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Randy Katzenstein
Randy Katzenstein has been active in nearly all aspects of institutional brokerage, client relations and trading since his entrance into the financial arena. From 1985 until May 2001, he was Senior Vice President with Refco Inc. For Refco, Randy directed one of the largest institutional capital markets groups in the firm. His clients have included international money center banking institutions, major corporations, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance companies and family offices.

Randy’s broad experience in finance has included teaching interest rate hedging concepts and their applications at seminars and at the graduate level and has published several articles in this area. He has lectured on hedge fund transparency and operational risk issues. He is a founding member of the International Association for Quantitative Finance, fka International Association of Financial Engineers, and sits on their Advisory Board (https://www.iaqf.org/advisory-board) and its associated Investor Risk Committee. Randy was one of the two principal founders of a business school in Istanbul, Turkey where he helped design the curriculum as well as co-headed management of the school. He is an active participant of the American-Turkish Council.

Randy received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and a minor in Bio/Chemistry from Syracuse University. Prior to his involvement in the financial marketplace, Randy was employed with Price Waterhouse & Co and the Continental Grain Company in the audit and internal audit departments, respectively.

Randy has three children and lives in Southern Westchester County, NY.