Greater Atlanta Area
- Current
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- Managing Partner at Trade Ideas LLC
- Past
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- Senior Associate at ScottMadden Inc.
- Sales Analyst and Regional Marketing Developer at Kraft Foods
- Education
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- Southern Methodist University
- The University of Texas at Austin
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David M. Aferiat’s Summary
Fostering creativity and change from people.
I bring more than 15 years of experience in consulting, software, utilities, capital markets, and consumer product industries. Working with senior officers in finance, corporate governance, sales, marketing and trading functions, I advised public and privately held companies with annual revenues between $20M to $14B. Work at Trade-Ideas taps experience in business development, customer acquisition and retention, corporate strategy as well as energy trading and marketing.
David M. Aferiat’s Specialties:
Leading partnerships, alliances, and multi-functional teams through change, Competitive analysis, Trading, Risk Management, Business Process Improvement, Marketing Research, Sales Execution, Benchmarking, Organizational Design, Technical Analysis, E-Commerce, Equity Trading Systems:
REDI PLus
CyberTrader
Nexa Technology
ITS OmniPro
InstaQuote
Reuters Bridgestation
Medved QuoteTracker
Genesis Laser
Hammer
LAVA
David M. Aferiat’s Experience
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Managing Partner
Trade Ideas LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — Present (5 years 10 months)
Trade-Ideas provides real-time decision support and risk management for trading equity and derivative instruments based on statistical analysis of market technicals. Trade-Ideas specializes in Idea Generation Technology (IGT) to deliver filtered trading opportunities and Algorithmic Monitoring (AM) of automated execution orders for hedge funds, traders and the buyside community. Hedge funds, Asset Managers, RIAs, Institutions, Online Brokers, and direct access traders use the software as a premier idea generation and risk management tool.
Partner and key executive. Responsible for brand development, partnership and salesforce development, web site traffic growth, and subscription/advertising revenue. Built strategic relationships with leading execution and order management platforms. Developed brand strategy and customer acquisition/retention systems. Structured commercial licensing transactions. Designed customer segmentation, marketing and sales strategies. -
Senior Associate
ScottMadden Inc.
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)
July 1998 — December 2002 (4 years 6 months)
Provided independent and objective counsel and specialized business services to senior management of large domestic and international corporations for this international strategy and general management consulting firm. Improved key business systems responsible for bottom line savings. Increased service ratings for customer facing processes.
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Sales Analyst and Regional Marketing Developer
Kraft Foods
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KFT; Consumer Goods industry)
June 1993 — May 1997 (4 years)
David M. Aferiat’s Education
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Southern Methodist University
MBA, Marketing, Finance, 1994 — 1998
I loved my MBA as an experience in group learning and project-driven assignments surrounded by bright, ambitious colleagues. These extraordinary people motivated me to a higher gear of achievement. The team-building experiences and innovative meta-business courses offered at the "Business Learning Center" were invaluable. The MBA also filled in some gaps the business education left from my Liberal Arts degree. Throw in the fact that half of the education was financed by my employer, Kraft Foods (for which I am forever thankful), and it was an opportunity I could not miss.
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The University of Texas at Austin
BA, French, Economics, 1989 — 1993
Austin and the college experience was like paradise on earth and I wanted to learn from every corner of it. I couldn't bring myself to enroll in the business school and crunch numbers so I happily signed up for everything in the Liberal Arts college: Art history, French (which became one of my majors), and (as a compromise to my practical self) Economics (which was my other major). I'm grateful that Economics was/is considered a social science at UT and belonged in the Liberal Arts college where my electives were much more interesting.
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Alpha Mu, Hillel
Additional Information
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David M. Aferiat’s Groups:
Technology Association Of Georgia,
American Marketing Association
Board Member, French-American Chamber of Commerce since 2001
Board Member, PushPush Theater, Atlanta non-profit theater organization 2001 - 2006
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Atlanta Marketers' Forum member -
Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member -
Link to Wall Street™ member -
Stealthmode Partners member -
Technical & Fundamental TRADERS member -
Southern Methodist University Alumni member -
Hedge Fund Network member -
Artificial Intelligence in Trading member -
4th Annual Trading Algos & Beyond member
David M. Aferiat’s Honors:
Published in: Atlanta Journal Constitution, Barron's, The Street.com, The Trade (UK), and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
* Acknowledged in: Enhancing Trader Performance, Dr. Brett Steenbarger, Wiley Trading, 2007
* Panel Speaker, Software Round-Up, International Traders Expo, NY, February 2006
* Panel Speaker, "How Online Trading Has Changed the Game for Traders", Stocks, Futures & Options Magazine, October 2004
* Article, “The Top 100 Restaurants”, Jezebel Magazine, July 2000, July 2001
* Article, “Touring Sonoma”, Jezebel Magazine, August 2000
David M. Aferiat’s Contact Settings
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