Skip Shean

Experience

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  The Chicago Corporation

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  Insititutional Fixed Income Sales

  Sales & Trading of Fixed Income Securities, including US Treasuries, Agencies, Mortgage Backeds and CMOs.

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  Northwestern Mutual

  Feb 1993 - Oct 1995

  Special Agent

  Financial Planner, Insurance Agent, and Series 7/63 registered broker.

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  CCC Information Services, Inc.

  Oct 1995 - Jul 1997

  National Account Manager

  Sales and customer service of software and market data to insurance companies' claims operations around the country. Promoted three times in first twelve months with company and served several of the nation's largest insurance companies.

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  Charter Consulting, Inc.

  Jul 1997 - May 2000

  Manager

  Management consulting to large financial services companies on a variety of operational projects. Cost reduction, margin enhancement, operational efficiencies, business process reengineering.

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  Starpoint Solutions

  May 2000 - Jul 2001

  Engagement Manager, Strategic Accounts

  Responsible for managing multiple IT consulting projects with some of the company's largest customers, leading development of custom web-based applications for Fortune 100-sized companies.Also responsible for customer and project profit & loss and the sales of additional projects.

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  Wexford Partners, Inc.

  Jul 2001 - Feb 2004

  Managing Partner

  Management consulting to small, medium and large companies on a variety of operational, IT, and strategic projects.

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  E*TRADE Financial

  Feb 2004 - May 2005

  Product Manager

  Product Manager for options and futures products, including equity and index derivatives trading on the CME, CBOT, CBOE, Chicago Futures Exchange, ISE, BOX, PCX, PHLX and AMEX exchanges.

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  OptionsXpress Holdings, Inc.

  May 2005 - Aug 2008

  Vice President, Marketing & Business Development

  Responsible for identification, negotiation, and delivery of creative business opportunities, including transactions, licensing, and partnerships for an innovative, fast-growing online brokerage firm.I've been responsible for developing effective strategic partnerships and extending use of optionsXpress' trading platform by financial market participants and exchanges the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and International Securities Exchange.Sydicated elements of the optionsXpress website to highly trafficked and relevant financial websites, and extended our API program to offer optionsXpress account data and trading to third-party software and platforms.Responsible for all exhibitors and speakers at our principal annual customer event, optionsXpo. Show less

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  TradeMONSTER

  Aug 2008 - Aug 2010

  Vice President, Marketing & Business Development

  Head of Marketing at tradeMONSTER, an innovative online brokerage firm at www.trademonster.com. Responsible for all marketing, sales, PR, and business development in rapidly growing online brokerage.• Hired Inc 500 ad agency Dean Media Group, defined strong brand positioning and identity, and successfully challenged entrenched brands optionsXpress, ThinkOrSwim, E*TRADE, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade and Charles Schwab.• Hired marketing team and built all marketing channels from scratch, including search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), online advertising, affiliate, live and online events.• Led PR efforts, hired PR agency, obtained coverage by all leading financial publications and leading bloggers, including the Wall Street Journal, Barrons, USA Today, and others. • Identified and evaluated partnership opportunities, consummating dozens of deals resulting in thousands of new tradeMONSTER accounts. Show less

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  16Wells LLC

  Jan 2011 - now

  CEO

  16wells helps financial services and other companies, publishers and content creators drive value from their work, using the best practices in online marketing combined with a data- and results-centric approach.