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Palladium Capital Advisors is headed up by Joel E. Padowitz CFA
Chief Executive Officer, Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC

Background
Mr. Joel E. Padowitz CFA, is employed at Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC in the position of Chief Executive Officer. He founded Palladium Capital Advisors in 2003 and serves as its President and CEO. Previously, he had been a Principal of Gerber Financial Management, a 20 year-old CPA firm in Beverly Hills, where his roles included financial sales, investment analysis, and business development. Before that, he spent two years as a private financial advisor, focused on small capitalization equities. In 1992, Mr. Padowitz was honored at the White House by then President George H.W. Bush for outstanding achievements in science, and he is also a two-time national champion of the US Science Olympiad. Mr. Padowitz holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, and earned his MBA from Israel's Bar Ilan University where he finished first in his class and was the recipient of the Eli Reifman merit scholarship. Mr. Padowitz is also the founder of the Israeli Society of Investment Professionals, the leading organization of its kind in Israel, and currently serves as its president, in addition to being a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts (NYSSA).