Area of Focus: Institutional Sales and Trading Profile: Heads Mesirow Financial's Institutional Sales and Trading division Member of Mesirow Financial's board of directors and executive committee Responsible for new product development for the fixed-income market, for direction of marketing and sales with a broad range of insurance companies, banks, pension funds and money managers, and managing the firm's position inventories and the hedging of risk associated with those positions Previously CEO and founder of Young Capital Group, an institutional sales and trading firm with nearly 25 employees and offices in Chicago and Greenwich, Connecticut More than 40 years of experience Holds Series 7 and Series 24 licenses Education: B.A., Roosevelt University Affiliations: Lookingglass Theatre, board member NASD District 8 Nominating Committee, past chairman NASD District 8 Conduct Committee, past vice chairman Chicago Stock Exchange, past board member Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, past board member North American Company for Life and Health Insurance, past board member United Jewish Fund, Financial Services Division, past dinner chairman Chicago Bond Club Board of Governors, past member. |