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Marcos PAGANI covers Momentum's top US institutional clients and drives the business development efforts.

Marcos began his career with Refco Securities in 2004 as an Institutional Equity Sales Trader. He joined GFI Group in 2005 and served for 3 years as one of the firm's top Institutional Equity producers.

In April 2008 he set out to found Momentum Trading Partners with Lionel Mellul.



Lionel Mellul covers Momentum's top European institutional clients and drives the business development efforts.

Lionel has been working in the financial markets for in excess of fifteen years and started his career as a market maker on FX-spot and derivative-markets at Natexis prior joining CIC where he co-headed the desk until the end of 2000. He then decided to move towards equity brokerage activities and joined Instinet. He then co-ran the Institutional Equity desks at Refco and GFI in New York, trading cash and derivatives mainly for major European banks.

In April 2008 he set out to found Momentum Trading Partners with Marcos Pagani.



Mr. Landano serves as president and compliance director for Momentum Trading Partners. He has been involved in the origination and strategic development of four New York based broker dealers and brings over 25 years administrative, supervisory and regulatory experience in the securities industry. Mr. Landano graduated from St. John's University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.



Prior to joining Momentum, Garrett traded an event driven strategy at John Levin & Co, and built and managed the original trading desk as a quantitative PM/Trader of one of the largest Stat Arb portfolios at Millennium Partners hedge fund in NY. He is a noted trading instructor at the NY Institute of Finance, designed and built trading desks for brokers and funds from Connecticut to Florida, then later joined Lehman Brothers Equities Division's Townsend Analytics to work on institutionalizing the RealTick trading platform with clients across the US, Europe, Asia and in Brazil. Garrett is deeply involved in the quantitative low, high/ultra-high frequency space, has an in-depth understanding of the various hedge strategies and in defining their requisite infrastructure. He is a frequently requested and noted guest speaker at quantitative trading events in the US and abroad. Garrett oversees Momentum's global sales team.



Thomas began his career 12 years ago at Pershing division of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette as an OTC market maker. He was Head Trader at the long/short equity fund Alpine Capital Partners in NY where he managed and oversaw all trading operations for 8 years and was responsible for raising a significant portion of the funds assets. He then went on to manage a long/short equity portfolio at RBC Professional Traders Group. He holds a BA from Duke University where he is a founding member of the Young Alumni council. He sits on the advisory council for the Yellowstone Park Foundation and is involved in numerous other charities in NYC.

Thomas Joined Momentum in 2011 as a Managing Director in their Institutional Sales and Trading Group.



Todd began his career in 1997 as an assistant trader for Carl P. Sherr & Co. located in Worcester, Mass. From 2000 to 2004 he worked on the OTC desk at Prudential Securities making markets in multiple sectors. In 2004, he joined the execution desk at Refco Securities, following that he joined GFI Group in 2005 where he served as a key institutional equity execution trader. In May of 2008, he joined Momentum Trading Partners and has been with us since its inception. Currently, he is the head trader for Momentum and oversees all operations of the domestic and international trading effort.



Luca brings over 13 years of experience in U.S equities to Momentum. He started his career in Zurich, working as portfolio manager's assistant at Credit Suisse Fides Trust. From 1997 to 1999, he was an institutional sales-trader at Century City Securities in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Momentum, he worked on the Institutional US equities execution desk at Banca IMI Securities in NY, where he was the head from 2004-2008.



Prior to joining Momentum, Anthony started his career in 1996 on the NYSE's option floor as a specialist clerk for SLK. Upon leaving SLK in 1997, Anthony joined Tradescape where he was a Proprietary Equities Trader. In 2006 he joined GFI Group on the Institutional Equity desk.

In June of 2008 he joined Momentum Trading Partners.



Prior to joining Momentum, Axelle started her career at Societe Generale in credit structuring and LBO financing. She holds a Master from Paris 1 Sorbonne as well as a MBA from ESSEC business school. Axelle discovers equity pair pricing anomalies providing daily technical notifications to the firm and works on the sales desk. In January 2009, Axelle joined Momentum Trading Partners



Jennifer has 14 years experience trading equities. Prior to joining Momentum, she traded program baskets for HSBC and accessed 105 markets globally. Her past experience includes market making for 7 years on the sell side, where she traded NYSE listed securities off the floor in the third market. In addition, she also worked for 3 years at a buy-side shop as an execution trader for 5 portfolio investment managers. Jennifer's trading background brings a multi-faceted market perspective to Momentum Trading Partners.



Kevin joined Momentum in 2008 as an equity trader. Prior to joining the firm he worked on the NYSE trading floor for a number of years handling executions for a book of Buy and Sell Side clients. Kevin holds a BBA in Finance from Pace University.



Prior to joining Momentum, Rossella started her career in 2001 working as Analyst in the Risk Management Office at an Italian Asset Management Company- Capitalgest S.g.R. (Ubi Bank). From 2002 to 2008 she was Portfolio Manager and she managed Balanced Funds in Italy for the same Company.

In October of 2008 she joined Momentum Trading Partners.



Samuel started his career in 2007 at Gems Advisors, 7bn fund of funds based in London, where he worked closely with the due diligence team where he focused on directional equity strategies. He joined Momentum Trading Partners in October 2009.

Samuel holds a BSC in Economics from University Carlos III, Madrid (Spain).



Adam began his career with the team at GFI Group in 2007. He made the move to Momentum Trading Partners in 2008 and is currently a member of the trading team where he currently serves as one of the firms Institutional Equity traders.



Ritesh began his career at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank in NY as an Interest Rate Derivatives Analyst, and later worked with Lehman Brothers in Tokyo analyzing proprietary Risk Arbitrage trading returns in that region. He later rejoined Deutsche Bank within the Saba Principle Strategies group's credit proprietary desk, trading equities across multiple strategies. Ritesh remained with Saba Capital LLC when it became an independent spin-off of Deutsche, one of six original members. Ritesh brings with him an in depth experience in the Debt and Equity markets.



Michael manages the day to day Trade Support, Clearance and Settlement of Momentum's Equity and Options activity. Michael assists Compliance in daily reviews and projects and provides input into the development of Momentum's operations applications. Prior to joining Momentum, Michael has been employed by both exchange floor and electronic trading firms supporting both Buy and Sell Side environments. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from St. John's University.

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