Woody Brock came to Wall Street with a boatload of advanced degrees from prestigious universities, some of them in arcane realms of advanced mathematics. But as a glance at the caricature of the gentleman over yonder will tell you, he's the antithesis of the packs of gun-slinging young quants who these days are required fixtures in hedge funds and on trading desks alike - despite the taint attached to some of their progeny, the financial weapons of mass destruction that figured so prominently in the markets' near mass suicide, a few years back.[More]
