Finance Department hosts special guests

The Department of Finance and OSU’s Student Chapter of the Financial Management Association recently hosted Griff Jones, CEO of Eagle Energy, and Rick Bookstaber, a leading expert in risk management and derivative securities.

Griff Jones is Chief Executive Officer of Eagle Energy. He is a 1991 OSU finance graduate. His activities and honors while at OSU included serving as president of Business Student Council and being selected as Outstanding Senior in the School of Business. A co-founder of Eagle Energy, Jones was instrumental in the development of the Watson Trading Floor at Oklahoma State University. Griff and his wife, Mindi, have supported OSU in many ways including the establishment of the Ed and Marilyn Keller Professorship in Finance and an endowed scholarship fund at OSU.

During his recent visit to OSU on September 15, Jones discussed with OSU finance graduate students energy pricing problems across different regions of the country and how Eagle Energy managers address those problems . In addition, Jones served as the guest speaker for the first FMA meeting of the year, where he spoke about atomic energy for the United States.

Rick Bookstaber earned his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and has worked on Wall Street for Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley and several hedge funds. He recently testified before several U.S. congressional committees regarding the recent economic meltdown, and he is the author of A Demon of Our Own Design, three other books and numerous articles about option theory and risk management.

Bookstaber visited with about 40 finance students on September 24 about the recent financial crisis, risk governance issues and the outlook for future regulation of global financial markets.