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TowerGroup Makes News on Bloomberg TV
Interview on the Current Financial Crisis
On Wednesday, September 17, Rob Hegarty appeared on Bloomberg's Open Exchange program to discuss the impact of the current financial crisis on Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
To view the segment, follow the link.
About Rob Hegarty:
Rob Hegarty is managing director for two of TowerGroup’'s practice areas. The first is Securities & Investments, which is the umbrella for three service areas: Securities & Capital Markets, Investment Management, and Brokerage & Wealth Management. This group focuses on technology trends and strategies in the brokerage, capital markets, investing, wealth management, and asset management industries. Rob also has responsibility for TowerGroup's Insurance practice, which focuses on technology trends and strategies in the life and annuity industry as well as the property and casualty industry.
Rob has over 20 years of experience in the financial services technology industry. Before joining TowerGroup in 1999, he was vice president of trading systems at Putnam Investments in Boston. Prior to Putnam, he was with Fidelity Investments in Boston for eight years. As vice president of technology of the institutional broker-dealer arm of Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Capital Markets, he had overall responsibility for technology in this $300 million company. His responsibilities included strategic technology planning, business analysis, project management, trading floor support, market data, and telecommunications. He also had overall technology responsibility for building FCM's 230-position trading floor as well as managing the technology integration for acquisitions FCM was undertaking. Earlier, he held positions in product development for electronic trading and in technology consulting to the many internal companies at Fidelity. Previously, he was division vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert in New York and was with the IT management consulting division of Coopers & Lybrand's Boston office.
Rob holds an M.B.A. with a finance/marketing concentration from Babson College and a B.S. in computer science from North Adams State College. He is also NASD Series 7 and 63 registered.
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