Mr Joe Gawronski | President
Rosenblatt Securities

Joe Gawronski is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Rosenblatt Securities, an agency-only institutional brokerage firm founded in 1979. Headquartered in New York City, the firm represents traditional institutions, quants and portfolio trading customers in all global equity and ETF markets through its trading desk and via direct access to the NYSE floor, a service that it pioneered in the late 1980s. Rosenblatt has been at the forefront of embracing automation to enhance trading efficiency and the self-sufficiency of the buy side. It was the first firm, more than two decades ago, to provide non-NYSE members with access to the exchange’s electronic DOT system. In addition to attaining the best possible executions for clients, the firm helps them to identify and use the best tools for when they trade on their own, and to navigate an increasingly complex marketplace via its leading transaction cost analytics and market structure advice. The firm also provides its analysis to portfolio managers and analysts to add the unique, expert insights of a practitioner and focused expert to their investment considerations in the exchange space. Leveraging its leading analysis, Rosenblatt's investment banking unit has also quickly become a leader in the capital markets financial technology space. Joe is formerly a securities lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, a Vice President in the equities division with Salomon Smith Barney and COO of Linx LLC, an electronic block trading system. He is an Allied Member of the NYSE, a member of the Advisory Boards of both the Journal of Trading and Wall Street & Technology magazine, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Organization of Investment Professionals and the author or co-author of several published papers on equity market structure and frequent lecturer, moderator and panelist on the topic. He received hisB.A. in Public and International Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Joe can be reached at jgawronski@rblt.com.