Key Professionals

Wilfred J. Meckel II  

Senior Managing Director, Co-founder

Co-founder of Marque Millennium Group in 1990. Previously, Bill was at J. & W. Seligman & Co for 17 years. He was a member of the 6-person management committee, responsible for a diversified investment firm that included investment management, mutual fund marketing, and brokerage. He has been a member of the American and Boston Stock Exchanges, chairman of the New York District of the Securities Industry Association, member of the NASD District Business Conduct Committee, a member of the NYSE Specialty Firms Advisory Committee, and director of the SIA-NY Economic Education Foundation. He is president and director of the Brown University Club in New York. A graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, Bill has an A.S. from Brown University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School..

John R. McDonnell
Senior Vice President and Principal
 
John assists in the monitoring of client portfolios and the marketing of the firm’s investment strategy.  He has extensive experience in the trading and analysis of the behavior of equity securities.  He was a senior manager at a New York Stock Exchange floor broker, a senior vice president and head of over-the-counter trading at Invesco, a senior trader at Dean Witter/Morgan Stanley Asset Management, and prior to that, at J.& W. Seligman & Co., where he worked with Bill Meckel, a founder of Marque Millennium.  John earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Economics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

S. Kris Kaufman

Director of Quantitative Research

Kris has been associated with Marque Millennium Capital Management since 1995. From 1988 he has been president and chief executive officer of Parallax Financial Research. Prior to that he was senior staff geophysicist at Sierra Geophysics, which was a subsidiary of Halliburton. He has lectured on and published a variety of articles on behavioral finance, covering such topics as chaos theory, neural networks and non-linear cycles in financial markets, in addition to the geophysics of underground nuclear explosions, seismic wave propagation, and the tidal triggering of earthquakes. Kris has a B.S. in Math and Physics from the University of Colorado.

Douglas C. Frick

Consulting Director of Information Technology

Doug has been associated with Marque Millennium Capital Management since 1995. From 1988 he has been vice president, operations for Parallax Financial Research. Prior to that he was manager of software engineering at Sierra Geophysics. He specializes in the integration and automation of large software programs, using diverse but related databases.  Doug has a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Washington and an M.Sc. in information and computer sciences from the University of Hawaii.  

Ronnie Moas 

Consultant to Marque Millennium

President and Director of Research at Standpoint.  The company currently advises and sells its research to pension strategist at Herzog Heine Geduld.  He was responsible for making sector, industry and stock recommendations, identifying arbitrage opportunities, options and hedging strategies. Ron has developed a 155-variable equity valuation and diagnostic model.  The model has since then built an exceptional track record.  He has authored, published and distributed more than 300 research reports to date.  Mr. Moas received a Bachelors degree in Economics and Business with Honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Masters degree in Finance and Investments from Baruch College, City University in New York.  Mr. Moas was born in New York and lived in Israel from 1983-1994.  He then returned to New York after completing a three-year Israeli military service in artillery and intelligence.

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