Keynotes
Morning Keynote [9:30—10:15]
Marc Lasry, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group
Mr. Lasry is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group. He is also co-founder of Amroc Investments, LLC (“Amroc”). Distressed investing has been the focus of his professional career for over 22 years. Prior to operating Amroc as an independent entity, Mr. Lasry managed capital for Amroc Investments, L.P. Mr. Lasry and Amroc Investments, L.P. were affiliated with Acadia Partners L.P., an investment partnership whose general partners include Keystone, Inc. (an investment partnership firm that was associated with the Robert Bass Group, Inc.), American Express Company and the Equitable Life Assurance Society of America. Prior to that, Mr. Lasry was Co–Director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company. Prior to that time, he served as Director of the Private Debt Department at Smith Vasiliou Management Company. Mr. Lasry also clerked for the Honorable Edward Ryan, former Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Lasry graduated with a B.A. in History from Clark University (1981) and received a J.D. from New York Law School (1984).
Afternoon Keynote [1:30—2:15]
Mark B. Fisher, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, MBF Clearing Corp.
Mark B. Fisher is Founder/CEO of MBF Clearing Corp. In addition to his leadership role of the firm’s 150+ team members, Mark is an influential member of the futures industry at large, a globally-respected professional trader, a guest speaker at industry conferences, and the best-selling author of “The Logical Trader: Applying A Method to The Madness”, the dissertation to the ACD Method®.
An avid student of financial market dynamics since his early youth (his first job at age 12 was a ‘runner’ on the floor of the COMEX), Mark attended The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business (summa cum laude 1982), where he also earned his MBA in Finance/Accounting. While completing his degrees in an accelerated program, Mark ‘moonlighted’ as an independent member of New York’s COMEX; at the age of twenty-one, he was the youngest ever to trade in the silver futures pit, one of 1980’s most volatile marketplaces.
The ground-breaking research studies that Mark initiated while attending Wharton, combined with his extensive experience trading the world’s most vibrant markets led to Mark’s developing the ACD Method®; a unique and highly disciplined approach to trading virtually any market. The ACD Method® is the essential tool used by traders around the world, including the 75+ elite members of The Fisher Proprietary Trading Group, a private trading house engaged in a wide menu of products and marketplaces throughout the globe.
Mark’s continuous focus on quantitative trading applications has more recently led to his developing a revolutionary commodities index product whose underlying design addresses industry-wide concerns associated with “the roll effect”. The patent-pending ‘formula’ is the foundation for a basket of commodities indices, and provides a solution to the historic challenges and inherent costs that market participants incur in the course of rolling-over hedged positions in monthly and quarterly futures contracts. The index structure that Mark has developed introduces wide-ranging benefits for institutional and professional futures market participants, including the ability to secure pure alpha returns.
Mark is equally-renowned on and off Wall Street for his philanthropy, and he’s dedicated to continuously setting new standards of giving by contributing significant time and financial resources to a number of important charities and civic organizations. Through annual teaching seminars, and through personal contributions to a variety of philanthropic organizations, Mark is responsible for having donated millions of dollars to needy enterprises throughout the globe.
An active community leader, Mark plays a guiding role for the Long Island Lightning Basketball Organization, an AAU-member and non-profit dedicated to the development of youth-oriented sports. The Lightning agenda encompasses a wide range of programs supporting hundreds of boys and girls as they seek to improve their athletic skills through organized training, coaching, mentoring, and participating in nationally-accredited tournament activities throughout the United States. More than 100 young men and women participating in the Lightening program have received college scholarships.
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