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Brad Zucker, CFA
Director, iShares Product Consulting, BlackRock
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Brad Zucker, CFA, CAIA, Director, is a Product Consultant for BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory (USWA) ETF & Index Investments business. He is responsible for researching, analyzing and evaluating a broad range of investment solutions for partners and intermediary clients. Mr. Zucker provides subject matter expertise on the full range of iShares ETFs.
Mr. Zucker joined BlackRock in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Product Manager at FTSE Russell, where he led Smart Beta thought leadership and product strategy.
Mr. Zucker earned his MBA from Columbia Business School, where he graduated with Dean's honors, and is currently enrolled in Columbia University's MS in Applied Analytics program. He has guest lectured at Columbia University on topics ranging from Asset Management to Statistics. Mr. Zucker is a CFA Charterholder and a CAIA Charterholder.
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Daniel Prince, CFA
Director, Head of iShares Product Consulting, BlackRock
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Daniel Prince, CFA, Director, is Head of iShares Product Consulting for BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory iShares business. In this role, he delivers research, insights and ETF analyses to investors. Mr. Prince's service with the firm dates back to 2007, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, Mr. Prince was a Senior Strategist for the US iShares Sales Strategy team. Prior to joining BGI, Mr. Prince was a Senior Analyst at Wilshire Associates.
Mr. Prince holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Society of San Francisco. He earned a BS degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
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Jeff Spiegel
US Head of iShares Megatrend and International ETFs, BlackRock
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Jeff Spiegel, Director, is US Head of iShares Megatrend and International ETFs. In this role, he manages product, sales and marketing for the Megatrend and International franchises.
Previously, Mr. Spiegel led retail distribution strategy in BlackRock's US and Canada Defined Contribution group, managing strategic relationships, custom product builds as well as advisor-sold and platform sales strategy.
Mr. Spiegel's service with the firm dates back to 2013. Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Spiegel was a Vice President with family office TLM Realty in New York City and before that worked in mortgage trading and structuring at JP Morgan and Bear Stearns in London. Mr. Spiegel earned a BA degree in philosophy and history from Brown University.
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Jessica Inskip
Director, Investments Advanced Product Experiences at Merrill
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Jessica Inskip is a Digital Client Experience Manager focused on advanced products for the Merrill Edge Self-Directed investing platform. Jessica solves key industry issues via creative thinking while driving the vision of innovative digital experience ideas to technology partners—taking these ideas from inception to launch.
Jessica joined the financial industry in 2009 and most recently accepted a position with Merrill in 2016. She has held various positions within the brokerage industry across multiple firms, including roles specializing in high frequency trading, complex options and derivative strategies, and the relationship management of high net worth affluent investors. Ultimately, Jessica is passionate about empowering women in all aspects of finance.
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Pat Higgins
Director, Preferred Product Management & Innovation at Merrill
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Patrick Higgins is a Digital Product Manager focused on delivering solutions that make investing accessible to everyone. He started his career in financial services in 2008 and has spent the majority of that time focused on empowering people to make their financial lives better through the power of education and delivering digital investing tools and resources that make sense of the jargon. Patrick wants to make sure that everyone can feel empowered to get started with investing and have the confidence to find, validate and monitor investments that make sense for them.
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Sean Murphy, CFA
Vice President, iShares Product Consultant, BlackRock
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Sean Murphy, CFA, Vice President, is an iShares Product Consultant for BlackRock. He is responsible for researching, analyzing, and evaluating a broad range of investment solutions and delivering these insights to internal partners, as well as to end clients.
His service with the firm dates back to 2014. Before his current role, Sean was an iShares Investment Management Associate, where he helped educate financial advisors on the application and benefits of using iShares ETFs. Partnering with an Investment Management Consultant, his team focused on ETF sales for Merrill Lynch advisors across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Prior to joining BlackRock, Sean spent 12 years at Citi. The bulk of that time was spent as an Equity Sales Trader, specializing in the execution of ETFs and international equities for both financial advisors as well as institutions.
Sean graduated from Fordham University in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in Finance and a minor in Economics. He subsequently received his MBA from Fordham's Gabelli School of Business with a concentration in Corporate Finance.
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Tanvi Pradhan
Vice President, US Sustainable iShares ETF Product Strategy, BlackRock
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Tanvi Pradhan, Vice President, is on the product strategy team for US iShares Sustainable ETFs, with a focus on education, content, and distribution. Before joining BlackRock, she led ESG and impact research, integration, and reporting for institutions and high net worth clients for Royal Bank of Canada's SRI Wealth Management Group. Prior to RBC, Tanvi worked with the SF State University Foundation, where she advanced portfolio decarbonization by developing a model to assess carbon footprint for equity portfolios. Tanvi started her career as a trader in the Prime Services division at Barclays Investment Bank in Hong Kong.
Tanvi has a Bachelor's degree with distinction in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from University of Pune, India. She earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. Tanvi earned a second MBA from the San Francisco State University, U.S.A., upon taking courses in sustainable business and graduated with the Beta Gamma Sigma international honor. She was a top-10 global finalist at the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge in 2015, and an SRI Scholarship Winner at the SRI Conference in 2016. Tanvi holds the Series 7 and Series 66 licenses.
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Tanya Chanda
Vice President, International iShares ETF Product Strategy, BlackRock
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Tanya Chanda, Vice President, is an Investment Strategist for iShares International and Megatrends ETFs. In her role she focuses on product strategy and innovation across the International and Megatrend franchises.
Before joining BlackRock, Tanya worked in Corporate Strategy at Barclays, focused on identifying growth strategies both in the Corporate & Investment Bank as well as the Retail & Consumer businesses. Prior to Barclays, Tanya was a Product Specialist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management covering private OECD Infrastructure. In this role, she advised institutional investors, globally, on investments in private core/core-plus infrastructure.
Tanya earned her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and her B.S. in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University.
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Tony Zhang
Chief Strategist, OptionsPlay and CNBC Contributer
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Tony Zhang is a specialist in the financial services industry with over a decade of experience spanning product development, research and market strategist roles across equities, foreign exchange and derivatives. As the current Chief Strategist for OptionsPlay, Tony currently leads the research and development of their OptionsPlay Ideas & Portfolio platform. He has leveraged his interest in financial technology and product development to provide innovative reimagined solutions to clients and the users they seek to serve.
Previously, Tony spent 7 years at FOREX.com with a capital markets and research background as a market strategist specializing in equity and FX derivatives markets. Since 2019, Tony Zhang has shared his expertise and ideas on CNBC's Fast Money and Options Action on options strategies, ideas and education.
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