About Us

Evan Rapoport is one of the principals of hedge fund research and services firm, HedgeCo Networks. At HedgeCo, Mr. Rapoport helps to oversee a hedge fund database of over 6000 hedge funds, as well as hedge fund community of over 25,000 members. He has helped to create almost two hundred hedge fund websites and has also consulted on a substantial amount of new hedge fund launches. Mr. Rapoport and has been featured on CNBC, in Newsweek Magazine, South Florida Business Journal, Florida Trend and Registered Rep. Magazine, among various other publications.

Prior to helping found HedgeCo Networks, Mr. Rapoport was a Senior Vice President at Broadband Capital Management, a NASD member brokerage firm in NYC, NY. At Broadband, Mr. Rapoport managed assets for institutions as well as high net worth clients, and also participated in many private placements and PIPE transactions. Before Broadband, Mr. Rapoport was the youngest Senior Vice President in history at NYSE member Oscar Gruss' Private Client Group. He started his career in a Chairman's Council member's office at Paine Webber in NYC, NY. Mr. Rapoport currently holds Series 3, 7, 63, 24, 55, and 79 securities licenses. He also holds a B.A. from the University of Florida.

David M. Konits
David is an accomplished executive with demonstrated success in structuring, supervising, and managing alternative and traditional asset management financial platforms. In addition to the current CFO and FINOP of HedgeCo Securities, LLC and director of NFA Member PRD Consultants, LLC, As a consultant, David has held various executive positions with SEC registered, FINRA Member, and/or NFA member firms including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Financial & Operations Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, and Chief Registered Options Principal to firms such as Aventura Securities, LLC / Aventura Capital Management, LLC and Nationwide Planning Associates, Inc. David has experience starting, advising, and overseeing retail and institutional trading that includes equity, fixed income, mutual funds, and options as well as Regulation D private placement transactions. David was previously the Managing Principal of SUMA Securities (PARADIGM Securities, LLC), a fund of funds affiliated firm, where he was hired to manage their FINRA member broker/dealer Paradigm Securities, LLC. David worked with institutions, broker/dealers, registered investment advisers, banks, and insurance companies on investment strategies for domestic and offshore funds of hedge funds. Professional industry licenses that David holds and has direct experience acting in the capacity of are the Series 7, 79, 24, 3, 4, 66, 53, 27, and 28.