Brian Rogers

Brian Rogers has over twenty-five years of professional experience and has worked with many of the world’s largest investors providing macroeconomic and geopolitical insights. Brian is also a recognized expert in helping foreign executives improve their communication skills with a particular focus on interactions with US and European-based investors. He has extensive sell and buy-side experience and knowledge of both fixed income and equity markets globally.

Brian is the founder and principal of theROGERSgroup nyc, a boutique consulting firm focused on improving the communication skills of high-level professionals. Brian has consulted with C-suite executives from numerous firms in Latin America on how to successfully engage with investors in the US and Europe. Brian has also trained and improved the interview skills of hundreds of students and aspiring job candidates in New York City who now have amazing careers in top industries.

Brian started his professional career in the United States Marine Corps where he was a decorated member in the close air support, artillery and naval gunfire coordination unit, 3rd ANGLICO out of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, California.

Later, Brian became a fixed income trader at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) where he was a portfolio associate for world famous bond manager Bill Gross. After PIMCO, Brian worked in fixed income credit derivative sales at Deutsche Bank for five years where he sold credit default swaps on all types of structured products to AIG Financial Products, MBIA, AMBAC, FSA and other monoline insurance carriers.

After Deutsche Bank and the 2008 financial crash, Brian worked with the Safra family in New York to help build their global institutional capital markets presence. He then ran the international sales effort for Banco Fator, a Brazilian broker dealer. He then headed the emerging markets sales effort for Espirito Santo Financial Services (now Haitong) where he focused on the Brazilian, Indian and Polish equity markets.

Most recently, Brian was the head of human resources and training & development for a financial events planning company. In this role, Brian led classes on the financial markets, oversaw the training of all sales staff and organized the interviewing and hiring of all new employees.

Brian currently teaches business communications classes at the NYU Stern School of Business in the Langone Part-Time MBA program and also at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business in their Masters of Science in Quantitative Finance Program.

Brian holds a BS in Finance from California State University at Long Beach and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Brian's current interests include doing hot yoga, teaching public speaking and spending time with his two young children in the Madison Square Park area of Manhattan.