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Jeffrey D. Miller - Co-Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey D. Miller is a founding partner of Miller Tabak + Co., LLC where he is Co-Chief Executive Officer. In addition to his duties at MT, he is a Director of Measurisk, a risk management firm. Prior to co-founding MT in 1982, he was General Partner in charge of the institutional equity and options department at Mabon Nugent & Co. He was named to the Institutional Investor All America Team three times for his coverage of the insurance industry. He is a graduate of Columbia University from which he received both his B.A. and MBA. He served on the Specialty Firm Advisory Committee of the NYSE. In addition, he was Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the Adirondack Museum, and is author of Program Trading and The New Age of Investing: The Role of the Private Investor in the Changing Stock Market.
Jeffrey S. Tabak - Co-Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey S. Tabak is a founding partner of Miller Tabak + Co., LLC where he is Co-Chief Executive Officer. MT, a New York Stock Exchange member firm founded in 1982, is credited with innovating the use of index arbitrage and with being one of the originators of program trading. Prior to co-founding MT, he managed the equity and options trading departments of Mabon Nugent & Co., assisted in the development of the options department at Kidder Peabody & Co., and served as portfolio manager and analyst at The Putnam Management Company. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude from Brown University in 1972 and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974. After the 1987 stock market crash, Mr. Tabak served as a member of President Reagan's Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Commission). He was a member of the Board of Directors of Mid Ocean, Ltd., a NYSE listed reinsurance company prior to its acquisition by XL, Ltd., and served on both its Finance and Compensation Committees. He was Chairman of the Board of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation from 1988 through 2005 and served as a member of the Investment Committee of The Metropolitan Opera for 5 years. Mr. Tabak also participated in Development efforts for The Spence School, from which one of his daughters graduated and the other is a Senior. Mr. Tabak has been active on the Brown University Annual Fund Leadership Council since 2006. This year, Mr. Tabak became a Trustee of the Museum of the City of New York and a Governor and Board Member of the West Side Tennis Club (former home of the U.S. Open) in Forest Hills. His eldest daughter is now a sophomore at Vanderbilt and his second daughter was just admitted at Brown. His son is a sophomore at the Collegiate School. Mr. Tabak's wife of 25 years is a fashion expert and author of Chic in Paris.
Jeffrey Kaminsky - Director of Institutional Sales Jeff Kaminsky, Director of Institutional Sales, joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC after 25 years as a senior salestrader. His current responsibilities include coordinating the efforts of a multifaceted sales force and integrated Miller Tabak's diverse institutional platform. From 1982 to 1991, he was a Limited Partner of Mabon Nugent & Co, where he ran the Equity sales trading and block trading desk. Mr. Kaminsky was a Director and salestrader at UBS from 1991 to 1998. From 1998 to 2004, he was Director of Sales and Trading at Lazard Freres & Co. LLC. Mr. Kaminsky's deep experience in covering institutional accounts is geographically broad and he has covered every type of client, including Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies, Banks and Pension Funds. Mr. Kaminsky has a B.A in Marketing and Management from the University of Rhode Island.
Lillian Seidman-Davis - Senior Options Strategist Lillian Seidman-Davis' initial training started at Spear Leeds & Kellogg (SLK) in 1983. After completing its management training program, she joined O'Connor & Associates (Swiss Bank) where she became an options marketmaker and risk manager. Her six years with O'Connor involved intensive theoretical options pricing and exposure to many high profile situations. She became an active member of the New York Futures Exchange, Options Allocation Committee and the American Stock Exchange. This experience prepared her to become an options specialist on the AMEX for Bear Stearns, where she made markets in CAT, AMB, BBI and ORX. To further enhance her skills and her understanding of finance, she obtained an MBA in 1994. Her trading and pricing expertise, along with her understanding of risk management and investment strategies, have proven to be a great value to clients. Lillian has been with Miller Tabak + Co., LLC for thirteen years. She provides clients with option and equity expertise and analysis of option implied volatility, enabling clients to make better investment decisions. Michele Skupp - Senior Options Strategist Michele Skupp has been involved with the options market since January 1980. Starting at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the Managed Options Program, she progressed to Salomon Brothers in early 1982, where, for twelve years, she was Vice President in the Equity Derivatives Department. Her role at Salomon was multifaceted, ranging from equity options trading and risk arbitrage sales trading to sales coverage of some of the largest options accounts in the country. Using her options analysis, Michele unearthed at least forty takeovers well in advance of their announcements. She worked closely with the Corporate Finance Department, communicating unusual information from the options markets to further their M&A goals and increase their client base. Michele has been with Miller Tabak + Co., LLC for fourteen years. She provides clients with options and equity expertise and analysis of option implied volatility, enabling clients to make better investment decisions.
Bud Haslett, CFA, FRM - Director of Option Analytics Bud Haslett is Director of Option Analytics for Miller Tabak + Co., LLC. He is responsible for developing option related products, services and research and is creating an option-based money management operation for the firm. Haslett previously founded a derivatives-based investment management firm managing more than $300 million in conservative option strategies and spent two decades on the options trading floor, where he managed portfolios of stocks and options. Haslett is past president (2003-2004) of the 1700 member CFA Society of Philadelphia and is Chairman of the Board of Regents for the Financial Analysts Seminar (2005 to present). He is an active volunteer of the CFA Institute, having served in a variety of capacities including CFA exam grader (9 years) and as a member of the Council of Examiners (question writers for the CFA exam). Haslett has also taught coursework on options at New York University (2007), Johns Hopkins University (2006) and Rutgers University (1999 to 2001). He holds the Financial Risk Manager certification (1999) and has received a Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania (2001), a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Investment Management from Drexel University (1982) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Shippensburg University (1980). Haslett is the founding Chairman of the Derivatives Committee for the 9000 member New York Society of Security Analysts (2006) and is a member of the Institutional Investor Advisory Committee for the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, a group of the largest buyside option users in North America. He has conducted option presentations and workshops at over 40 CFA Institute Societies around the world and is frequently quoted in financial sources such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Pensions and Investments, and Reuters.
Peter Boockvar - Equity Strategist Peter Boockvar is currently the Equity Strategist at Miller Tabak + Co., LLC., in addition to his role as a salestrader on the equity desk. He is often seen on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and CNBC Asia and is frequently quoted on Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Associated Press. He joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in 1994 after working in the corporate bond research department at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. He is on the Board of Directors of Ameritrans Capital Corporation, a publicly traded Business Development Company. He is also president of OCLI, LLC and OCLI2, LLC, farmland real estate investment funds. Mr. Boockvar graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.B.A. in Finance from George Washington University.
Philip J. Roth - Chief Technical Market Analyst Philip J. Roth, a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in 2002 as Chief Technical Market Analyst after a long distinguished career at Morgan Stanley. He came to Morgan Stanley through Dean Witter Reynolds which he joined in October, 1989. Philip Roth has 43 years experience, including E.F. Hutton (from 1979 until 1987) and then, Shearson when it merged with Hutton. Prior to 1979, Roth was a market analyst for Merrill Lynch and for Loeb Rhoades. A former Director of the New York Society of Security Analysts and current President and long time Board Member of the Market Technicians Association, Roth was among the first recipients of the Chartered Market Technician designation. He was voted No. 1 in Charting and Technical Analysis in the 2001 Reuters survey. He earned a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame and did graduate work in economics at Rutgers. He is a frequent market commentator in the printed media and on CNBC. He has been teaching a graduate level course in Technical Analysis at Fordham University for more than five years and has lectured at Rutgers, Cornell, University of Richmond, Baruch, Howard and Tulane.
Kevin Simpson - Energy Strategist Kevin Simpson has followed the energy industry for 31 years with particular focus on oilfield service stocks. He has been ranked in the Institutional Investor Poll 17 times for his oil service coverage, most recently in 2001. Mr. Simpson has consistently scored high in surveys of earnings estimate accuracy, including inclusion in The Wall Street Journal's "Hall of Fame" for 6 consecutive years in the top 5 for estimate accuracy from 1995-2000, and a consistent top 3 ranking by the Starmine group for much of 2002. In 2000, Mr. Simpson was named one of the "Best on the Street" analysts by The Wall Street Journal for earnings estimate accuracy. After starting his career with Standard & Poor's, Mr. Simpson moved to the sell side in 1979, spending 10 year stints with each of Drexel Burnham Lambert and Merrill Lynch. He also spent three years at Schroder's between these two firms. During his time with "bulge bracket" firms, Mr. Simpson was the lead analyst on some 30 equity offerings in the oil service space, the vast majority of which had strong absolute and relative market performance in post deal trading. Mr. Simpson has a CFA and is a longstanding member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. He is a member of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts (NAPIA). Mr. Simpson received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Susan Sansbury - Consumer Softgoods Strategist Susan Sansbury joined Miller Tabak in 2005. Over the course of a 25 year-plus Wall Street career, she has followed a wide variety of consumer hard- and soft-goods industries. Susan currently covers the small- to mid-capitalization apparel, footwear, and specialty retailing sectors. She was cited by the WSJ as the 2007 top stock picker in the Broad Line & Apparel sector. Susan started her career at Kidder, Peabody, where she was a member of the Institutional Investor All Star team in the electrical equipment/consumer category. Moving to Shearson Lehman Brothers and then to a small- to mid-capitalization, value-oriented, growth stock pension fund, Susan came back to the sell-side in the early 1990s, joining Bear Stearns as an apparel and footwear analyst where she was recognized by the Greenwich Survey for her industry and company-specific work. Susan received a B.A. from Salem College and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Tom Mitchell Tom Mitchell started in the industry working as a research analyst with NYSE firm Mabon, Nugent & Co. in 1973, covering consumer and commercial finance companies, credit card companies, and large multi-industry companies encompassing major insurance and financial subsidiaries. He also managed a firm account investing in distressed situations, reorganizations, and bankruptcies. In 1983, Tom joined the New York investment management firm of Weiss, Peck & Greer, as one of five portfolio analysts, with primary coverage responsibility for the financial stock sector. As a general partner of WPG from 1984-1990, Tom also initiated programs for WPG to invest in foreign stocks and to use index futures and options for bona fide portfolio hedging. In 1990, Tom branched out to set up an independent money-management shop, Thomas Mitchell Management Co., Inc., and has managed both individual and institutional accounts for the past 16 years. He rejoined the "sell side" at Miller Tabak July, 2006, with primary coverage responsibility for banks, REITs, and other financial stocks. A respect for credit analysis and for observation of broad industry trends has guided his investing approach throughout the past 34 years.
Les Funtleyder - Healthcare Strategist Les Funtleyder has been in the Healthcare industry since 1993. He joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in 2004 after managing a Healthcare portfolio for Provident Advisors, a hedge fund in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to joining Provident, Les worked as a medical device analyst at UBS Warburg. Before going to UBS, he covered biotechnology stocks for Bigelow & Company, a Healthcare research boutique in Denver. His industry experience includes directing clinical and business research at Innovative Health Solution, a joint venture of Merck and Wyeth; and as a consultant to HMOs and hospitals for Coopers & Lybrand and Health Strategies Group. Mr. Funtleyder has written Healthcare Investing: Profiting from the New World of Pharma, Biotech, and Health Care Services
David C. Joyce - Media Industry Analyst David C. Joyce, CFA, joined Miller Tabak + Co. as the firm's equity research Media Industry Analyst in August 2005. Mr. Joyce has 14 years of experience in equity research and investment banking. Since early 2000, he has been a Senior Equity Analyst covering the Media industry at JBHanauer & Co. and at Guzman & Co., and is best known for his coverage of the Spanish-language broadcasters and the international cable companies. Mr. Joyce placed third in the 2004 Wall Street Journal "Best On The Street" Award based on his 2003 stock-picking performance. In addition, he garnered recurring recognition for earnings estimate accuracy for a range of small-, mid-, and large-capitalization media, entertainment, broadcasting, and cable stocks. Mr. Joyce's career commenced at Salomon Brothers Inc. where he was an investment banking analyst covering financial institutions and large-capitalization diversified companies. Subsequently, he was an Associate Analyst in Bear, Stearns & Co.'s equity research department for three years. He earned his MBA in Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business in 1998, and has a BS in Business Administration from Georgetown University.
Brendan Furlong – Technology Analyst Brendan Furlong joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in October 2002. Mr. Furlong holds a BA and MA from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and holds an associate degree in Civil Engineering, also obtained in Ireland. For three years Brendan published a Technology Strategy newsletter for Miller Tabak and then transitioned to technology research sales. In March 2008, Brendan returned to formal research for Miller Tabak with a coverage universe in semiconductors, components and semiconductor equipment. Prior to joining Miller Tabak, Brendan worked at two New York based hedge funds where his focus was on the technology sector. The focus of his analysis is to look at the entire hardware food chain from equipment OEMs to semi-conductors, contract manufacturers, and distributors. Alex Henderson - Technology Analyst Alex Henderson has been a Senior Technology Analyst since he joined Prudential Securities in 1986. He has been ranked in the Institutional Investor All-Star Poll 17 times with number 1 rank 11 times, including the number 1 rank in the 2003 poll in The Data Networking sector. At Prudential Securities, he served first as Senior Analyst in the Photography and Imaging Technology sector and later with coverage of the Data Networking sector. He also served as the Director of Technology Research. After 14 years, he switched firms joining Citigroup in 2000 as Managing Director of Data Networking and Telecom Equipment Research. Mr. Henderson received a BA in Physics and Applied Math from Bard College and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining Prudential Securities, Mr. Henderson worked as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Kurt Soderberg Kurt Soderberg joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in 1993. His first role was assisting program, option and convertible arbitrage traders in executing over-the-counter equities to facilitate customer orders and in hedging firm positions. Mr. Soderberg was appointed head of over-the-counter trading in 1996. Mr. Soderberg and his associates now handle a wide variety of equity orders including Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange Listed, and Exchange Traded Funds electronically utilizing the latest technology. Mr. Soderberg holds a BS degree in Psychology from St. Lawrence University.
Brian Byrne Brian Byrne joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in 2001 to assist with the opening of the Boston office. He worked as a salestrader there until 2006 when he moved to the New York office to expand the Program Trading department. Mr. Byrne and his team now handle a wide variety of portfolio and algorithmic trades for customers from both the buy-side and the sell-side. Using proprietary trading systems he is able to customize trading strategies to fit clients’ needs. The Program Trading desk combines high touch trading experience and cutting edge technology to offer clients the best in trading solutions. Prior to joining Miller Tabak, Mr. Byrne was a trader for Navigator Asset Management, a Boston based hedge fund. Mr. Byrne holds degrees in Economics and Computer Science from Trinity College.
Ryan Ballantyne Ryan Ballantyne joined Miller Tabak + Co., LLC in 2007 as a cash and derivative sales trader in the firm's Boston office. In addition to covering the mutual and hedge fund industries, Mr. Ballantyne served as the head of Derivative Sales for the Boston office. Prior to joining Miller Tabak + Co., Mr. Ballantyne was employed at Susquehanna International Group from 2002 until 2007, where he opened the company's Boston institutional office. Mr. Ballantyne has been in the Securities Industry for fifteen years and began his career in 1993 in the Equity Capital Markets Division of Smith Barney in New York. Currently, Mr. Ballantyne leads Miller Tabak + Co's West coast operations as office manager, where he oversees a team of sales traders and sales personnel out of the San Diego office. Mr. Ballantyne graduated in 1993 from St. Lawrence University with a B.S. degree in Economics.
Peter Sarni Peter Sarni has served as Miller Tabak + Co., LLC's (MT) main executing broker for the past 16 years and heads the firm's NYSE floor operation. Mr. Sarni has been a member and floor broker at the NYSE since 1986 and has been involved in trading since 1980. Mr. Sarni manages MT's NYSE operation to ensure that it is on the cutting edge of new technology, providing the firm's clients with a timely and accurate source of order flow and information from the specialists' posts. This communication between the floor of the NYSE and Miller Tabak's salestraders allows the firm's clients to achieve excellent average weighted prices on their "not held" orders. The information provided by Mr. Sarni is significant in helping MT's clients beat the VWOP on a consistent basis. Mr. Sarni also manages a successful "$2" independent floor business which enhances his sense of market sentiment. Leonard DeMartino, MT's Assistant Floor Manager and executing broker, has 27 years experience on both the American and New York Stock Exchanges. He has handled the entire range of equity orders from "not held" to statistical arbitrage for institutional accounts. His awareness of market risk provides another important liaison between the NYSE and the MT trading desk. |
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