Gene Grant

GENE GRANT is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of e-primefinancial
plc. Gene has 10 years experience in the financial services industry
with particular skills in global project management, trading and risk
management, and information technology. From March 1999 until commencing
full-time employment with e-primefinancial in May 2000, Gene acted as
the Chief Executive for the trading systems division of Lombard Risk
Systems Limited. Prior to joining Lombard, Mr Grant was associated with
Deutsche Bank as a consultant in 1996, and then in 1997 as Deputy Chief
Operating Officer of Global OTC Derivatives and Fixed Income Trading,
and for a short period as a member of the Global Markets Risk Management
team. In 1989 Mr Grant received his Bachelor of Science degree from the
University of Manitoba, then he studied one year in the MBA program
before transferring to New York University as a research assistant while
working on a Doctorate in Finance. After two years Mr Grant accepted an
invitation to join a financial trading company, and then throughout the
next four years he worked in New York and Chicago primarily trading
foreign exchange, commodities, and exchange traded futures and options
in proprietary and client driven trading roles. Mr Grant has
participated in the over the counter markets, electronic trading, and as
a floor trader on the New York commodity exchange.