User:Mercantilist/Darin Oliver

Darin S. Oliver (born May 26th, 1962) is an American financier who is recently best known for founding Castor Pollux Securities, LLC in the early 2000s (which later became Surge Trading, Inc.) the notable aquirier of the market making and propriatary trading business of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLL in 2009.

Early years
Oliver was born in Dearborn, Michigan and moved and mostly live with his mother after her divorce from Real Estate Developer John Rudolph Oliver around suburban Detroit mostly settling in the Birmingham, Michigan area. Oliver attended public school in local grade schools except for two years (and a summer sailing camp) at boarding school at Culver Milataary Acdemy in Culver, Indiana where he first learn to sail and program computers. By the eight grade Darin self taought himself how to program and using an HP3000 hacked the schools system using a variaty of methods to overcome security. In one instance the duo utilized running Cobalt jobs on the newly develop SPL programing laguage accoss varies accounts where the program failed to run immediatly display the staring account login and codes. The discovery was reported to the system administrator and reportably later to HP for changing.

While not a very directed student