Experience

LaBranche & Co.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Feb 2006 - Present

  - Global Salestrader/Desk Analyst (US + Int’l) with responsibilities to articulate organically produced strategy through written and verbal interaction with traders and salestraders. - Used options strategies to strengthen client relationships and complement cash equity commission production. - Promoted to Managing Director in 2008 after positive contributions to desk development and the firms growth.



ESN North America, Inc

• Senior Vice President

  • 2002 - 2005

  - Developed platform and concept for this Pan-European brokerage “cooperative”, housing the local research of 7 small independent Investment Banks for distribution under one banner to US Institutions.



Merrill Lynch

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director

  • 1997 - 2001

  -Hired away to quarterback the Latin American product to other International Salestraders and my own client base. -Split time about 50/50 between International Equities (generalist) and Latin America.



Dresdner Kleinwort

• Investment Banking

• Senior Vice President

  • 1995 - 1997

  -Started the Latin America desk for this European House applying knowledge from Mexico and expanding into Argentina and Brazil.



Grupo Financiero Interacciones

• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Vice President

  • 1993 - 1995

  -recruited away from Finamex to Interacciones, and continued to develop client contacts, as well as establishing new Chinese wall procedures for dealing with both the Street and Institutional Clients at the same time. -Devaluation of the MXN created both client opportunity and problems for the firm.



Valores Finamex International

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Vice President

  • 1991 - 1993

  -Introduction to Mexican Equities through this satellite office, and one of the first “Casa de Bolsa” to sell equities to US institutional customers.



Barclays de Zoete Wedd

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • 1988 - 1991

  European Equity Salestrading to US clients.



Simms Capital Management

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Buyside Equity Trader

  • 1986 - 1988

  -Introduced to International Equities, working primarily on the US Portfolio, but introduced to UK, Europe and Asia.



Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

• United States
• Investment Banking

• NYSE Broker-Member NYSE

  • 1984 - 1986

  Member of the NYSE. Executed large block trades for Institutional Clients for their Autranet Division. Prior experience as a Specialist clerk for Spear, Leeds and Kellogg (now Goldman Sachs) helped to secure (permanent) this position, while doing work study program.