Mark C. Email & Phone Number

Entrepreneur, financial consultant and trader.My experience is in trading capital markets includung the American and overnight European Eurex markets: including equities, options, forex and futures, on and off the floor. I have held the series 7, 63, 55 and 3. As a consultant, my responsibilities have ranged from studying industries for benchmarking purposes, creating quantitative trading strategies to writing a transition and evaluation guide for traders. I have consulted for a Fortune 100 firm in accounting operations including cash forecasting. I have helped raise for capital for ventures as varied as foreign real estate, technology and entertainment companies. As a business owner, my experience includes skills necessary in all phases from startup to sales, basic accounting to taxes. I have been a judge for the DePaul business plan competition. I have also been a member of the DePaul Blue Angel Network as well as the Angel Network for the Illinois Institute of Technology. This allows me to see ideas, early-stage startups and expanding businesses. PilotHedge served three major functions: it helps companies and individuals hedge off currency and commodity risk, it brought together hard commodity buyers and sellers and it helps companies raise capital with in private and public capital markets.I am also a former flight instructor and author with a novel published in 2000.Specialties: Capital markets, futures, forex, commodities, options, equities and derivatives. Competitive analysis, hard commodity connections, alternative and angel financing and business plan analysis