Greg Brown is the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Finance at UNC Kenan Flagler, where he teaches corporate finance, financial derivatives and macroeconomics. His research centers on financial risk and the use of financial derivative contracts as risk management tools. He also studies private investment strategies, such as hedge funds and private equity.

Dr. Brown is co-editor of the book, "Corporate Risk: Strategies and Management", with Donald Chew. He has consulted for money management firms, software developers and Fortune 500 companies on various aspects of financial risk management.

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Brown worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the Division of Research and Statistics. His responsibilities included current analysis and macroeconomic forecasting of the business investment sector.

Dr. Brown received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and his BS in physics and economics from Duke University.

Patrick Seassau spent 15 years in Investment Banking in London before moving 10 years ago into Learning and Development for Executives, more particularly in the world of finance. As a banker, Patrick traded Interest Rate Derivatives (swaps, options) on a proprietary basis.

In Learning and Development, he set up several programmes for the top-executives of major institutions and is strongly involved in the design of distance-learning programmes (MOOC).

Patrick is a graduate from HEC Paris (France).

Fabrice was head trader for the FX options desk in Singapore and New York for Société Générale. He was also managing several fixed income options trading books such as the New York Indosuez or the Société Générale Tokyo option desks.

Specialized in FX and interest rate derivative (IRD) products, he has in the last ten years created and instructed numerous training courses dedicated especially to FX structured products and to new IRD pricing methods.

Graduated from the ENSAE school of statistics, Fabrice is also teaching finance in major “Grandes Écoles” such as Sciences-Po Paris, ESCP or EDHEC.