Managing Director, Credit Suisse First Boston
New York, NY

Karlheinz Muhr is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asset Management Division and Head of Credit Suisse Volaris Volatility Management, based in New York. He is also a member of the Chairman's Board of Credit Suisse. Mr. Muhr was founder and Chairman of Volaris prior to its acquisition by Credit Suisse First Boston.

Prior to Volaris, Mr. Muhr held a variety of senior positions at UBS Warburg. These positions included Head of Global Credit Fixed Income, Head of Corporate Finance for Americas, Member of the Management Committee for the Americas.

From 1985 to 1995, he worked in both New York and London for Credit Suisse First Boston, heading Mortgage Derivative Trading, European Credit Fixed Income and Global Asset Swaps, and he also served as a member of the European Executive Committee and the Global Fixed Income Committee.

A native of Austria, Karlheinz has a Master's Degree from Vienna's University for Business and Economics (1982) and an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles (1985). He serves on the following not-for-profit boards: The Institute for International Education (IIE), Washington D.C., The Aspen Institute, Washington D.C. & Aspen and The Franz Klammer Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Founder and Chairman of the "Friends of the Austrian School of Economics" Foundation, Vienna, Austria.