Robert DeLuca Robert DeLuca brings MGA more than 14 years of experience trading global instruments at investment banks, banks, and hedge funds. Mr. DeLuca began his career at the J. Aron division of Goldman Sachs, where he spent six years trading FX, futures, and options. He then spent close to a decade managing spot trading desks, directional currency programs, and setting up proprietary desks for leading banks and hedge funds including Lehman Brothers, Dai-Ichi Kangyo, and Danske. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. DeLuca served in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviator. He was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal by the Secretary of the Navy for flying his helicopter off the decks of cruisers and destroyers for multiple flights in a hostile environment. Aubrey Hayward Aubrey Hayward joined our London office in August 2007 as a Market Strategist serving our European clients. He brings over 25 years of experience trading in global financial markets to MGA. Most recently, he traded personal capital within Deben Asset Management in Exchange Traded Derivatives. He served as Investment Manager for one of the wealthiest private business individuals within Inter IKEA Treasury SA Brussels for eight years, and spent ten years in proprietary trading at Nordea Bank London. Earlier in his career, he traded money markets and foreign exchance at Bankgesellschaft Berlin London, and gold and foreign exchange at the Bank of England. His extensive network of contacts in Europe and his expertise in the treasury and futures markets will offer great value to MGA clients. Tain Hsia Tain Hsia joined MGA with over ten years of strategy and policy experience in global financial markets. Most recently, Ms. Hsia was a rates strategist for Nomura Securities International. Prior to working at Nomura, Ms. Hsia worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a senior trader/analyst on the domestic open market desk. Here she implemented monetary policy by conducting outright purchases of securities for the Federal Reserve's system open market account portfolio. Ms. Hsia holds a M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in economics from Barnard College. Masaaki Shimizu Masaaki Shimizu joined MGA after working for J.P. Morgan for nearly two decades. During his seventeen year J.P. Morgan career, Mr. Shimizu worked in Tokyo, New York, and Brussels in the areas of foreign exchange advisory and sales, capital markets products, corporate finance, global custody, and credit risk analysis. Over the years he has worked with a broad array of clients including many of the leading Japanese institutional investors and a number of Asian central banks. Mr. Shimizu has an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Kansas and a B.A. in economics from Keio University in Tokyo. Paul Silk Paul Silk brings over 15 years of experience in global financial markets to MGA with a particular emphasis on Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Silk was head of interest rate trading for the National Australia Bank in London. His extensive career in fixed income markets in Wellington, Sydney, and London includes tenures at Bain and Co/Deutsche Bank as head of fixed interest in Australia and at Greenwich Natwest as head of German government bond trading. Mr. Silk has a degree in commerce from the University of Canterbury. Ilan Solot Ilan Solot joined MGA from the foreign exchange desk of the New York Fed where he covered global emerging markets analytically and was operationally responsible for trading major currencies, co-managing the Fed’s FX reserve portfolio and conducting currency swap transactions with the ECB and the SNB as part of the Fed's new liquidity measures. Prior to the Fed he briefly worked in a consulting company in Mexico and was a contributing writer for one of the regular publications of a well know research institute in Brazil, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, where he received his Executive MBA. Mr. Solot also holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.