Nick Kiritz

Senior Principal, Promontory’s Quantitative Services Group

Nick Kiritz is a senior principal in Promontory’s quantitative services group. Prior to joining Promontory, Nick served as a risk manager at Constellation Energy and Exelon, where he led market risk management for a large merchant generation fleet; helped manage risks related to electricity, fuel, interest rates and foreign exchange; developed an economic-capital model; and shaped policy for market risk, trader control, liquidity risk and model-risk management. Before his work in energy, he led development and management of Fannie Mae’s model governance and validation program and later led its economic-capital modeling group. While at the OCC, Nick led the quantitative portion of reviews of interest-rate risk, mortgage banking and securitization. He also led development of the OCC’s first model for interest-rate risk and designed and oversaw the one-week program to train examiners in the model’s use. At McKinsey, he focused on financial services and worked on subprime credit, bank stress tests, financial crisis management and strategic reviews for stock brokers and financial-infrastructure firms.

Nick holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a CFA charter holder and a Financial Risk Manager (FRM).