Steve Campo, Managing Director

Steve has more than twenty five years of experience as an accountant, issuer, financial guarantor and advisor in the securitization industry. Prior to joining Westwood Capital, he was a Partner at Ernst & Young, LLP, in the Financial Services Risk Management practice. Steve was part of a team that served clients in the financial services market, focused on solutions to the current credit crisis. He was deeply involved in working with insurance companies, financial guarantors and investors to address portfolio evaluation, pricing practices and processes, illiquid securities, and other credit and risk management issues related to the subprime debacle’s market disruption. He has considerable experience in the residential mortgage industry, with an emphasis on products and operational facets, Prime lending programs, Home Equity, Nonprime, HLTV, Subprime sectors, and State and Federal housing programs. Steve served as Managing Partner for the Structured Finance Advisory Services practice at Ernst & Young where he managed a 200-member team and was the lead partner on the firm’s Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) account.

Prior to joining EY, he was Senior Managing Director, Head of Structured Finance Group, at MBIA Insurance Corporation, responsible for oversight of the financial guarantee business in the mortgage-and asset-backed areas. He also served as an issuer of public housing program MBS.

Academic Qualifications and Professional Affiliations: Certified Public Accountant; Membership in the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He served two terms on the Executive Committee of the American Securitization Forum (ASF) and currently serves as a member of the ASF Board-Level Subprime Mortgage Finance Task Force and the ASF Advisory Board.