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Kamesh Chilukuri

Kamesh Chilukuri is currently Managing Director, Head of Derivatives at Symetra Investment Management Company where he leads a team of Traders, Quantitative Analysts, Strategists and Application Developers to manage a multi-asset derivatives portfolio. Kamesh partners with enterprise-wide functional units, including Product, Pricing, Operations, Legal and Accounting to oversee the successful development, administration, and execution of the derivatives program at Symetra. Kamesh has prior experience at Lincoln Financial group and UBS Investment Bank in trading strategy, mutual fund analytics, modeling and risk management. Kamesh is an active member of the ACLI Derivatives subcommittee and also serves on the Board of Symetra’s Military Enterprise Resource Group. Kamesh holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he graduated a Palmer Scholar. In his spare time Kamesh enjoys teaching and volunteering.