The People
Our Team
Strengths of the Team
- Highly focused, disciplined, and energetic
- Experienced in interpreting events in the physical world and translating them into trading and investment decisions
- Ability to anticipate paradigm shifts
- Strong analytical skills and experience
- Dedicated risk management awareness
- Formidable international exposure
- Solid trading capabilities and risk management
- Robust operational and management experience
- Excellent and proven quantitative trading systems and tools
- Outstanding backgrounds in investment, tax, corporate finance, energy, trading, and quantitative systems, industry, and international trade
Shane Rodgers, Co-Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Managing Member of PDX Advisors LLC.
Mr. Rodgers has more than 30 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance, as well as management and operations, in Australia and the United States. Prior to Signal, Mr. Rodgers served in a wide variety of positions, including as Co-founder and Chairman and CEO of Anglo Arabian Corporation Ltd., an unlisted Australian public investment company from 1980 to 1985; A director at Satco Power Corporation, which he helped take public, from 1985 to 1987 Chairman and CEO of the Chancellor Group, Inc., a publicly-traded US oil & gas company, from 1997 to 2001; as a partner and Chairman of Capital General Partners, an Australian boutique corporate advisory firm
from 1996 to 1998, and as a Partner in KKR Associates, an Australian investment partnership (unrelated to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.), from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Rodgers has invested in and has raised capital for companies across a diverse range of sectors, including media and communications, power generation, real estate, oil & gas, business and financial services, and biotechnology. Mr. Rodgers has also originated, or advised upon, a variety of reverse-merger transactions in the United States since 1985, and has structured and negotiated tax efficient debt and equity financings in the power generation sector. Mr. Rodgers was also on the boards of US Mining Inc., a public company currently in the process of relisting, and with mining and mineral trading operations in the US, Australia, Mongolia, and China; Luminx Industry Corp, a manufacturer and wholesaler of LED lighting technology with manufacturing, assembly, R&D, and administrative operations in the US, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, and Europe; Global Fashion Group Inc, a roll-up of fashion industry design, manufacturing, wholesale and fashion retail businesses operating in the US, China, Taiwan, and Korea; and was formerly an advisor to GreenTec-USA Inc, a US defense contractor and manufacturer of advanced computer technology based in Reston, Virginia.
Yufeng Xie, Beijing, China,
Partner, and Senior Managing Director for Asia.
Ms. Xie holds the degree of Master of Laws (L.L.M) from the U.S. National Agricultural Law Center. She has worked with large companies, and PDX Advisors LLC throughout Asia, successively. Ms. Xie is proficient in philosophy and history and has a thorough knowledge of both Eastern and western culture. Ms. Xie is an experienced legal expert in international trade law, and funds management and investment.
Dr. L. Daniel Garcia, Senior Advisor
Dr. Garcia is an accomplished businessman and former investment banker who now resides in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Most recently, Dr. Garcia has raised investment capital for several cryptocurrency related projects, and has become an authority on blockchain. Over the past 25 years in business globally, he has accumulated an impressive network as well as successful business ventures. Residing in Dubai has positioned him to advise some of the top business people in the region, and many others around the world. In 2019 he was honored at the University of Dubai by the university’s President, Dr. Eesa Mohammed Bastaki, for his contribution to the first blockchain university in history, European Digital University. Dr. Garcia is the Vice President of EDU.
Dr. Joseph Tovey, Senior Advisor
Dr. Tovey is currently CEO of Tovey & Company LLC, an investment banking firm in New York City. He has practical experience and advanced degrees in corporate finance, investments, accounting, taxation and economics. Dr. Tovey has originated mergers, divestitures, and financing for several petroleum, oil service, and coal companies. Dr. Tovey has originated pipeline rights-of-way in return for fiber-optic line participation ventures, with minimal capital outlay for petroleum industry participants. He has advised on the financial aspects of 146 proposed mergers and acquisitions transactions, including completed acquisitions valued at more than $3.7 billion.
Dr. Tovey has advised on 21 joint ventures with values exceeding $5 billion. Dr. Tovey also provides litigation support in various matters involving intertwined corporate, taxation, antitrust, management and finance issues. He has testified before the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee regarding financial, commercial, and anti-trust issues facing the petroleum industry, and has advised the International Energy Agency on petroleum industry financial reporting and financial issues and practices. Dr. Tovey is Adjunct Associate Professor, Syms School of Business, Yeshiva University, and is widely published. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, and the CFA Institute. He obtained a Ph.D in Corporate Finance and Investments in 1969 from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, and an MBA in Taxation in 1961.
Fadi Tahan, Senior Technology Advisor. Mr. Tahan, based in Virginia, USA, is an experienced technologist and software engineer.
Arvind Sharma Senior Technology Advisor. Mr. Sharma is based in London, UK, where he is on the team at Quontex, a boutique software development and technology consulting firm.