Barry L. Ritholtz
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Barry L. Ritholtz attended Stony Brook University on a Regents Scholarship, where he focused on Mathematics and Physics. He was a member of the Stony Brook Equestrian Team, and in 1981, Mr. Ritholtz successfully competed in the National Championships of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, placing as a Finalist. He wrote a column for the campus weekly, "The Stony Brook Press," on National Affairs. In his Junior year, Mr. Ritholtz was elected Vice-President of the student body.

After deciding that crunching numbers or writing code was not where his professional aspirations lay, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science, with a concentration in Philosophy.

Mr. Ritholtz attended Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, focusing on Corporate Law, Securities Transactions, and Economics. In addition to being a member of Law Review, he spent two semesters in Professor Barry Scheck's Intensive Criminal Law Clinic. During that year, he performed legal and evidentiary research for Professor Scheck's defense of Hedda Nussbaum's criminal prosecution. He graduated Cum Laude with a 3.56 GPA. After clerking in the Corporate and Litigation departments of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hayes & Handler, Mr. Ritholtz spent a year with Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau.

In 1992, Mr. Ritholtz founded ADR Resources, an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) firm focusing on non-litigation methods of settling complex cases. Based upon a pilot program created by Mr. Ritholtz, ADR Resources won a contract with the City of New York to develop a plan to streamline the enormous backlog of litigation against the City. Working with the Offices of the NYC Comptroller and the NYC Corporation Counsel, the program sped cases along faster while reducing litigation costs. Additionally, the program resulted in lowering the average settlement payout made by the City, saving the taxpayers of New York tens of millions of dollars.

At the age of 32, Mr. Ritholtz became one of the youngest attorneys ever to be appointed Special Mediator for the Second Circuit Federal Court in New York. As a Federal Mediator, he sat in the Southern District (Manhattan) Court where he actively led pre-trial negotiations with multiple parties to resolve pending complex litigation.

Leaving the Law behind, Mr. Ritholtz next joined the New York offices of E*Trade, before the firm developed its revolutionary on-line trading system. Although he wishes he could claim responsibility for the success of that program, in reality he had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with either its design or creation.

Subsequently, Mr. Ritholtz developed and implemented proprietary analytical criteria for automated equities trading. This led to the design of a computerized arbitrage program to take advantages of price discrepancies between Regional Exchanges and the New York Stock Exchange. The program was successful enough that it forced the Regional Exchanges to modify their trading and membership rules so as to thwart any future programmed arbitrage trading.

Presently, Mr. Ritholtz is Chief Market Strategist for Maxim Group, a New York Investment bank. Amongst other duties, Mr. Ritholtz writes twice weekly Market Comments, maintains a model portfolio, selects stocks and analyzes portfolios for the firm's brokers, asset managers and clients of the firm. He also develops and maintains the Model Portfolio used as the basis of managed monies by private banking Portfolio Managers.

Mr. Ritholtz is also the founder of W3 Ventures, a Technology strategy and consulting firm. Mr. Ritholtz has served as Research Editor for MacToday, a desktop publishing magazine, and frequently publishes articles on Finance and Technology issues. He has been a contributor to CBS Marketwatch's "Trading Strategies", and occassionally contributes toThe Street.com's Real Money. He has appeared on CNBC's "Kudlow & Kramer," Fox's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," and "Forbes on Fox." Ritholtz's perspectives on the markets have been quoted by various media, including the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, CNBC, Bloomberg Radio, the San Jose Mercury News, CNN/Money, Reuters, Dallas Morning News, Dow Jones NewsWire, Fortune magazine, Wired, Good Morning Silicon Valley, TheStreet.com, and CBS MarketWatch.

When not bemoaning the New York Knicks' all-too-frequent offensive lapses, Mr. Ritholtz is a vintage sports car enthusiast. He and his wife Wendy, an artist and teacher, and their hairy dog Max, live on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.



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