Mr. Phillip Rapp has held the position of Chief Operating Officer since August 2010. During the past 20 years, Mr. Rapp has been engaged in senior executive positions in the financial services and investment industry. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer of NextLife from July 2009 to August 2010. Formerly he was a business consultant from October 2007 to October 2009. During his tenure from May 2002 through September 2007, Mr. Rapp was Managing Director responsible for Sales and Marketing for the Institutional Execution Group (IEG) of Labranche & Co., then the New York Stock Exchange’s largest specialist company. Prior thereto, from June 1996 to March 2002, Mr. Rapp was employed in a similar capacity for Knight Securities and from April 1993 to May 1996 where he led the effort to build the broker-dealer Sales desk into the largest in the NASDAQ Market. Mr. Rapp was in Broker Dealer sales at D.E. Shaw, a multi-billion dollar asset management company. Mr. Rapp has extensive experience developing real estate and computer related technologies.
