Mr. Kahraman is the CEO and co-founder of KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, L.P. Mr. Kahraman brings significant trading and business-building experience to KGS-Alpha. Prior to co-founding KGS-Alpha, he spent five years as a Managing Director at Barclays Capital, building one of the top-ranked Agency RMBS Structured Products businesses. Mr. Kahraman pioneered structures such as WAC passthroughs, MBS-linked notes, A/L combo trades, and synthetic agency MBS. Mr. Kahraman started his career and spent eight years at Salomon Brothers, where his last position was Managing Director in charge of Secondary CMO Trading. Prior to Wall Street, Mr. Kahraman worked in management consulting, where he advised financial services firms on credit risk management. He holds an M.B.A. with Honors from Harvard Business School, a B.A. with Distinction in Economics and a B.S. with Distinction in Civil and Environmental Engineering, both from Cornell University.

Mr. Goldman is the President and co-founder of KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, L.P. Mr. Goldman has over twenty years of experience in the fixed income business. Mr. Goldman spent his entire career at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup, where he attained senior positions as a Managing Director, including Head of North American Fixed Income Sales, as well as Co-Head of the US Rates Business. As Head of North American Fixed Income Sales, Mr. Goldman was instrumental in building and managing a 250-person fixed income sales force that generated over $2 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Goldman is widely recognized as a sales leader, and he has trained and developed many of today's top fixed income sales producers. In addition to his sales role, Mr. Goldman also oversaw a multi-billion dollar global interest-rate trading business that included 25 senior traders and 75 salespeople. As President of KGS-Alpha, he draws on these experiences to recruit, train, and manage the sales and trading franchise. Mr. Goldman earned his B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College.

Prior to joining KGS-Alpha in 2010, Mr. Krieger was the head of the Regulatory Risk Group of the New York Stock Exchange Regulation, Inc. after serving as Managing Director of Citigroup, in charge of Compliance for fixed income, derivatives, and emerging markets. Previously, Mr. Krieger held a variety of legal and regulatory roles in the private practice of law, at Salomon Brothers, Charles Schwab & Co., the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Krieger earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Emory University.

Prior to joining KGS-Alpha, Mr. Seery managed an independent consulting practice supporting the accounting and operations of broker-dealers and asset managers. Mr. Seery has over thirty years of experience in financial services. He has served as senior executive and financial officer responsible for accounting, middle office, operations and treasury infrastructures at domestic and foreign broker-dealers including Miller Tabak & Co., SMBC Securities Inc, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., and Commerzbank Capital Markets Corp., a subsidiary of Commerzbank AG. As part of his treasury functions, he has managed government and agencies proprietary trading, matched book and repo financing, corporate debt issuance and structuring special purpose vehicles collateralized with commercial and industrial loans, corporate debt, trade receivables, and mortgage securities. Mr. Seery has a BBA in public accounting from Hofstra University, an MBA with honors from Adelphi University, and a SDBL Certificate in Advanced Studies from Long Island University. He is a CPA licensed in New York and a member of the AICPA, New York State Society of CPAs and Global Association of Risk Professionals. His FINRA registrations include Series 9, 10, 24, and 27.