Kampoleak Pal, CFA, is a senior director specializing in equities risk management, commodities and hedging programs. He also manages all derivatives risk overlay activities including interest rate, currency, credit and equity derivatives. He is responsible for managing derivatives risk, including market, credit and counterparty risk.

Prior to joining Guardian in 2008, Kampo spent two years at Constellation Energy, where he was a director in the global credit risk management group and was responsible for co-managing the credit portfolios and defining and implementing credit hedging strategies. Before that, he spent 11 years at The Dow Chemical Company, serving as a fixed income portfolio manager and financial risk manager with responsibilities that included managing foreign exchange exposure. Kampo has over 20 years of investment experience.

Kampo holds an engineering degree in computer science from EISTI, Paris, and an M.B.A from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society New York.