John F. Lederle

Prior to joining Westpeak in 2006, Mr. Lederle worked as a Senior Associate in the Financial Engineering Services group of Duff & Phelps in San Francisco, valuing financial derivatives, complex capital structures, management incentive programs and employee stock option plans.
From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a Quantitative Analyst in the Fixed Income Research group at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, where he created multifactor risk models for bond portfolios and implemented time-series analysis tools to predict price changes in fixed income securities from underlying macroeconomic indices.
His prior work experience also includes nine years at Maxtor Corporation, in Milpitas, California, as a Mechanical Engineer.
Mr. Lederle received a B.S.
in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University and a Master of Financial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.