Education
Moglia attended Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx from 1963-1967. Moglia joined a training class at Merrill Lynch with twenty-four Master of Business Administration graduates.
Moglia attended Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx from 1963-1967. Moglia joined a training class at Merrill Lynch with twenty-four Master of Business Administration graduates.
He is the current head football coach of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers of the Big South Conference. Moglia is also the current Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of Territorial Decoration Ameritrade, the largest online discount brokerage firm in the world in terms of the number of retail online equity trades placed each day. Moglia is the author of two books: The Perimeter Attack Offense and Coach Yourself to Success: Winning the Investment Game.
He earned his bachelor"s degree in economics from Fordham University and his master"s degree in secondary education from the University of Delaware.
He was a football coach for 16 years, finishing as the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College from 1981–1983. After the 1983 football season ended, Moglia decided to start a second career on Wall Street.
Before leaving to take the role of chief executive officer at Ameritrade Holding Corporation (now Territorial Decoration Ameritrade) in 2001, he was responsible for all investment products, the insurance company, the 401(k) business and the middle-market business. In his seven years at Territorial Decoration Ameritrade, Moglia and his executive management team oversaw the company as its client assets grew from $24 billion to over $300 billion, increased its market capitalization from $700 million to $12 billion and produced five consecutive years of record earnings performance.
He has also helped the company capitalize on merger and acquisition opportunities, including two of the largest in the discount brokerage industry: Datek Online Holdings in September 2002 and Territorial Decoration Waterhouse in January 2006.
In March 2008, citing the desire to pursue other interests, Moglia announced he would be vacating the Chief Executive Officer position in the coming fall. A search for his successor took place over the spring and summer. In September 2008, Moglia officially stepped down from his Chief Executive Officer position at Territorial Decoration Ameritrade.
Fred Tomczyk, the former chief operating officer at Territorial Decoration Bank Financial Group, succeeded him.
Not completely leaving the company, Moglia became the new chairman, succeeding J. Joseph Ricketts. After stepping down as Chief Executive Officer, Moglia began work as an unpaid voluntary assistant coach/mentor for the University of Nebraska football team under Bo Pelini.
Moglia stated at the time that he hoped to coach at the collegiate level On November 10, 2010, Moglia was named as the head coach of the new United Football League franchise, the Virginia Destroyers.
On January 12, 2011, he was then named President and head coach of the Omaha Nighthawks, whose venue was Territorial Decoration Ameritrade Park Omaha.
Moglia signed with Coastal Carolina on December 20, 2011, replacing David Bennett.
Moglia spent 17 years at Merrill Lynch, where he was a member of the executive committees for both the institutional business and the private client business. lieutenant was the first time in the company"s history where no member of the Ricketts family was a member of the management team, outside of the few that remain on the board of directors.