David Gopal is a Derivatives Specialist working for the Wells Fargo Risk Management group in San Francisco. Specializing in cross-currency swaps, David focuses on developing effective solutions for clients that minimize their foreign currency and interest rate exposure. He is also an expert on accounting regulations inherent within foreign currency and interest rate derivative structures and is able to help his clients by utilizing his strong knowledge of world currency and interest rate markets.
David comes to the Risk Management team with over nine years of international finance experience gained from his tenure with a major east coast bank. He specialized in trading spot, forward and option products and was later charged with selling FX and interest rate products to corporate clients before joining Wells Fargo.
David earned his MBA from the Duke Fuqua School of Business Durham, North Carolina and received a BA in economics and psychology from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, CA. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
