Aired 05/15/11 David Cowen Named President and CEO of Museum of American Finance New York, NY – The Museum of American Finance has named hedge fund manager and financial historian David Cowen its new president and CEO. Cowen has over 20 years experience as a trader on Wall Street, including in the foreign exchange groups at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank. The founder of Quasar Capital Partners, a macro hedge fund, Cowen holds a BA in American history from Columbia College, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, as well as an MA and Ph.D. in American history from NYU. He has written extensively on U.S. financial history, and is co-author of Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. http://www.moaf.org