Dr John Seo - Co-founder and Managing Director of Fermat Capital
Dr. John Seo is co-founder and a managing director at Fermat Capital Management, LLC.
John has over 30 years of fixed income, FX options, and interest-rate-derivatives structuring and trading experience. Prior to forming Fermat Capital with his brother Nelson in 2001, John was head insurance-risk trader at Lehman Brothers, an officer of Lehman Re Limited, and a state-appointed advisor to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. John's work in catastrophe bonds was featured in Michael Lewis's cover article for the New York Times Magazine "In Nature's Casino" (26 Aug 2007). John has testified as an expert witness on alternative risk-transfer markets before the U.S. Congress and, in 2015 and 2019, was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Risk-Sharing Mechanisms (ACRSM) by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. John received a PhD in biophysics from Harvard University (1991) and a BS in physics from M.I.T. (1988). He is based in Connecticut.
