William Dersch

William grew up in Floral Park, NY and  played basketball at Holy Cross High School in Flushing Queens, class of 96'. His high school highlights include being selected to the 1996 McDonald's All American team, as well as being named 1996 Mr New York State Basketball player of the year. He played college at The University of Virginia and was named team captain in his 3rd and 4th year. After he graduated he moved back to NYC to pursue a career in the world of equity and options trading. He’s been doing that for 19 years and loving it.  He worked 2 years for Citigroup on the floor of the American Stock Exchange as an institutional derivatives clerk.  In 2002 he left Citigroup for an entrepreneurial opportunity. He became partner for a small brokerage trading firm on the American stock exchange called FM Brokerage. When the NYSE bought the exchange he decided it was time to move off the Amex and start a trading firm that was more of a full service firm and had breadth. He merged with Michael Wallach and David Beth who are industry veterans on the Amex and formed WallachBeth Capital LLC. He helped launch the firm in 2008, of which he is a partner. WallachBeth focus on brokerage services with a specialty in equity, ETF and options trading.