David Cooperman Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York, United States

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Stamford

Greater New York City Area

• Recruited to help establish an international trading business and increase / improve customer relationships; oversee one junior trader and manage trading volume in international equities and ADRs.
• Interact daily with customers to receive orders and give reports, make markets, provide market color, shop merchandise and cross sell other firm products on telephone and chat. Entertain customers frequently.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ

• Responsible for making markets in international equities and ADRs for minority owned broker dealer..
• Increased trading book revenue 12% YOY.
• Interacted daily with customers to receive orders and give reports, make markets, provide market color, shop merchandise and cross sell other firm products on telephone and chat. Entertained frequently.
• Established a strategic partnership with the domestic equity desk to provide a comprehensive equity platform, delivering superior client services and unique trading solutions.

New York

• Traded all order flow for top revenue producing equity sales team.
• Effectively executed customer orders in domestic and international equities to maximize liquidity while minimizing market impact.
• Interacted daily with customers to receive orders and give reports, provide market color, shop merchandise and cross sell other firm products on telephone and chat. Entertained frequently.

Stamford, Ct And New York, NY

• Spearheaded new business initiative for the firm’s trading of public reorganized equity.
• Traded book of distressed and post reorganized public equity out of fixed income department, as well as responsible for monitoring and trading desk public equity positions.
• Developed extensive contacts, mostly from distressed hedge fund community, and maintained relationships through market making, sales trading and entertaining.
• Acted as liaison between fixed income and equity departments to share flow, credit analysis and other information.
• Collaborated with credit and equity analysts to market and implement trade ideas.
• Priced merchandise and provided capital commitments to institutional clients while managing risk positions.

New York, NY, Stamford, CT And Jersey City, NJ

• Position traded diverse sectors: Distressed/Post Re Org, Small Cap Healthcare, Financials, REITs and Insurance. Maintained a liquid market in listed, NASDAQ and OTC securities.
• Partnered with research analysts to develop unique trading ideas and generate read through verticals into the Small Cap space.
• Priced merchandise and provided capital commitments to institutional clients while managing risk positions.

Jersey City, NJ

• Assisted and made markets in excess of 200 stocks across a wide range of sectors and products for a top 5 producer in the firm.
• Acted as liaison between trading desk and IT specialists enabling increased efficiency for new trading programs in a rapidly evolving trading environment.

Short Hills, NJ

• Used forward contracts to hedge $4B portfolio (USD) exposure to currency risk.
• Executed cash and spot trades in foreign currencies to settle investment company’s equity transactions.
• Managed daily cash debits/credits by buying/selling discount notes and repurchase agreements.
• Produced daily reports for portfolio managers to reflect equity exposure to currency risk on a fund and country specific basis, as well as cash equivalent inventory.

Short Hills, NJ

• Oversaw the daily operations of a call center consisting of 5 supervisors and 40 registered representatives.
• Authored comprehensive training manual used by all department employees.
• Coordinated/conducted training sessions regarding all aspects of job duties/knowledge and prepared new hires for Series 6 and 63 exams.