ERIC JOHNSTON

HEAD OF EQUITY DERIVATIVES & CROSS ASSET for Cantor Fitzgerald

Eric has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry where he has managed significant capital and risk. He has spent time in his career on both the buy and sell side as a manager of equity businesses, producer and as a long/short equity portfolio manager. On the sell side, Eric was most recently the Americas Head of Equity Trading at Deutsche Bank and before that was Head of Equity Cash Trading at Barclays. In between those roles, Eric was a Portfolio Manager and business builder at Commonwealth Opportunity Capital and Millennium Partners.

Eric has appeared on CNBC and been in WSJ and Bloomberg. Eric has a BA from Vanderbilt University and a MBA from Stern School at NYU.