valuation of financial and embedded derivatives for financial reporting and tax purposes – including complex equity, interest rate, credit, foreign exchange and commodity instruments requiring the use of numerical techniques including Monte Carlo simulation and lattice models.

Ron has applied options pricing techniques to value and understand the risks inherent in real options and non-linear pay-off functions, including contingent considerations. He has also assisted clients with the valuation of preferred and common stock in privately-held companies with complex capital structures.

Ron has a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Actuarial Science and Mathematical Statistics, and a Master of Science degree in Quantitative and Computational Finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He began his career in the field of insurance while studying towards the actuarial professional qualification. Ron qualified as an Actuary in 2004 through the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom, and is a CFA charter holder.