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David Whitcomb is Founder and Chairman of Automated Trading Desk. Mr. Whitcomb is also Professor of Finance Emeritus at the Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University. He joined the Rutgers faculty in 1975 as Associate Professor, was promoted to Professor in 1980, and retired in 1999. He was Visiting Professor of Finance at the Australian Graduate School of Management in 1983 and Visiting Scholar at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1981. Before joining the faculty at Rutgers, he held positions at City University of New York, New York University and the RAND Corporation. Whitcomb received his Bachelor's degree in economics (With Highest Distinction) from Babson College in 1963 and his Ph.D., also in economics (With Distinction, Friedman Prize), from Columbia University in 1968. Working with Robert Schwartz (and frequently also Kalman Cohen and Steven Maier), Whitcomb was one of the first researchers in the microstructure of securities markets, a field in financial economics that studies the operations of securities markets. He is the author of several industry articles, and one book, EXTERNALITIES AND WELFARE (Columbia University Press, 1972). Whitcomb co-authored two others, THE MICROSTRUCTURE OF SECURITIES MARKETS (Prentice-Hall, 1986), and TRANSACTION COSTS AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR TRADING STRATEGY (Salomon Brothers Center for the Study of Financial Institutions Monograph Series, 1988). He is listed as one of the Top 100 researchers in financial economics as measured by citations to his research in leading financial economics journals over the 25 years 1974-1998. Among his charitable interests are the Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Institutions at Rutgers University, the Bronx Community College Child Development Center, International House (New York City), and Acme Theater Co., an award-winning community theater located in Maynard MA. He is a member of the Rutgers Business School Financial Advisory Board. | 