Dear STACT Members and Sponsors,
I am excited to serve as the 2025 President of the Security Traders Association of Connecticut. STACT looks forward to offering our members multiple networking opportunities throughout the year, as well as providing pertinent business content. We will continue to evolve with the investment management industry, both in CT and elsewhere. I’d like to thank the 2024 STACT Board for making it a memorable year, and we welcome a couple new board members for 2025, Sean Buckley from Baird and Nihkil Bagga from UBS. In 2024, we had some terrific events again, including the fan favorite Crabshell event, and we switched up our usual spring golf tournament at Sterling Farms to July in 2024 which worked well. We had another fun-filled Annual at Foxwoods in September, where we added a Thursday lunch at Guy Fieris as well as axe throwing prior to go-karting. This year we look forward to having a record-breaking year in terms of membership and attendance at our events. We will partner with Bass-A-Palooza again, helping raise money for Soundwaters. We have book ZSTRICT at Chelsea Piers for an event with 10 bays of golf simulators on Feb 26th. Our annual fall outing at Foxwoods will be held on Sept 11th and 12th so please put that in your calendars. Details will be on the website imminently, but we have already booked rooms, golf, karting and bowling.
On behalf of the whole Board, we appreciate your support. A good portion of our sponsorship & membership funds goes to support National STA which is doing some incredible work in Washington, DC . Along with our Fall event, you should also seriously consider attending the 91st annual Market Structure Conference presented by the National STA On Oct 16th-17th. We look forward to seeing everyone at various times throughout the year. STACT is offering attractive new levels of Connecticut STA sponsorship for 2025, please reach out for details and our deck is on the website.
Feel free to reach out to me anytime to discuss membership, ways to volunteer, ideas, or if you are interested in potentially joining our Board. Thank you.
Best Wishes,
Pat O’Meara,
President STACT
