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Raymond D. Potter is Head of Emerging Markets, Americas at KNG Securities, a London-based broker dealer. In this role he is responsible for all sales, trading and strategy of emerging markets products.

Ray has a distinguished career on Wall Street spanning over 35 years. Prior to KNG, Ray spent much of his career building and running the international securities efforts at Prudential Securities and Wachovia Capital Markets. He also headed the London International Equity Division at Prudential for 3 years between 1998 and 2001 and directed the capital markets element of the merger between Prudential and Wachovia in 2003 and 2004, creating the 3rd largest US securities firm. He ran the Americas Credit Trading Division for Standard Bank, South Africa’s largest bank for 3 years between 2005 and 2008 and created and ran the Foreign Bond Division as Managing Director and Head of International Fixed Income at Hapoalim Securities, a division of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank until 2015. Ray then transferred a large team of foreign securities specialists to Stifel Nicolaus to head up their Global Emerging Markets business until 2019 when he was recruited to create and develop the Emerging Markets Division at Odeon Capital Group until just recently.

Ray received his BS in Business Management from the W. Paul Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University in 1989.

A believer in public service, Ray served on the Investment Advisory Committee for the New York State Common Retirement Fund for over a decade, on the Board for the Our Lady of Grace Montessori School in Manhasset NY as member, VP and President, on the Parish Finance Committee at Most Holy Trinity Parish in East Hampton, New York, on the fundraising committee for the Immaculate Conception Seminary in South Orange, New Jersey, and on the trading room advisory committee for the W. Paul Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. Ray and his wife Christina also serve on the Pre Cana presentation team at Most Holy Trinity, where Ray also serves as lector and Eucharistic Minister.

Ray and Christina reside in Manhasset, NY with their son Conor & pup Benny.