1. Please tell us the name of your firm, title, and describe your role in 1 sentence.  Trafelet Brokaw & Co., analyst.  I’m responsible for sourcing and researching long and short positions across various industries

2. What are your fundraising and athletic goals for The Decathlon, and what led you to choose them? My goal is to increase my donations by 2x my previous best, and to win the overall event!  The event has grown every year and my donations have not, so I need to step it up on that front.  And since I’ve finished third and second, the last…

1. Please tell us the name of your firm, title, and describe your role in 1 sentence. I am a Managing Director at UBS and I work in the Investment Bank in our Equity Capital Markets group. I help companies in the Natural Resources and Utility sectors raise equity via IPO's, secondary equity offerings, and convertible bond offerings.

2. What are your fundraising and athletic goals for The Decathlon, and what led you to choose them?  This year I'd like to beat my fundraising and on the field performance from last year -- always striving to get better!

1. Please tell us the name of your firm, title, and describe your role in 1 sentence. I'm part of the Debt Capital Markets' Financial Institutions Group at Barclays.

2. What are your fundraising and athletic goals for The Decathlon, and what led you to choose them?  I have two goals this year: The first is to raise $10K, including matched funding. Last year, I was able to raise just under $10,000 dollars, this year I would like to break that mark. The second is to finish in the top 25 for the individual competition. 

3. What training techniques have worked best…

Nobody really “likes” the 400-meter race as it’s one of the most painful races known to man — albeit for a short time — but everybody likes how running it makes them look and feel. Case in point: Would you rather look like Marita Koch or Paula Radcliffe? Michael Johnson or Dennis Kipruto Kimetto?

To help you run your fastest and strongest 400-meter race, we've consulted with Tim Haft, a certified Level 1 USA Track & Field Coach, certified personal trainer and leader of New York-based workouts Punk Rope, Beastanetics and MoshFIT. Focusing on different aspects of the race, Haft has…

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To motivate all the athletes participating in the 2015 event, we dug up some of the training and nutrition tips originally shared with Business Insider from the top finisher's of the 2014 event.  

Jennifer Lidel, TradeLink Securities (1st place)

Lidel (center), Stephanie Setyadi (right)

Lidel’s Workout: “My normal workout routine is an alternating schedule of cardio only days and weight training with cardio days. I use various types of cardio including running, swimming, bike riding, elliptical machines, and stair climbing, and there is always an interval component to the cardio workout. Each…

Throwing a football may look easy, but there's actually a lot more to it than just chucking the ball and hoping for the best. And while you may have executed a "perfect" throw in PeeWee Football, the Decathlon version of this childhood game is a whole different ball game. 

To make sure you're prepped to give your competitors a run for their money, we're sharing gear news website GearPatrol.com's six main steps to get that perfect spiral:

1. Grip the ball correctly: Lay the four fingers of your dominant hand across the laces, the pads of your…

This June, hundreds of Wall Street traders, strategists, and analysts will complete a 400-meter run, football throw, pull-ups, 40-yard dash, dips, 500-meter row, vertical jump, 20-yard shuttle, bench press, and an 8-meter run all within a few hours at the Wall Street Decathlon. And they'll be doing this to defend their company and their personal integrity against some of Wall Street's strongest athletes.

Past Decathlon competitors include former professional football players and former college athletes, as well as weekend warriors and individuals who are just as ruthless in the boardroom as they are on the track. 

The annual event raises…

Decathlon 2015 is just a few short months away, and while we know you’re hard at work training to crush your athletic goals, it's equally important to make sure that we all crush our fundraising goals this year, as raising money for cancer research is what being a member of the Decathlon community is all about.

To help Decathletes hit their fundraising goals and/or join the $10k club, we're highlighting five ways to fundraise more effectively today. 

1. Use Social Media: You have hundreds of friends, friends of friends, coworkers, and people you’ve only met once…