President - Little Engine Foundation Inc
Greater New York City Area
President - Little Engine Foundation Inc
Greater New York City Area
My recent professional experience includes structured financial transactions, trading and risk management of derivative portfolios, and development of market access vehicles for for institutional and retail investors.
Though these endeavors were interesting and rewarding for a time, my immediate goal is to launch a not-for-profit foundation to bring very small businesses together with operating charities in their community using a novel variant on traditional microlending.
My passion (to use the unfortunate mot du jour) is to kick a dent in our currently unsustainable energy framework.
Commodities. Energy. Derivatives.
Microlending.
(Philanthropy industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Founded, designing, and launching a non-profit foundation with a focus on economic development.
(Public Company; Capital Markets industry)
May 1998 — May 2009 (11 years 1 month)
Commodity investment structuring and execution. Equity derivatives structuring and market risk management.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Banking industry)
1992 — 1998 (6 years )
Equity derivatives trading.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
1989 — 1992 (3 years )
Summers and one term during time at MIT. Conducted thesis research.
S.M. , Materials Science , 1987 — 1992
Thesis "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Iridium and Rhodium from Organometallic Precursors" conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory.