Jacqui Cooper Jacqui Cooper brings over twenty years experience in global financial markets to Medley Global Advisors LLC. Jacqui was a senior salesperson at both UBS and Bank of America focusing on Global Exchange traded derivatives (ETD). She started her career at Riggs AP bank in money market trading. She then moved on to Bank of America as a derivatives salesperson where she provided advice to clients incorporating both macro-economic trends and short term market news and technicals.She was promoted to became head of sales. In 1998 she moved to UBS as a derivatives sales person and later worked with a team helping to define their strategy for electronic trading. Brendan Fitzsimmons Brendan Fitzsimmons, is responsible for integrating global market intelligence with MGA's policy intelligence. He brings more than 10 years of strategy, intelligence, and policy analysis experience from trading, banking, consulting, and government service. Mr. Fitzsimmons began his career at Manufacturers Hanover in London working on North Sea energy and policy risk issues, subsequently consulting at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Petroleum Finance, and McKinsey & Company, before serving in the International Affairs Division of the President's National Security Program at OMB. Prior to joining MGA, Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Senior Market Specialist at Enron Global Markets, working with the Financial Trading Group covering global interest rates, FX, and commodities. Mr. Fitzsimmons was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow at Harvard University, pursued graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Economics, International Relations, and Emerging Markets Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from Boston University. He has worked and studied in the UK, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Russia, and the Czech Republic. Aubrey Hayward Aubrey Hayward joined our London office in August 2007 as a Market Strategist serving our European clients. He brings over 25 years of experience trading in global financial markets to MGA. Most recently, he traded personal capital within Deben Asset Management in Exchange Traded Derivatives. He served as Investment Manager for one of the wealthiest private business individuals within Inter IKEA Treasury SA Brussels for eight years, and spent ten years in proprietary trading at Nordea Bank London. Earlier in his career, he traded money markets and foreign exchance at Bankgesellschaft Berlin London, and gold and foreign exchange at the Bank of England. His extensive network of contacts in Europe and his expertise in the treasury and futures markets will offer great value to MGA clients. Masaaki Shimizu Masaaki Shimizu joined MGA after working for J.P. Morgan for nearly two decades. During his seventeen year J.P. Morgan career, Mr. Shimizu worked in Tokyo, New York, and Brussels in the areas of foreign exchange advisory and sales, capital markets products, corporate finance, global custody, and credit risk analysis. Over the years he has worked with a broad array of clients including many of the leading Japanese institutional investors and a number of Asian central banks. Mr. Shimizu has an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Kansas and a B.A. in economics from Keio University in Tokyo. Paul Silk Paul Silk is Director, Asia Pacific for Medley Global Advisors and brings over 20 years of experience in global financial markets to the group. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Silk was head of interest rate trading for the National Australia Bank in London which followed an extensive career in fixed income markets in Wellington, Sydney, and London including tenures at Bain and Co/Deutsche Bank as head of fixed interest in Australia and at Greenwich Natwest as head of German government bond trading. For the past 5 years Mr Silk has represented MGA in the Asia Pacific region, building a network of relationships with Policymakers , Banks , Investment Banks , Hedge Funds and Asset Managers . Ilan Solot Ilan Solot joined MGA from the foreign exchange desk of the New York Fed where he covered global emerging markets analytically and was operationally responsible for trading major currencies, co-managing the Fed’s FX reserve portfolio and conducting currency swap transactions with the ECB and the SNB as part of the Fed's new liquidity measures. Prior to the Fed he briefly worked in a consulting company in Mexico and was a contributing writer for one of the regular publications of a well know research institute in Brazil, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, where he received his Executive MBA. Mr. Solot also holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.