Leadership at Birmingham-Southern
Leadership at Birmingham-Southern
President Daniel Coleman
Daniel B. Coleman, a Birmingham resident with more than three decades of experience in finance and strong ties to 澳门新葡京官网, took office as Birmingham-Southern College’s 16th president on Dec. 3, 2018.
Since then, he has worked to stabilize the College’s finances through the establishment of the Birmingham-Southern College Foundation and brought the College through the global pandemic with a plan that allowed in-person instruction in a residential setting at the height of the shutdown.
He has engineered the addition of a master’s in data science program that will help address a well-documented shortage of highly skilled data analysts in Birmingham, Alabama, and beyond.
Coleman, who was CEO of the global financial services firm KCG Holdings until its 2017 sale, was previously a member of the College’s Board of Trustees and an adjunct professor of finance. He and his wife, Brooke, returned to their hometown with their three children in 2009 after more than a decade in the New York area.
Upon completion of the 2017 sale, Coleman returned to Birmingham full-time; he had been commuting to New York and Chicago. He joined the 澳门新葡京官网 Business Administration Department as an adjunct professor, teaching three courses in finance, and took courses at 澳门新葡京官网 in the computer programming language Python and calculus, working alongside some of his students. He has continued to teach seminars in finance, most recently a course during 澳门新葡京官网’s 2023 E-Term focused on the 2008 crash of the financial markets.
An English Major
Coleman entered the world of finance as an option clerk after earning a BA in English at Yale University – a degree that cemented his appreciation for and commitment to the liberal arts.
He earned his MBA at the University of Chicago while trading convertible bonds. After moving to New York in 1996, he moved into management positions for a predecessor of UBS. He rose to head of global equities there; from 2005 through 2010, he oversaw a business that remained profitable through the recession, included the world’s leading cash equities execution business and equity research department, and handled global equity derivatives, global prime brokerage, and more.
From there, he moved on to Chicago-based market maker GETCO, first as global head of client services and equity trading and then as CEO, replacing the retiring founders in 2012. In that role, he expanded the business beyond its core of automated market making and led a merger with competitor Knight Capital Group.
Coleman played a leading role in the evolution of automated trading in global financial markets. Until its 2017 sale to Virtu Financial, New York-based KCG was a leader in the securities and financial services industry, Before KCG, Coleman was CEO of GETCO, a privately held automated trading firm based in Chicago. Before that, he worked for 24 years for UBS and its predecessor firms, ending up as global head of equities for UBS Investment Bank.
In addition to the boards of KCG and GETCO, Coleman’s past corporate board memberships include NASDAQ Inc., the Options Clearing Corporation, and the Boston Options Exchange.
Back to Birmingham
Upon his return to Birmingham, Coleman served on Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin’s transition team and financial advisory team, working to improve the city’s management of its finances. He has also served on the boards of the Alabama Symphony Endowment and of Build Up, an innovative early-college workforce development program centered in the Ensley neighborhood.
A member of the 2021 class of Leadership Birmingham, he serves on that organization’s board, and was a member of the 2019 class of Leadership Alabama. He also serves on the board of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham.
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Board of Trustees
George B. Salem '75
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Pastor
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Chief Financial Officer
North Alabama Conference, The United Methodist Church
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Shareholder
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Chairman of the Board
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Senior Pastor
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Vice President of Primary Care Services
Children's of Alabama
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Realtor
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Chief Administrative Officer
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Shareholder
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Founding Partner
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Senior Team
Virginia Gilbert Loftin
VP of Advancement and Communications
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VP of Enrollment Management
[email protected]Marvelouse Guerrier
Chief of Staff to the President
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Athletic Director
[email protected]Vanessa D. Crawford Jones
Assistant Director of Human Resources
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Dr. David Eberhardt
VP of Student Development
[email protected]Lane Estes
VP for Administration and Chief Operating Officer/Interim VP for Finance
[email protected]Anthony Hambey
VP of Information Technology
[email protected]Dr. Laura Stultz
Interim Provost
[email protected]Kent Anderson
Interim Associate Provost
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