Who We Are:
UNX Leadership
Management
UNX is lead by a management team with extensive experience in strategic trading,
software design and market structure.
Scott Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, President
As Chief Executive Officer and President of UNX, Scott Harrison is responsible for the day-to-day management of the firm, including all operating and support groups. Mr. Harrison is also a member of UNX's Board of Directors, and serves as co-Chairman of the firm's Operating Committee. Prior to his role as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Harrison served UNX as Chief Operating Officer.
Before joining UNX, Mr. Harrison acquired more than 12 years of senior level management, sales, and technology experience at Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG). In his most recent role at ITG, Mr. Harrison was a Director of Global Trading Products in charge of expanding the company's trading applications and algorithmic services into global markets. Before that, he held several positions at ITG, one of which was Director of Product Management for the firm's equity trading products. In this role he oversaw the management and development of ITG's Triton and QuantEX product lines.
Prior to his career in finance, Mr. Harrison was an accomplished architect working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), one of the foremost architectural firms in the world. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Louisiana State University.
Brady Ballentine, Managing Director, Brokerage Operations and Product
Development
Brady oversees the product design, delivery and support teams at UNX, including
Product Development, Technical Sales, Electronic Trading Services and Brokerage
Operations. Prior to joining the company, Brady provided project management and
consulting services as a principal with a boutique accounting and consulting
firm, and as a senior consultant with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting.
Brady is a graduate of Butler University with a Bachelor of Science degree in
finance.
Leslie Boni, Managing Director, Quantitative Strategies and Performance
Analytics
Leslie is head of Quantitative Strategies and Performance Analytics at UNX.
Prior to working at UNX, Leslie served as a visiting academic scholar at the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a finance professor at the University
of New Mexico, and as a lecturer at the University of Southern California. Her
research has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis; the Journal of Financial Markets; the Journal of Money, Credit, and
Banking; the Financial Analysts Journal; and she has authored several Brookings
Institute Papers on Financial Services. Prior to earning a Ph.D. in finance
from the University of Colorado at Boulder, she worked for 15 years in the oil
industry as chemical engineer, trader, risk manager, and consultant. Leslie
also holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Northwestern University.
Jay Hatho, Managing Director, Engineering
Jay oversees the product engineering team at UNX. Working closely with the
product development group, Jay is responsible for building and delivering the
UNX technology products. Prior to joining the company, Jay was director of
engineering and a program manager at Compaq Computer Corporation for over five
years. Jay earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from
California State University at Fullerton.
Jonathan Rose, Director, Technology Operations
Jonathan oversees the technology platforms for trading and business operations
at UNX. Previously, he served as director of technology at Epoch Partners, a
technology focused investment bank, where he was responsible for the
development and operation of the firm's systems infrastructure to support
banking, research and trading platforms. After the acquisition of Epoch
Partners by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Jonathan held the title of vice president
for the Epoch Equities Technology group at Goldman Sachs, and led the efforts
to integrate Epoch's technology into the Goldman Sachs infrastructure. Prior to
Epoch Partners, Jonathan spent nine years at Charles Schwab & Co., where he
held a variety of technical and management positions across a number of
technology disciplines, including management of the firm's corporate technical
infrastructure.
Stephen Squire, General Counsel
Stephen is responsible for the firm's Legal and Compliance Department,
overseeing all corporate and regulatory issues. Mr. Squire has over 15 years of
experience in the regulatory area of the securities industry, both on the
regulation side as well as working for broker/dealers and registered investment
advisors in the head legal-compliance role. He is a member of the California
Bar.
Guy Woelk, Chief Financial Officer
Guy is a seasoned financial, administrative and compliance executive with over
20 years experience in the financial services industry as a chief financial and
administrative officer for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
Guy served on the NASDR District 10 Business conduct committee and as treasurer
of the Security Industry Association's New York chapter, and holds a CPA
certificate. He has an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and
post-graduate work in Accounting at the University of Texas.
Board of Directors
The UNX Board of Directors is comprised of professionals with experience at some
of the world's most respected businesses and academic institutions.
André Perold, Chairman of the Board, UNX Holdings, Inc.
André is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at the Harvard
Business School. He presently serves as the Senior Associate Dean, Director of
Faculty Recruiting; and he previously served as Chair of the Finance Faculty
and Director of Research. He teaches courses in investment management and
capital markets in the MBA program, where he has won a number of teaching
awards. He also teaches in a variety of executive education programs.
André's research is currently focused on questions relating to stock
market structure and liquidity, risk management and capital allocation within
financial firms and hedge funds, and implementation costs within investment
organizations. He has authored numerous articles and case studies, and he is
co-author of the books, The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective
and Cases in Financial Engineering: Studies of Applied Financial Innovation.
André is particularly well-known for his pioneering work on the
measurement of transaction costs (the "implementation shortfall") and
for the development of new approaches for managing investment portfolios. He is
the developer of a widely-used algorithm for portfolio construction.
André presently serves on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts
Journal. He is also a director, trustee and advisory board member of a variety
of investment and other organizations.
Matt Michelsen, Vice Chairman of the Board, UNX, Inc.
Matt Michelsen is Vice Chairman of UNX, Inc. Previously, he was founder and
principal of Embarcadero Securities, which merged with UNX in May 2002. Matt
brings a decade of experience working in the hedge fund community and is
instrumental in new business development opportunities for UNX.
A former paratrooper in the United States Army Airborne Division, Matt currently
serves on the National Board of Trustees for the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and
volunteers his time to a number of other philanthropic organizations. Matt
holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island.
Michael Dura
Mr. Dura, a 25 year veteran of the financial services industry, has held senior
management and operations positions at a number of leading financial
institutions. He held the positions of Chief Operating Officer; Managing
Director- Head of Equity Research, Sales & Trading; and Joint Group Managing
Director at Schroder & Co. Inc., where he was the senior officer with operating
responsibility for the North America & European securities business as well as
Chairman of the Operating Committee. Mr. Dura was President of Correspondent
Services Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Financial, which was
acquired by National Financial Services, a Fidelity Investments company. He was
also a member of the NASD National Advisory Board in 1996.
Don N. Aquilano, Managing Director, Gazelle TechVentures
Don Aquilano is a managing director at Gazelle TechVentures, where he oversees
a portfolio of businesses in the financial services and technology industries.
Mr. Aquilano is a member of the Indiana Technology Partnership and is a director
at Rubicon Technology, Inc., and freightPro. Prior to working at Gazelle, he
was a principal at the Fox Group, a venture capital and management consulting
company; manager of strategy for the Americas and Caribbean at Guinness PLC
(Diageo PLC); and a strategy consultant at the Boston Group. Additionally, Mr.
Aquilano held various technology operations management positions in the Circuit
Technology Group at Hewlett Packard Corporation.
He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, with a focus in technology,
production and operations, and a BS from the University of Arizona, where he
graduated magna cum laude.
Robert M. Belke, CFA, Principal, Lovell Minnick Partners
Robert is a Principal of Lovell Minnick Partners ("LMP"), an independent
private equity firm providing buyout and growth capital to developing companies
in the global financial services industry. From offices in Los Angeles and New
York, LMP manages partnerships totaling over $250 million for qualified private
and institutional investors. Robert joined LMP in 2000 and led the due
diligence and analysis efforts for investments in UNX, Centurion Group Inc.,
Westcap Investors LLC, and Duff & Phelps LLC. Prior to joining LMP, Robert was
an Associate in the Private Equity Group at TIAA-CREF where he completed ten
private equity transactions totaling $85 million across a broad range of
industries. His experience in private equity ranges from venture capital
investing in technology companies, to investing in middle-market leveraged
buyout transactions. Prior to TIAA-CREF, Robert was a Senior Analyst at
Wilshire Associates where he was responsible for assisting portfolio managers
in their use of analytical portfolio management tools.
Robert received an MBA with honors in Finance and Accounting from the University
of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and
Accounting from the University of Wisconsin. Robert is also a member of the
Boards of Directors of Denali Advisors and Duff & Phelps.
Bob Donovan, Former CEO, Instinet Clearing Corp.
With over 35 years of experience at leading financial services companies, Bob
is an industry veteran. As the former CEO of Instinet Clearing Corp., he was
responsible for the firm's operations and strategic development worldwide.
Prior to joining Instinet, Bob spent 21 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
serving as Senior Vice President of clearance and settlement. There, he played
a major role in growing the company's global operational capabilities for
equities, fixed income, prime brokerage, stock loans, and customer service. Bob
was instrumental in developing Goldman's East Asia operations, helping to open
the firm's Tokyo office in the mid-eighties. Bob's deep knowledge of financial
service operations extends to an additional 11 years of experience as Director
of Operations for the broker-dealer and asset management divisions of Legg
Mason, where he led an operations team overseeing 120 branches with 1,200
financial advisors. Bob also served as a member of the board of directors of
Legg Mason Wood Walker, the broker-dealer subsidiary of Legg Mason.
Complementing this breadth of business experience, Bob has been involved in a
number of industry initiatives, including membership on the Board of Mortgage
Backed Securities Clearance Corp., the Options Clearing Corp. Roundtable
Committee, and the NYSE Arbitration Committee.
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