About Us

We built Rosenblatt Securities to bring the art of institutional brokerage into the 21st century. After decades of leading a pioneering independent agency-only execution firm, Richard Rosenblatt teamed with two partners: Joe Gawronski, a respected institutional salesman and market structure expert, and Scott Burrill, CFA, a 17-year buyside quant trading and investing veteran. From the top down, our team marries a tradition of personal service and integrity with the industry’s deepest understanding of market structure and trading dynamics.

Richard A. Rosenblatt

Richard Rosenblatt is the CEO and founder of Rosenblatt Securities. Dick is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on equity market structure and has served as an official of the NYSE in various capacities for nearly 20 years.

Currently one of only six Executive Governors of the NYSE who advise top management on market structure developments and new products as well as oversee all major issues on the floor (from disputes to halts to technology malfunctions), he also serves on a number of NYSE committees, including the Market Performance Committee, Allocation Committee, the NYSE Hearing Board, Hybrid Point of Sale Committee, Agency Hybrid Development Committee, and the Handheld Design Committee.

Dick is also the Founder of the NYSE Floor Members Emergency Fund and the Founder and First President of the Organization of Independent Floor Brokers. In addition to his professional associations, Mr. Rosenblatt is very involved in a number of charities, including positions as Founder and Chairman of the Floor Members Outreach Program, Founder and Director of the NYSE Fallen Heroes Fund, and Trustee Emeritus of Mercy College.

Joseph Gawronski

Joe Gawronski is the President/COO of Rosenblatt Securities. 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, a block crossing network start-up.

He received his B.A. in Public and International Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is an Allied Member of the NYSE, a member of the NYSE Hearing Board, a member of the Advisory Boards of both The Journal of Trading and Wall Street & Technology, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the author or co-author of several published papers on equity market structure and a leading lecturer, moderator and panelist on the topic.

 

Scott Burrill

Scott Burrill, CFA, is a managing director and a partner at the firm. At Rosenblatt, Scott has been responsible for the development of the firm’s pre-trade and post-trade analysis tools and more generally Rosenblatt Integrated Transaction Analytics (RITA), a forward thinking framework and toolkit for genuinely integrating TCA into the investment process rather than having it exist separately in the marketing, compliance or trading departments as it does at many firms. Scott also leads the firm's consulting efforts with money managers on topics ranging from portfolio construction, capacity analysis, and rebalancing frequency to strategic operations assessments.

In his more than 17 years of experience in the financial services industry prior to joining Rosenblatt in 2005, Scott served in key roles at several large buy-side firms, namely Head of Trading Strategies at $100 billion+ Russell Investment Group, a portfolio manager/trader of both active and indexed assets at behemoth CalPERS, and Director of Trading and Member of both the Investment and Executive Committees at Westpeak Global Advisors, a quantitative equity investment manager which grew to over $10 billion in domestic and international assets during his tenure. Scott is a graduate of UC Davis and UOP McGeorge School of Law.