Research and Capital Markets

Robert E. Moore is the CEO of Concept Capital Markets, which constitutes all of Concept Capital's Research and Capital Markets activities. He directly oversees the Washington Research Group, Equity Sales and Trading, and Fixed Income Sales and Trading.

Robert E. Moore

Mr. Moore is a Managing Director of Concept Capital, a division of SMH Capital, Inc. and leads the firm’s Institutional Sales, Trading and Research effort. Mr. Moore joined Concept Capital following a three decade career in the investment business that began on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and included years of experience as a trader, manager, and senior executive at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., including its predecessor firms Smith Barney, Inc. and Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. Since becoming a Managing Director in 1987, Mr. Moore’s responsibilities expanded to include oversight for Citigroup Global’s Listed Equity Trading Desk and later the Listed Block and NASDAQ Trading Desks. In 1993, Mr. Moore was promoted to Head of Citigroup Global’s NASDAQ Division which encompassed sales trading, agency trading, retail sales and the 19c3 Desk. Following Smith Barney Inc.’s merger with Salomon Inc. in 1998, Mr. Moore was named co-Head of Global Trading. The following year, Mr. Moore became Head of U.S. Equities with responsibilities including, Institutional Sales, Capital Markets, Trading and Derivatives. As co-Head of Global Trading, Mr. Moore was responsible for Salomon Smith Barney’s and later Citigroup Global’s entire Global Trading Platform which included trading desks in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas and San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Australia. In response to rapidly changing technology advances, in 2001 Mr. Moore became the Head of Citigroup Global’s Global E-Commerce and Global Technology for the Equity Division. In this position Mr. Moore was responsible for all internal and external electronic equity platforms such as Global Equities Online (“GEO”) and GEO Trader. Mr. Moore also oversaw the development of Citigroup Global’s Equity Division’s wireless capabilities and Customer Relationship Management (“CRM”) system. Mr. Moore held this position until 2003 when he returned to run Citigroup Global’s Equity Trading Division. As head of Trading for Citigroup Global’s US Equity Division, Mr. Moore was responsible for the ultimate supervision of over 500 persons and had approximately ten Managing Directors reporting directly to him. Since retiring from Citigroup in 2004, Mr. Moore co-founded Cap-Rio Management, a private equity firm that has made several investments in the wealth management and independent research businesses, and also served as CEO of Constellation Wealth Advisors, a newly created broker-dealer.