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Robert A. Schwartz is Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University
Distinguished Professor in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Before
joining the Baruch faculty
in 1997, he was Professor of Finance and Economics and Yamaichi Faculty Fellow
at New York University's Leonard
N. Stern School of Business, where he had been a member of the faculty
since 1965. Professor Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. His
research is in the area of financial economics, with a primary focus on the
structure of securities markets. He has published over 50 refereed journal articles and fifteen books,
including The Equity Trader Course (co-authored with Reto Francioni and Bruce Weber) Wiley & Sons, 2006,
Equity Markets in Action: The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure and Trading, Wiley & Sons(co-authored with Reto Francioni) Wiley & Sons, 2004, and Reshaping the Equity Markets: A Guide for the 1990s, Harper
Business, 1991 (reissued by Business One Irwin, 1993). He has served as a
consultant to various market centers including the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange, Instinet, the Arizona Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse, and the Bolsa Mexicana. From April 1983 to April 1988, he was an
associate editor of The
Journal of Finance, and he is currently an associate editor of the Review
of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Review of
Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, and The Journal of
Entrepreneurial Finance & Business Ventures, and is a member of the
advisory board of International Finance and The Journal of Trading. In December 1995, Professor Schwartz was
named the first chairman of Nasdaq's
Economic Advisory Board, and he served on the EAB until Spring 1999.
He is developer, with Bruce Weber, of the trading and market structure simulation, TraderEx (http://www.etraderex.net/).
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Burce W. Weber is a Professor of Information Management at the London
Business School, where he teaches MBA and executive courses on IT
management, and financial market technology and trading. He is Director of the
school's new institute of Technology, which will collaborate with University
College, London on technology management teaching and research. From
1999 to 2003, he was Associate Professor and Director of the Subotnick Financial
Services Center
at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City
University of New York. He has an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard
University, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania. His research examines IT's
impacts on organizational performance, and next-generation financial
technologies, in particular, securities market trading mechanisms. His publications
have appeared in information systems and management science journals, and he is
an editorial board member of Information Systems Research, Journal
of MIS, and Electronic Markets. He is co-developer,
with Robert A. Schwartz, of the market trading
model used for the Nasdaq "HeadTrader"
game.
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Gregory M. Sipress is Head of Software Development at TraderEx LLC. He joined TraderEx in May of 2006.
Prior to joining TraderEx LLC, Gregory worked as a consultant, building trading systems and financial models.
He has presented executive training programs on trading and microstucture, participated in seminars for industry
professionals and organized seminars for finance faculty. He is co-author with Robert Schwart and Bruce Weber of "Mastering The Art
of Equity Trading through Simulation : The TraderEx Course" Wiley Trading, June 2010. He was an adjunct lecturer in
Computer Information System as Baruch College from 2000 through 2006. He has an
B.S. in Mathematics from the State University at Albany, an M.S. in Business Computer Information Systems from the
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY, an M.A. in Computer Science from
Boston University, and an
M.S. in Financial Engineering from Baruch College/Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. Gregory currently resides in Brooklyn
with his wife, Lisa and son, Hayden.
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William H. Abrams received a BME in Mechanical
Engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and an MBA in Finance & Banking from Wharton. In 1962, he
became a member of the New York
Stock Exchange. Then in 1965 he joined the specialist firm Stern Brothers,
where he became a managing partner in 1975. Mr. Abrams has served on the Board
of Directors of the NYSE. He
retired in 1999.
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