Larry Cohen

Current

CEO at Accelerated Computing Solutions

Past

Senior Consultant at Citigroup - High Frequency Trading
Senior Consultant at Citigroup - Architecture, Strategy, and Principal Investments
Director at Finetix - acquired by SunGard

Senior Consultant at FXall (FX Alliance)
Senior Consultant at Citigroup - Citigroup Derivatives Markets, Inc. (CDMI)
Senior Consultant at JPMorgan Chase - Credit Infrastructure Transformation - Risk Management Technology
Senior Consultant at Convergence CT
Senior Consultant at Citco Hedge Fund Services
Senior Consultant at Herzog Heine Geduld – a Merrill Lynch company
Senior Consultant at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) - acquired by Credit Suisse
Senior Consultant at The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Senior Consultant at Republic National Bank - acquired by HSBC
Manager at Magic Solutions International, Inc. - acquired by Network Associates Inc.
Manager at Ideation International, Inc.
VLSI Integrated Circuit Designer, Software Developer, Team Lead at AT&T Bell Laboratories

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Education

Stanford University
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Recommended

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Connections

497 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Company

Larry Cohen’s Summary

Over 25 years of experience in semicondutor and software design, development, testing, and management.

Provided hardware and software solutions for:

• Citigroup
• JPMorganChase
• Merrill Lynch
• Citco Hedge Fund Services
• Credit Suisse
• HSBC
• New York Life
• The Equitable
• AT&T Bell Laboratories

Experience with equities, derivatives, fixed income, foreign exchange, risk management, investment banking, consumer banking, insurance, and hedge funds.

Also experienced in computer architecture, system design, circuit design, IBM Cell BE (Broadband Engine), FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), GP-GPUs (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units), messaging, and grid/cluster computing.

Trained engineers and executives to systematically develop innovative solutions to their most challenging technological problems at Ford, GM, Chrysler, McDonnell Douglas, Johnson & Johnson, and Xerox.

Invited speaker at international conferences and recipient of numerous awards of excellence. Presented at the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference.

Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Larry Cohen’s Specialties:

Hardware acceleration, Cell BE, FPGA, messaging, grid/clusters.

Larry Cohen’s Experience

CEO

Accelerated Computing Solutions

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Location: 110 Wall Street, NY

Accelerated Computing Solutions provides financial service organizations with competitive advantages by significantly increasing the performance of their most time-critical systems. Innovative, high performance, hardware-accelerated messaging, grid, and scalable analytic database solutions, as well as technologies such as GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), Cell BE (Cell Broadband Engine), and Multicore CPUs, are being used to increase performance, increase throughput, reduce latency, increase predictability, reduce datacenter footprint, and reduce power consumption. Additionally, AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) is being used to provide interoperability for messaging middleware.
Senior Consultant

Citigroup - High Frequency Trading

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

Locations: Warren, NJ; Jersey City, NJ; New York, NY
Senior Consultant

Citigroup - Architecture, Strategy, and Principal Investments

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year)

Locations: Warren, NJ; Jersey City, NJ; New York, NY
Director

Finetix - acquired by SunGard

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2002 — April 2007 (5 years 1 month)

Director. Responsible for improving performance and quality of systems in Capital Market organizations. Clients included Citigroup, JPMorganChase, and Citco Hedge Fund Services.
Senior Consultant

FXall (FX Alliance)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

Location: New York, NY
Senior Consultant

Citigroup - Citigroup Derivatives Markets, Inc. (CDMI)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

February 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Locations: Warren, NJ; Jersey City, NJ; New York, NY
Senior Consultant

JPMorgan Chase - Credit Infrastructure Transformation - Risk Management Technology

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Banking industry)

May 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 10 months)

Location: New York, NY
Senior Consultant

Convergence CT

(Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

February 2003 — April 2003 (3 months)

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Senior Consultant

Citco Hedge Fund Services

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

April 2002 — October 2002 (7 months)

Location: New York, NY
Senior Consultant

Herzog Heine Geduld – a Merrill Lynch company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)

May 1998 — March 2002 (3 years 11 months)

Location: Jersey City
Senior Consultant

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) - acquired by Credit Suisse

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DLJ; Investment Banking industry)

May 1998 — March 2002 (3 years 11 months)

Location: New York, NY
Senior Consultant

The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

May 1998 — March 2002 (3 years 11 months)

Location: New York, NY
Senior Consultant

Republic National Bank - acquired by HSBC

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

May 1998 — March 2002 (3 years 11 months)

Locations: New York, NY; Brooklyn, NY; and Jersey City, NJ
Manager

Magic Solutions International, Inc. - acquired by Network Associates Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1996 — April 1998 (2 years 2 months)

Location: Paramus, NJ
Manager

Ideation International, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 1993 — March 1996 (2 years 4 months)

Locations: Allentown, PA and Southfield, MI
VLSI Integrated Circuit Designer, Software Developer, Team Lead

AT&T Bell Laboratories

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Semiconductors industry)

May 1981 — December 1993 (12 years 8 months)

Locations: Allentown, PA; Holmdel, NJ; Murray Hill, NJ

Larry Cohen’s Education

Stanford University

MSEE , Electrical Engineering, Computer Science , 1981 — 1982

- Logic Design
- Digital Design
- Processor Design
- Computer System Design
- Integrated Circuit Technology
- Integrated Circuit Fabrication
- Semiconductor Devices
- VLSI Systems
- VLSI Simulation and Test
- Entrepreneurial Engineering

Activities and Societies:

Photographer, Stanford Newspaper.
State University of New York at Stony Brook

BEEE , Electrical Engineering , 1977 — 1981

- Solid State Engineering
- Digital System Design
- Circuit Design
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Communication
- Micoprocessors and Programable Logic
- Electrical Engineering Design
- Engineering and Management Economics

Valedictorian.
Graduated with Highest Honors.

Activities and Societies:

President, Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society.
Eta Kappa Nu, National Electrical Engineering Honor Society.

Additional Information

Larry Cohen’s Websites:

My Company

Larry Cohen’s Interests:

Grid/Cluster Computing, Messaging, Cell BE, FPGA, Jazz Guitar & Bass, Soprano Sax, SCUBA Diving, and Underwater Videophotography.

Larry Cohen’s Groups:

* Venture Capital, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship, and Instituitions (Officier and NJ Representative)
* Wall Street Networking
* MIT TechLink
* Harvard Technology Forum
* IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
* IEEE Engineering Management Society
* IEEE Standards Association
* IEEE Computer Society
* New York City Software Process Improvement Network