Robert E. Conner

Securities litigation expert: 25 yrs experience providing analysis & testimony in connection with trials, arbitrations and disciplinary hearings involving stocks, options, futures & forwards, bonds, convertibles, CMOs, foreign currencies, prime broker opns, margin, portfolio mgmt, hedging, trading, loss causation, damage theory & calculation.

Portfolio manager of an independent investment advisory firm managing corporate, pension and individual accounts, with an emphasis on after-tax investment objectives and portfolio hedging activities using option contracts and other derivative instruments for both U.S. and foreign clientele.

Inaugurated Prudential's use of equity and index options, futures, convertible securities and other derivative instruments in investment management of equity and bond portfolios, using multi-hub prime broker networks. Established stock-loan operations and was Treasurer of a subsidiary bank.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance and Statistics, Graduate School of Business: taught general statistics; created and taught course curriculum on stock and index options, convertible securities and financial futures contracts primarily for Wall Street professionals in evening MBA & PhD programs.

Founding co-head of institutional options department, providing trading desk and research coverage to U.S. and foreign clients, and writing options strategies supplement to firm's weekly equity research. Managed discretionary equity portfolios for university and preparatory school endowments, pension funds and high net worth investors.

Registered Representative in Options Department: provided transactional and research coverage primarily to institutional client accounts and managed discretionary accounts for educational endowments and high net worth individuals.

Foreign language instructor: Russian, Spanish, Italian, German

Infantry Officer Candidate School (OCS), Fort Benning, Georgia (1967) U.S. Russian Liaison Officer, West Berlin, Germany; (1967-1969) Company and Detachment Commander, Criminal Investigator, Provost Marshal, and military advisor, South Vietnam - 2 tours of duty : Mekong Delta and Central Highlands (1969-1971)

Cross-studies in connection with M.P.A. and PhD programs pursued at Harvard.

Statistics

Minors: Mathematics, Spanish, Russian - summa cum laude, Varsity Fencing (foil)

Minors: Russian, Mathematics