Ed Cofrancesco
Chief Executive Officer and President
For the two years before joining International Assets, Ed was engaged in various entrepreneurial and consulting activities. During this time he was a Director for both Pluris Partners, LLC and Telluride Partners, LLC. Both firms were engaged in providing consulting services to private and public micro-cap companies.
Before that, Ed was a Director, Executive Vice President and COO of International Assets Holding Corp., a NASDAQ listed financial holding company. While there he rebuilt the Equity Trading Department and developed and implemented all equity trading and sales strategies. During his tenure, he increased trading revenues 1500%. Having started there during a period of continuing losses, he led the firm back to profitability and was successful in bringing in new investors that increased the firm’s capital by over 50%. Working with his new management partners, he built operations to support new business lines including Fixed Income, Asset Management, Precious Metals, and Foreign Exchange divisions.
Previously, he served as a Vice President of International Institutional Sales at Lehman Brothers, Inc. For 7 years he was a Vice President with Raymond James and Associates, Inc. where he started the International Trading and Operations Departments. He was responsible for overseeing all International Equity, OTC ADR, and Foreign Exchange trading with over 50,000 retail and institutional trades per annum across more than 25 markets with gross commissions over $20 million.
Mr. Cofrancesco has also held positions with Discount Corporation of New York, Security Pacific National Bank, Bradford Trust Company, United States Trust Company of New York and Shearson American Express. He holds Series 7, 8, 24, 55 and 63. licenses.