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I first met Joe in early Fall 1963 , when we were both trying out for the Fordham Prep Junior Varsity football team . We played together for four years , with the exception of part of sophomore year . That was because Joe was “ called up ” then to join the Varsity . And that was because he was one of the two the best athletes on the J . V . squad .
He did double duty , starting at guard on offense and linebacker on defense . He was also a standout on the Prep baseball team . What became apparent in his Prep athletic career was that Joe is a fierce competitor , one who plays whatever game he ’ s in strategically , with toughness and persistence and smarts .
After graduation , he went on to Fordham University , while I went off to Notre Dame . But we kept track of each other , largely through our classmate Dennis FitzSimons . I admired his success as a football coach at Dartmouth , and then marveled at his transition to the financial services industry , and his even larger success there , initially at Merrill Lynch and then at T . D . Ameritrade .
He really surprised me when I was President of the University of Wisconsin System and he contacted me to talk about transitioning back into college football , this time as a head coach . Here was somebody willing to risk the reputations he had established painstakingly in football and then in business for another turn at coaching young people as the football “ CEO .” I remember thinking , when was another time I have been aware of a life and career trajectory like this one ? My answer was , never .
When he became the head football coach at Coastal Carolina University , Joe was kind enough to invite several Prep classmates to South Carolina for a game — Dennis FitzSimons , Tom Egan , Chris Rohrs , and me . Moreover , he let us join him in the locker room and at a pre-game meeting with high school prospects and their parents . So we got to observe him interacting with these young men and their families .
I think I was most impressed with his telling the high school students that his job was to help make them fully successful on the football field at Coastal Carolina , and fully successful as college students , Coastal Carolina graduates , and American citizens . They — and their parents-- knew they had a genuine role model for that in Joe .
Joe is one of those people who has never forgotten his roots as a New York City , “ double-Jesuit ” kid . His great generosity to Fordham Prep and his devoted service on its Board are testament to that . As the son of an immigrant mother from Ireland and an immigrant father from Italy , he embodies the best of American opportunity and accomplishment . I believe I can speak for my Class of 1967 colleagues in saying how proud we are to have him as one of us .
Kevin Reilly ’ 67 Former President , University of Wisconsin System
Congratulations to Joe on his election to the Fordham Athletic Hall of Fame ! alongside yet another Hall of Honor member and school legend , Bruce Bott .
Leaving Rose Hill , Joe went on to coach football for 16 years prior to entering the financial services industry . During this first phase of his professional life , he turned two high school programs around , won two Ivy League Championships as defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College and set school and national records as the defensive secondary and special teams coach at Lafayette College , authoring numerous articles in national coaching journals along the way .
Moglia left coaching in 1984 for a career in finance , working for 17 years at Merrill Lynch . He was one of 26 people who entered the MBA Training Program at Merrill Lynch : 25 MBA ’ s and 1 football coach . By 1988 , he was Merrill Lynch ’ s Number One Producer in the World . By the time he left , he had been a member of both the Institutional and Private Client Executive Committees , and his final responsibilities were all Investment Products , the Insurance Company , the 401 ( k ) Business and the Middle Market Business . Prior to that , he was the head of Global Fixed Income Institutional Sales and ran the firm ’ s Municipal division .
In 2001 , Moglia joined TD Ameritrade as CEO . In the years following , Joe ’ s vision greatly influenced TD Ameritrade , taking the firm from a small dot com brokerage to one of the most widely-recognized names in financial services . In his seven years as CEO of the company , he remained faithful to his game plan — making carefully calculated business decisions centered only on the needs of the firm ’ s clients , shareholders and associates . His leadership skills and charisma inspired the company ’ s management to take pride in and live out the firm ’ s mission to provide financial literacy for the typical American family .
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