Robert Beck, Founder and CEO

Robert Beck

Founder and CEO

Bradley, Edwards and Associates

Location
Hungary
Education
Diploma, Series Four - Registered Options Principal
Experience
26 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 8 Months

Founder and CEO at Bradley, Edwards and Associates
  • Hungary
  • My current job since December 2004

Founder and CEO - Residential Property Management and Sales. Budapest’s largest property management firm specializing on serving HNW and institutional real-estate investors. Presently the firm has some 400+apartments under management and a full-time staff of 17 professionals. As founder and CEO, I have dealt with all decisions related to the running and management of the firm.

Equity Sales - Trader at Raiffeisen Securities Hungary
  • Hungary
  • August 2002 to October 2004

Foreign Institutional Sales and Trading Desk. Point person to develop the brokerage’s foreign institutional client business. Concentrated on developing a center of competence for the Bank within the Central European region

Equity Sales - Trader at Erste Securities Poland
  • Poland
  • June 2001 to June 2002

Institutional Sales and Trading Desk. Facilitating both buy and sell side client business for the brokerage. Main focus is sales-trading for large foreign institutions locally and trading Western markets for Polish funds and HNW investors.

Founder and CEO at Net Trade-Central Europe.com
  • Hungary
  • January 2000 to March 2001

Founder and CEO of an entirely Internet based online brokerage and ASP. Operated the company for 18 months. Dealt with all management related issues concerning the life of the company including negotiations with vendors customers, venture capitalists; as well as day-to-day management issues. Worked closely with the main vendor of the trading software in the adaptation and localization of the product to the regional markets

Equity Sales - Trader at OTP Securities Ltd. Hungary
  • Hungary
  • May 1997 to January 2000

Headed the Institutional Sales and Trading Desk at OTP Securities. Established relationships with large foreign institutional investors, both fixed income and equity. I helped to successfully established OTP Securities as the best local brokerage in Hungary (Euromoney 1999). While I was at OTP Securities, the firm was always within the top 5 local brokerages in terms of market share.

Education

Diploma, Series Four - Registered Options Principal
  • at US - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
  • January 1999

Series Four - Registered Options Principal

Diploma, Series Seven - General Securities Representative Exam (GSRE)
  • at US - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
  • January 1997

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) administers the exam. In order to take the exam an individual must be sponsored by a member firm of either FINRA or a self-regulatory organization (SRO). The GSRE is a six-hour exam.[3] It is held in two three-hour sessions. There are 260 questions on the test, 250 of which count toward the final score.

Master's degree, International Relations and Economics
  • at Budapest University of Economic Sciences
  • June 1995

1993-95 Post Graduate - International Relations and Economics (International relations with a focus on practical Economics, Business and Finance.) 1991-95 BA Honors -Economics and Finance

Specialties & Skills

Real Estate
Entrepreneurship
Banking
Finance
Property Accounting

Languages

Hungarian
Expert
Spanish
Intermediate
Swedish
Beginner
English
Expert

Memberships

Mount Vernon Club - Baltimore Maryland
  • Standard Member
  • January 2000
US Social Register - Baltimore, Maryland
  • Standard Member
  • August 2014

Hobbies

  • Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
    I am a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I have competed internationally in Europe and the USA