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Derivatives Service Providers: What To Know About The People Behind The Funds
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Robert Gusick
Gravitas Technology
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| Robert Gusick is a Managing Director at Gravitas Technology and has 25 years experience developing and managing front and middle office financial systems on Wall Street. Most recently he was the Chief Information Officer at Perry Capital, a multi-strategy Hedge Fund with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Prior to Perry Capital, he served as the CIO at Soros Fund Management. From 1990 through 2002, he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, where he held several IT management/developer positions in Fixed Income, Asset Management, Commodities and Credit Derivatives. Prior to that, Robert was a Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he developed the firm's CMO trading & structuring systems. Robert has an MBA in Finance from NYU's Executive Program, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University. |
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Matthew Koenig
Ernst & Young
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| Matthew is a partner with more than 17 years of experience serving clients in the asset management industry, including hedge funds, private equity funds and investment advisors. He spent his first 7 years with the firm in Ernst & Young’s New York office serving this industry.
Matthew develops and leads training courses for Ernst & Young professionals on accounting and auditing issues facing the hedge fund and private equity industries and on the use of various financial products. Matthew also has extensive product and operational knowledge. He has assisted in documenting and issuing policy and procedures manuals for hedge funds and advisory businesses. Matthew has experience in valuation and assessment of complex portfolio positions for alternative funds.
Matthew is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA. Matthew has also participated on hedge fund panels at various industry conferences, including GAIM Cayman and NICSA’s Midwest Regional Meeting. |
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Steve Petillo
Coquest
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| Steven has been in the futures and foreign exchange industry since the early 90’s when he worked on the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade. Since then he has been the senior analyst and research director for FCMs and investment firms as well as a regular contributor to a number of different media and think tank institutions.
Mr. Petillo is now the Vice President of Coquest Inc., a brokerage firm dealing in futures, the foreign exchange markets and OTC markets with offices throughout the US. |
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