GENERAL MANAGEMENT
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Anthony B. Low-Beer
Tony Low-Beer, member, registered principal, has been in the investment business for over thirty-five years. He was a registered principal of Brimberg & Co., L.P., a broker/dealer, from 1998 to 2005, where he managed discretionary accounts, an activity in which he has been engaged for over twenty-five years at several broker/dealers. He began his career as a security analyst with Lord Abbett, later moving to Neuberger Berman and  L.F. Rothschild where he received industry-wide recognition by being elected several times to the Institutional Investor All-Star Research Team in railroads and honorable mention in airlines. At various times he was engaged in investment banking activities and, among other assignments, was a leading influence in bringing America West Airlines to the public market. An investment generalist, he has a reputation among his peers as being an original thinker.

Mr. Low-Beer received a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1971, and a B.A. in philosophy from Brown University in 1965. He was raised in New York and Italy, where he spent nine years.

Wade N. Black
Wade Black, member, registered principal, has more than ten years of experience managing operations for broker/dealers and investment advisory firms.  Mr. Black began his career at Brimberg & Co., L.P., in 1994 as Manager of Operations, left to form Leeb Brokerage Services, Inc. in 1998, where he stayed until January of 2004 as Chief Financial Officer, having successfully built an institutional agency trading desk.

Mr. Black graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics from Columbia University in 1999, and earned a master's degree in business administration from Columbia Business School in 2005.  He is also a trustee of the Mary McDowell Center for Learning, a Quaker school for learning-disabled children in Brooklyn, New York. 

Rüdiger H. Beutell
Rudy Beutell, member, has been in the investment business for over twenty years. In 1997 he co-founded AMERIKA DIREKT, a firm that originates and securitizes commercial mortgages to be issued to European investors. Prior to that time he managed the international fixed income desk at DG Bank's (now DZ Bank) New York office. From 1992 to 1995 he had been with Deutsche Bank in New York. After assisting in the administration of Deutsche Bank's U.S. real estate funds, and REITs business, he traded U.S. mortgage backed securities. From 1988 to 1992 he was a financial audit manager for Deloitte & Touche, specializing in banks, and brokers. Prior to that, from 1986 to 1987 he was a marketing manager for Nixdorf Computer's line of Unix office solutions.

Mr. Beutell graduated from the University of Paderborn with an M.B.A. (Dipl. Kaufmann), and a B.A. (Dipl. Betriebwswirt) in business and finance. He was born and raised in Paderborn, Germany.

Regina McCormack
Regina McCormack, member, has been Anthony B. Low-Beer's factotem for over twenty years. She assists in the administration of Tony's discretionary accounts business by monitoring and processing his trades. She began her career as a registered representative with Haller + Stieglitz & Co., later moving to Advest & Co. as operations manager. She joined Tony Low-Beer in 1985, and Brimberg & Co. with him in 1998, subsequently accompanying him to Scarsdale Equities LLC upon its formation.

Ms. McCormack received a B.A. in business finance from Baruch University in 1974, later earning an M.S. in special education at Adelphi University. She was raised in New York City.

Anne M. Brimberg
Anne Brimberg, member, was the wife of the late Robert H. Brimberg, a founder with his brother  of Brimberg & Co. in 1956, and senior partner until his death in 1993. Anne played an important role with her husband in building Brimberg & Co. through hosting and supervising business functions for that firm for over thirty years. From 1993 to 2005 she was a limited partner of Brimberg & Co. in her own right.

Ms. Brimberg received a B.A. from the school of business from Simmons College in 1954. She is a native of New York City, where she has been on the auxiliary board and a long-time volunteer at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Robert E. Backof
Rob Backof, registered principal, equity trader, has some twenty years experience in the investment business. He was an equity trader and institutional sales trader at Leeb Brokerage Services Inc., after spending seven years at Banc of America Securities LLC, four years at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. and seven years at Robb Peck McCooey Clearing Corporation in a similar capacity.

Mr. Backof received a B.S. from City University of New York in finance and economics and attended graduate school at Baruch College.

N. Scott Fine and William A. Jolly
Scott Fine, registered principal, has been in the investment business for over 25 years. Scott and Bill Jolly, registered principal, his partner, started their own broker–dealer, Fine Equities, in 1996.  Their focus has been in healthcare and consumer products.  Their projects include co-managing the IPO for Central European Distribution Corporation (NASDAQ: CEDC), multiple private placements for Interleukin Genetics (AMEX: ILI), multiple private placements for Med-Design Corporation (recently acquired) and multiple financings for Dotmenu.com, a private company. They play an active, on-going advisory role in their client companies and currently sit on the board of two companies.

Prior to 1996, Scott spent his Wall Street career working for several firms including Kidder-Peabody and First Albany in both corporate finance and managing accounts for high net worth and institutional clients.  In 1993, Scott originated and led the IPO for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR).

Prior to 1996, Bill Jolly spent his career in consumer products, working for Procter & Gamble and Scott Paper.  He spent a significant portion of his career in Asia running businesses throughout the region.  Bill met Scott when they were both living in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Bill was President of Procter & Gamble Indonesia, in the early 1990’s.

Ben Gaynes, Jr.
Ben Gaynes, registered representative, has over fifty years experience in the investment business. He has been a political economist/analyst for over sixty years. He was a pioneer along with Robert H. Brimberg (in whose honor Scarsdale Equities LLC is named) in bringing Wall Street to Washington in the 1960s. He conducted annual two-day Washington seminars for groups of institutional investors for twenty-five years. He has been providing analyses of domestic and international political and economic issues to institutional investors continuously since 1951. He continues to give speeches and provide consulting services to investment organizations and industrial corporations.

Mr. Gaynes graduated from Yale University in 1946 and did graduate work at Stanford University. He worked in his first political campaign in 1946. He was raised in New York City where he graduated from The Taft School, Watertown, CT.

Rebecca Lopez
Rebecca Lopez assists in the securities operations and administration of the firm. From 2002 to 2005 she worked at Brimberg & Co. prior to joining Scarsdale Equities LLC.

Ms. Lopez is a graduate of Kingsborough Community College with an associate degree in business administration.

William F. Matlack
Bill Matlack, registered representative, has over nine years experience in the investment business. He has been a research analyst, institutional salesman, and investment banker in mining equities with Aegis Capital, BMO Nesbitt Burns, Sanford Bernstein, and Salomon Smith Barney. His industry experience includes twenty years as a geologist in mineral exploration, primarily with Santa Fe Pacific Gold and Gold Fields, where he was involved in several world-class gold discoveries.  He has also recently used his exploration background to be the finder of projects for junior start-up companies, most notably Mt. Hope, Nevada molybdenum for Idaho General Mines and Saddle Hills, Mongolia uranium for Western Prospector Group.

Mr. Matlack has a B.A. Geology from Carleton College and a M.S. Geology from the University of Minnesota.

Heather M. Fitzgerald
Heather Fitzgerald, registered representative, has been with Scarsdale Equities since its inception.  She is responsible for managing client account documentation requirements in compliance with the NASD, and ensuring proper and efficient settlement of institutional and retail clients’ trades.  Before joining Scarsdale Equities, she was with Brimberg & Co. for four years in operations. 

Mrs. Fitzgerald graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University with a B.S. in business with a concentration in finance. She is originally from Indiana and moved to New York in the fall of 2000. 

Samir Si-Ahmed  
Samir Si-Ahmed, institutional sales trader, has been with Scarsdale Equities since 2006. He is responsible for executing trades for and maintaining relationships with institutional clients. Mr. Si-Ahmed began his career at Merrill Lynch in 1998 as a sales assistant for a team of financial consultants. He joined an emerging market hedge fund in 2000 as a portfolio manager for Asia and Latin America. Before joining Scarsdale Equities, he was an institutional sales trader at Leeb Brokerage Services for four years.

Mr. Si-Ahmed is a graduate of Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in economics, with a course concentration in Monetary and Banking. He was raised in Paris, France.

Jyoti Aggarwala
Jyoti Aggarwala brings twenty three years of finance and institutional sales experience to Scarsdale Equities LLC. Jyoti is a skilled marketer of sophisticated financial services and products and is especially adept at developing long-term relationships for clients and the firm. Jyoti has a natural ability for being able to tap into new markets for capital, both in the U.S. and overseas. Jyoti brings to Scarsdale Equities LLC a global investor network. She has strong relationships with top-tier institutional investors, including Corporate and Public Pension Funds, Endowments & Foundations, Consultants/Gatekeepers, Fund-of-Funds and Family Offices.
Prior to joining Scarsdale Equities LLC Jyoti had founded Devi Capital, a private equity fund raising advisory firm. Prior to that Jyoti was a partner with Thomas Capital Group. Her primary role at Thomas Capital Group was marketing of client funds and business development. She was responsible for the firm’s marketing efforts in the US primarily in the northeast, in Asia, and in Europe.
Jyoti’s career prior to Thomas Capital Group included work with Nomura Securities, Peregrine Brokerage, Inc. and Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., Inc., all leading international and domestic brokerage firms. She began her career with Ladenburg, Thalmann as an equity analyst covering the domestic consumer retail sector. After five years, she shifted her focus to institutional sales, marketing South Asian and SE Asian equities to U.S. fund managers for Peregrine and later, Nomura. Immediately prior to joining Thomas Capital Group, she worked as an independent consultant, advising a family office on hedge fund management strategy and manager selection.

Jyoti holds Series 7, 63 and 24 registrations. She earned an MBA in Finance from Bentley College and a BA (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University. Jyoti has conversational knoweldge of Italian and several Indian dialects, including Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu.

David Laubach
David Laubach, registered principal, has more than five years experience in the investment business. Dave attends most idea lunches hosted by Scarsdale Equities, where he takes notes on behalf of the attending participants. He began his career at Leeb Brokerage Services Inc. in trading and operation before joining Scarsdale Equities LLC in the trading department.  After a brief stint as a Compliance Officer at Penson Financial Services Inc. in Dallas, he returned to Scarsdale Equities LLC.

Mr. Laubach, raised in Dallas, received a B.A. from New York University in economics.

David Sans PhD
David Sans applies his broad industry knowledge to drive partnership opportunities in life sciences.  His significant experience as a marketing/sales and business development executive for leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies spans more than twenty years and covers assignments throughout the United States, Europe and Middle East. Prior to joining Scarsdale, David was the Senior Director of Corporate Development at ImClone Systems, Inc. He previously served as Managing Director at Pfizer providing strategic analytics to sales, marketing, clinical development and business development.  At Pfizer he served on the Global Management Science Directorship , evaluating acquisition and alliance opportunities, reengineering projects and facilitating change management teams in oncology, ophthalmology and CNS. His experience also includes executive international assignments setting up international businesses and identifying strategic growth opportunities for Cilag, JNJ and Jansen Pharmaceutical.  David has completed more than twenty transactions, mergers and divestitures and is engaged in healthcare investment banking opportunities in diagnostics, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals.  David holds a masters degree in life science from Technische Universitat in Berlin, a masters degree in international business from Wharton School of Business, a Ph.D. in life sciences from ETH in Zurich and an MBA in finance and business law from ESADE in Barcelona and Fordham University in New York.

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Marc Manuel
Marc joined Scarsdale Equities after a successful career as an entrepreneur and consultant that started in the healthcare field based upon relationships fostered while at GE Medical Systems and culminated in the private equity sector.  During his tenure in the healthcare field, Marc founded, built, and later sold health-related businesses and established several successful joint ventures.  Marc has extensive experience in capital formation structures, having raised equity and debt financing for emerging and lower middle-market companies from angels and institutional investors, acting as both principal and agent.  By sharing his entrepreneurial experiences, he supported companies facing rapid growth and operational execution challenges.  Many engagements included providing M&A services to middle-market companies, assuming the role of CFO of several businesses including a $50 million physician practice and being named Vice President of Strategy of a $300 mm insurance company.  Immediately prior to joining Scarsdale Equities, Marc was assisting executive leadership teams of private equity portfolio companies in the aviation arena, alternative energy, and oil distribution space.  Having built startup companies, Marc is well aware of the rigorous challenges inherent in operating a business. He believes in treating a client’s company as if it was his own and understands the importance of communication and aligning the interests of various stakeholders. Marc exhibits a keen focus and tireless devotion to every project in which he engages. Marc earned a baccalaureate degree, cum laude, from George Washington University and an MBA from Fordham University.

David A. Giannini, CFA
David Giannini, registered representative, has over twenty years experience in the investment business. He spent nearly ten years with Sanders Morris Harris in institutional sales, after stints with Jefferies & Company, Inc., Simmons & Company International also in Houston, and seven years with Kidder Peabody & Co. Incorporated in New York. A generalist, in recent years he has specialized in oil and gas and related industries, and in metals mining. His corporate experience included three years in underground mining at Falconbridge Nickel Mines in the early 1970s, two years with the Government of Canada negotiating native land claims in the Western Artic, and several years in the 1980s in corporate law practice in Toronto and Sydney, Australia.

 Mr. Giannini studied law, with a B.A. and LL.B. from University of Western Ontario, and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. He was raised in Canada and still plays hockey.

William C. O'Malley, Jr.
Bill O’Malley, registered representative, has over ten years experience in the investment business. He spent five years with Sanders Morris Harris, Inc. in institutional sales, and subsequently three with Sterne Agee and Leach, Inc., both in Houston. In recent years he has specialized in oil and gas and related industries, both as an institutional salesman and an investment banker. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he spent five years with KPMG Peat Marwick LLP in KPMG’s International Tax practice and four years with Andersen Consulting, a separate business unit of Arthur Andersen and Company.

Mr. O’Malley was trained in accounting and tax matters, and received a M.B.A. in Accounting and a M.S. in Taxation from Fordham University Graduate School of Business. Mr. O’Malley received his B.A. in psychology and pre-medicine from The University of Texas at Austin.  Mr. O’Malley also attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C where he played on the varsity baseball team.  Mr. O’Malley enjoys golf, baseball, football, basketball and hunting.

Lori Bennett
Lori Bennett, equity trader, has been in the investment business for over twenty years. She joined the firm in May 2006 after having served as a Vice President, Institutional Trading, at Sanders Morris Harris and a predecessor firm for nearly fifteen years, where she was responsible for serving domestic and international accounts. She entered the investment business on the buy side with Mesirow Asset Management where she began as a portfolio administrator before being responsible for all equity and fixed income trading for its group of mutual funds and managed accounts.

She graduated from Alma College, Alma, Michigan, with a B.A. in Business Administration/International Business.

Anthony S. Loumidis
Anthony Loumidis, registered representative, has some five years experience in the investment business. He joined the firm upon its founding in 2005 in institutional sales. His experience includes positions with Thermo Electron Corporation as National Sales Manager for Thermo Capital Financial Services, Manager of Investor Relations, and Manager of Business Development of Tecomet, a subsidiary of Thermo Electron. He retains positions as President of Alexandros Partners LLC, a firm providing consulting services to early stage entrepreneurial ventures, and Chief Financial Officer of American DG, Inc., an energy services company.

Mr. Loumidis received a B.B.A. from American College of Greece, whee he was raised, and  an M.B.A. from Northeastern University.