Steve Kim is a trader at Marathon Asset Management, a hedge fund based in New York. Previously, Steve was an emerging markets trader at Banco Santander and part of the product team at RiskMetrics that helped develop and implement RiskGrades as an emerging standard for risk measurement. Before joining RiskMetrics, Steve was a vice president at UBS Warburg, where he was part of a team in charge of building the relative value and credit derivatives book. Steve received a bachelor of arts from the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with high honors. He holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.