He was the former editor of Traders Magazine, a staff writer at SecuritiesWeek, foreign correspondent for a Dublin tabloid, co-editor of a popular series of books on equity trading (Springer Science+Business Media) and contributor to the Handbook of Electronic Trading (Capital Markets Media). Byrne, a native of Ireland, came to the United States in 1985 and is now a U.S. and Irish citizen. Once upon a time, Byrne ran a folk and modern music festival at Coney Island. He is happily married with four children in New Jersey. This month he writes about the rebirth of training programs at big brokerages, beginning on page 26.