Winning an award is always quite a feat. But winning the Markets Media Markets Choice Neil DeSena Market Advocate award is quite something else. DeSena, whose 30-year Wall Street career took him from the back office at a clearing firm to managing director at Goldman Sachs to co-founder of fintech merchant bank SenaHill Partners, passed away unexpectedly in 2017. He was 52. But in those brief 52 years DeSena built a legacy that not only included a Wall Street career but encompassed being a labor leader, veteran of two wars, and a community leader.