Robert Podorefsky

Senior Vice President

Interest Rate Management Group

GE Capital

Rob is the Interest Rate Strategist for GE Capital. In his role, he provides corporate borrowers with a perspective on how risks in the global financial markets may impact their business. Rob speaks frequently throughout the United States on the economy, interest rates and currencies. Rob is the creator and author of GERates.com, a website focused on U.S. interest rates that is geared to helping the corporate borrower manage interest rate risk. Previously, Rob was the Chief Interest Rate Strategist for the Global Rates Group at Bank of America.

Prior to his role as a Market Strategist, Rob was a senior member of the global markets team at UBS helping institutional investors enhance their investment yields using various types of financial instruments. Rob began his career 25 years ago at Chemical Bank advising large U.S. corporations on managing foreign exchange risks.

Rob is an adjunct Professor of Finance and Fixed Income at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Rob earned a bachelors degree in accounting from New York University and a masters degree in business administration from New York University. He and his wife Terri live in Hopkinton, Massachusetts with their two children.