Valisha Graves is an executive director in the institutional securities technology group at Morgan Stanley. She is the product manager for IRIS (Interactive Derivatives Investment Strategies), a Flex data visualization application that allows users to model and analyze equity derivatives strategies. At Morgan Stanley, Valisha has worked with the ModelWare team, responsible for the development and delivery of Web-based applications including intrinsic value (valuation), food chain, profitability analysis, clustering, nearest neighbor and correlation. She was also responsible for improving the efficacy of Workbench, an Excel-based application and managed the Cross Asset Class (CAC)/LBO application. Additionally, Valisha led a team responsible for screening investment ideas, valuation, and due diligence on behalf of the financial sponsors (private equity) and strategic investment groups. In this initiative, the ModelWare framework was used to conduct fundamental, 'bottoms up' investment and capital structure analysis and screen investment ideas across multiple asset classes. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Valisha was a senior analyst with RateFinancials, a private, independent equity research firm that ranks and rates the financial reporting, quality of earnings and corporate governance of S&P 500 companies. Valisha was part of a four-person deal team at Accordia, a $100 MM early stage, quasi private equity e-commerce technology fund. She was a vice president in the finance division of Lehman Brothers, responsible for financial modeling, academic research and data analysis for a global risk equity allocation project. She was a manager in Ernst & Young's financial services consulting practice. She spent 10 years at National Westminster Bank in roles including asset/liability management in the treasury group, where she identified interest rate hedging strategies, recommended proprietary trading strategies using financial futures and options and marketed fixed income, derivative and foreign exchange products. Valisha Graves received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from Columbia University.
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