Bob Paturzo

Bob Paturzo is a Managing Director of Navigate Advisors with over 20 years of financial industry experience. He is recognized within the industry for his trading expertise, product knowledge and risk management insights across the range of equity products. Bob started with Salomon Brothers in 1984 on the program trading desk.  In 1992 he joined Swiss Bank to establish a U.S. based program trading desk, which he ran for twelve years, trading agency programs, index changes, futures and transitions.  A graduate of the O'Connor Derivative Training Program, Bob then moved to UBS's Risk Arbitrage Trading desk where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and special situations.  Most recently, Bob managed the UBS Prime Brokerage Trading Desk which handles execution for over 400 hedge funds primed with UBS.  Bob received a B.S. in management from Niagara University.