The Executive Team

Stephen Cash, Co-Executive Director

Stephen co-founded Seven Eight Capital, a quantitative investment firm focused on systematic trading strategies. Prior to Seven Eight, he co-managed the Statistical Arbitrage Group at IVC Americas. Stephen has also worked as a quant trader on the Proprietary Trading desk at Lehman Brothers and at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and as a Portfolio Manager at WorldQuant. He has an extensive background in applied mathematics and finance, completing his BS in Finance with a minor in Mathematics at Fordham and his MS in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

He is an avid amateur boxer, and he competed in an exhibition match for charity in Madison Square Garden. He recently joined the board of Atlas Cops & Kids Boxing gym in Brooklyn, NY.

Jeff Mower, Director

Jeff Mower is the Director of Americas Oil News for S&P Global. A native of Virginia, Jeff moved to New York over 25 years ago to cover the oil industry, and has spent most of that time living in the Bronx.  He is a life-long fitness nut and advocate, having experienced first hand the physical, social and psychological benefits of sports and exercise. Jeff took up boxing in his 50s as a way to challenge himself. He quickly found the sport offered many unexpected benefits, not the least of which was a community of like-minded individuals. Jeff lives in the Van Cortlandt area of the Bronx with his wife, a school teacher, and their teenage daughter.

Jay Bulger, Co-Executive Director

Jay Bulger attended Fordham University in the Bronx, where he boxed in several New York Golden Glove tournaments. Photographs of his fighting launched him onto the cover of Vogue and then modeling for brands such as Armani, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Kenneth Cole, and Hermès.[1]

He has directed music videos and commercials for bands such as The Hold Steady, Nightmare of You, Permanent Me, and Playradioplay; and brands such as Pepsi and Disney.[1][2]

An article entitled "The Devil and Ginger Baker" in Rolling Stone,[3] became the premise for his documentary Beware of Mr. Baker, and in the spring of 2010, Bulger returned to South Africa with a small film crew to finish making the film.[1]Beware of Mr. Baker premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.[4]

In 2014, Bulger directed the album, The Processwith Chad Smith, Bill Laswell, and Jonathan Batiste. For his second feature, Counterpunch, Bulger set out to capture the state of boxing in the United States. As boxing's popularity declines, three fighters at different stages of their career persevere in order to pursue their dreams of becoming champions. The film earned Bulger and Netflix an Emmy nomination. In his third feature, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue, Bulger retraced Paul Bowles’ 1959 expedition throughout Morocco, in which he set out to record the country’s various tribes and their music. The film is set to be released in fall 2019.