Pascal Bandelier is the Senior Managing Director, Head of Equities. He joined the Cantor Fitzgerald based in New York. Bandelier was the Head of Equity Execution Trading at Barclays, where he was responsible for the trading, sales trading, desk analyst and low-touch electronic businesses during his tenure at Barclays since 2013. Prior to Barclays, Bandelier was Head of TMT Cash Equity Trading, at Morgan Stanley, and Head of Cash Equity Trading & Risk at Nomura. From 2001 to 2010, Mr. Bandelier worked at Barclays/Lehman Brothers. Bandelier graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree in economics.
Subject: Jon Yalmokas
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Jon Yalmokas is Global Head of Prime Services at Cantor Fitzgerald. Most recently, he was the Americas Head of Prime Services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). Prior to BAML, he was at UBS, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch. Yalmokas holds a B.A. from Boston College.He is a 2017 board member of the Managed Funds Association.Subject: Karen Laureano-Rikardsen
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Karen Laureano-Rikardsen is the Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. Prior to joining Cantor, Laureano-Rikardsen held various senior communications and marketing roles at financial services firms, including CRT Capital Group, Credit Suisse and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Ms. Laureano-Rikardsen earned a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from the University of Maryland UC in Schwäbisch Gmünd Germany.
Subject: Paul M. Pion
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Paul M. Pion has served as Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Managing Director of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor”) since August 2010. Mr. Pion is also the Chief Financial Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald’s real estate business and CF Acquisition Company (SPAC). Mr. Pion previously served in numerous positions for Cantor including Global Director of Internal Audit from 2002 to 2010. Mr. Pion has been a director of Tower Bridge GP Limited since November 2010, BGC European GP Limited since January 2012 and was a director of BGC Brokers GP Limited from April 2012 until December 2019. Prior to joining Cantor, Mr. Pion served for approximately 14 years with the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche Pion holds Series 7 and 27 licenses and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. He received a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany.
Subject: Dan Daviau
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Dan Daviau is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. He was appointed in October, 2015. Dan was was previously Co-Head of Investment Banking at CIBC World Markets and started his career as a securities lawyer with Goodman & Co. He graduated from He holds an MBA from York University, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall/York University and a B.A. (Math and Statistics) from the University of Western Ontario.
Subject: Marcus Freeman
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Marcus Freeman is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Canaccord Genuity (Australia) Limited (Asia-Pacific). He was appointed in February, 2015. He co-founded BGF Equities in 2008. Freeman completed his B. Com and was originally recruited to the graduate program of Price Waterhouse. Some years later he relocated to London, where he worked at Sakura Bank (Foreign Exchange), Rabobank International (Foreign Exchange) and Deutsche Bank (Global Equities). He returned to Australia in 2000 to work in Bell Potter’s equities business for approximately eight years, where he built significant institutional and investment banking relationships before founding BGF Equities.
Subject: Pat Burke
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Pat Burke is the President, Capital Markets of Canaccord Genuity Corp (Canada). he joined the firm in 2015. Prior to joining, Pat served as Global Head of Equity and Co-Head of Global Investment Banking for Scotiabank. In this role, he was responsible for oversight of equity sales, trading, research, prime brokerage, equity capital markets, equity derivatives and investment banking. Before that he was Managing Director and Head of Canadian Equities for Merrill Lynch, having held various roles of increasing responsibility since 2000. From 1990 to 2000, Mr. Burke worked in institutional equity and fixed income for Bank of Montreal.
Subject: Jeff Barlow
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Jeff Barlow is the President of Canaccord Genuity LLC. (US). He was appointed October, 2015. He joined the firm in February 2007. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Managing Director and the Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at First Albany Corporation, where he was responsible for establishing and building the firm’s healthcare practice. He began his career at J.P. Morgan. Barlow received his B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma distinction from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Subject: Nathaniel Stankard
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Nathaniel Stankard is Senior Advisor in the Office of the CEO at FINRA. Prior to joining FINRA, he worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for seven years. He was previously Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in what is now the Global Sustainable Finance Group, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Stankard received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Oberlin College and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Subject: Jonathan Sokobin
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Jonathan Sokobin is the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, oversees the Office of the Chief Economist at FINRA. Previously, Sokobin was Acting Deputy Director, leading the Research Center in the Office of Financial Research at the U.S. Treasury Department. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, he was Acting Director of the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation. Sokobin began his career as a member of the faculty of the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. and MBA in finance from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, and his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Ohio State University.
Subject: Jessica Hopper
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Jessica Hopper is Executive Vice President and Head of Enforcement, responsible for FINRA’s disciplinary actions across the country. Prior to joining FINRA, she was part of Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.’s Legal & Compliance team, where her responsibilities focused on retail sales compliance. Hopper holds a J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law and earned a B.A. from Hillsdale College.
Subject: Michael Hourigan
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Michael Hourigan is the Senior Vice President and Chief Audit Executive. In this role, he directs FINRA’s independent internal audit function, which is responsible for reviewing all aspects of FINRA’s operations. Prior to joining FINRA, Hourigan worked for 10 years at USLICO Corporation as Vice President and Director of Internal Audit. Hourigan graduated from the University of South Carolina with Bachelor of Science and Masters of Accountancy degrees.
Subject: Steve Randich
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Steve Randich is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), oversees technology at FINRA. Previously, Randich served as Co-CIO at Citigroup, and CIO and Global Head of Technology for Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group. Prior to joining Citigroup, he was Executive Vice President of Operations and Technology and CIO at NASDAQ. Randich also served as Executive Vice President and CIO for the Chicago Stock Exchange and was a Managing Principal at IBM Global Services and a Manager at KPMG. He received an undergraduate degree in computer science from Northern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Subject: Bari Havlik
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Bari Havlik is the Executive Vice President, Member Supervision and leads FINRA’s Member Regulation program, which includes surveillance and examination programs for member firms. Previously, she was a Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for The Charles Schwab Corporation. She received her undergraduate degree from DePaul University.
Subject: Thomas Gira
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Thomas Gira is the Executive Vice President, Market Regulation and Transparency Services. Gira is the Executive Vice President of Market Regulation and Transparency Services. He received his law degree from the University of Maryland. Before joining FINRA in 1992, Gira was an Associate General Counsel of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. Prior to that, he was Branch Chief for Options and Derivative Products Regulation within the Division of Market Regulation at the SEC.
