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Charles Jordan, Jr., is Managing Director of Niagara Funds., and is the founder of the Investment Manager has more than two decades of experience in the financial services and investment management industry. In 1983, Jordan was vice president of UNC Ventures, a privately owned, Boston-based venture capital fund. Thereafter, he joined the management team at the New York Stock Exchange, where he served as senior finance coordinator of the Exchange’s Member Firm Regulatory Area. He founded two minority owned companies in 1994, Charles Jordan & Co., LLC, a securities brokerage firm, and Jordan Advisory Corp, an investment advisor. Educated at Tufts University, where he was a varsity athlete and founder of the Afro-American Society, Jordan entered Columbia University in New York City, where he received an MBA in finance and marketing.
Charles Jordan, Jr.
New York, New York