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Peter Kearns is an entrepreneur, angel investor and strategic advisor to growth companies. He has accumulated over fifteen years of experience in regulated financial services, with a specific emphasis on brokerage and electronic trading. During this time Peter has authored various articles and given several lectures on these subjects to his peer group.

As an entrepreneur in his own right, Mr. Kearns, in 1997 founded his own brokerage firm Lexit Capital LLC, a Direct Market Access broker, which became one of the first electronic broker dealers to expand its activities abroad and set up in the UK, an FSA regulated firm, Lexit UK Limited. In his role as CEO, Mr. Kearns and his management team successfully sold the business in 2003 to Neonet AB a Swedish Exchange listed broker-dealer. On the conclusion of the acquisition, Peter took up the role of Head of Global Sales for Neonet, and served on the Executive Committee. He also held the position of President of the US subsidiary Neonet Securities Inc. Prior to its acquisition by Orc Software, Neonet AB generated $102 million in revenue and had a market capitalization of over $500 million.

In the early and mid 90’s he also held positions with Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities.

Outside of his operational involvement with Mismi and RaptorNet, Peter maintains active interest as an angel investor and advisor to a number of high growth technology and internet companies. These include venture backed firms, Skygrid, Uniloc, Blue Cava, as well as angel backed Buffalo Studios, and Taxipass.

Costis Maglaras

Costis Maglaras is the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University, where he is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business in the division of Decision, Risk & Operations. His research focuses on quantitative pricing and revenue management, the economics, design and operations of service systems, and financial engineering. Professor Maglaras is the author of many research articles spanning the theory and application of stochastic modeling in a variety of fields, more recently the application of quantitative modeling in the pricing, risk management and valuation of multi-unit real estate portfolios, and in the design of portfolio trading systems and portfolio trading algorithms. He holds editorial positions with most of the flagship journals covering his fields of study, he is the recipient of several research and teaching awards, he teaches and serves as faculty director for the executive education course on Risk Management offered by Columbia Business School, and he is a frequent speaker in academic and industry forums. Costis received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

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