Evan Rapoport
Evan Rapoport is founder, CEO, and chief compliance officer of HedgeCo Securities. At HedgeCo Securities, Mr. Rapoport is responsible for overseeing the staff, finding and securing strong product and partner relationships, and making sure the firm keeps in compliance with all FINRA and SEC regulations. He currently holds Series 3, 7, 24, 63, 55 and 79 securities licenses

Mr. Rapoport is also a Managing Partner and co-founder of HedgeCo Networks, a global hedge fund services provider. At HedgeCo, Mr. Rapoport oversees a hedge fund database of over 6,500 hedge funds, as well as a hedge fund user community of over 25,000 members. He has helped to create over four hundred hedge fund websites and has consulted on a over two hundred new hedge fund launches. Mr. Rapoport has been featured on CNBC and has appeared in various publications such as Newsweek Magazine, Forbes.com, usatoday.com, heraldtribune.com, Florida Trend and Registered Rep. Magazine. He also writes his own blog focused on hedge fund capital introduction.

Prior to helping found HedgeCo Networks, Mr. Rapoport was a Senior Vice President at Broadband Capital Management, a NASD member brokerage firm in New York City. 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. Mr. Rapoport holds a B.A. from the University of Florida.


Andrew Schneider
Andrew Schneider is one of the co-founders of hedge fund research and services firm, HedgeCo Networks. At HedgeCo, Mr. Schneider helps to oversee a hedge fund database of over 6,500 hedge funds, in addition to helping oversee a user community of over 35,000 members. He currently provides consulting services to both new and existing hedge funds. Mr. Schneider has been featured on CNBC, and in over two hundred other news publications.

He served in a number of high-profile Wall Street Firms such as Morgan Stanley and Prudential Securities. At Morgan Stanley, Mr. Schneider helped manage assets for institutions as well as high net worth clients. He participated in many private placements, PIPE transactions and public offerings.