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Jeff Zorek is a capital markets expert with a distinguished career incorporating leadership roles in electronic trading and prime services across the globe. Jeff’s experience includes some of the most important recent nascent themes in finance including the integration of client execution with portfolio leverage and the white labeling of Execution, Financing and Custody services to third party financial providers. He has held pivotal roles at leading financial institutions including Lehman Brothers, Nomura International and Goldman Sachs.

Jeff most recently worked at Saxo Bank, a leading Danish online investment and trading bank, where he had a variety of leadership roles in helping develop global financing products. He was also involved in the ongoing development and governance of their white-labelling initiative which allows banks, wealth managers and securities brokers to offer cutting-edge front to back execution, financing and custody to their end clients. He is experienced across client segments, including retail brokerage, institutional services, and B2B2C.


Prior to that, he served as Managing Director at Nomura International in London where he co-led their Prime Finance business and led their Global Quantitative Brokerage teams after operating in a similar role at Barclays Capital in New York. He previously spent 18 years at Lehman Brothers in London and New York as Managing Director and Co-Head of Quantitative Prime Services and Equity Prime Product Management and through that role developed a deep knowledge of the requirements and capabilities of the global quantitative investing community. He also managed their European Equity and Convertible Bond trading businesses. Jeff began his career at Goldman Sachs as Vice President, specializing in equity and convertible bond trading.


He holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School and a BA in Mathematical Economics from Wesleyan University.

EXPERTISE

 

Global Capital Markets

Securities Trading

Electronic Execution

Prime Brokerage and Financing

Governance

 

EDUCATION

The Wharton School 

MBA, Finance 1984 


Wesleyan University 

BA, Mathematical Economics 1979

WORK HISTORY

SEDA Experts 

Managing Director 

2024-Current 


Saxo Bank 

Senior Business Advisor- Secured Financing 

Head of Prime Brokerage, Saxo Advanced Solutions 

Chief Operating Officer- Global Distribution and Client Services 

2018-2022 


Nomura International PLC 

Managing Director 

2009-2015 


Barclays Capital 

Managing Director 

2008-2009 


Lehman Brothers 

Managing Director 

990-2008 


Goldman Sachs

Vice President 

1984-1990

Securities Trading and Electronic Execution Expert Witness

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Jeff Zorek

1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

+1 646-626-4555

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