The New York Confucius Institute for Global Finance at Baruch College presents:

The Evolution of NASDAQ

Please join the Confucius Institute for Global Finance as we welcome financial industry veteran Mr. Les Seff for The Evolution of NASDAQ, the first seminar of spring 2018. Mr. Seff will take us on a journey from the opening of the first electronic stock market in 1971, to the NASDAQ of today, concluding with a look into the future NASDAQ of the coming decades. Along the way, he will detail watershed moments including the 1987 crash, the dot-com era peak, and the brave new world of high frequency trading.

Les Seff is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of AIMPaaS, Alternative Investment Management Platform as a Service. He is also the President of Matthew B. Management, Inc., where he has been involved in several high-profile financial fraud cases, as a consultant or an expert. Mr. Seff has worked in the financial service industry for about 34 years, most of which occurred in a trading environment where he started and managed NASDAQ and other equity trading departments at wholesale firms, retail/institutional firms, discount brokerage firms, and proprietary trading firms.