Finance Department

Michael Kender

 

 

Adjunct Professor

Department of Finance
Pamplin College of Business
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Office: Pamplin 2115
Phone: TBA

E-mail: mkender@vt.edu

 

 

Spring 2009 Teaching Schedule:

  • FIN 4244 Asset Valuation & Governance, 12:30 - 1:45 PM, Tuesday/Thursday, DER 3081

Spring 2009 Office Hours:

  • TBA
Education and Certification:

M.B.A., University of Virginia, 1987
B.S., Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 1983

Business Experience:

Michael Kender recently retired as a Managing Director from Citigroup, where he spent 16 years as a debt analyst, covering high yield bonds and leveraged loans in the automotive, building, and industrial sectors. In addition to his role as an analyst, Mr. Kender also headed the firm's High Yield Debt Research department between 2001 and 2005. From 2005 through his retirement in 2008, Mr. Kender headed Citigroup's Loan Analysis and Strategy group, which provided analytical support for the firm's loan sales and trading business and its clients.

Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Kender worked as an investment banker for Thomson McKinnon and TM Capital (a firm formed by Thomson McKinnon investment bankers), where he worked on a variety of corporate financings, mergers, and acquisitions.

He began his career as a financial analyst and process engineer at Allied-Signal (now Honeywell) in Morristown, New Jersey and Richmond, Virginia.

Professional Achievements:

Mr. Kender was named to Institutional Investor magazine's annual Fixed Income Research All-America Research team every year between 1995 and 2004, winning recognition in multiple categories during most of those years. In addition, Mr. Kender's team at Citigroup was rated #1 among sell-side firms for loan trade ideas two of the past three years in Credit Investment News' annual loan market poll.

Service-Related Contributions:

As an alumnus, Mr. Kender is serving Virginia Tech in a number of ways. He is currently chairing the Chemical Engineering Advisory Board, and is a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board, the College of Engineering Capital Campaign Committee, the Ut Prosim Society, and the College of Engineering's Committee of 100. He is also an active mentor to students in SEED and BASIS, as has been actively involved in organizing and growing the annual "Hokies on Wall Street" alumni event.