Brett Whysel

Brett Whysel is a managing director on the Healthcare Finance team tasked with leading a variety of quantitative and information-intensive initiatives to help Ziegler's clients achieve their mission. These endeavors include the ongoing development of next generation asset-liability and risk management tools that clients can use to maximize financial results and control risk holistically. Brett works with Ziegler’s clients to identify opportunities and set strategy and tactics in debt management, derivative products and asset management in a coordinated, prudent and rigorous fashion.

Previously, Brett led the risk analytics effort at Citigroup’s public finance department performing asset-liability studies, research and development, plan of finance consultations and information management. During his 15 years there, he worked with a wide range of healthcare systems and municipalities and authored a series of white papers on capital markets dynamics and product developments. Brett's innovations, including a reduced basis risk structure for interest rate swaps and the first asset-liability model to apply modern portfolio theory to debt and derivative management, have had industry-wide impact. He began his public finance career in 1988 at Merrill Lynch.

Brett earned his M.A. in philosophy at Columbia University and his M.S. in managerial economics and French at Carnegie Mellon University.