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Managing Director
New Harbor Venture PartnersManaging Director
Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2022United StatesNew Harbor Venture Partners is a registered Broker/Dealer, we've been raising institutional capital for venture-backed life science, agriculture and environmental science companies for 21 years, we have 51 deals to our credit and raised more than $700M in new investment capital for our clients.
Director of Alternative Markets
International Securities Exchange (ISE)Director of Alternative Markets
Jan. 2006 - Jan. 2011As the Director of the Alternative Markets division at the ISE we used the Longitude pari-mutual trading platform to allow institutional investors to speculate or hedge risk in markets without an underlying cash market like: weather risk, economic data risk (like announcements in the level of non-farm payrolls, CPI or crude oil inventories). I guided the regulatory approval process, negotiated clearing service agreements and licensing agreements with key partners. I also conducted the private placement of equity capital in the Longitude Trading Platform - this raise was over subscribed by Venture Capital and Private Equity Investors!
Futures & Options Trader - Market Maker
MEK Commodities, LLCFutures & Options Trader - Market Maker
Jan. 1981 - Jan. 1998United StatesI developed a floor brokerage and risk advisory business as a member of AMEX, NYFE, FINEX and Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange, specializing in Fx, Fixed Income and Equity Derivative trading and market making. My clients included Private Equity and Hedge Funds. I created computer controlled trading systems with integrated risk management and capital allocation modules for complex futures & options portfolios. I was directly responsible for P&L decisions and investment performance that exceeded 34% annually.
Saturation Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine
Sub Sea InternationalSaturation Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine
Jan. 1975 - Jan. 1982Aster graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Chemical Engineering degree, I started my career as a Commercial Saturation Diver in the North Sea as a life support technician. Within 6 months I was promoted to Diver doing surface diving (on air in 110 feet of water) involving debris clearance, underwater welding and construction. In less than one year I was promoted to Lead Diver routinely working in 480 feet of water (helium & oxygen gas mixture) on the Saturation Diving Team from the derrick barge Thor in the Fourties Field in the UK Sector. I also worked on the Ninnian Central Platform and on the Semi-Submersible Platform the Borgland Dolphin in 580 feet of water. In the last years of my career I ran surface diving operations on the Occidential Platform - Piper A.

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