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William Yeh: Chairman and CEO
William Yeh founded Genesis Securities, LLC in 1999. Genesis is the largest Asian owned broker/dealer that has traded the most Nasdaq volume. Genesis executes about 2-4% of Nasdaq daily volume and 1-1.5% of the NYSE/AMEX daily trading volume. In January 2006, Genesis traded over 1.6 Billion shares.
Genesis and its proprietary trading platform, Laser, has been awarded the prestigious NASDAQ Platinum Certification every quarter since inception of the award in Q1 2004. Laser is currently the only order entry platform certified Platinum. Genesis services professional traders, institutions, hedge funds, and other broker/dealers.
William Yeh was one of the top five Commodity Trading Advisors selected by MAR in 1997. William Yeh, with full fellowship, attended U.C. Berkeley and received MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1982. In 1981, he graduated with top honors in Physics and received Magna Cum Laude with BA in Physics and minor in Math from City University of New York, Queens College. He was the winner of the 1981 Paul Klappa Physics award and was elected to Sigma Xi, the National Scientific Research Society. He co-authored several papers on "Superconductivity."
Mr. William Yeh holds the following licenses: 3, 4, 7, 63, 24, 27, 55.
Mr. William Yeh resides in Mill Neck, NY with his wife and two daughters.
Genesis Securities: www.gndt.com
Senior Managing Directors
Tom Dittmer
Mr. Dittmer is the former Chairman of Refco. He retired from REFCO in 1998. REFCO is a commodities brokerage firm which he founded in 1969 with his stepfather Raymond E. Friedman, now deceased. In credit to his achievements, Dittmer is recognized in the Futures Industry Association "Hall of Fame", referring to him as "one of the legends of the futures industry" as well as citing Refco's success in being one of the first firms to garner an international presence. In 1981, he joined the elite club of thirty-seven dealers who buy Treasury securities for the Federal Reserve.
As a benefactor to education and public service, Mr. Dittmer currently serves on the Board of Directors at Providence St. Mel School on Chicago's west side and on the Sheriff's Council in Santa Barbara, California. Currently, he is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. In the past, he has served on the boards of Direct Relief International and the Lyric Opera in Chicago in addition to supporting the Art Institute of Chicago. His two children, Jason Dittmer and Alexis Dittmer, both reside in Santa Monica, California; his stepson, Robert T. Pittman, resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Dittmer is married to Sandy Hill.
Brad Reifler
Mr. Reifler is the principal founder and Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Pali Holdings, Inc., the group parent of Pali Capital Inc.,
a NASD member firm, Pali International, a FSA registered broker-dealer
in the UK and Pali International Asia, a registered broker-dealer in
Singapore. The Pali Group is a global boutique institutional trading
and investment banking firm focused primarily on a money manager
customer base. Now in its 12th year, Pali is unique in its capacity to
service the execution needs of money managers seamlessly across the
major financial centers around the world.
In 1982 he founded Reifler Trading Corporation, a firm engaged in the
execution of global derivatives. In 1992, Mr. Reifler founded Reifler
Capital Management, a commodity pool advisor focused on commodity-based
and foreign exchange trading strategies. From 1995 until 2000, Mr.
Reifler managed Refco, Inc.'s Institutional Sales Desk where he was
responsible for sales and execution of global derivatives, foreign
exchange, and creating custom investment programs for institutional and
high net worth clients.
Mr. Reifler has served on multiple boards and advisory boards, Majestic
Research; Foresight Research Solutions; Genesis Securities and Root
Markets. Mr. Reifler is also a Trustee of the Millbrook School and
chairs the finance committee.
Mr. Reifler received his degree from Bowdoin College, and his regulatory
licenses include Series 3, 7, 63, and 24.
Mr. Reifler resides in Millbrook, New York with his wife and three children.
Pali Capital: www.palicapital.com
Bert Cohen
Bert Cohen has been a private investor and consultant since 1988. He was one of the founders of Telerate Systems, Inc. in which provides information on the financial markets to institutions via tele-screens and was sold to Dow Jones Corp. in 1990 for $1.2 billion.
From 1973 to 1988, Mr. Cohen was an executive officer of Cantor, Fitzgerald & Co., Inc., Beverly Hills, California, serving as Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors from 1978 to 1988. He is Chairman of the Board of Euram.
Euram: www.euram.com
Paul Chu
Paul C.Y. Chu, a financier and one of the original investors in SINA Corporation, the largest internet portal in China, is a member of the board of directors of the Cathay Life Insurance Company (Taiwan's largest life insurance company), has been a member of the board of directors of Summit National Bank (a public traded company, SBGA) since May 1993, and is the Chairman of the Novax Group of computer software development companies. Novax was organized to provide financial management software such as accounting and point of sale for specific vertical market applicators.
Trained as an attorney at law and certified public accountant, Mr. Chu spent three years from 1976 to 1979 with Ernst & Young as an auditor and tax consultant. From 1980 to 1983, he worked for Amerex Trading Co. as President in charge of its Taiwan operation. From 1983 to 1987 he served as chief of investments for the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan responsible for attracting foreign investment.
Mr. Chu received his Jurist Doctor degree from Pace University Law School and his MBA in finance from Columbia University Business School. He graduated from Soochaw University in Taiwan with a B.A. in Economics.
Summit Bank: www.summitbk.com