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Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Consulting to Asset Managers sub-advising Managed Account (Wrap) Platforms.Expert in the practice of Trading Away, Step Outs, and SEC Disclosure Requirements.

Greater New York City Area

Product manager of a Post Trade Managed Account Solutions product. The platform is designed to aid Asset Managers sub advising Wrap and Directed assets efficiently process executions traded away from Wrap Sponsors and Directed Brokers. Sub-advisors can trade away their equity and fixed income orders with their best execution broker, pay that broker a commission while we automate the step out and email notification process. Architect, creator, and product manager of the CAPIS ARC post trade allocation utility for asset managers sub-advising wrap and custodial platforms. Managed and co-created a flexible custody and execution platform for a joint venture with Invest N Retire, a TAMP (Turnkey Asset Management Platform) for the 401k and taxable retail sectors.Managed all aspects of both products including design enhancements, sales, and demonstrations.

599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022

Created and managed the Cowen 360 post trade allocation utility for asset managers sub-advising wrap and custodial platforms.Co-created the Cowen C.O.R.E payment for order flow option router designed to route option order flow to the best price and best payment for flow for broker and asset management customers.Managing Director of the Electronic Products Group in charge of sales, design, and daily operations of both products.

Greater New York City Area

Head of Sales & Trading in the U.S. for a French owned brokerage firm.Managed and responsible for hiring individuals and groups selling and trading U.S. Equities, Options, and ETF’s. Managed over 30 individuals in groups consisting of the ETF Team, Cash Equities Group, 2 Option Sales Teams, and Risk Arbitrage Team.Instrumental in creating specialized hedged transactions for commodities based ETF’s.

New York, New York

Managed trading desk of 10 individuals executing for more than 20 portfolio managers both in domestic and international portfolios consisting of institutional, hedge fund, private client, and wrap assets.Desk acted in dual capacity both as a buy side and a sell side desk. Created and implemented a plan that captured $25 million of our own commissions from hedge fund executions over a 3-year period.Managed all day-to-day functions including compliance and best execution.

New York, New York

Head Trader of quantitative asset manager with $9.5 billion in AUM.Redesigned trading desk to compliment the firm’s quantitative style of stock picking.Employed electronic trading and crossing networks to achieve best execution mandates.

Bsba, Finance

High School