Charles Smithson
Charles Smithson is the Founding Partner of Rutter Associates. Dr. Smithson has a diverse experience set, with positions in academe and in government, as well as in the practitioner community. Dr. Smithson taught economics at Texas A&M University and served with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission before moving to the private sector where, most recently, he was the Managing Director of the CIBC School of Financial Products. Prior to CIBC, he worked at the Chase Manhattan Bank, as the developer of Chase’s education program for derivatives and as the Managing Director for Risk Management Research and Education and at Continental Bank, where he was the Managing Director for Risk Management Research. The author of numerous articles in professional and academic journals, Dr. Smithson is best known as the originator of the “Building Block Approach” to Financial Products and as the “Class Notes” columnist in Risk Magazine. He is the author of five books, including Managing Financial Risk and Credit Portfolio Management. Dr. Smithson received his Ph.D. in economics from Tulane University.