Team Leaders

CLIENT RELATIONS

David Bergman:

David brings a unique lens to Vertas having spent the first 20 years of his professional career as an attorney specializing in enforcing the U.S. Securities Laws. After representing more than 125 pension systems as counsel, David developed a specialty in the entire spectrum of fiduciary best practices and now works with Vertas’ pension fund clients across the U.S. attempting to enhance their brokerage practices and performance and bring transparency to what is often their largest expense -- transaction costs. After retiring from the practice of law in 2006, David spent seven years helping to introduce better brokerage practices to the public and corporate pension world and working to redress conflicts of interest in that segment of the financial markets. A prolific international speaker on issues relating to best brokerage practices, corporate fraud and corporate governance, David has also formulated various best fiduciary practices regimens for pension funds throughout the U.S. David received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. He is also FINRA Series 7 and 63 licensed.

CLIENT CONSULTING

Steve Malinowski:

Steve serves as lead brokerage consultant for Vertas with responsibility for all strategic oversight and implementation from pre-trade planning through trade oversight and post-trade reporting for Vertas’ transition clients. Prior to joining Vertas, Steve spent the prior six years working with pension systems advocating for better brokerage practices and using his decades of experience managing portfolio trading desks to help reduce transaction costs during transition events. Steve previously spent ten years as Managing Director and Head of Transition Management for Merrill Lynch in the Americas, during which time Steve held several senior sales and trading management positions in London including Managing Director and Head of Equity Linked Sales in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Prior to joining Merrill, Steve spent 10 years with Lehman Brothers in New York and London, where he helped found the portfolio trading product in Europe. Steve holds a B.A. from Boston College and is Finra Series 7 and 63 licensed.

TRADE ADMINISTRATION

Peter Romanelli:

Peter has 18 years experience managing the administration of transition events and uses that experience for Vertas to oversee the administration and operational processes, from the initial set up stages through final completion, for all transition management assignments. His daily communicational responsibilities involves interactions with multiple transition participants including custodial departments, portfolio fund managers, clients and their consultants. Operationally, he manages trade processing, settlements, and account reconciliations for all fund manager portfolios participating in a transition. Peter spent the last nine years overseeing trades for hundreds of pension systems, and prior to that was a senior supervisor for the Transition Management division of BNY Brokerage, Inc., a subsidiary of the Bank of New York. Peter earned his MBA from the University of Florida and an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of South Florida. He holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses with FINRA. He is also an active member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Society.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND COMPLIANCE

Ken Taylor:

Mr. Taylor founded Percival Financial Partners, Ltd. in October 1996. Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Taylor was Vice President for National Development at The Chapman Company, an investment banking firm; and Vice President at a local Maryland bank for 17 years before joining the Chapman Company. Mr. Taylor holds a B.A. Degree in Economics from Morgan State University. His current licenses include: Series 6, 7, 24, 28,53 and 63.