Evan Rapoport
Principal/Co-founder

Evan Rapoport is one of the principals of hedge fund research and services firm, HedgeCo Networks. At HedgeCo, Mr. Rapoport helps to oversee a hedge fund database of over 6000 hedge funds, as well as hedge fund community of over 25,000 members. He has helped to create almost two hundred hedge fund websites and has also consulted on a substantial amount of new hedge fund launches. Mr. Rapoport and has been featured on CNBC, in Newsweek Magazine, South Florida Business Journal, Florida Trend and Registered Rep. Magazine, among various other publications.

Prior to helping found HedgeCo Networks, Mr. Rapoport was a Senior Vice President at Broadband Capital Management, a NASD member brokerage firm in NYC, NY. At Broadband, Mr. Rapoport managed assets for institutions as well as high net worth clients, and also participated in many private placements and PIPE transactions. Before Broadband, Mr. Rapoport was the youngest Senior Vice President in history at NYSE member Oscar Gruss' Private Client Group. He started his career in a Chairman's Council member's office at Paine Webber in NYC, NY. Mr. Rapoport currently holds Series 7, 63, 24, and 55 securities licenses. He also holds a B.A. from the University of Florida.
 
Andrew Schneider
Principal/Co-founder

Prior to founding HedgeCo, Mr. Schneider worked at Morgan Stanley and Prudential Securities. Mr. Schneider served as a vice-president at Morgan Stanley managing in excess of 100 million dollars of high net worth individual assets. Mr. Schneider participated and structured many private placements, PIPE transactions, Public Offerings with a total value of 250 million dollars. Mr. Schneider as a financial adviser seized the opportunity to offer individual investors, as well as institutional investors a medium to provide accurate and informed information on the explosive Hedge Fund community. Mr. Schneider has been an integral part in the raising assets and structuring for a number of start-up hedge funds and well as more established household names. Mr. Schneider has been quoted in many financial publications concerning the hedge fund community as well as appeared on financial networks such as CNBC. Mr. Schneider attended The State University at Albany.
 
Aaron Wormus - Image Aaron Wormus
Managing Director

Mr. Aaron Wormus has worked as the Technical Lead and Web Project Manager at HedgeCo Networks since 2004. As an experienced Internet developer, Mr. Wormus lead the development of the HedgeCo websites platform, and added hundreds of client-requested features to the more than 40 deployments of the system.

Prior to working with HedgeCo Networks, Mr. Wormus worked as a freelance consultant implementing back-end systems for clients ranging from telecommunications companies to mining companies and Silicon Valley software distributors.

Mr. Wormus studied Information Technology and Journalism in Finland, and writes technology pieces as a hobby. His written work has been published in various technology magazines, translated into 5 European languages, as well as published in a book. Aaron regularly speaks at PHP Programming conferences, and is involved in the organization of his local technology user group.

 
Surej Sundaram - Image Surej Sundaram
Creative Director

Surej Sundaram Kalathil joined HedgeCo Networks as Creative Director in June of 2005. Mr. Kalathil has 10 years of experience in the design industry. His design experience includes web, print, illustration, and fine arts. Mr. Kalathil started his Career in Bombay, India. He worked for various companies as creative director including Quorum Publications, V2 Digital Design, & and his own company Smart Designer Consultants. During that time, Mr. Kalathil developed over 150 website designs. He was awarded The Golden Web Design award for excellence, in 2002, 2003 & 2004. Mr Kalathil has bachelor degree in Commerce, and a Diploma in Web Design and Development, as well as a Diploma in Commercial Arts, from Bombay, India.
 
Ryan Conner
Account Executive

Ryan Conner is an account executive with HedgeCo dealing with high net worth individuals and institutions.  His responsibilities include qualifying new investors to the site and recommending appropriate funds for clients.  Mr. Conner currently holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Anlayst, CAIA, designation.  He is licensed with the Nasdaq and has the Series 7, 63, and 55 licenses.  Prior to joining HedgeCo, Mr. Conner spent three years as a proprietary equities trader for a firm located in Miami, Fl.  During this time, he gained valuable experience executing a large volume of shares in both the Nasdaq and NYSE markets.  Mr. Conner graduated in three years from the University of Arizona with Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
 
Chris Urso - Image Chris Urso
Account Executive

Christopher Urso is in charge of verifying, updating and maintaining the 7,000 hedge funds on HedgeCo.net. He also works directly with Andrew Schneider on a consulting basis, helping many new and existing hedge funds to establish and/or successfully change their current infrastructure. Prior to joining HedgeCo Networks Chris financed and underwrote over a 100 million dollars of residential real estate for one of the largest banks in North America. He currently holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
 
Aaron Connelly - Image Aaron Connelly
Senior Web Developer

Aaron Connelly is the youngest developer at HedgeCo Networks.  He manages the HedgeCo.Net website and all related customer support.  Aaron has been involved in over 200 development projects in the music, financial and e-commerce industries, as a project manager, consultant and developer.
 
Ken Elliott - Image Ken Elliott
Web Developer

Ken Elliott is a software developer for HedgeCo Networks.  Ken has extensive knowledge of PHP and Perl, and has hand-coded large-scale commerce websites in the sports and art industries.  He started programming and building secure computers in 1995. His expertise in LAMP programming led to the new generation of website platforms that HedgeCo offers today.
 
Omar Dixon - Image Omar Dixon
Web Developer

Omar Dixon, originally from Jamaica, is a software developer in the West Palm Beach HedgeCo office. He started programming at age 13 in Quick BASIC. Since then, he has worked freelance fixing PCs and building websites, and earned his Bachelors degree in Information Systems Management at CUNY York College. Omar developed and maintains HedgeCo's breakthrough product, the Hedge Fund Calculator.
 
Liz Nesher - Image Liz Nesher
Web Developer

Liz Nesher is a software developer at HedgeCo networks.  As a graduate of the Parsons School of Design's Design & Technology program in New York City, and a web developer since 2000, Liz has extensive experience with all aspects of the digital world.

Liz's solo and collaborative work in the field of technology has been published in Electronic Gaming Monthly, the New York Times and Business Week.  She has shown in New York City art galleries including The Digital Kitchen and Felissimo Design House.  Liz has done design and development work for fashion & styling, interior design, the music industry, and for the financial world.
 
Marilyn Foley - Image Marilyn Foley
Executive Assistant

Marilyn Foley is an Executive Assistant for HedgeCo in the West Palm Beach office. She has been with HedgeCo since January of 2007. Marilyn is involved in almost every aspect of the business. Some of her most prominent duties include: overseeing Human Resources, compiling and sending out website scopes & proposals, assisting with accounts receivable & payable, and acting as events coordinator and company travel agent.