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Stephen J. Plant

202 S. Anguilla Road

Pawcatuck, CT  06379

860-608-9116

splant@comcast.net

 

Summary

Financial professional with experience in a variety of disciplines, trading, econometric analysis, financial and commodity analysis, statistical model building and sales and marketing. Privileged to have worked with some of Wall Streets biggest names.  Maintains a current contact list of New York based hedge fund managers and personnel.  Has been and still is a small business owner.

 

 

Soros Fund Management                                         666 7th Avenue                                   New York, NY

Head Trader.  Working directly under George Soros.  Traded all fixed income instruments (domestic and international), currencies and commodities for macro hedge fund.  Was among the first US funds to actively trade a number of international financial instruments.  Learned ins and outs of moving large pieces of business without attracting undue attention.                                                                                                                                                               March 84 to March 88

 

Moore Capital Management                                1251 6th Avenue                                                New York, NY

Economic and Commodity Analyst.     Worked directly under Louis Bacon.  Duties included; synthesizing monthly economic numbers using “off-the-run” data as predictive tool.  Built numerous price/data relationship models for a variety of traded commodities and financial instruments.  Led or had a leading roll in numerous other analytical experiments.   Managed small pool of capital.                  

October 88 to September 94               

 

West Course Capital                                      100 South Bedford Road                                Mount Kisco, NY

Commodity and Venture Capital Analyst.    Work under Michael Aronstein as commodity analyst early on and venture capital analyst later.  Took a unique approach to commodity supply/demand dynamics by using individual company data (sales, inventories, etc…) to estimate abundance/shortage conditions of many heavily used commodities.  Looked at a couple of potential commodity-company-based ventures for possible investment.

                                                                                                                October 94 to December 96

 

AquaFuture                                               15 Industrial Boulevard                              Turners Falls, MA

Fish Culture Technician.  Learned of Aquafuture while at West Course.  Spent 18 months gaining valuable experience on economics and technology behind finfish aquaculture.  Acquired working knowledge of plumbing, pump and filter repair, basic fish health and water chemistry.  Developed the four rules of successful aquaculture.

                                                                                                                                March 97 to August 99

 

Connecticut Cultured Oysters                                100 Main Street                                          Noank, CT

Self-Employed Shellfish Farmer.  Founding member and treasurer of the Noank Aquaculture Cooperative, Connecticut’s first aquaculture cooperative.  Involvement includes all aspects of shellfish husbandry; hatchery, nursery and harvest operations, equipment construction and maintenance.

Foreign Exchange Analytics                               281 Essex Plaza                                           Essex, CT

Sales Consultant, Director of Sales and Marketing.  Duties include all aspects of sales and marketing for small but well-known foreign exchange consultancy.  Customers include about half of the major money center banks as well as a number of investment banks, hedge funds and money managers.

                                                                                                                September 99 to present