Our Team

Billy Abrams is a capital markets professional and licensed Securities Principal with 30+ years of experience in trading, sales, sales support, and management. He has served as a consultant for a large regional broker-dealer as well as a publicly traded asset management firm and for decades has written daily technical market commentaries covering the U.S. Treasury and related financial markets.

Billy began his professional career as a commodities broker and has spent more than 30-years in the institutional fixed income business. He has a working expertise in a wide variety of markets including, treasuries, agencies, mortgage-backed securities and mortgage derivatives, as well as futures and futures options. He has worked extensively with mortgage originators who use TBA’s to hedge their pipelines.

Billy earned a bachelor’s degree in General Business from Louisiana State University and holds Series 7 and 24 licenses. In his spare time, he loves to fish, scuba dive and play golf.

Leonard Barenboim is a senior capital markets professional and licensed Securities Principal providing compliance, brokerage management and project funding advisory services to securities brokers and registered investment advisory firms.

Leonard started his capital markets career in 1986 with SG Warburg and Co. in New York, where he served in institutional sales specializing in Australia and New Zealand equities sales to institutional investors in the United States.

In 1994 Leonard was contracted to the United States Government’s Agency for International Development to participate in a series of projects to promote development of orderly capital markets in emerging economies, with specialty in privatization, where Leonard was instrumental in privatizing more than $ 300 million worth of state-owned assets. Between 2000-2010, Leonard functioned as finance director and investment banker for and on behalf of numerous international project development companies and completed a number of capital raising and process re-engineering assignments in emerging markets around the world.

Leonard Holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Queens College of the City University of New York and a certificate in securities analysis from the New York University. He is a registered Securities Principal with Series 7, 24, 66, 79 and 99 securities licenses.

Mr. George has been a licensed FinOp since 1996 and founded FINOP Services, LLC in 2003. He and 4 staff members provide FinOp and compliance services to broker-dealers throughout the country.

He has been FinOP for many types of broker-dealer including but not limited to: self-clearing firms, exchange member firms, municipal, research, introducing and investment banking broker-dealers.

Prior to 1996, Mr. George worked at Creelman & Smith, CPA, a Boston-based accounting firm that specialized in consulting and auditing broker-dealers throughout New England.  Mr. George was responsible for planning and supervising audits for 4-5 person audit teams.

From 1987 to 1991, Mr. George was a Compliance Examiner at the Boston District of the NASD where he conducted examinations of self-clearing, market maker, municipal securities and general securities firms throughout the Northeast.

Mr. George holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire and is a licensed CPA.