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Raghuram G. Rajan

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Raghuram G. Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is also an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Rajan is a senior advisor to BDT Capital, Booz and Co, and is on the international advisory board of Bank Itau-Unibanco. He is a director of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and on the Comptroller General of the United State’s Advisory Council. He is president (elect) of the American Finance Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
== Background ==
Rajan was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2003 to 2007. He has also chaired the Indian government’s Committee on Financial Sector Reforms. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize.
He has authored many papers published in well-known economics and finance journals, and he has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance. He recently published Fault Lines: How Hidden Cracks Still Threaten the World Economy and is also a co-author of the book Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.
He was named to the FDIC Advisory Committee on June 3, 2011.
== Education ==
Rajan is an electrical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi; earned his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and received his Ph.D. from MIT.
== References ==	
Category: Bios - Executives
Category:University Professors
Ragnhild Kjetland

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Ragnhild Kjetland is a freelance reporter and photographer.
== Background ==
Previously, he was a financial markets journalist with Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, based in London. 
== Education ==
Kjetland has a degree from City University. 
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Dow Jones - Former Employees
Category:Dow Jones
Category:Bloomberg - Former Employees
Category:Bloomberg
Rahael Seifu

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Rahael Seifu is a San Francisco-based attorney who serves as the senior counsel for Google LLC. Since 2020 she has served as a member of the board of directors of the CME Group.
== Background ==
Seifu joined Google in 2014 and has served as a product and commercial counsel, acted as first chief of staff for the legal department and currently manages a team of lawyers supporting Googles internal business functions, corporate engineering teams and Alphabet Inc. 
Before joining Google, Seifu was a corporate associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP. She has also been a corporate associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. 
Her areas of legal practice include commercial contracts, crisis management & planning, data security breaches, strategic risk & management, employee benefits, OSHA & workplace safety, mergers & acquisitions, privacy & data security, international data protection & privacy, workplace privacy and technology.
After law school, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York.
As part of her responsibilities on the CME Group board, she sits on the Market Regulation Oversight Committee and the Compensation Committee.
== Education ==
Seifu holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Stanford University and a juris doctor degree from the Yale School of Law. 
== References ==	
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Rahim Jivraj

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Rahim Jivraj is the president, chief executive officer, and director of Mercer Gold Corporation.
== Background ==
Jivraj has been an entrepreneur for over 10 years, in venture capital for eight years and has assisted various private and public entities as a corporate advisor on matters related to finance, development, and investor relations.
Jivraj was associated with two boutique venture capital and merchant banking firms, based in Vancouver, Canada before leaving to pursue independent ventures in 2008.
From September 2007 to February 2008, he was president and director of Mainland Resources Inc., a publicly traded company on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board that transacted a successful oil and gas exploration opportunity with a focus on the Haynesville Shale.
From March 2007 to November 2008, Jivraj was the founding CEO and director of Spring & Mercer Capital Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange venture listed capital pool company whose primary objective was to seek business opportunities for public equity financing. He has also served on the board of Afrasia Mineral Fields and Hastings Resources, both listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
== Education ==
== References ==
Rahim Jivraj's LinkedIn Profile
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Mercer Gold
Category:Gold
Category:Gold Exploration Company
Rainer Riess

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Rainer Riess is veteran exchange executive and industry organization executive. He currently serves as the director general of FESE and as an independent advisor to exchanges and financial services companies.
== Background ==
Riess is a member of the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) which provides ESMA with opinions and advice on its policy work. 
He also serves as a senior independent director in the supervisory board of the Moscow Exchange, where he heads the strategy, renumeration and nominating committees.
Before joining FESE, He served for many years as vice chairman of the board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and was responsible for the cash market business of Deutsche Börse AG.
== Education ==
He holds a masters in economics from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt and received an masters in business administration from the University of Miami as a Fulbright Scholar.
== References ==	
Category:Deutsche Boerse - Former Employees
Category:Germany
Category:FESE
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is a group that includes 43 staff members in San Francisco, CA and in Tokyo, Japan, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and others. RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to persuade multinational corporations to adapt environmentally sustainable policies. 
Its campaigns attempt to bring pressure to bear from public opinion and consumers on American businesses that refuse to adopt responsible environmental policies. Its goals are to break America's oil and coal addictions, protect endangered forests, and promote human rights and sustainable finance.
== References ==
Category:Environmental Groups
Raj Chopra

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Raj Chopra is head of America's ecosystem & business development at Velocity Career Labs. He joined the company in that role in July 2022. 
He was previously the director of corporate development at InterContinentalExchange. He joined ICE in 2006 and oversees acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments. 
== Background ==
Before joining ICE, Chopra was the vice president for business development & partnership strategy at Transora, a technology B2B exchange. He was responisble for resource development and addressing the needs of Transora's global customer community. Chopra also spent time at Sara Lee Corporation in finance and marketing roles. 
Chopra is a board member for I.C. Stars, a non-proﬁt organization that provides disadvantaged young adults an opportunity to develop skills in business and technology.
== Education ==
Chopra received a bachelor of arts in business administration from Michigan State University and his MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. 
== References ==	
Category:ICE
Category:InterContinentalExchange - Employees
Category:InterContinentalExchange
Raj Fernando

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Raj Fernando is the founder and chief executive officer of Scoutahead. Prior to Scoutahead, he was the Founder and CEO of Chopper Trading.
== Background ==
While still in college, Fernando began his career as a volunteer at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, later working his way up in various positions there and at the Chicago Board of Trade from 1991 to 2001. In 2002, he started Chopper Trading. 
Under his leadership, Chopper Trading grew to over 250 employees and traded on the CME, Nasdaq, LSE, ICE, Eurex, Cantor Fitzgerald-espeed, and ICAP-Broketek.
Fernando contributed to the work of the US Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC), supporting its mission of fostering open, transparent, competitive, and financially sound markets. In 2010, Fernando spoke as a featured panelist on the Commission’s discussion of disruptive trading practices.
In 2013, Fernando addressed an international audience of shareholders and media at the annual Rosenblatt Global Exchange Leader Conference, an exclusive industry forum.
In 2015, Fernando sold Chopper Trading to DRW Trading Group, another Chicago-based trading firm.
In 2016, Fernando launched the Internet startup, Scoutahead, a company designed to improve corporate and professional growth and productivity through secure and advanced communication systems. Fernando is the CEO and Chairman of Scoutahead.
Fernando supports many philanthropic efforts in Chicago and the United States. He is on the board of trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and serves on the board of directors for PAWS Chicago, a no-kill animal shelter. He has also supported the Clinton Foundation, Wounded Warriors, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago. 
Fernando sits on the board of directors for the American Security Project, is a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and serves on the Foreign Policy Leadership Committee at the Brookings Institution. In 2011, he was appointed to the International Security Advisory Board which advised then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but subsequently stepped down citing excessive volatility in the international markets at the time. 
== Education ==
Fernando graduated from Beloit College with a bachelor's degree in economics and history. He also studied at the University College London.
== References ==	
Category:Proprietary Trading Executives
Category:Chopper Trading
Raj Mahajan

Raj Mahajan is a partner at Goldman Sachs and global co-head of securities systematic solutions at Goldman Sachs Group.
He joined Goldman in January 2015 as head of equities electronic execution services. 
 
== Background ==
Mahajan was appointed CEO of Allston Trading, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm, in September of 2012, replacing Carlton Jones, who moved to chairman and also retained the title of president. 
He previously served as president of SunGard's Brass business unit. He was credited with changing Brass from an organization focused on new sales to one dedicated to better serving the needs of existing customers.
Mahajan joined SunGard in 2004 with the acquisition of Kiodex, a company he founded and expanded to its current position as a leading global provider of commodity trading and risk solutions.
Prior to Kiodex, Mahajan held executive positions at Goldman Sachs & Co. as an investment banker and principal investor. During his career at Goldman Sachs, he helped to launch Goldman Sachs Power, the firm's electricity trading and risk group, and was part of the team that founded Orion Power Holdings, a Goldman Sachs portfolio investment company.
== Education ==
Mahajan earned his BA degree in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship, earning an MPA degree at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 
==John Lothian News Interview==
Raj Mahajan, Allston Trading CEO, Talks HFT and the Business of Prop Trading
Raj Mahajan took the reins at Allston Trading as CEO in September 2012 and has spent a good deal of his time looking at the issue of high frequency trading (HFT). Allston has been one of the proprietary trading firms who has been willing to publicly discuss HFT, regulation and the future of that form of trading. Mahajan spoke with JLN’s editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf about HFT as well as the business challenges and opportunities for prop firms.
== References ==	
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Allston Trading - Former Employees
Category:Sungard - Former Employees
[[Category:Goldman Sachs]
Raj Rajaratnam

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Raj Rajaratnam is founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group, which managed $3.7 billion before Rajaratnam was arrested in October 2009 on charges of insider trading. He was convicted of securities fraud in 2011 and given an 11-year prison sentence.
In the months following Rajaratnam's arrest, investors began pulling money from the firm and, by November 2009, Gallen initiated an "orderly wind-down" of operations. Galleon is now defunct.
In June 2013, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction, which was challenged by Rajaratnam's lawyers, who argued that the wiretaps used by the government to nab Rajaratnam were illegal. 
 
== Background ==
Rajaratnam was born in Sri Lanka in 1957, and moved to England in the late 1970s to study at the University of Sussex.
After graduating from college, Rajaratnam began his career as a loan officer at Chase Manhattan. In 1985 he joined boutique investment bank Needham & Co., where his focus was technology sector investment management. While at Needham, he began a hedge fund which he would later purchase and rename Galleon. He became known as an aggressive buyer and seller of technology shares, but was also the target of several federal investigations, including the acceptance of inside information, the setting up of an illegal tax shelter, and violations of Securities and Exchange Commission stock trading rules. 
By the time of Rajaratnam's trial in 2011, 21 Galleon employees had been arrested in connection with the insider trading schemes, which involved trading on inside information in such technology companies as IBM, Google, Polycom, and Advanced Micro Devices. 
Prior to his arrest in 2009, Rajaratnam was listed as the world's 236th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $1.8 billion, according to Forbes Magazine.
== Education ==
Rajaratnam earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Sussex (England) in 1980 and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1983.
== References ==
Rajat Gupta

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Rajat Gupta is a former Goldman Sachs director who was convicted of securities fraud in 2012 as part of Raj Rajaratnam’s insider-trading ring. He was sentenced to two years in prison after sharing secret company information with a hedge fund manager.
== Passing Inside Tips ==
Gupta leaked information about a $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (B) on Sept. 23, 2008.
== Background ==
Gupta once headed the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and also served as a director to Procter & Gamble. He was well known as a philanthropist around the world. 
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Goldman Sachs
Rajesh Balaram

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Rajesh Balaram is a United Emirates-based derivatives markets specialist. He currently serves as the chief financial officer of the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange.
He joined the exchange in 2008 and became corporate secretary in 2010.
== Background ==
Prior to joining DGCX, Rajesh worked for an oil company in internal reporting and assurance managing treasury operations.
== Education ==
Rajesh holds a masters of business administration from Manchester Business School.
== References ==
Rajnikant Patel

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Rajnikant Patel was the managing director & CEO and board member of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India. He spearheaded BSE’s corporatisation and demutualisation. Under his stewardship, BSE received the ICAI Award for 'Best Financial Reporting' – 2006 and 2007; and the 'Golden Peacock Global Award for Corporate Social Responsibility in Financial Services - 2007.'
Patel also launched new products overseas, such as futures based on the BSE's benchmark Sensex index, which trade on the US Futures Exchange.
On Aug. 8, 2008, Patel resigned amid a reported management shakeout at the BSE. Mahesh Soneji, chief operating officer, was designated as the caretaker manager of the exchange until Patel could be replaced.
== Background ==
Patel is a member of the Working Committee of World Federation of Exchanges (WFE); chairman of South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE); member of various committees in Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI); National Council on Corporate Governance & Regulatory Framework of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII); Council on Corporate Governance, Indian Merchant Chambers (IMC). He is a director on the boards of Central Depositories Services (India) Ltd. (CDSL), BOI Shareholding Ltd. (BOISL), Indian Clearing Corporation Ltd. (ICCL), National Multi-Commodity Exchange (NMCE) and Calcutta Stock Exchange Ltd.
Patel was selected for the award of “Distinguished Fellow” by Institute Of Directors in January 2007 and honoured with the “India Super Achiever Award” in December 2005.
In 2001, Patel was appointed director - inspection & surveillance by the BSE following an inquiry which resulted in his predecessor being asked to leave the exchange.
Patel had a long stint with the banking regulator Reserve Bank of India. He had previously worked with public sector banks and multi-national banks, including BNP Paribas.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Bombay Stock Exchange
Category:Former Exchange CEOs
Ralf Hafner

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Ralf Hafner brings more than 25 years of experience in trading, sales and investment banking risk management to his current role as chief operating officer/chief financial officer with 7RIDGE, a specialized growth equity and private markets asset management firm based in London. 
Before joining 7RIDGE in 2022, Hafner spent about 18 months as chief risk officer for the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse.
== Background ==
From 1996 until 2020, Hafner served in a variety of roles within Goldman Sachs, based in London. He began in Credit Risk Management and finished his GS career as EMEA chief risk officer.
== Education ==
Hafner earned his CEMS from Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' and a Magister (finance) from
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
== References ==	
Category:Credit Suisse Group - Former Employees
Category:Goldman Sachs - Former Employees
Ralf Roth

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Ralf Roth is a senior executive and managing director for digital assets for BNY Mellon. Previously, he served as chief executive officer of Quantitative Brokers. He joined QB as CEO on December 18, 2017 and left in January of 2020.
 
He had previously served as IHS Markit’s Equities Division CTO. 
== Background ==
Previously Roth served as global head of Elektron at Thomson Reuters and worked at Deutsche Bank as global head of fixed income electronic trading and equity electronic trading businesses. 
== Education ==
Roth earned a Master's degree in computer science with a minor in economics from Universität des Saarlandes.
== References ==	
Category:Quantitative Brokers - Former Employees
Category:IHS Markit - Former Employees
Category:Thomson Reuters - Former Employees
Category:Deutsche Bank - Former Employees
Ralph Bird

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Richard Bird is a exchange product development executive who serves as the head of product development for CurveGlobal.
== Background ==
Bird previously work for NYSE Euronext as head of special projects. He was heavily involved in transitioning listed markets of NYSE Euronext's UTP trading platform to the ICE trading platform.
He joined Liffe as a technology development manager and later served NYSE Euronext as head of business analysis and testing.
Bird began his career in listed derivatives when he joined the London Commodity Exchange as a Senior Systems Engineer.
== Education ==
Bird holds a bachelor of science degree with honors in computer science with economics from the University of Stirling.
== References ==	
Category:NYSE Euronext - Former Employees
Category:Liffe - Former Employees
Category:London Commodity Exchange - Former Employees
Ralph DeNunzio

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Ralph DeNunzio is a former Wall Street executive who served as chairman of both the New York Stock Exchange and brokerage firm Kidder, Peabody & Company. He died in October of 2022 at the age of 90.
DeNunzio stepped down as chairman of Kidder, Peabody amid an insider trading scandal involving famed speculator Ivan F. Boesky in which he was not implicated, but his stewardship of the firm was questioned. He had stepped down from the CEO role at Kidder four months earlier, when General Electric bought the brokerage firm and sought to shake up the management in a bid for the firm to avoid being charged in the insider trading scandal. DeNunzio was replaced as CEO by GE board member Silas Cathcart.
== Background ==
Ralph Dwight DeNunzio was born on November 17, 1931 in White Plains, New York. After graduating from Princeton, DeNunzio joined Kidder's training program on July 1, 1953. Following the training program, he was assigned to the Chicago office as a stock and bond salesman covering institutions in Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky. 
DeNunzio tired of the commute between Chicago and New York and after four years returned to New York to join Kidder's syndicates division. He quickly moved up the corporate ladder at Kidder. He became a partner in 1962, president in 1977 and CEO in 1980. 
In 1970, he headed an industry task force at Kidder that resulted in the creation of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. He serve as the chairman of the SIPC from 1980 to 1981. 
He served as the president of the Bond Club of New York. 
DeNunzio was the second youngest chairman of the New York Stock Exchange when he was named to the position in 1971 at the age of 39. At the time, DeNunzio was head of Kidder's executive committee. He previously served a two-year term as vice chairman of the NYSE. 
While chairman of the NYSE, DeNunzio helped arranged the merger of brokerage firms Francis I. DuPont & Company and Goodbody & Company, both of which were having financial difficulties. He also reorganized the NYSE based on recommendations from a group headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, Jr. These changes created a public board of directors and a full-time paid chief executive, which made DeNunzio the last unpaid NYSE chairman.
DeNunzio served on the board of Nike, joining it in 1988 and stepping down in 2011. He served as chair of the Nike board’s compensation and nominating and corporate governance committees, and was a member of its finance committee. Nike established the Ralph DeNunzio Fund for Athletics at Princeton University in honor of DeNunzio's 20 years of service on the Nike board.
He also served on the boards of AMP Inc., Federal Express Corporation and Harris Corporation.
== Education ==
DeNunzio graduated from Fordham Preparatory School in 1949. He graduated from Princeton University with a liberal arts degree with honors in 1953. DeNunzio also served as a trustee for Princeton University.
== References ==	
Category:Former Exchange Chairmen
Category:Former Brokerage Executives
Ralph Edwards

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Ralph Edwards is a listed option strategist and trader.
Previously, he was the director of derivatives strategies at Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG) 
== Background ==
Edwards has 30 years of experience in options trading. After starting his career on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, he has worked in the derivatives departments at major brokerage firms including Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and CS First Boston.
Most recently, Edwards initiated the launch of Sanford C. Bernstein’s options business and tailored their research ideas into options strategies in order to broaden their revenue stream. 
== Education ==
Edwards holds both B.A. and B.S. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago. 
 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Investment Technology Group
Category:Merrill Lynch
Category:Merrill Lynch
Category:Lehman Brothers
Category:Lehman Brothers
Category:University of Chicago