Key Management Profiles

 

SCOTT MICHAEL HALL
Mgr Director/Founder

Mr. Hall brings over 20 years of sales, management and technical experience to Briarcliff Hall. He founded this firm based on the interest in bringing top sales executives together with the best of breed software and sales firms. Mr. Hall has successfully built major sales teams that have generated $100mm+ in sales, and assisted in bringing new products to market. Prior to Briarcliff Hall, Mr. Hall was a Managing Director at Logical Information Machines, Thomson Financial and General Manager for FAME Information Services. Before this, Mr. Hall had sales experience in selling accounting and quantitative systems and in particular marketing to Hedge Funds.  Additional background includes trading and technical management roles at Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan

 

BARRY DALTON

Sales Manager

Mr. Dalton has over 20 years of consulting, business development and sales experience assisting Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in the implementation of strategies and technologies delivering increased revenue growth and profitably. Previously, Barry was the Vice President of Consulting at NICE Systems, where he grew a multi-million dollar solutions practice within this $600mm software company.  Before NICE, he was a Senior Business Development Manager at Deloitte Consulting generating over $20mm in consulting revenue for Deloitte’s Financial Services practice. Previously, he led the Sales and Marketing Optimization consulting practice at eLoyalty – a customer loyalty and systems integration consultancy. He began his consulting career at Arthur Andersen, L.L.P. And, prior to consulting, he spent eight years in capital product sales and sales management.  Barry holds a B.A. from The University of New Hampshire and an MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

 

HOWARD BERNIGER

Sales Manager – NY and MidWest

Howard brings over 20 years of expertise selling real-time market feeds, front end applications, risk systems and quant research systems with historical fundamental and pricing data.  BS Business Administration & Economics Double Degree Roosevelt University. 20 years experience in Futures & Options Trading, Member of Chicago Mercantile Exchange, IMM & IOM divisions 4 years Member of Orientation and Education Committees Chicago Mercantile Exchange

 

KEN ROBINSON

Senior Sales Executive

Ken has over 25 years of sales experience in the Financial Services industry with Standard & Poor’s, Mergent and Thomson Financial. His experience includes National Account Sales Executive, managing bulge bracket accounts such as Prudential, UBS (formerly PaineWebber), TD Waterhouse, Quick & Reilly and Smith Barney. His experience also includes the sale of market data systems, equity research, corporate actions and fundamental financial data to hedge funds and institutional money managers. In addition he has worked on the development and sale of asset allocation and wealth management applications to the retail brokerage community. He is series 6 & 63 licensed and holds a B.S. in Speech Pathology and English from Hofstra University.

 

W. NEELEY

Senior Sales Executive

Woody has over 9 years of computer and support related experience in the financial services industry including capital markets trading, research, retail and technology.  Strong project management experience including: Bridge Information Systems conversion to a new platform, Bank of America voice data analysis, Deutsche Bank Inventory and invoice reconciliation process.  Technical / account management experience at Reuters with B2B clients.

 

Woody has B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.  Also an outstanding service award from Bank of America and Series 6 and 63 license.