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George Sladoje

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George Sladoje is a consultant, entrepreneur, exchange executive and financial services professional. 
Recently he served as the chief financial officer of Bcause, a crypto currency mining and exchange start-up that is in bankruptcy. He left Bcause after they filed for bankruptcy.
He has worked with Nasdaq, the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
He served as the chief operating officer for the NASDAQ OMX Commodities Clearing Company after it acquired a firm he founded, North American Energy Credit and Clearing.
Sladoje was the chief executive officer of the California Power Exchange in 2001 when the exchange declared bankruptcy amid California's energy crisis. He was recruited as an outsider with experience in the trading and exchange space to be an executive vice president. He subsequently succeeded Dennis Loughridge as CEO.
== Background ==
Before moving to California, Sladoje had formerly held positions as executive vice-president and chief financial officer of the Chicago Stock Exchange and its clearing and trust subsidiaries. He was also executive vice-president of the Chicago Board of Trade where he directed the exchange's operations and its financial and administrative functions.
Sladoje was forced out of this job as chief financial officer of the CBOT by a controversy that the Chicago Tribune reported Sladoje was "weathering a humiliating internal probe of reports that he attempted to collect personal information on a CBOT grain trader." The Tribune reported "The exchange's second-highest-paid staffer and a right-hand man to CBOT President Thomas R. Donovan, decided to leave even though a protracted investigation by a former U.S. district judge had exonerated him."
While at the CBOT, Sladoje served as treasurer for the CBOT's political action committee, Auction Markets Political Action Committee of the Chicago Board of Trade, AkA AMPAC/CBT.
Prior to his trading experiences, Sladoje served in various financial roles including seven years with a Big 8 public accounting firm.
== Education ==
Sladoje earned MBA in finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a BS Degree in business administration from the Ohio State University. He earned his certified public accountant (CPA) designation in Illinios in 1971.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Former CBOT Staff
Category:Nasdaq - Former Employees
Category:Chicago Stock Exchange - Former Employees
George Smith

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George Smith was a banker, entrepreneur and one of the founding members of the Chicago Board of Trade.Market Maker: A Sesquicentennial Look at the Chicago Board of Trade - Book
Originating from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Smith arrived in Chicago in 1834 at the age of 26, as one of the city's first settlers. He made significant real estate investments during the era of great land speculation in Chicago, contributing to the city's development. Smith went on to establish Chicago's inaugural private banking institution and also set up the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co. in Milwaukee in 1839. 
Smith carved out a sterling financial reputation, with his bank's certificates of deposit, which were redeemable in hard currency, gaining acceptance far beyond Chicago due to their reliability. These certificates were integral to financing the burgeoning trade in commodities between Chicago and the East Coast.
He was invited to preside over the Chicago Board of Trade as its first president, but Smith chose not to accept the role, which was subsequently filled by Thomas Dyer.
Smith's returned to his homeland of Scotland, where he passed away in 1899 at the age of 91.
== Education ==
Smith had two years of college.
== References ==	
Category:CBOT Members
Category:Founders of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:Deceased Members of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:Deceased
George Steel

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George Steel was a Chicago building contractor born in Forfarshire, Scotland who was a founding member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as the third president of the exchange. He followed Thomas Dyer and Charles Walker in the role.
He died in March of 1865 in Chicago.
== Background ==
Steel came to Chicago from Scotland via Canada. He was born in Forfarshire, Scotland in 1797, one of a family of twelve sons and moved to Canada in 1828. Steel was the first president of the Illinois Saint Andrew Society in 1845.
He came to Chicago in 1837, having engaged in a contract to build a section of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. After stoppage of work on the canal, Steel became a general commission merchant in Chicago and established a pork-packing business on South Water Street. 
Steel had an office and warehouse located at the foot of LaSalle Street on South Street. In 1856, a new three-story building was erected on this site and it became the first permanent home for the Chicago Board of Trade. His company built the first steam operated grain elevator in Chicago. It was capable of operating from the canal as well as the railroads. The elevator had a capacity of 100,000 bushels and was located at Franklin and River streets. 
Steel served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade from 1852 to 1853. As a member of the CBOT, Steel was among the members that requested a special meeting of the CBOT board to respond to a call by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln for the mustering of 300 thousand troops for fighting in the U.S. Civil War. The CBOT members pledged to use their influence and money to recruit a battery to be known as the "Board of Trade Battery".
== References ==	
Category:Presidents of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:Former CBOT Officials
Category:Deceased Members of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:Deceased
Georges Elhedery

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Georges Elhedery was appointed CEO of HSBC Holdings Plc effective September 2, 2024, succeeding Noel Quinn, who in April announced his surprise decision to retire from HSBC.
HSBC said Elhedery would receive a base salary of £1.38mn and a pension allowance equal to 10 per cent of that. He will be the fourth HSBC CEO under Chairman Mark Tucker.
Elhedery took over the CEO role less than two years after his promotion to chief financial officer. Before that, he was on sabbatical for six months that included spending some of his time learning Mandarin. He will continue in the CFO role during the transition period until a successor is named. 
He was previously co-head of HSBC’s investment banking arm, and spent nearly a decade in the Gulf in various roles before running the bank’s Middle Eastern business. 
== Background ==
Elhedery joined HSBC in 2005 as a rates trader in the Global Banking and Markets division and rose through the ranks. In 2016, he took over the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region, overseeing risk, financial crime, compliance and capital management. Before joining HSBC he was a trader in London, Paris and Tokyo for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and BNP Paribas SA. 
He was appointed HSBC's chief financial officer in early 2023.
Elhedery was born in Lebanon and speaks six languages, including Mandarin.
== Education ==
He studied engineering at the École Polytechnique in Paris and took a postgraduate degree in statistics and economics.
== References ==
Georgina Franks

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Georgina Franks is a London based media executive. She is an account manager at The Economist Group, specializing in thought leadership.
== Background ==
She is the former publisher for Futures and Options World (FOW), she was promoted to the position on April 6, 2011 and left in 2012.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:FOW - Former Employees
Georgios Charalambous

Georgios Charalambous is the chairman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, a position he assumed in 2006. Charalambous serves as the Cyprus SEC's representative on the Committee of European Securities Regulators.
== Background ==
Before joining the Cyprus SEC, Charalambous served as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Cyprus Development Bank. He also spent many years with the Central Bank of Cyprus where he began his career as an economist and ultimately achieved the position of senior general manager. 
== Education ==
Charalambous is an economist with post-graduate studies (M.Sc. with specialization in Monetary Economics) at the London School of Economics and training at the International Monetary Fund.
 
== References ==
Category:Regulators
Gerald A. Hanweck, Jr.

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Gerald A. ("Jerry") Hanweck, Jr. is the CEO and founder of Hanweck, a provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets focusing on the large-scale risk problems of banks, broker/dealers, hedge funds, central counterparties and exchanges.
== Background ==
Hanweck founded his namesake company in 2003, and moved from consulting into product development in 2006. 
Before Hanweck, he was chief equity derivatives strategist with JP Morgan from 2000 to 2003. There he led the bank's U.S. fixed-income derivatives strategy team. He earlier worked as a derivatives researcher with Discount Corporation of New York.
== Education ==
Hanweck holds a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Princeton University and a PhD in managerial economics and decision science from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.
== References ==	
Category:JP Morgan - Former Employees
Category: Discount Corporation of New York
Gerald Corcoran

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Gerald F. Corcoran is the chairman and chief executive officer of futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO). He has been CEO since 2000 and chairman of the board since 2007.
He has been on the board of directors of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) since 2008 and on its executive committee since 2012. He was chairman of the FIA from 2014 - 2016 and before that was vice chairman from 2013 - 2014. He was also the FIA board's treasurer in 2012 and then from 2016 – 2017. He has served on a number of FIA committees, chairing the audit committee in 2013, the compensation committee in 2015, and the finance committee in 2016. 
He has served on the board of the National Futures Association (NFA) since 2006, representing futures commission merchants. In February of 2024, Corcoran was elected as chairman of the board of the NFA. 
He is also a member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee and the CFTC Agricultural Advisory Committee.
On December 8, 2011, Corcoran spoke on behalf of the Commodity Markets Council (CMC) and RJO at a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture examining the MF Global bankruptcy. He made suggestions on how to better safeguard the futures industry, saying that trust had been "severely impaired" by the MF Global situation.
== Background ==
Before he took over as the company's CEO, Corcoran was RJO's chief operating officer from 1992 – 2000. He joined RJO in 1987 as the chief financial officer and held that role from 1987-1992.
Corcoran was formerly the controller for the Chicago Sun-Times. A former member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he served on several committees at the exchange, including the Clearing House Risk Committee from 2010 – 2019. He is also a former governor of the Clearing Corporation.
He was also on the board of the Institute for Financial Markets (IFM) from 2015 - 2016.
== Education ==
Corcoran has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Loyola University (1973-77) and is a certified public accountant (CPA). He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Illinois CPA Society.
==The Path to Electronic Trading==
Corcoran's one day of working on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade during May of 1988 prompted him to start to find ways to add technology to R.J. O'Brien's operations to increase the efficiency of getting orders into and out of the trading pit. He sat for a video with John Lothian News about this experience and that video spawned "The Path to Electronic Trading" video series.
== References ==	
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC
Category:FIA Board of Directors Members
Category:FIA Global Board of Directors
Category:NFA Board of Directors Members
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category: CEOs
Category:CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee Members
Gerald D. Putnam

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Gerald Putnam is a 30-year financial services industry veteran who was chairman and CEO of TruMarx Data Partners, a web-based execution platform for individual bi-lateral OTC transactions, from 2011 to 2012. He was named to the post in February 2011, succeeding Jon Olson, TruMarx's founding CEO. 
He is also a former president of the New York Stock Exchange. Putnam was selected as one of Time Magazine's Outstanding Innovators in 2000. He also started the Chicago firm Archipelago, which created one of a new class of trading systems known as electronic communications networks (ECNs). He is a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
== Background ==
In addition to the other businesses he built, Putnam founded Terra Nova, an on-line broker-dealer, and held positions at several financial firms.
In November of 2009, Putnam, along with two other people, was ordered to pay $11 million to Lewis Borsellino, a former Chicago Mercantile Exchange trader who accused them of fraud when they bought him out of a partnership that created a now-defunct electronic trading firm, Chicago Trading & Arbitrage (CTA). However, the decision was reversed in 2011 because, according to the ruling, Borsellino agreed in a 1998 settlement to drop future claims against Putnam and the other defendants, Chicago Trading & Arbitrage co-founders MarrGwen and Stuart Townsend.
== Education ==
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics with a major in Accounting from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1981.
== References ==
Category:Archipelago
Category:NYSE Euronext
Gerald Greiner

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Gerald Greiner is head of global clearing for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. He was appointed to that position in January of 2013. He was previously chief executive of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd. and Hong Kong Futures Exchange Ltd. 
== Background ==
Greiner was appointed chief operating officer of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. on February 16, 2007. Before that, he served as head of the exchange division of HKEx, beginning May 2004. He was deputy chief operating officer of HKEx from May 2004 to February 9, 2007. 
He previously served as senior director of the supervision of markets division in the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC), which he joined in 1989. Before that he held several senior executive positions in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
== Education ==
Greiner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Allegheny College and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toledo College of Law. 
== References ==	
Category:Former Regulators
Category:Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong - Former Employees
Category:Category:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Former Employees
Gerald J. O’Connor

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Gerald J. O’Connor (Jerry) is vice president of the Advanced Solutions area at Trading Technologies (TT). O’Connor manages TT’s partner program and the Advanced Solutions team.
 
O’Connor served as a panelist in the 2007 FIA show, focusing on electronic trading of options.
== Background ==
O’Connor began his career at Unisys Corporation as a computer consultant designing a Tickler system for Corus Bank. He moved to BALR Corporation where he had computer consulting assignments at Zurich Bank, JS Paluch, Tellabs, Ameritech, Abercrombie & Kent and Platinum Technologies. 
Ten years ago, O’Connor started working at TT to create their licensing system for their products. Afterward, he moved to the X_WEB team, their Java based version of X_TRADER, before it was terminated while in beta. O’Connor worked in the product integration group focusing on betas, escalation of critical issues, and utility tools. Six years ago, O’Connor started the professional services group, which was the consulting division of TT. This group created over 40 plug-ins including Navigator, TOES, Fill Recapper, FARM, OCO_Trader, Equalizer, Position Mover, and Trade Tracker. O’Connor was then promoted to VP, API connectivity which included professional services, development technical support, and TT’s partner program.
== Education ==
O’Connor holds a BA double major in Economics and Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
== References ==	
Category:Trading Technologies
Gerald L. Hassell

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Gerald L. Hassell is the president, chairman and chief executive officer of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. He succeeded former chairman and CEO Robert P. (Bob) Kelly in August 2011 and has been president since 1998.
== Background ==
Hassell has worked for the Bank of New York for 30 years, beginning with its management development program. He joined the executive committee in 1994 before becoming president and director four years later.
== Education ==
*MBA, Finance, New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business
*BA, Economics, Duke University
== Professional Organizations ==
*Board of Directors of Comcast Corporation, Member
*Board of Visitors of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Former Chairman
*Board of Trustees of Duke University, Member
*Board of Visitors of Columbia University Medical Center, Member
*Board of the New York Philharmonic, Member
*Board of the Economic Club of New York, Member
*Board of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Member
*The Financial Services Roundtable, Member
*Financial Services Forum, Member
*Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York, Vice Chairman
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:The Bank of New York Mellon
Gerald Santing

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Gerald Santing is the former managing director of markets at the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). He joined the firm in June 2010 and oversees the DFSA's regulation of NASDAQ Dubai, the Dubai Mercantile Exchange and other futures exchanges in the area. He left to return to Holland in 2013.
== Background ==
Santing was previously the Managing Director of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets and was directly involved with MiFID's Market Abuse initiative in the Netherlands. He is also a former acting Commissioner of the Markets and chaired a task force focused on international regulations related to the NYSE Euronext merger in 2006. 
Santing worked at Deloitte from 2000-2004 as the Managing Partner of Financial Advisory Services, the Chief Executive Officer of the Mutual Insurance Company from 1990-1995 and held various management roles at ABN Amro. 
== Education ==
Santing graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a degree in Economics.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Regulators
Category:Dubai
Category:Dubai Financial Services Authority
Gerald T. O'Connell

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Gerald T. O'Connell is a longtime exchange and technology executive who was previously executive vice president of Cboe Global Markets and executive vice president and chief information officer of Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe). He served in that capacity from 1993 until he retired in 2017.
 
He led the technology efforts for five U.S. exchanges -- Cboe, Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) and One Chicago. O'Connell oversees over 250 employees in Cboe’s Systems Division, the company’s largest division, which includes Systems Development, Systems Operations and Systems Planning.
== Background == 
O’Connell joined CBOE in the systems area in 1984 after creating and implementing high-frequency, real-time, transactional-based systems for the Hyatt Corporation from 1981 to 1984.
 
Under O’Connell’s leadership, CBOE was the first options exchange to support electronic trading, an electronic order book, an automatic quotation system and wireless hand-held trading terminals. He oversaw the development of CBOE’s Hybrid Trading System, a groundbreaking trading model launched in 2003, which successfully integrates trading floor and screen-based trading on a single exchange.
 
O’Connell oversaw the development and implementation of CBOEdirect and CBOE Command, successive generations of revolutionary trade engine technology. Both CBOEdirect and CBOE Command were designed to accommodate trading across asset classes – options, stocks, futures and options on futures – on separate exchanges. CBOE Command, the options industry’s current state-of-the-art in trade engine technology, offers more options and volatility products -- and more ways to trade them -- than any other platform in the world.
 
O’Connell also previously served as a board member of the National Stock Exchange (NSX).
== Awards == 
He has been recognized with numerous awards for excellence in information technology, including CIO Magazine’s “CIO 100” award, Institutional Investor’s “Trading Technology 30” award, Computer World Magazine’s “Smithsonian Award,” and Wall Street Letter awards for “Best Options Trading Platform” and “Most Innovative Exchange Technology.”
 
== Education == 
O’Connell holds a Jurist Doctorate degree from John Marshall Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Lewis University. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
 
==References==	
Category:CBOE Executives
Category:CBOE
Category:Bios - CBOE
Category:CBOE
Gerard "Roddy" Kopera

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Gerard Kopera is the managing director of enterprise counterparty risk and FCM risk management for Wells Fargo Securities.
Formerly, he was managing director of institutional integration at the International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG). 
== Background ==
Kopera has held positions in the financial and information services industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining the IDCG, Kopera was in a sales management role at TwoFour Systems and before that, SunGard. Kopera started his career as a money market trader at Taiyo Kobe Bank Ltd. 
== Education ==
Kopera received of Bachelors of Arts in Economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA in Finance and International Business from Tulane University.
== References ==	
Category:IDCG - Former Employees
Category: Sungard - Former Employees
Gerard (Gerry) McGraw

Gerard McGraw is president of Institutional Products Group for Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans and a leading online brokerage firm. In this role, Mr. McGraw oversees National Financial, Capital Markets, Institutional Wealth Services, Fidelity Family Office Services, Fidelity Investments Institutional Services, all brokerage operations and the risk and brokerage technology functions. He is also a member of the Fidelity Executive Committee.
==Background== 
Mr. McGraw joined Fidelity in 1997 as a senior vice president of Internal and Management Control, where he was responsible for ensuring compliance with various regulatory requirements. He then became senior vice president of brokerage operations and assumed his current position in March 2003.
Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. McGraw worked for four years at Smith Barney Shearson Inc., as senior vice president in the Capital Markets Administration and Controller's Department. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. McGraw was a senior vice president of Securities Operations at Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc. Previously, Mr. McGraw served in several examiner positions with the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. From 1983 to 1985, he was a senior auditor at Paine Webber Inc. Mr. McGraw began his career in the financial service industry in 1976 as a staff auditor at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of N.Y.
== Education ==
Mr. McGraw earned a bachelor of arts degree in accounting from Pace University in 1976. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Security Industries Institute, a member of the Operations Committee for the Securities Industry Association (SIA), and previously has served as the SIA Clearing Firms Committee chairman.
== References ==
Category:Fidelity
Category:Auditors