Philippe Rouanet
Philippe Rouanet is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of R2 Financial Technologies. He is responsible for operations, professional services and client engagements. Since founding R2 in 2006, he has acted as a consultant to numerous financial and software institutions in Europe, North America, and Latin America on risk and derivatives’ valuation systems, implementation strategy, risk architecture, economic and regulatory capital.
Prior to founding R2, Mr. Rouanet had a successful eight-year career at Algorithmics Inc., where he acted as the head of Research and Development and Product Management. Managing a team of over 200 professionals, he led the design and production of all its products, which were implemented at 70 of the 100 largest financial institutions in the world. Under his leadership, AlgoSuite was voted the best risk technology solution in Risk Magazine (2004-06) and, the Capital solution was ranked by Gartner Group as the best solution for regulatory compliance amongst 27 vendors. Mr. Rouanet was also the driving force behind key research projects laying the ground for future technologies in the domain of credit risk.
Prior to this, Mr. Rouanet held senior management positions at Reuters Trade and Risk Management division, where he led the re-engineering of Reuters Kondor+ enterprise-wide risk management solution.
He holds a B.A. and a M.A.Sc. in Economics from the University of Paris in France.
