AIM Name: infoarbitrage
Website: http://www.monitor110.com
Location: United States
I left Wall Street in October 2004 with the sense that I wanted to do something different, something entrepreneurial, something truly transformational. After doing some angel investing and meeting with lots of super smart, interesting people through my friends and colleagues, I came upon an opportunity later that year which was to alter the path of my work pursuits and introduce a new-found passion into the mix. That passion was for changing the manner in which institutional investors and Wall Street access, analyze and monetize information extracted from the internet. The ultimate solution would be truly disruptive and markedly different than anything used on the trader or analyst’s desk today. This marked my Co-founding of Monitor110, Inc.
I currently serve as President and Chief Operating Officer of Monitor110, a rapidly growing company that enables Institutional Investors extract actionable information from the Internet. I am also Managing Director of Geometric Group LLC, the venture and business development firm which conceived of and seeded Monitor110, and Managing Member of IA Capital Partners, LLC, my angel investment vehicle focused on financial technology and digital media.
Prior to joining Geometric Group, I was the President and CEO of DB Advisors LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG. My 130-person team managed over $6 billion in capital through a twenty-strategy hedge fund platform with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Strategies deployed included managed futures, statistical arbitrage, merger arbitrage, event, fundamental long/short, systematic long/short, relative value, special situations, convertible arbitrage, foreign exchange and credit.
Prior to DB Advisors, I was Managing Director and Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, my team won Institutional Investor magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award.
As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, I held a variety of roles and responsibilities in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.
I currently serve on the boards of Monitor110, Inc.; Clear Asset Management LLC, a technology enabled investment advisory and financial publishing firm; Mytrade.com, a powerful, highly customizable investor portal for mainstream and alternative news, market data, portfolio tracking, audio, video and social networking; Global Bay Mobile Technologies, Inc., a mobile data collection solution vendor; and Spotlight Data Solutions, Inc., a provider of wireless data collection solutions for business process management. I also served on the Board of DSL.net Inc., a publicly-traded telecommunications company.
I hold an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. For those familiar with Ann Arbor, I met my wife at Rick’s. It’s been over 20 years since that wonderful evening and we are now the proud parents of two not-so-little Wolverine fans.
I have a passion for Wall Street, the markets, deals and the Internet. The first three were discovered and nurtured since about 10 years of age. The Internet, however, really only became a passion in the wake of my departing Wall Street and taking a fresh look at life. The massive power and democratizing influence of the internet was immediately appealing, and it didn't take long for me to consider how this power could be harnessed and applied to the realms of Institutional investment and Wall Street. This is currently how I spend my time; using the power of the Internet to pursue the dream of Information Arbitrage, a place where hard-to-find, "long tail" information is accessed, analyzed and monetized in the investment process. I am also applying this framework to a rich array of long-tail information, particularly in the digital media space.
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