Chirag Choudhary is the Head of Equity Capital Markets & Institutional Sales at Think Equity. Chirag’s career on Wall Street spans over 17 years when he started at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the Private Client Group. Following Merrill Lynch, he worked for Investec Ernst & Co., and after that as partner and Senior Vice President at Maxim Group, LLC. After Maxim, Choudhary was Senior Vice President at Rodman & Renshaw, LLC. Most recently he worked for Aegis Capital & Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC as Head of Institutional Sales. Choudhary received a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Finance) from Hawaii Pacific University and a degree in Commerce (Hons.) (Finance and Tax Planning) from University of Delhi. He was a member of Chairman’s Circle of U.S-India Chamber of Commerce (NY chapter).
Subject: Peter Mancuso
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Peter Mancuso is the Managing Director, Equity Trading. He started Peter Mancuso and Company in 1991 which would continue operations until 2019. As an agency only BD, Mancuso’s responsibilities included all aspects of trade execution including optimizing use of the NYSE parity order types, eQuote and dQuote, and supporting Algorithmic trading to ensure best execution for customers including bulge bracket and boutique firms. Mr. Mancuso was most recently Senior Vice President with Tullett Prebon. He has been an NYSE member since 1991 and served as a Floor Official. Mr. Mancuso holds FINRA Series 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, 19, 24, 27, 55 and 63 registrations and is a graduate of Lehigh University. He is also serves as a director for NYSE Floor Member Emergency Fund and as Chairman of the NYSE Safety and Security Committee.
Subject: Philip P. Quartuccio
Subject of InterestPhilip P. Quartuccio is the Managing Director, Head of Global Trading and runs ThinkEquity’s global trading operations, including the NYSE Trading Floor. Quartuccio has over 20 years of trading experience including running his own NYSE floor brokerage firm, Illustro Trading. He has held senior positions at Janney Montgomery Scott, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, and most recently, Tullet Prebon ICAP. As a member of the NYSE technology committee. Quartuccio has focused his experience with the NYSE’s trading technology. This focus includes the development of the NYSE Third Party Algo (TPA) program that enables algorithmic access to the NYSE Parity order types for quantitative automated trading. Mr. Quartuccio holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 99 and 63 registrations.
Subject: Jeff Singer
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Jeffrey Singer is the Head of Debt Capital Markets at Think Equity. Singer is involved in the financing of a broad range of public and private companies across almost every industry with a strong focus on technology, energy, specialty finance/FinTech, IT services, digital commerce, ed-tech, healthcare services and consumer brands. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Jeff served as Head of Debt Capital Markets at Joseph Gunnar & Co. for two years and as Managing Director of Dragonfly Capital Partners, where he ran the New York office of the firm for over 10 years. Singer holds a BS from University of Wisconsin and his MBA from Fordham University Graduate School of Business.
Fordham Financial Management, Inc
Subject: Charles Giordano
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Charles Giordano was the former Investment Executive at Fordham Financial Management from May 2001- October 2014. From there, he worked for Empire Asset Management Company, registered Investment Advisor until Dec. 2015. He is now a financial advisor for Masiello, Nicolosi & Associates, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC. He graduated from Pace University- Lubin School of Business, Bachelors of Business Administration in 2001.
Subject: Jim A. Himes
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Jim A. Himes (D-CT) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and U.S. Representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party and former Chair of the New Democrat Coalition. In 1995, Himes began working at Goldman Sachs as a banker in Latin America and New York. He was eventually promoted to vice president. In 2007, he was named vice president of the non-profit Enterprise Foundation (currently Enterprise Community Partners), and later began running its metropolitan New York operations. Himes was appointed a Commissioner of the Greenwich Housing Authority in 2002, and served for two years as chairman of the board. He has also served as a board member of Aspira of Connecticut in Bridgeport, a board member of the Fairfield County Community Foundation, and as an advisory board member of Family Assets, LLP of Bridgeport. Himes graduated from Harvard (BA), Oxford (MA).
Subject: Ed Perlmutter
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Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Perlmutter is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 7th congressional district, serving since 2007. Perlmutter was a Colorado State Senator from 1995 to 2003. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder (BA, JD).
Subject: Emanuel Cleaver
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Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a United Methodist pastor and an American politician who is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Cleaver represents Missouri’s 5th congressional district, elected in 2005. The district includes the southern three-fourths of Kansas City. Cleaver is a member of the Democratic Party, and in January 2010, he became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, a position he held until 2019. Cleaver served on the Kansas City Council from 1979 to 1991, until he was elected Mayor, serving from 1991 to 1999.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: Al Green
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Al Green (D-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American lawyer and politician. Green has served in Congress as the Representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district since 2005. Green is a member of the Democratic Party. He attended Florida A&M University and Tuskegee University. He received a Juris Doctor degree, in 1974 from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. After law school, Green co-founded the law firm of Green, Wilson, Dewberry, and Fitch. In 1978, Green was elected justice of the peace in Harris County, Texas. He held this position for 26 years before retiring in 2004.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: David Scott
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David Albert Scott (D-GA) – is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 13th congressional district, serving since 2003. The district includes the southern fourth of Atlanta, as well as several of its suburbs to the south and west. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida A&M University, and a master’s degree in business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative from Missouri’s 1st congressional district, serving since 2001. The district is based in the city of St. Louis and includes most of northern St. Louis County (North County). He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (BA).
Subject: Gregory W. Meeks
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Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Meeks is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 5th congressional district since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously worked as an Assistant District Attorney and for the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York before joining the Investigations Commission on official misconduct and organized crime. He then was Supervising Judge for the New York State Workers Compensation System. Meeks was a member of the New York State Assembly (31st D.) from 1993 to 1998, sitting in the 190th, 191st, and 192nd New York State Legislatures. Meeks graduated from Adelphi University (BA) and Howard University (JD).
Subject: Brad Sherman
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Brad Sherman (D-CA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Sherman is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Sherman is in his 12th term as a congressman, having served since 1997. He currently represents California’s 30th congressional district within the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles County and the eastern Simi Hills in Ventura County. He previously represented the state’s 24th and 27th congressional districts, located in Los Angeles County. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.), Harvard University (J.D.)
Subject: Nydia M. Velázquez
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Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is a Puerto Rican-American politician serving in the United States House of Representatives since 1993. Velázquez, a Democrat from New York was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011. Her district, located in New York City, was numbered the 12th district from 1993 to 2013 and has been numbered the 7th district since 2013. In 1976, Velázquez received an M.A. in political science from New York University. She subsequently served as an instructor of political science at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao from 1976 to 1981. After returning to New York City, Velázquez was an adjunct professor of Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College from 1981 to 1983.
Subject: Carolyn B. Maloney
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Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 12th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she is in her 14th term in Congress, having represented the state’s 14th congressional district from 1993 until redistricting in 2013, and the 12th from 2013 to the present. Maloney, for several years, she worked as a teacher and an administrator for the New York City Board of Education. In 1977, she obtained a job working for the New York State Legislature and held senior staff positions in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. She graduated from Greensboro College (BA).
