Daniel Conners

Background

About Daniel Conners

WHAT DRIVES ME I believe that one of life’s most important skills is rooted in a person’s ability to shift and learn in many different areas. My career to date has intersected across business, finance, and education, where I have been challenged to reinvent myself, hone my skills, and learn some new ones that have had long-term, far-reaching impacts. MY CAREER STORY I chose to pursue a career in finance and the brokerage industry after seeing the trading floor of The Chicago Board of Trade on a high school field trip.think Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Seeing firsthand how the financial markets worked fascinated me and I knew that was what I wanted to do. For 15+ years, I had a successful career within the corporate finance and brokerage industry doing every job imaginable, from the grunt work on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange all the way to the global executive management level. During this period, I led the design and implementation of some of the most successful trading floor policies and systems that reduced risk and fueled profit growth. Several years later, I was inspired to translate my finance background and talents for logical reasoning and numbers into a teaching career. This experience exposed me to the challenges and excitement of giving back through education and working in diverse environments from inner city schools to non-traditional, community college settings. WHAT I’VE BEEN UP TO LATELY Now, having recently relocated from Chicago to the greater Seattle area, I’m looking to reinvent myself once again, and leverage my diverse background in trading, quantitative financial and business analysis, accounting, and project management to help businesses make better decision, reduce operational inefficiencies, and facilitate scalable growth. If you seek a self-driven, conscientious business and finance professional who can apply mathematical and statistical models that deliver solutions to complex financial and risk management problems, connect with me or email me directly at horn13@gmail.com.