The former ITG executive, who was also a senior vice president at Merrill Lynch, brings extensive experience in the equity and derivatives trading and IT product development arenas.
Berke formally joins TABB Group after handling numerous consulting projects since early 2006.
Prior to working with TABB, she spent 10 years in global execution services product management as a director at ITG, Inc., where she was responsible for the desktop product QuantEX, the early development of the EMS Triton, ITG’s first algorithmic servers, the launch of ITG Canada’s trading systems and their global portfolio trading system. She also led the product management team in the globalisation of ITG’s trading suite.
She moved to ITG after spending five years at Merrill Lynch where she served as a senior vice president responsible for the launch of its portfolio trading and derivatives business in the early 1990s. From 1985 to 1990, she led the equity sales/trading team for Kidder Peabody’s portfolio trading and financial futures division. She began her career in as an options sales/trader at Paine Webber Inc. where she later launched a stock index arbitrage-trading desk.
Berke earned a BA from Bucknell University after attending Julliard Conservatory and Oberlin Conservatory. She is also NASD Series 7, 3, 4, 5 and 63 registered.