Turney Duff was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Kennebunk, Maine. He returned to Ohio for college where earned a journalism degree at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Turney began his Wall Street career as a sales assistant at Morgan Stanley in 1994. He moved on to The Galleon Group hedge fund in 1999 where he was a health care trader and Managing Director. In 2001, Turney became a Partner and the founding senior trader at Argus Partners, when it was spun off from Galleon. In 2007, Turney joined J.L. Berkowitz (Jim Cramer’s former firm) as Partner and senior trader, where he worked through 2009. Turney has written and executive produced two short movies, and under his rap name “Cleveland D”, was partly responsible for the infamous Galleon song, “On the Good Ship Galleon.” He currently lives in Long Island City. www.TurneyDuff.com.

THE BUY SIDE (Crown, June 4, 2013)

Written by a former trader at The Galleon Group (the hedge fund at the center of history’s largest insider-trading scandal), THE BUY SIDE is Turney Duff’s high-adrenaline journey through the trading underworld as well as a searing look at an after-hours Wall Street culture where sex and drugs are the quid pro quo and a billion isn’t enough.

In the mid-2000’s, Turney Duff was, to all appearances, the very picture of American success. One of Wall Street’s hottest traders, he was a rising star with Raj Rajartnam’s legendary Galleon Group before forging his own path with Argus Partners and J.L. Berkowitz. What few knew was that the key to Turney’s remarkable success wasn’t a super genius IQ or family connections, but rather a winning personality — because the real money wasn’t made on the trading floor or behind a computer screen, but, rather, in whispered deals in the city’s most exclusive nightspots, surrounded by the best drugs and the hottest women. For Turney, this created a perilously seductive cycle: the harder he partied, the more connected and successful he became, which meant he could party even harder. In time, he became a wandering paradox, an addictive mess after hours, and King of the Street from nine to five. Along the way, he learned some important lessons about himself, and the too-wild-to-be-believed world of Wall Street trading.