Jonathan Hurd, Co-Founder and CEO
Phone (631) 801-2850
Email jhurd@ssgadvisorsllc.com
Mr. Hurd has been working in the financial services sector, brokerage, investment advisory and regulatory industries for over fifteen years. He is actively involved in all services offered by SSG Advisors. Mr. Hurd's regulatory compliance, investment advisory, mortgage banking, and management background stems from his previous experience as a FINRA Supervisor of Examiners and Chief Compliance Officer for several Financial Services firms during his career.
Mr. Hurd was a Supervisor of Examiners at NASD (n/k/a FINRA) in the New York District Office. While with FINRA, he supervised routine examinations of FINRA member firms, conducted large scale enforcement cases jointly with the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations. Mr. Hurd also assisted the district office with its ongoing training of new examiners.
Over the past decade, Mr. Hurd has worked for several FINRA member firms in the capacity of Chief Compliance Officer and FINOP. His experience involves full-service broker-dealer, investment advisory services, bank-broker-dealers, and securitizations of mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Hurd also served on the Board of Directors for many of these companies.
Mr. Hurd was also a Senior Adjunct Professor in Banking and Finance for Dowling College, Townsend School of Business, whereby he provided in-depth knowledge and related work experience to MBA students as it related to the U.S. securities markets and financial institutions. He was responsible for introducing students to the subjects of financial derivatives, foreign stock exchange, hedge transactions and risk management.
Mr. Hurd earned both his bachelor's degree and masters degree from Dowling College in accounting and banking and finance, respectively. Mr. Hurd also holds the Series 7, 24, 27, 53, 55, 63, and 66 licenses as well as his NYS Life and Health Insurance licenses.
Richard Chun, Co-Founder and President
Phone (212) 359-9475
Email rchun@ssgadvisorsllc.com
Mr. Chun has over twelve years experience in the financial and mortgage services industries with particular skills in lending, securitizations, collateralized-debt obligations, repurchase/warehouse facilities, whole loan sales and compliance.
Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Chun worked at a large international law firm for five years where he represented clients on various transactions, including secured and unsecured loans, credit facilities, re-financings, and debtor-in-possession lending. He also counseled underwriters of public and private issuance of debt and equity instruments, including mortgage-backed securities.
Mr. Chun then went on to join a firm client, a group of affiliated companies specializing in trading, structured finance, asset management, investment banking and mortgage-related transactions and became head of its legal department. His duties included counseling on a variety of compliance matters, including rules and regulations governing broker-dealers, mortgage originators and servicers, and investment advisors. He was actively engaged in strategic plans to implement policies and procedures affecting the operation of the broker-dealer, mortgage originator, servicer and underwriter of mortgage loans.
Although Mr. Chun serves as a consultant to SSG clients, he can offer legal services through the Law Office of Richard W. Chun, PLLC. He has a strong working knowledge of contract law and extensive experience with various types of agreements common in operating a company engaged in trading, structured finance, asset management, investment banking and mortgage-related transactions. On a regular basis, he provided advice on federal and state regulations governing mortgage origination, servicing and the granting of credit. He is skilled in negotiating complex agreements and managing projects and transactions.
Mr. Chun earned his bachelor's degree, cum laude, from Cornell University. He earned his law degree at St. John's University School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Law Review.