Larry Birch
Operations & Sales Executive in Financial Services, specializing in electronic trading.
- Role
- Chief Operating Officer at Think Alpha Securities Llc
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Larry Birch
I am an accomplished operations and sales executive offering extensive experience in…
Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Jan 2019 — Present · New York, NY, US
One of the founding members of a fintech start-up to offer a platform that empowers users to research, build, backtest, and deploy their ideas and real-time trading strategies with immediate dynamic feedback without coding. Platform automates the data wrangling and development aspects of data science, freeing users to focus on ideas. • Design user interface and experience (UI/UX) for strategy building and backtesting components of cloud-based platform, coordinating work of 9 developers.• Formalize an agency brokerage and a SaaS licensing GTM strategies targeting retail investors, financial advisors, institutions, and quantitative traders. • Navigated FINRA broker dealer new member application process; prepared documentation and authored written supervisory procedures (WSPs) including client interaction, business continuity planning (BCP), and anti-money laundering (AML) programs.• Test beta version with 20 quantitative traders and enhance product features with feedback.• Negotiate fund raising activities with 3+ firms to raise $5M. • Perform Chief Operating Officer (COO) oversight including business development, account supervision, trading operations, and technology integration with clearing and order management firms. • Manage relations with 12 vendors for order management system, clearing, communication archiving, and know your customer (KYC).• Develop pricing structure through competitive and revenue analysis, financial modeling, and scenarios.
Education
NYU Stern School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
The Wharton School
Bachelor of Science - BS
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