Richard Korhammer is Managing Director and Co-Head of FinTech Investment Banking at Chardan.

Rich has spent his career as a senior executive and advisor, building and growing companies within the technology, banking, trading, market data, finance, and exchange sectors. Rich is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Yieldbroker, a Sydney Australia based debt and derivatives exchange since January 2012. He was the CEO, Co-founder and Chairman of Lava Trading, an equities and FX best execution trading and order management system platform that he successfully guided from its inception to its acquisition by Citigroup Inc. where he became a Managing Director, managing global electronic equities execution. 

Throughout his career, Rich has held leadership positions including Senior Advisor to Lightyear Capital, a private equity firm focusing on the financial sector, a senior investment banker at SenaHill Partners, and Chairman of The Receivables Exchange, an SMB and Fortune 500 receivables trading platform. Rich started his career as a systems engineer and in business development roles at NeXT Computers, founded by Steve Jobs and acquired by Apple. 

He holds a B.S.E. in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University.