John Burke

Specialist Professor

Department: Economics, Finance, and Real Estate

John Burke is a Specialist Professor of Finance at Monmouth University teaching courses in finance, economics and statistics. John received his MBA with honors from Indiana University. His professional career spanned 27 years on both the sell-side and buy-side of Wall Street. He spent 10 years at PaineWebber, Inc. where he was a Managing Director heading the Global Equity Derivatives group with operations in New York, London and Tokyo and was also responsible for Proprietary Trading. He subsequently spent two years at Deutsche Bank, AG as Director and Co-Head of the Global Structured Products Group with operations in New York, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo, as well as running Proprietary Trading in New York. After 12 years on the sell-side, John switched to the buy-side, forming Rumson Capital LLC, a $500mm hedge fund engaging in global arbitrage strategies, which he ran for 15 years. John has taught Derivatives as an Adjunct Professor at Monmouth University since 1999 and began teaching full time as a Specialist Professor in 2011.

Education

MBA, Indiana University