James Manfredonia

Mr. Manfredonia has 26-years of Wall Street experience, beginning his career at Lehman Brothers in 1980.
In 1983, he joined Salomon Brothers where he became a senior trader and participated in the introduction of program trading.
Mr. Manfredonia also served as senior position trader for Drexel Burnham, and was the founding general partner of Blair Manfredonia Limited Partners, a hedge fund/broker dealer.
Mr. Manfredonia spent 10 notable years at Merrill Lynch where he managed the listed trading desk with additional responsibilities for NASDAQ, portfolio trading, sales trading and NYSE staff, supervising 125 people generating revenues in excess of $800 million.
He joined Bear Stearns in 2002 as manager of listed equity trading and NYSE operations.
Mr. Manfredonia also serves as Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Upstairs Traders Advisory Committee and is a member of the Market Performance Committee of the New York Stock Exchange.