Bill Irwin Email & Phone Number

United States

Englewood, New Jersey

• Return the Firm to profitability by reorganizing and rationalizing all aspects of its operations to reduce overhead by 75%• Analyze strategic alternatives and partnerships for the Firm • Manage a team of 12 investment professionals and support personnel with direct reports from the Firm’s CFO, CIO, CTO, and Director of Trading Operations• Collaborate with outside Compliance Consultant to manage all aspects of the Compliance Program of an SEC-Registered Investment Adviser, including regulatory filings, ongoing Firm Compliance training, quarterly Manager Certifications, maintenance of Firm Compliance Manual and Compliance Calendar, and Business Continuity Planning• Direct IT Consultants to improve Firm’s cybersecurity program and IT infrastructure

Englewood, New Jersey

For 25 years the Gargoyle Group has executed sophisticated options strategies to dynamically hedge equity portfolios. Gargoyle Investment Advisor, L.L.C. is recognized as an industry leader in the use of index options to increase the long-term returns and lower the volatility of both value stock portfolios constructed utilizing our proprietary metrics and existing stock portfolios of our Institutional Clients. While continuing my option trading responsibilities of the last 13 years, I have recently changed the focus of my efforts to:• Establish and implement social media marketing strategy with emphasis on Linked In, SEO, and electronic advertising• Review and prepare client and corporate communications• Liaise with press to increase company placement in traditional and electronic media outlets• Redesign the corporate website• Review and revise all company branding and marketing strategies to achieve substantial improvement in name recognition and generate sales leads for products and services

Englewood, Nj

Gargoyle Strategic Investments, L.L.C. specializes in options market making with a long history of trading options that has included: a Proprietary Flow Desk facilitating the pricing and placement of client option orders, a Specialist Book on the Amex floor, the sponsorship of over 50 successful option market makers on the AMEX, PHLX and CBOE floors, and innovations in electronic options market making on the AMEX, ARCA and BOX exchanges. In addition to my previous responsibilities and a Floor and Desk options trader, as a Senior Trader for Gargoyle Strategic Investments I was responsible for:• Trading a proprietary options book with $6 MM in haircut available.• Specializing in Financial, Commodity, and Automotive Sector options.• A 2008 Return on Equity in excess of 45% net of all fees, commissions and expenses.

Englewood, Nj

As one of the first electronic options market makers on the Boston Options Exchange, and later a, electronic market maker on the AMEX and ARCA, Gargoyle Strategic Investments developed innovative proprietary electronic market making software. In my capacity as Director of Electronic Options Trading I:• Designed a high speed, low latency proprietary electronic platform for options market making across multiple exchanges• Wrote the specifications and co-ordinated implementation efforts with quants and developers for volatility curve fitting algorithms, matching and improving algorithms, automated management of delta and vega risk and real time P& L reporting• Profitably traded an ADV in excess of 50,000 contracts by December 2012

Englewood, Nj

As the Director of Quantitative Strategies for Gargoyle Strategic Investments I oversaw the development and implementation of a proprietary quantitative trading book focusing on relative volatility and correlation strategies, and was responsible for their trading, hedging, and risk management.

Englewood, Nj

• Made markets and traded options in over 600 listed equity option products, trading approximately 10,000 contracts daily.• Experience in all aspects of an off-floor market making operation, including taking shows, risk management, delta, theta and tau hedging, portfolio hedging, electronic trading, research, flex option creation, early and contra exercise decisions, and brokerage rates negotiation.• Identified and initiated options positions with favorable risk/reward profiles to efficiently deploy firm capital.• Specialized in General Motors and automotive sector equity options - $3 MM profit in GM, and $4 MM profit in the sector in 2006• Co-director of trading energy sector equity options since March, 2006, producing a $2 MM profit in 2006.• Generated approximately $8 MM in trading profits in 2006 using approximately $8MM of combined Market Maker and Firm Haircut.

New York, Ny

• Made equity option markets in PFE, AMR, AMCC, SEBL, WAG, TJX, CS, and PDLI as a member of the American Stock Exchange.• Real time risk management of a diverse set of option and stock positions.

Plainfield, Nj

• Developed a School of Public Policy for Honors and Advanced Placement students.• Established a Student Newspaper and a Chess Club.

Raritan, Nj

Marketing and sales of imported industrial metals.

Roseland, Nj

Prepared research reports to assist the Real Estate Tax Appeals Department in the filing and settlement of tax appeal cases.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Social Studies Education

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Pi

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cum Laude Society