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Volunteer Consulting
Group, Inc.
6 East 39th Street
Suite 602
New York, NY 10016
phone: 212-447-1236
fax: 212-447-0925
email boardinfo@vcg.org
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VCG's
Board of Directors - Daniel M. Flax
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Daniel
M. Flax
Managing
Director, Trading Technology
New York Stock Exchange
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| Mr. Flax is the Chief
Information Officer of Cowen and Company. Priof to this position
he was the Managing Director with many years of experience at
the NYSE and in the securities industry. He was responsible
for Trading Technology and the NYSE's transition to a Hybrid
Market. Mr. Flax oversaw the development of the Specialists
transition from manual participants in the market to fully electronic,
algorithmically assisted market makers. Prior to his role with
the NYSE, he was Director of Web Systems. In that role, Mr.
Flax built the technology that powered the NYSE's websites and
empowered the NYSE's authors to create content.
In addition to his role at Cowen and Company, Daniel enjoys
volunteering with several New York organizations. For several
years, he was active with NYC2012 in their efforts to bring
the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to New York City. Daniel lectures
to technology fans of NYSIA and the Princeton Macintosh Users
Group (PMUG). Daniel also volunteers as an Industry Consultant
for Junior Achievement, teaching economics and business to
local high school students. Daniel also donates platelets
regularly through the New York Blood Center and actively encourages
all healthy adults to give blood too!
Mr. Flax holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering
from Columbia University and he was an Undergraduate Research
Fellow in High Energy Astrophysics at CalTech in a joint program
with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA.
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