Howard Teitelman

318 S. W. Mudd Building
500 W. 120th Street
New York, New York 10027
Phone: +1 212-854-2987
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Howard Teitelman is the Chief Strategy Officer for Trillium Trading LLC
located in New York City. He received his BS in Engineering Management
Systems in 1996 and an MS in Operations Research Department in 1998
both from Columbia University's IEOR Department. He was selected as an
early inductee into Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society
and Omega Rho, the International Operations Research Honor
Society. Howard served as a past President of Columbia’s chapter
of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers.
In his role as CSO of Trillium Trading, Howard is responsible for
overseeing operations in the manual and automated trading divisions. He
has been instrumental in developing and implementing technology,
compliance, and accounting procedures for the firm. Prior to joining
Trillium, Howard worked at General Electric's Research and Development
Center in Schenectady, NY and constructed a statistical model to
determine default risk associated with sub-prime auto loans.
In the Columbia course Topics in Quantitative Finance: Trading and
Technology in Today’s Financial Markets, Howard hopes to give students
some insight into the excitement of the equities markets. Dramatic
improvements in computing power and robust advancements in the
telecommunications industry have sparked a revolution on Wall Street,
empowering individual investors and small trading firms to assume a
leading role in the innovation of the financial markets. Howard’s
course in an introduction to the complex structure of the US equity
markets and the role technology plays in facilitating practical trading
applications.