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Brian Murphy: Former Trader Becomes Baker Smith Island Cakes

Released Monday, 30th July 2012
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Brian Murphy: Former Trader Becomes Baker Smith Island Cakes

Brian Murphy: Former Trader Becomes Baker Smith Island Cakes

Brian Murphy: Former Trader Becomes Baker Smith Island Cakes

Brian Murphy: Former Trader Becomes Baker Smith Island Cakes

Monday, 30th July 2012
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Please join Maureen Ennor live Monday morning at 9:00 AM PST with Brian Murphy former commodities trader turned baker and owner of Smith Island Baking Company. on SM2KWS.For more than a decade, Brian Murphy spent six days a week trading commodities like electricity and natural gas—and even weather derivatives. Working his way up at Constellation Energy Group (CEG) in Baltimore, he was, by the age of 30, overseeing a group that brought in $4 billion in annual revenue.Then Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy.As a counterparty with Lehman on energy transactions, Constellation saw its stock price sink 40 percent, and the company came under siege. Highly paid traders like Murphy were now expendable. He took a severance package in December 2008 and retreated to his family home in Easton, Md.Options soon poured in. "I could have gone to banks in London or New York or Chicago," says Murphy, now 32, and the father of four. "But I've lived in eastern Maryland since the second grade. My wife and I just didn't want to move."

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Maureen co-hosted the radio show “Protect Your Assets” with David Hollander broadcasting throughout the entire Bay Area and Oregon on KNBR 680 “The Sports Leader” in San Francisco, CA. Maureen shared her extensive knowledge of the sell-side of the business, while working alongside Mr. Hollander at Liberty Group, LLC, prior to that she held the position of Chief Operating Officer for The Channel Checkers a research firm based in San Francisco specialized in providing comprehensive research to Hedge Fund managers and portfolio managers. Ms. Ennor was a Hedge Fund Trainer at Bear Stearns in the Global Clearing Department on the Prime Broker Desk in San Francisco. Ms. Ennor is the mother of two, Haley, 32 an accomplished and successful Sales Associate for Tiffany's, and Patrick 27, a former Congressional Staffer and Candidate to University of Notre Dame School of Business, who is now a successful Real Estate Analyst. Maureen brings a fresh approach to the sometimes hectic and complicated world we live in with a fun Monday morning twist of pop culture, politics and business, while maintaining a sense of professionalism and respect for the world she loves. "Single Mom Two Kids, Wall Street” her first Podcast was wildly popular gaining nearly 100k followers. Ennor, then teamed-up with Wall Street veteran and option expert Bob Lang of CNBC, the two of them hosted “California Connection” on LA Talk Radio, there they interviewed Michael Reagan, Dana Perino, Gretchen Carlson, Laura Ingraham, covered the GOP Debate at the Reagan Library and interviewed each of the Presidential Candidates and were the first to interview the now famous “Diamond and Silk”Maureen has interviewed Kurt Yaeger TV & movie star. Appeared in "Dolphin Tale" and is currently starring in the FX hit show "Sons of Anarchy" Daniel Bongino, Republican candidate for the US Senate and former Secret Service Agent to Obama, New York Times best selling authors, Clint Hill, Sec

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