Reginald M. Browne oversees a large institutional ETF trading group, with operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has been at the forefront of the exchange-traded funds market nearly twenty years, having played an instrumental role providing the liquidity for ETFs on American Stock Exchange in the early 1990s. Mr. Browne also was instrumental providing liquidity to successfully grow the ETF markets in Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Mr. Browne’s views are routinely cited in major business publications, and he has been invited to speak at leading industry conferences. Underscoring his global influence, Forbes magazine dubbed him “The Godfather of ETFs.”

Mr. Browne is a senior managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald, a privately held investment bank partnership where he joined last fall along with his longtime partners, Darren Taube and Eric Lichtenstein. Mr. Browne and his partners oversee a 27 -person team that has served as a lead market maker for ETFs listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges. The Cantor ETF group has been repeatedly ranked by industry trade publications as one of the leading ETF specialist teams in the U.S.

Prior to joining Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Browne was managing director, co-global head of the ETF Group at Knight Capital Group. Earlier he was a senior vice president and co-head of the ETF Group at Newedge USA, a division of Societe Generale and Credit Agricole CIB. He also worked at Susquehanna International and O’Connor and Associates, a predecessor firm of UBS.

Mr. Browne earned his Bachelor’s of Business Administration from La Salle University, where he currently serves as a trustee. He also is a trustee at McCarter Theater in Princeton, NJ. He holds Series 7, 24, 55, and 63 Certifications.

A lifelong Pennsylvania resident, Mr. Browne lives in Bucks County, PA with his wife, Dr. Aliya Browne, a cardiologist and divinity student, and their three children.