Adrian Austin Pertierra

Mr. Adrian A. Pertierra is an Independent Director at Cord Blood America, Inc., an Independent Director at Asure Software, Inc. and a Chief Financial Officer & Head of Trading at Red Oak Partners LLC.
He is on the Board of Directors at Cord Blood America, Inc. and Asure Software, Inc. He joined the firm in December 2007.
Prior to joining Red Oak, Mr. Pertierra served as Vice President of Global Markets at Deutsche Bank Alternative Trading, which specialized in investing in several major world markets using various quantitative strategies.
Prior to Deutsche Bank, he was a trader on the risk arbitrage desk at Tradition Asiel Securities, Inc. from 2006 to 2007, where he specialized in analyzing and trading the capital structure of companies that were involved in mergers and acquisitions.
Previously, he served as the Vice President of Institutional Equity Sales and Trading at BGC Partners, LP from 2002 to 2006.
He worked at A.B. Watley, Inc. from 1997 to 2002: he was the Manager of the Finance and Accounting department from 1997 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2002 he was an Associate Vice President in the Institutional Equity Sales Trading division.
Mr. Pertierra graduated from College of the Holy Cross with a bachelor’s degree in economics.