Our Team

Mr. Tabacchi joined Citicorp/Citibank in 1980. Over a period of 20 years he worked in various customer interface and business head positions within the Investment, Corporate, and Consumer Banking Divisions. In 1987 Mr. Tabacchi became the regional business manager for the Northeast Division of Citicorp Mortgage, Inc. In 1989 he was a Division Financial controller in Citicorp's North American Investment Bank. During 1990 Mr. Tabacchi was asked to manage the day-to-day operations of Citibank's Municipal Trust business. He revamped the product lines and packaged the business for sale, which was completed in 1992. He then joined the Finance Desk and was named Treasurer of Citicorp Securities, Inc. in 1995.

As Treasurer, Mr. Tabacchi initiated an off balance sheet engineering effort to securitize Citicorp's fixed income business. In 1998, he was given additional responsibilities as co-head of the Primary Dealer desk and was accountable for over $50 billion in Securities Assets, Mortgage Loans, Reserves, and Placements. In addition, Mr. Tabacchi was responsible for expanding the Structured Finance Group, which had become the cornerstone of Citibank's fixed income business plans prior to the Citicorp-Travelers merger.

In 2000, Mr. Tabacchi co-founded South Street Securities and its predecessor firms. South Street Securities is a New York based broker dealer specializing in securities finance and repurchase agreements for high quality securities.

Mr. Tabacchi's FINRA certifications include Series 7, 63, 27 and 24.

Mr. Vega joined CMET in May 2005. His responsibilities include trading, strategic planning, approving counterparty credits and advising on new business development and recruiting. He developed the MBS REIT finance platform and currently manages interest rate, liquidity and credit risk for the portfolio. Prior to SSS, Mr. Vega served on the Asset and Liability Committee for the US treasury of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). While at RBC, he was responsible for directly sourcing assets and liabilities for the NY branch balance sheet, in addition to creating a Triparty Repo matched book and managing a corporate securities portfolio. Prior to RBC, Mr Vega was a founding member of Dresdner Securities USA LLC, where he designed and traded the proprietary matched book portfolio, in addition to constructing the fixed income finance module for the section 20 subsidiary.

Mr. Vega began his professional career in the Global Finance and Arbitrage group at Citicorp Securities. He completed the Citibank NA Management Associate program in 1990. Over the course of three years he traded the MBS matched book portfolio and sourced third party liquidity. Mr Vega graduated with a degree in Finance and a minor in Information Systems from Fairfield University. Mr. Vega is NASD registered series 7,63 and 24.

In 1999 Mr. Schuit co-founded Capital Markets Engineering & Trading LLC and in 2004 South Street Securities. He was responsible for the formation, infrastructure development, trading and CEO of South Street Securities. Currently, Mr. Schuit is Co–Chief Investment Officer responsible for the firm's strategic trading decisions, term collateral trading and Hedge Fund financing.

In 2006 Mr. Schuit joined Cantor Fitzgerald as Managing Director of Finance where he successfully co-managed the Finance Desk through the financial crisis with record earnings. He rejoined South Street Securities in 2011.

He joined Citibank's management associate training program in 1992, and spent the first three years supporting the fixed income business as part of the operations management group. Mr. Schuit joined the Citicorp Securities Inc. Finance Desk in 1995 as Vice President and Senior Matched Book Trader. He was responsible for Finance, Futures and Arbitrage trading within the Capital Markets Group. Mr. Schuit attended Hofstra University where he holds a BBA in Public Accounting.

Mr. DeBlase is responsible for overseeing all the financial activities of the Company. He also serves as the Chief Compliance Officer for all regulatory reporting and compliance programs at South Street Securities. Additionally, Mr. DeBlase serves as the Company's Risk and Control Officer responsible for implementing and monitoring risk parameters. He has more than 25 years' experience in the capital markets and treasury fields.

Mr. DeBlase joined Citibank in 1992 managing the operation staff for the Government and MBS trading desks. In 1995 he was promoted to Vice President responsible for running the middle office. His last assignment was project management and system implementation for Citibank Corporate Treasury.

Mr. DeBlase currently holds a series 7, 63, 24, and 27.

Mr. Webbe worked at Citigroup from 1986 until 2001. As Vice President at Citigroup he was responsible for a number of back-office and middle-office functions. His responsibilities included oversight of finance, funding, and futures operations, as well as domestic and international clearance.

Mr. Webbe also was integral to several highly sophisticated securitization projects. Mr. Webbe had extensive interaction with operations groups supporting foreign exchange and derivatives.

Mr. Webbe holds FINRA registrations in Series 27, 7, and 63.

Mr. Ma commenced his career in the U.S. capital markets and securitization since 1981. He spent his early career at Citibank's credit card treasury division and took part in the development of the credit card securitization market in the 1980's. He left Citibank and joined the derivatives trading group at Deutsche Bank, New York in the early 90's.

Mr. Ma returned to Citicorp/Citibank in the mid 90's with the structured derivatives group. In his last six years as a financial engineer at Citicorp Securities, Inc., Mr. Ma successfully developed a securitization program to assist the foreign exchange and derivatives businesses in managing their counterparty exposure and capital utilization.

Mr. Ma holds an MBA in finance with distinction from New York University. He is a certified public accountant in the State of New York. He earned his bachelor degree in accounting, Magna Cum Laude, at Pace University, New York and received his accounting training at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Ma's FINRA certifications include Series 7, 63 and 24.

Mr. Mellert oversees the technology strategy and implementation for the firm and its various subsidiaries and affiliates. He is a co-founder of South Street Securities Holdings, and currently Chief Operating Officer of affiliate, Matrix Applications, LLC.

Mr. Mellert spent two years in Citibank's Global Custody division, three at The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Funds Transfer and Electronic Securities divisions. He re-joined Citibank in 1993, in the Reserve Management division before moving to the Treasury Finance Desk where he traded US, Canadian, and high yield repo.

In 1999 Mr. Mellert co-founded Capital Markets Engineering & Trading LLC, as Managing Director of Portfolio Management. He was responsible for the formation, infrastructure development and trading principal of South Street Securities, which launched in 2004.

Mr. Mellert is FINRA Registered Series 7, 63.

Mr. Murray joined South Street Securities in September of 2008, and is principally responsible for repo trading and managing the firm's over-all, day-to-day funding requirements. He is also responsible for managing South Street's financing activities on behalf of REIT counterparties, and is actively involved in related new business development.

Mr. Murray joined South Street from Countrywide Financial Corporation, where from 2006 to 2008 he worked on the Institutional Rate Sales Desk, in addition to experience trading on Countrywide's Financing Desk. He was previously employed by Banc of America Securities' Broker Dealer Services division, where for two years he served as a relationship manager for both fixed income and equity accounts, including monitoring all operational issues.

Mr. Murray has a Bachelor's Degree from Marist College, and is FINRA Series 7, 63, and 3 registered.

Ms. Pucci joined South Street Securities in January of 2001, and is responsible for managing the day-to-day business activities of South Street as well as serving as its chief portfolio strategist. In addition, she is responsible for validation of the broker-dealer's financial statements and regulatory reporting. Ms. Pucci was previously employed by Citicorp from 1994, and worked on both the Government Securities Cash Desk and Treasury Finance Desk.

While at Citibank, her duties included responsibility for US general collateral and the Canadian dollar books. Ms. Pucci also headed-up Citibank's non-dollar repo desks (Italian, German) in London. Ms. Pucci completed her MBA with St. John's University in Rome, Italy and is FINRA Registered Series 7, 63, 24, 27.

Mr. Snyder brings over 20 years of Mortgage Backed Securities trading experience to the firm.  He currently serves as Chief Investment Officer for South Street Capital Management (SSCM).  He began his career structuring Agency CMO deals at Goldman, Sachs and Co.  Mr. Snyder went on to spend 14 years within the Mortgage Trading group at Goldman, rising to the level of Vice-President.  While at Goldman he was responsible for the market-making and position management for a variety of MBS products.  He worked extensively in Specified Pools, TBA’s, and Adjustable Rate Mortgages.  He also spent time trading Mortgage Derivatives and Non-Agency RMBS.  Mr. Snyder left Goldman Sachs to start the Agency MBS trading desk at Societe Generale, where he became a Director.  At Societe General he was responsible for trading Specified Pools and Agency ARMs.   

Mr. Snyder joined South Street Securities as a Managing Director in 2016 and was tasked with developing the firms mortgage business.  Before forming South Street Capital Management, he created a TBA Pipeline Hedging Business for Mortgage Originators.  South Street Securities provides trading lines and liquidity to small and medium sized mortgage originators that do not have access to the capital markets through Primary Dealers.  Mr. Snyder is now responsible for overseeing both SSCM and the TBA Pipeline Hedging Business. 

Mr. Snyder graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.  He is FINRA Series 7 and 63 registered.

Mr. Levy joined South Street in March of 2017 as a Managing Director of the Mortgage Pipeline Hedging business for South Street Securities where the firm provides access to the capital markets for Mortgage Originators that need to hedge the interest rate exposure of their mortgage pipelines.

Mr. Levy is a fixed income sales and trading specialist with 30 years of financial markets experience working both in the US and UK on hedge fund, banking, corporate treasury and broker-dealer platforms.

Mr. Levy holds an MBA in Finance from the Johnson School at Cornell University, a Masters in International Management from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), and a BA in Economics from Haverford College. He is FINRA Series 7 registered.

Ms Greenland joined South Street in 2016 to manage the growing UK Repo financing business relationships and our newly founded Representative Office. Her role encompasses exploring strategic partnerships and investments for South Street Securities in the UK and Europe. Additionally, she acts as the senior relationship contact for clients in the UK and mainland Europe.

Ms Greenland has 18 years of financial services experience having run the EMEA Relationship Management teams of the Bank of New York Mellon's Broker Dealer Services and Global Product and Communications Strategy for Global Collateral Services and was a member of the European Operating Committee. Habiba has an active dialogue with European trade bodies and academics who focus on Financial Services and Market structure. Prior to this she ran sales for the Raiffeisen ZentralBank's Securities Lending and Repo division having trained on the Repo trading desk.

Ms Greenland holds a Master of Science from the University of Oxford, St Anne's College and a Diploma in Organisational Leadership from the University of Oxford.

Tony is Managing Director at South Street Securities, LLC. Tony has over 35 years of experience in the securities industry. He spent 10 years with Nomura Securities in various roles, which included serving as the Global Head of Equity Finance in London, where he also had responsibility for the Structured Equity Group. In addition, he was the Co-Head of Nomura’s U.S. Equity Sales business in New York. In 2006, Tony joined Paloma Securities as President where he worked for three years until BMO acquired the Global Securities Lending business in 2009. Most recently, Tony served as Co-Head of BMO Global Prime Finance and Delta 1 trading and was also an active Board Member of the Canadian Securities Lending Association, until he departed BMO in 2019.

Doug began his finance career in 1996 at Morgan Staley Trust for 2 years, followed by working a year in Securities Lending at Smith Barney. For his next role, Doug was a Securities Associate Director for Securities Lending at UBS for 7 years. Later, Doug transitioned into Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald from 2017 to 2020. He oversaw the daily operations of Securities Lending that included collateral, settlements, trade bookings, billing, recalls and daily balancing. In addition, Doug worked closely with the Sales desk to stream functions within the groups. As Vice President at South Street, Doug primarily focuses on operations for Securities Lending. Doug is a graduate of St. John’s University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Management. He is also FINRA Registered Series 99.

In 2008, Frank took a Junior Trading role on the Securities Lending desk at Newedge USA, LLC. This was his first experience in the stock loan/equity finance space. His four years at Newedge undoubtedly prepared him for his next role. Hired as a Vice President of the Securities Lending desk at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, Frank would spend the next 7 years at Mitsubishi, now known as MUFG Securities. He was responsible for growing and maintaining both the firm's Securities Lending and Repo Tri Party books. For the final two years at the firm, Mr. Giusti worked out of London in their EMEA office. While in London, he not only managed the firm's Securities Lending and Equity Finance Books, but also provided coverage on US Treasuries and French and German Government Bonds. Frank recently resigned from Soc Gen where he managed their hard to borrow/specials book. As Director at South Street, his job function is focused on Equity Finance and Securities Lending Matched Book Trading.

Frank is a graduate of Fairfield University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance and is FINRA Registered Series 7, 55 and 63.

Raghu has been an Investment Banking IT Executive with over 19 years of experience in building complex trading systems and high-performance teams across trading, operational and various support functions, primarily in Hedge Fund, Prime Brokerage and Securities Lending. He began his finance career by working for global banks namely UBS and Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. Soon after, he became the Vice President at Nomura Int’l Securities, managing the Domestic Securities Lending Technology team. He then moved up to head Prime Services Delivery and Production Services group at Bank of Nova Scotia, New York/Toronto.

In his most recent position, Raghu was managing the Global Production Services Group at S3 partners for about 5 years where he was handling production services, client onboarding, data collection & distribution (financing rates, real time short interest, disclosure, etc.) and predictive analytics in securities lending space. He recently completed his Executive MBA at Rutgers Business School and holds a Master’s Degree in computer science from India.