Ross B. Intelisano is a partner of the law firm of Rich & Intelisano, LLP which represents individual and institutional investors in securities arbitration and litigation against financial institutions. He also represents commodities investors, as well as employees in industry disputes and self-regulatory organization investigations. He has been practicing securities and employment law for over ten years. He formed Rich & Intelisano, LLP in 2003 with John G. Rich. Mr. Intelisano has extensive experience in large and complex securities and commodities fraud cases on behalf of investors worldwide. He has prosecuted claims against brokerage firms, banks, hedge funds, investment advisors and other financial professionals. He and Mr. Rich were co-trial counsel in the Blumenfeld, et al v. Refco commodities fraud case, a $100 million Ponzi scheme. The 100-day arbitration on behalf of a group of 13 individual and corporate investors who lost a combined $35 million generated a $43 million award in 2001. It remains the largest collected arbitration award ever rendered on behalf of investors against a brokerage firm. In 2005, Mr. Intelisano obtained favorable settlements on behalf of clients who invested with Kevin Kelley, a Connecticut hedge fund owner. Kelley falsely represented to his clients that monies paid to his company were being placed in legitimate investments, when he in fact he converted said monies for his own personal use. Mr. Intelisano has appeared on CNBC regarding hedge fund fraud and regularly appeared on the CNNfn program 'Flipside' regarding securities fraud. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and other financial publications. In 2003, Mr. Intelisano published 'Mediation Getting to the Negotiation Table and Leaving Satisfied,' an article for Practicing Law Institute's Securities Arbitration 2003 course handbook, the seminal securities arbitration continuing legal education program. Mr. Intelisano is a frequent lecturer on securities arbitration and is also an arbitrator at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and National Futures Association (NFA). From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Intelisano was of counsel to Bauman Katz & Grill, LLP, where he headed the firm's securities and employment arbitration and litigation practice, handled NASD and NYSE securities arbitrations on behalf of investors and broker-dealers, and represented employees in employment disputes, SRO investigations and registration disputes. Mr. Intelisano was an associate at Eppenstein & Eppenstein where he represented high net worth individuals in large and complex securities and commodities arbitrations. Mr. Intelisano began practicing securities and employment law at Pressman & Associates. Mr. Intelisano received a B.A. in International Business from Lehigh University in 1991 and his law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1994. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1995 and the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York in 1998. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers Association, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, Columbian Lawyers Association, First Judicial Department and Gotham City Networking Group. Mr. Intelisano was born in Queens, NY and raised in Belle Harbor, NY. He is married to Stacey Reiss, a producer at Dateline NBC. He and his wife have a son, Leonardo, and live in Park Slope, Brooklyn.