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WexTrade Financial Names Todd Hanson, Ph.D., Director of Training and Education
| Source: WexTrade Financial, LLC
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - May 12, 2008) - WexTrade Financial, LLC, a subsidiary of
WexTrust Capital, announced today that it has named Todd Hanson, Ph.D.,
director of training and education. In this role, Dr. Hanson will lead the
instruction of the training curriculum.
"We have created a dynamic learning environment which encourages students
to take advantage of hands-on learning opportunities and the most extensive
trading curriculum available," said Hanson. "As WexTrade Financial's
director of training and education, I work with each student to create a
personalized learning experience by tailoring the training approach to the
individual. Our curriculum is designed to provide each student with the
education and tools necessary to ensure long-term success."
"Todd brings more than a decade of trading experience to our organization,"
said Steve Byers, CEO, WexTrust Capital. "He has a proven track record of
successful leadership and has created numerous trading systems that are
employed by fund managers, brokerage houses and traders worldwide. Todd's
extensive experience in the financial and trading industries makes him an
ideal addition to our WexTrade Financial team."
Prior to joining WexTrade Financial, Dr. Hanson has spent the past three
years working on a groundbreaking project -- developing a fully automated
day trading system whereby the program formulates all buy/sell/hold
decisions, allocates appropriate amounts of capital to specific trades and
places orders electronically and autonomously. This program, Failsafe
Trader, is complete and operational through Titan Trading Analytics.
Dr. Hanson is also engaged in quantitative proprietary trading, as well as
consulting and developing software for money managers. He writes a
quantitative trading blog, www.livetradesignals.com, which is in the
process of being syndicated to multiple financial news services.
Prior to developing Failsafe Trader, Dr. Hanson spent 15 years in the
healthcare, financial and logistics industries, where he developed secure,
enterprise level software solutions. He served as chief executive officer
of Synergy Software Development, where he led the company from concept to
funding and public offering. He also served as chief information officer
for two separate public companies where he leveraged custom-developed
technologies to raise more than $35 million in funding for the firms.
Dr. Hanson began his professional career in computer security in Silicon
Valley, Calif., where he developed encryption software, provided ethical
hacking services and security audits to Fortune 500 companies during the
infancy of the Internet. He led a nationwide team of security engineers
responsible for research and development in categories including:
intrusion detection, emerging data network service security infrastructure
design, Internet and intranet security engineering, public key technology
and infrastructure issues, Internet and intranet firewall and router
integration, and client/server authentication techniques.
Throughout his career, Dr. Hanson has also performed numerous financial
consulting projects for a myriad of companies in finance and has applied
his expertise in statistical pattern recognition to projects ranging from
mining financial transactions data to statistical arbitrage trading
strategies.
In addition to Dr. Hanson's extensive background in information security
management and information technology systems engineering and
administration, he is a Certified Information Systems Security
Professional, a Certified Information Security Manager, and a Certified
Information Systems Auditor.
Prior to beginning his professional career, Dr. Hanson served in the U.S.
Marine Corps, 1st Force Reconnaissance and 1st Air and Naval Gunfire
Liaison Company with 0321 and 2531 Military Occupational Specialties.
Throughout his military career, he was meritoriously promoted five times
and holds many awards and certifications.
"Having served in combat situations, I understand the challenges that my
fellow veterans face when making the transition back to civilian life,"
said Hanson. "I am very proud to be a part of WexTrade Financial, as our
programs are designed to enable veterans to leverage elements of their
military training to develop real-world skill sets that can create career
opportunities in trading and other related professions."
Dr. Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley,
California, a Master of Science in Electronic Commerce from National
University, California and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and
Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
About WexTrade Financial
WexTrade Financial, a subsidiary of WexTrust Capital, LLC, is a
professional trading organization that offers a variety of trading services
and programs for professional traders, aspiring traders and military
veterans. WexTrade Financial employs hands-on instruction and mentoring
from experienced traders, the most extensive curriculum, a proprietary
trading platform, risk mitigation tools and a trading floor with the latest
cutting-edge technology to maximize and ensure the long-term success of our
students. We also offer sponsorship programs for those who are interested
in providing financial support for students or funds to trade, which could
result in significant returns. Special tuition and funding programs are
also available for military and service disabled veterans. For more
information on WexTrade Financial, please visit www.wextradefinancial.com.