Building Systems or Companies
- It comes Down to Engineering

Alumni Lecture Series
Monday, March 27
1:00 to 1:50 pm
LC 102
Dibner Building

Robert A. Bonelli

NYU-Poly Alum Robert A. Bonelli (B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1972), currently President and Chief Operating Officer of Northeast Securities, Inc. believes that the mind of the business professional must work the same as the mind of an engineer in order to build a successful business. This is what has been done at Northeast Securities, Inc. in taking a small single-line business and turning it into one of the fastest growing multi-line financial firms on Wall Street.

Whether it is a complex electronic or mechanical system or it is a small to multi-national business, the thought process to a successful enterprise is based on basic engineering. Understanding the ambient; utilizing the appropriate resources to maximum advantage; creating synergies that actually work – all require a thought process that links the tools to the problem for a desired solution. This is basic engineering.

Northeast Securities is a Wall Street company which provides retail and institutional brokerage services, manages assets for individuals and institutions, operates an active investment banking and financial advisory practice, acts as an underwriter of municipal securities in Pennsylvania and makes markets in select NASDAQ stocks.

Before coming to Wall Street, Mr. Bonelli’s career spanned 15 years in the banking industry. At United Jersey Banks (from 1979 through 1988), he had principal responsibility for all mergers and acquisitions. In 1982, he engineered the acquisition of Richard Blackman and Company for United Jersey Banks which was the first discount brokerage acquisition by a bank holding company and occurred at the same time as the Schwab acquisition by Banc America.

Mr. Bonelli is a competitive long distance runner, an accomplished photographer and a published author.

(Reserve seating by contacting Christine Myers(cmyers@poly.edu) or 718.260.3342)