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Justin Press
BTIG
Justin Press, co-head of prime brokerage at New York-based global trading and fund services firm BTIG, spied an opportunity in 2004. Press, a nephew of Joel Press, an accountant and founding figure in hedge fund services, was then working as head of Midwestern prime brokerage sales for UBS. He realized that as hedge fund firms were growing into massive, multibillion-dollar businesses, large prime brokerages were paying less and less attention...