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Richard Korhammer has spent his career as a senior executive and advisor, building and growing companies within the technology, banking, trading, market data and exchange sectors. He was the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Co-founder of Lava Trading, an equities and FX best execution trading and order management system platform that he successfully guided from its inception to its acquisition by Citigroup Inc., where he became a Managing Director, overseeing global electronic equities execution. Mr. Korhammer is currently Managing Director and Co-Head of FinTech Investment Banking at Chardan Capital Markets, a global investment bank. Since 2012, Mr. Korhammer has been the Chairman of the board of directors of Yieldbroker, a Sydney, Australia-based electronic debt and derivatives exchange which has twelve leading global banks as shareholders, as well as the Australian Securities Exchange. Throughout his career, Mr. Korhammer has held leadership positions, including Senior Advisor to Lightyear Capital, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm focusing on the financial sector, Managing Director at SenaHill Securities LLC and Chairman of The Receivables Exchange, an SMB and Fortune 500 receivables trading platform. Mr. Korhammer started his career as a systems engineer as well as serving in business development roles at NeXT Computers, founded by Steve Jobs, which was acquired by Apple Computers. He holds a B.S.E. in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University.