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Bob Cochran is chairman and chief executive officer of Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. and its monoline financial guaranty insurance subsidiary Financial Security Assurance Inc. (FSA).
A founding principal of FSA Mr. Cochran became chairman of FSA Holdings in November 1997 adding to his roles as holding company CEO and FSA chairman and CEO. He had been president and CEO of both companies since August 1990 and chairman of FSA since July 1994. He initially served FSA as managing director of the financial guaranty department which originates and underwrites all of FSA's asset-backed and municipal financial guaranty business. He is a director of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. and was formerly chairman of the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurors.
Prior to joining FSA Mr. Cochran was the managing partner in the Washington D.C. office of Kutak Rock & Campbell specializing in both corporate and municipal securities law. In the 1970s he was part of the investment banking team that developed the first tax-exempt single family housing transactions and the first tax-exempt floating rate monthly demand bonds both of which are standard market products today.
Before joining Kutak Mr. Cochran served a clerkship with the Honorable Pierce Lively US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He graduated from Centre College and the Duke University School of Law. He currently serves as a member of the law school's long range planning committee. | 