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.

Hanspeter Ackermann, CFA
Hanspeter Ackermann, registered representative, has been in the investment business for nearly twenty-five years. Previously he was President of Deutsche Bank Investment Management Inc., and Chief Investment Officer of the “Germany Funds” (NYSE symbols: GER, GF, and CEE). He was also Chief Investment Officer of Deutsche Bank Private Banking, New York, and the Head of the Investment Management Department of Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. before the merger with Bankers Trust Co. Earlier he spent ten years at Swiss Bank Corporation Portfolio Management International Inc. as a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer in New York.   

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.

Nigel P. Gonsalves
Nigel Gonsalves, registered representative, has over sixteen years work experience including seven years in the investment business. He is a top down focused research analyst and a portfolio strategist with experience in global equity markets. He specializes in applying his work to identifying attractive strategic and tactical investments in global equity markets for institutional investors and managed retail accounts.

Nigel worked at Leeb Brokerage Services as Vice President, Research and Gilford Securities, and H. C. Wainwright & Co as an Analyst.

His formal education includes an MBA/MIM from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management and a Bachelor and Masters of Commerce degree from the University of Bombay. Nigel is an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is a candidate for the CFA level III examination.

Mr. Gonsalves also worked in accounting and auditing with Deloitte and Touche LLP in Bombay for seven years and two years with Motorola Broadband as an Audit Manager before entering the investment business.

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.

Gene Miller
Gene Miller, registered principal, equity trader, has over twenty-five years experience in the investment business. He was Chief Executive Officer of Leeb Brokerage Services Inc., where he spent six years before joining Scarsdale Equities LLC. He has been an equity trader and  institutional salesman variously at Leeb, Broadmark Capital, Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, and ran the trading desk at Robb Peck McCooey Clearing Corporation.

Mr. Miller, raised in New Jersey, received a B.A. from Rutgers University in business and economics.

Sandra Navidi
Sandra is Scarsdale’s General Counsel. In addition, she is engaged in investment banking and institutional sales for natural resource companies. She is also involved in investor relations and business development.

She has been in the investment business for over 9 years. From August 2001 until October 2006 Sandra was General Counsel at Muzinich & Co., an alternative asset management company based in New York City. In addition to her role as legal counsel, she was involved in the marketing and servicing of European investors. From May 1999 until July 2001 Sandra was a manager in the international capital markets department of Deloitte & Touche in Germany.
 

Sandra is qualified to practice law in the State of New York as well as in Germany. She received a law degree from the University of Cologne School of Law and a Master-of-Law degree in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law from Fordham University School of Law.

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.

David Laubach
David Laubach, registered principal, has more than five years experience in the investment business. 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 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.

Melissa J. Fisher
Melissa “Missy” Fisher, registered principal, has been in the investment business for over twenty years which has included buy side, sell side and corporate experience.  She began her career at a money management firm before moving to the sell side. Missy was Treasurer at Thermo Electron Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, which at the time had twenty-three separately traded public subsidiary companies.  Her responsibilities included overseeing all of the pension investment managers, interacting with Wall Street investment analysts from both buy and sell side, and helping to orchestrate and implement the spin out strategy for Thermo Electron.  At Robinson Humphrey, a brokerage firm specializing in research and investment banking for small capitalization stocks, she opened and managed the branch office in Boston, including sales and compliance oversight responsibilities. She opened the Boston branch office for NatWest Securities as a Senior Vice President and was responsible for growing and operating that business in the 1990s, as well as being one of the top producers with clients that included the largest asset management firms in Boston.

She currently serves on the peer review panel for the Department of Defense’s program to grant proposals for government funding of breast cancer research as well on the Advisory Board for The Hope Funds, a philanthropic organization dedicated to funding novel discoveries for the advancement of cancer research.

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.