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Expertise: Bloomberg functionality, Experiential Learning & Assessment, Stock & Option Valuation, Trading, Investing, Idea Generation, Simulation & Portfolio Creation, Public Speaking. Andrew Cohen is an Academic Entrepreneur & Award Winning Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Finance at Old Dominion and Hampton Universities: He is an Author of the Finance Textbook, "A Practical Guide to Trading and Investing", the Creator of "Future Traders" educational trading simulation; the Developer and investment strategist of the "Systematic Alpha" Model at Validea Capital; He is also a Former top Wall Street Trader and Market Maker, Public Speaker, Entsminger Entrepreneur Fellow, and Bloomberg Expert. His academic achievements include FMA's 2019 Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, ODU's 2019 University Teaching with Technology Award. He won an FIG Faculty Innovation Grant in 2018 for his innovative trading simulation, "Future Traders". He won the University Distinguished Teacher Award in 2017 while also being selected as an "Entsminger" entrepreneur fellow. In 2015, he won the Outstanding Non-Tenure Faculty Award. He began his career at Goldman, Sachs Training Program establishing a strong foundation for success. He then developed into a top performing trader and market maker to achieve financial independence by the age of 36. He transitioned into academics, utilizing his Wall Street experience along with his passion for teaching and creativity to create new experiential Finance courses optimizing Bloomberg technology. He also created and utilized Future Traders Education simulation along with his Wall Street trading and investing experience to elevate ODU's trading room lab into the top echelon of Bloomberg's Trading Rooms. He is also a Registered Investment Advisor Skilled in Stock and Option Analysis, Trading strategy, Bloomberg, and creating and utilizing Simulations to optimize student learning. He attained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance, from NYU's Stern School of Business. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Finance at Old Dominion University.