Peter Cocuzza, a veteran of Wall Street trading markets, began his career as an options strategist/ trader for PaineWebber Inc., where he traded firm capital and held educational seminars on options strategies. He was appointed to lead and oversee the startup of PaineWebber’s wrap-fee trading desk in New York City. Peter and his team were responsible for executing and handling trades from over 500 asset managers across the country. Peter then joined and co-headed Equity trading for Mitchell Hutchins Inc, the buyside division of PaineWebber, where he traded for the firm’s mutual funds, institutional, and pension fund accounts.

Peter joined Oppenehimerfunds Inc in 2000 where he spent 9 years as lead equity trader for the firms “Value” oriented mutual funds. He represented Oppenehimer funds as ambassador for many of the various securities trader associations. After assisting a start –up hedge fund in Princeton, NJ, where he worked as Vice President for Stone Toro Asset Management in Princeton, NJ, he went on to join Vandham Securities, a New Jersey based Broker/Dealer as Director, Business Developments. Peter joined Global Liquidity Partners in early 2015, where he is responsible for expanding and developing senior client relationships in equities, as well as focusing his efforts on the introduction of Global 's Institutional product offering to both buy and sell side accounts. Throughout his career, Peter has served on many securities trader committees for associations such as “Trader Forum” and the “Investment Company Institute” (ICI). He has been a long time contributor to the Trade Tech Blog, where he has authored several articles on trading and the financial industry. He was proudly elected to the Board of Directors for the Securities Trader Association of New York (STANY) in 2012.

Peter received his BA in Management/Marketing from Rider University and currently resides in Jackson, New Jersey.