Joseph A. Schenk - Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Schenk brings a wealth of experience in business building to Pali.  Prior to Pali, Joe was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jefferies Group, Inc., where he oversaw the growth of Jefferies from a couple of hundred to more than 2,000 professionals internationally, and led the firm to grow into a diversified investment banking and securities firm with operations throughout the world.

Richard Anthony - Head of Global Derivatives

Richard is a Senior Managing Director, the Head of Global Derivatives, and a Member of the Board.  He has in excess of 21 years’ experience structuring optimal option strategies designed to meet the goals of institutional investors.  His team operates from New York and London.

Barbara Bishop - General Counsel

Ms. Bishop has been practicing law for thirty-two years and spent the prior twenty-three years at Bear Stearns.  While at Bear, Barbara was most recently a Senior Managing Director in the Legal and Compliance Department.  She headed the Futures, Foreign Exchange, and Employment Practices, handling transactional, contractual and advisory work on a global basis.  Barbara was at various times a member of Bear Steans’ Internal Audit Committee, the Retail Products Committee, and the Global Compliance Committee.

Kevin Fisher - President and Co-head of U.S. Equities

Prior to joining Pali in June of 1998, Mr. Fisher was an institutional sales trader at Cantor Fitzgerald for five years where he facilitated and executed equity orders for fifty institutions.  Kevin’s responsibilities at Pali include oversight of all equity trades in the United States.  Additionally, Kevin coordinates and directs morning and weekly sales meetings focused on gathering and providing information to the sales force.

Derrelle Janey - Executive Vice President, Head of Strategic Planning

Mr. Janey is directly responsible for and supports the CEO in managing and executing on the corporate strategy of the firm. Derrelle started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and held several assignments including Senior Economic Analyst in the Research and Market Analysis Group; Secretary to the New York Payments Risk Committee; and Federal Reserve representative to the G-7 central bank effort to analyze risk in Latin American banking and securities settlement markets.

John Mullin - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Mullin has over twenty-four years of accounting and financial management experience. John’s broad CFO experience has included work on initial public offerings as well as accounting/financial due diligence and post-acquisition due diligence for numerous acquisitions. Most recently, John served as the CFO of Macquarie Holdings (USA), Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Limited.

Mike Towey - Co-head of U.S. Equities

Mr. Towey oversees and manages all aspects of the US cash equities execution and research functions in conjunction with Kevin Fisher.  Mike has worked in the equities arena for in excess of twelve years.  Prior to joining Pali, Mike was at CIBC World Markets where he was the Head of US Equity Trading, and prior to that was the Co-head of US Equity Research.  Prior to CIBC, Mike was Director of Research at Schwab SoundView Capital Markets.