Chris CraddockFounder

United States - New York City Metropolitan Area

I have had a diverse career on Wall Street from trading bonds at Smith Barney to managing alternative portfolios for a private money management firm. I started my career at Gruntal & Co., attaining my series seven license during the start of the equities bear market. I worked with clients to have them invest in Municipal Bonds and diversify away from tech-heavy portfolios. I then continued on to Smith Barney to work with an investment group helping clients further diversify their bond portfolio in SIV’s, CDO’s and other forms of asset-backed paper. Seeing the change in the market again, I attained my series 3 license and began my commodities career at a private money management firm dealing in managed futures and alternative investments such as foreign real estate & sovereign bonds. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from SUNY Stony Brook.

I also have been planning for the last fifteen years man's return to space, and to that end have been developing a new type of rocket engine through my company Rocketstar, LLC and the engineers at Stony Brook University. Using this technology, rocket companies can build a true single stage to orbit rocket ship and streamline the process such that it becomes as seamless as servicing an airline.

Specialties: Facilitation of physical delivery of raw commodities, managed futures, futures trading, institutional trading, OTC brokerage, hedging.