Electronic Trading Veteran Charles Susi Joins FutureTrade as Vice President of Product Management

Electronic Trading Veteran Charles Susi Joins FutureTrade as Vice President of Product Management

NEW YORK and LAKE FOREST, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- FutureTrade, a leading independent provider of electronic equity and option execution services, today announced the appointment of Charles Susi as vice president of product management for the company. In this role, Mr. Susi will be responsible for the strategic development of the company's integrated direct access trading platform. He will report directly to FutureTrade Chief Operating Officer, Lee Siegfried.

Mr. Susi is an electronic trading veteran with more than 15 years of experience in project management, sales and marketing, and developing roadmaps for innovative trading technologies.

"We are delighted to have someone of Charlie's caliber join the FutureTrade team," said Mr. Siegfried. "Charlie's impressive background and track record of success will be a great asset for us as we continue to enhance our product offering. This appointment reflects our commitment to deliver a robust trading platform to meet the future needs of our clients."

Mr. Susi joins FutureTrade from SunGard Trading Systems, where he was vice president of client services and project management. Prior to that position, Mr. Susi was vice president of product management at Island ECN, where he directed design of client front-end applications and managed partnerships with multiple OMS vendors. Mr. Susi also spent 8 years at Instinet, most recently as head of product management, and spent his early career as a business analyst at Lehman Brothers and Fidelity Investments.

About FutureTrade

FutureTrade provides buy-side traders with a fully integrated direct access trading platform for equities and options. Through one platform, traders access liquidity on all major exchanges, ECNs, ATSs, Market Makers, DOT and all five US Options Exchanges. Users enter orders, get instantaneous executions, track multiple portfolios, access market data efficiently, and see advanced analytics -- all from a single integrated workstation. FutureTrade facilitates real-time reporting of trade data making it an ideal front-end to straight-through processing for buy-side traders. Transactions can be executed through FutureTrade Securities, a wholly owned subsidiary of FutureTrade Technologies. Securities offered through FutureTrade Securities, LLC. Member of NASD and SIPC. For more information, please visit www.futuretrade.com.


Source: FutureTrade

CONTACT: Jim Kwiatkowski, EVP Sales and Marketing of FutureTrade,
+1-212-230-2501, jimk@futuretrade.com; or Melissa Kanter of Edelman,
+1-212-704-8261, melissa.kanter@edelman.com, for FutureTrade

Web site: http://www.futuretrade.com/


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