Primary Job Title Managing Director Primary Organization 
ZAIS Group
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Female
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Cara Roche serves as a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at ZAIS and is responsible for securitized corporate credit. Since joining ZAIS, Cara Roche has had significant involvement in the investment analysis of corporate backed CDO tranches, credit derivatives and synthetic securitizations and the management of the funds holding these
securities. She also contributed to the development of analytical systems and the group’s quantitative modeling capabilities.
Before joining ZAIS in September of 2004, Cara Roche attended New York University and Trinity College Dublin.
She received a B.S. in Chemistry from NYU in 2004 and an M.A. in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University in 2009.
