Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Safina Asset Management
Location Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Regions Greater Miami Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
oseph Safina joined NYSE Member firm- Gruntal & Co., as Senior Vice President. Joseph was a top producer and was tasked with building Gruntal’s Corporate Finance Department. Joseph left Gruntal & Co. in 1993 and founded Nichols, Safina, Lerner & Co. Inc. (NSL) - a New York Based Broker Dealer. As C.E.O. of NSL, he navigated the firm
from a start-up into a 200 employee, multi-location company. NSL participated in billions of dollars in financings with syndicate partners, such as Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers, and Goldman Sachs. Joseph also headed up NSL’s trading desk, making markets in hundreds of stocks. NSL’s team of experts where regularly featured on CNBC's Buy, Sell and Hold, Tech Talk, Power Lunch, and Bloomberg television. Joseph was also profiled as one of the top ten Bankers in the country in R.J. Shook’s The Winners Circle. In 1997, he sold his interest in NSL and went on to form Safina Asset Management.
