Stephanie Majkowski

Stephanie Majkowski has more than 10 years of experience in trading and financial services. Ms. Majkowski has deep expertise in equity and commodity derivatives, liquidity risk management and dynamic hedging. Additionally, she has experience trading FX, fixed-income products, ETFs, physical metals and mortgage-backed securities.

Ms. Majkowski’s work includes applying her quantitative finance skills and trading knowledge to transactional disputes, independent due diligence, restructuring advisory and market investigations.

Prior to FTI Consulting, Ms. Majkowski held a senior trader position at BlackRock, where her responsibilities included trading various equity and commodity instruments for numerous strategies including institutional index, iShares, model-based active and transition management. She handled a diverse set of markets and assets, overseeing market risk management and ensuring high-quality execution of large notional trades. Furthermore, she collaborated closely with the capital markets trading analytics team to conduct detailed performance analysis of trading algorithms.

Prior to BlackRock, Ms. Majkowski was a derivatives trader at Allianz Investment Management, where she was responsible for dynamically hedging exotic liabilities from various product lines. Her trading activity spanned global markets, encompassing a diverse array of products such as equity index options and futures, commodity index swaps, FX forwards, interest rate swaps and credit default index swaps. She diligently tracked market conditions and positions within various hedge programs, collaborating closely with the broader quantitative team to formulate hedging recommendations and manage market risk.

Prior to Allianz, Ms. Majkowski served as a valuable member of Cargill’s exotic derivatives trading team. Her role involved pricing and trading of products associated with over a dozen commodities, spanning agriculture, energy and metals, catering to both consumer and producer clients. Ms. Majkowski skillfully managed various portfolio exposures, including delta, gamma, vega, theta and rho across multiple commodities including coffee, soybeans, crude oil and natural gas while also providing daily P&L analysis.