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Michael Patak

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Michael Patak is a Chicago-based financial markets professional and former floor trader and member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He is the founder and chief visionary officer of Topstep Trader, an education and funding platform for new traders.
== Background ==
Patak founded Topstep Trader in 2010 at the Chicago Board of Trade. As a trader, at one time Patak had suffered a $90,000 loss, which led him to fine tune his trading approach on a trading simulator. Using this experience, he launched Topstep Trader as a way for other traders to learn trading and develop the necessary discipline prior to trading a funded account.
Previously he was the founder of Gorilla Gamer.
In 2016, Patak was a finalist for the Ernst & Young EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2016 Award in the Midwest, which encompasses Illinois and Wisconsin.
== Education ==
Patak holds a bachelor of arts in economics from Iowa State University.
== References ==	
Category:Market Educators
Michael Peters

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Michael Peters is an exchange, technology and clearing executive who was the CEO of Eurex Frankfurt AG from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2024. He succeeded Thomas Book in that role. Peters had been deputy CEO of Eurex starting in February 2016. He is also a member of Eurex's and Eurex Zürich AG's executive board.
As a board member of Eurex, Peters is responsible for derivatives business development, which includes strategic initiatives, market development for Asia and Middle East as well as pricing policy.
In addition, Peters is a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Futures & Options Association.
 
== Background ==
Peters joined Eurex from OMX, where he was responsible for strategic initiatives and major international projects. He joined OMX in 2001. 
Previously, he spent nine years with Deutsche Boerse in various management positions. He was head of Xetra Market Management, manager of the Representative Office in London, and implementation manager for the Xetra trading system.
== Education ==
*Banking Academy Frankfurt / Koblenz - Bankfachwirt, Economics - Finance
*Gymnasium St. Xaver Bad Driburg
*Stanford University Graduate School of Business
== Resources ==
*Eurex Clearing Web site
*Eurex Bonds Web site
*Eurex Repo Web site
*Deutsche Boerse Web site
== References ==	
Category:Eurex - Current Employees
Category:Eurex
Category:Trading Technologies - Former Employees
Category:OMX - Former Employees
Category:SFOA - Board Member
Category:Deutsche Boerse
Michael Petrick

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Michael J. Petrick is a Managing Director and Head of Global Market Strategies at the Carlyle Group, and also serves as a member of the firm’s management and operating committees. He joined the firm in 2010 after a 20-year carrer at Morgan Stanley.
He leads the Carlyle's leveraged finance, mezzanine and distressed debt operations. ref></ref> 
== Background ==
Before joining Carlyle Petrick oversaw Morgan Stanley's trading business and served as co-head of Institutional Securities Sales and Trading, alongside Jerker Johansson.
Petrick joined Morgan Stanley in 1989 and became a managing director in 1996. He became head of the firm’s Distressed Debt business in 1999, and was named head of High Yield and Leveraged Finance in 2001. In 2005, he became head of the Corporate Credit Group and head of Morgan Stanley Principal Investments. 
Prior to joining the Morgan Stanley, he spent two years at First Interstate Bank as a high-yield portfolio manager.
Petrick has served on the boards of DigitalGlobe and TVN Entertainment, American Household, Marvel Entertainment, Premium Standard Farms, Pacific & Atlantic and CHI Energy.
== Education ==
Petrick graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry and Economics from Grinnell College in 1984. He earned his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago in 1987.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Carlyle Group
Category:Morgan Stanley
Category:University of Chicago
Michael Phillips - Former CEO Frank Russell Company

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Michael ("Mike") John Phillips is a Seattle, Washington area financial services professional. He is the chairman of Altaira Wealth Management, a Geneva, Switzerland-based wealth management company. He was formerly the chairman and CEO of Frank Russell Company.
== Background ==
Phillips spent 25 years at Russell Investments, including as Chairman and CEO from 2002 to 2008. He was CEO at Russell Investments Limited from 1993 to 2003, serving as only the third CEO since the company was founded in 1936 following Frank Russell and George Russell.
He joined the firm in 1981 and was promoted to managing director in 1982. 
Before joining Russell, from 1971 to 1981 Phillips served as an Investment analyst and portfolio manager at Barclays Investment Management Ltd. In this role, he was managed internationally diversified pension fund assets.
Before starting his career, he spent a year on voluntary service overseas in South Africa before.
He has taught investment courses at City of London Polytechnic School of Business Studies. 
Also, in 2006 Phillips served as a representative on the APEC Business Advisory Council after being appointed by the President of the U.S.
Phillips served as the Chairman of 20-20 Investment Association.
== Education ==
Phillips holds a bachelor of laws degree in law from University College of London.
Also, he earned an Associate of Institute of Investment Management and Research designation from London Society of Investment Analysts in 1977. 
== References ==	
Category:Russell Investments - Former Employees
Category:Barclays - Former Employees
Michael Phillips - Information Security Expert

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Michael Phillips is a information technology security expert who is a founding partner of VSEC, an information and cyber security firm. He is also an adjunct professor in IT auditing for DePaul University's College of Computing and Digital Media.
Previously, he was executive vice president for Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG). .
==Background==
Phillips has over 20 years of experience in operations management, business development and finance within Swiss Banking and the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He joined RCG in 2008 to provide oversight on various aspects of Operational Risk Management, including Enterprise Security, Business Contingency Planning, Project Management Office and Risk Technologies. 
In his most recent role before joining RCG, Phillips was the owner of Luminant Group LLC, a security consulting firm specializing in information assurance program development, analysis of security governance and IT controls, where he served as an executive advisor to clients. In that capacity, Phillips previously served as the interim chief technology officer at Cassandra Capital Partners LLC.
He served as information security officer in the information technology division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In his role at the Federal Reserve, he chaired the IT Risk Management Committee that transformed the Information Security Program & Infrastructure Engineering by restructuring the Change Control and Database & Systems support functions. Previously, he was a consultant for Emerald Technology, where he developed Information Security service offerings and led projects to implement secure e-business solutions. 
Before consulting, Phillips was an officer at UBS, a global financial firm. In his role as director, he provided management oversight for the development and integration of the Information Security Program throughout the Americas. At UBS, he also managed the international systems entegration function through several mergers and acquisitions and was an integral leader in the global deployment of the firm’s proprietary derivatives trading platform.
==MarketsWiki Education 2018 video==
In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s 2018 Chicago event, Phillips talks about the state of information security (InfoSec), how he came to be a security professional, and what can be done to protect your information.
==Education==
Phillips earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Northwestern University. He also received a degree from DeVry Institute of Technology.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Rosenthal Collins Group - Former Employees
Category:Rosenthal Collins Group
Category:FCM Executives
Michael Prokop

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Michael Prokop is Houston-based energy executive who serves as the director, digital transformation strategy and business for The Alliance Risk Group, LLC.
Formerly, he was a managing director, energy products at CME Group, a post he took in September 2010.
Prokop has 25 years of global energy financial services experience (as of September 2010), and was responsible for advancing the CME's growth strategy for its energy business line. 
== Background ==
Prokop previously worked at Amerex Energy, an over-the-counter energy broker, where he was responsible for the oversight and development of the company's futures and clearing operations, data business and regulatory affairs. 
He also worked at FuturesSource, Gull Energy Finance Corporation and Eastbrook Futures, all based in Houston, and Merrill Lynch Futures based in New York.
Prokop has served on the CFTC Energy and Environmental Market Advisory Committee and the Committee of Chief Risk Officers. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Energy Management Institute at The University of Houston's C.T. Bauer School of Business. 
== Education ==
Prokop earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Rhode Island.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category:Amerex - Former Employees
Category:Merrill Lynch - Former Employees
Category:FuturesSource - Former Employees
Category:CME Group
Michael Ptasznik

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Michael Ptasznik was appointed chief financial officer of Nasdaq effective July 11, 2016. He was previously chief financial officer at TMX Group, where he worked for 20 years. 
At TMX, he was responsible for strategic and financial planning and reporting, corporate development, risk management, corporate communications and investor relations. 
Ptasznick serves on the boards of CanDeal Inc. and the Canadian Depository for Securities Limited. 
 
== Background ==
Before he was promoted to CFO at TMX in 2002, Ptasznik held several senior positions at Toronto Stock Exchange. Before joining the exchange in 1996, he was with Proctor & Gamble Canada, Inc.
== Education ==
Ptasznik graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a B.B.A.(Honours). He obtained his Certified Management Accountant designation from the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario in 1992 and in 2007 he earned the designation of Chartered Director (C.Dir.) from McMaster University. 
== References ==	
Category:TMX
Category:Chief Financial Officers
Michael R. Schaefer

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Michael R. Schaefer is managing director at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. He also serves as a public director for the Futures Industry Association.
Schaefer also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Education Through Music, a charitable organization dedicated to assuring every child's education includes music.
==Background==
He previously served as chairman of the board of the National Futures Association. At the time of his election, he was only the fifth person to serve as NFA Chairman, following Leo Melamed, John Conheeney, Hal Hansen and Charles Nastro.
==Education==
==Registration Information==
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==References==
Category:NFA Board of Directors Members
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Citigroup
Category:FCM Executives
Category:NFA
Category:National Futures Association
Michael R. Splinter

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Michael R. Splinter is a business and technology consultant who was elected chairman of Nasdaq’s Board on May 10, 2017. 
Splinter served as executive chairman of the Board of Applied Materials, a Nasdaq-listed company, from 2009 to his retirement in 2015 and became CEO in 2003.
He is also an engineer and technologist and a 40-year veteran of the semiconductor industry. Before joining Applied Materials, he was an executive at Intel Corporation for 20 years.
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Michael Riddle

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Michael Riddle is the chief operating officer of Eris Exchange.
== Background ==
Prior to joining Eris Exchange, Mr. Riddle served as Director of Alliance Management at CME Group, where he was responsible for the growth of the CME's international partnerships in Brazil, Dubai, Korea and Mexico. Prior to joining the Chicago Board of Trade in 2002 and transitioning to CME Group during the 2007 acquisition of CBOT, Mr. Riddle worked in the Capital Markets consulting practice for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
== Education ==
Mr. Riddle earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northwestern University, and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
== References ==
Category:CME Group
Michael Rubinoff

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Michael Rubinoff is the chairman of global corporate and investment banking at Bank of America Corp. He as previously one of three co-heads of the division and was reassigned in late January 2012 when Christian Meissner was appointed as the sole head.
== Background ==
Rubinoff previously worked for the old Merrill Lynch and was held over as high-ranking executive with Bank of America. He reports to co-chief operating officer Thomas Montag and is responsible for corporate and investment banking relationships.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Bank of America
Michael Rüdiger

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Michael Rüdiger is the CEO of DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale and chairman of the Exchange Council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. He was appointed to the latter position on June 1, 2017. 
He had been a member of the Exchange Council as representative of public law credit institutions since the last election on 1 December 2016. He has been CEO of DekaBank since 1 November 2012.
== Background ==
From 1991 to 1996, Rüdiger worked in risk management at the former Schweizerische Kreditanstalt in Zurich, Switzerland and Frankfurt/Main, Germany before being appointed to the Management Board of Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft (Deutschland) AG, now UBS, in 1996 for two years. From 1998 to 2000, he was managing director of Allianz Asset Management GmbH.
He held a variety of management positions in the Credit Suisse Group starting at the end of 2000, and was appointed chief executive officer for Central Europe on March 1, 2008.
== Education ==
== References ==
Michael S. Gibson

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Michael S. Gibson is the director of banking supervision and regulation at the Federal Reserve. His job began effective Jan. 1, 2012. He is the former deputy associate director of research and statistics at the Fed.
== Background ==
Gibson joined the Fed in 1992 and worked for the division of international finance until 1999. He then joined the research and statistics division, becoming chief in 2000. In early 2011, Gibson became deputy associate director.
He also represents the Basel Committee in an effort to develop consistent margin requirements for uncleared derivatives. Gibson is also works to connect the Federal Reserve Board and the Financial Stability Board.
== Education ==
*Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993)
*A.B., Economics, with honors in Humanities, Stanford University (1988)
== References ==
Category:Federal Reserve
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Michael S. Harris

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Michael Harris is the president of Campbell & Company, which he joined in July 2000. He was appointed president in October 2012. 
Harris formerly held the positions of deputy manager of trading in 2004, director of trading in 2006, and was appointed to the firm’s investment committee in March 2010. He was also elected to the board of directors in 2012 and has been a member of the firm's executive committee since 2006. 
== Background ==
He previously worked as a futures and options broker for Refco Inc. from 1999 to 2000 and within the sales and product development groups at Morgan Stanley Managed Futures from 1997 to 1999. He is a regular contributor on a number of financial networks including CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business and has been featured in numerous industry publications. Harris also serves on the executive committee of the Managed Funds Association, the leading advocate for sound business practices in the alternative investment industry.
== Education ==
Harris earned a B.A. with honors in Economics and Japanese Studies from Gettysburg College and also studied abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. 
== References ==
Michael S. Piwowar

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Dr. Michael (Mike) Piwowar is a former Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was sworn in to that office on August 16, 2013, replacing Troy Paredes, who resigned August 3. Piwowar was succeeded by Elad Roisman on September 11, 2018. 
Piwowar joined the SEC after having served as chief economist for the Senate Banking Committee, where he worked under Ranking Member Mike Crapo and former Ranking Member Richard Shelby. He also worked as a senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), where he served in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations. 
 
== Background ==
After earning his Ph.D., Piwowar accepted a position at Iowa State University as an assistant professor of finance. During that time, he worked on assignment as a visiting scholar at the SEC. In 2004, he joined the SEC on a permanent basis, in the commission's office of economic analysis. He later joined Securities Litigation and Consulting Group, Inc. (SLCG), an economics and consulting firm. From there, he went on to work at the White House, Senate Banking Committee and, ultimately, rejoining the SEC as commissioner.
Among his work on Capitol Hill, Piwowar worked on such legislation as the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act. His academic research has been published in such publications as Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of Law and Economics, and his work has been cited in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
== Education ==
Piwowar earned a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Finance from Pennsylvania State University.
== References ==
Category:SEC Commissioners
Category:Securities and Exchange Commission
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Michael Sedek

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Michael Sedek is the chief operating officer at Lightspeed Trading, the brokerage subsidiary of Professional Trading Solutions, Inc. Sedek joined Lightspeed in 2007 as part of Lightspeed’s merger with the retail trading operations of Schonfeld & Company, where he served as vice president of sales, operations and product development. 
== Background ==
Sedek began his career at Broadway Trading, where he served as a principal and branch manager responsible for client relationships and operations. He holds Series 3, 7, 9, 10, 24, 27, 55 and 63 licenses.
== Education ==
== References ==
Michael Shore

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Michael Shore is a Chicago-based public relations professional who is executive director of public relations for the OCC. He replaced David Prosperi in the position.
Before the OCC, Shore was head of global communications for Motorola Solutions. He also served as head of global communications for William Blair. And he was head of media, public relations and communications for Magnetar Capital.
== Background ==
Previously, he served as executive director of corporate communications at CME Group. He assumed the title in April 2012 after serving as associate communications director since 2008. Shore joined the CME in 2008. Before joining CME, he was director of media relations at the Investment Company Institute. He also served as assistant public affairs director for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board from 2003 to 2006.
Shore served in Washington, DC as deputy press secretary for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs from 1998 to 2001.
Shore is an endurance athlete and once did 10 duathlons in a single month. He also was a Pulitzer Prize entrant for breaking news photo.
== Education ==
Shore holds a bachelor degree in communications from the University of Kansas.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category:Magnetar - Former Employees
Category:William Blair - Former Employees
Category:Public Relations Professionals
Category:Corporate Communications Professionals
Michael Short

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Michael Short is a Washington, DC-based communications executive and government official who serves as the director of the Office of Public Affairs and Chief Communications Officer at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Short has worked in the public and private sector, from leading communications at the National Association of Manufacturers, the largest industrial trade association in the U.S., to working in the White House.
== Background ==
Short was the head of media relations for the National Association of Manufacturers for two years, leading communications strategy, advising Fortune 500 companies and served as the top spokesman for the group and its CEO.
He also served as press secretary to U.S. Representative Adrian Smith. He was also a Whitehouse communications office staffer handling defense, foreign affairs and homeland securities matters.
Short also spent four different election cycles at the Republican National Committee in various communications positions, including as national spokesman and director of rapid response.
== Education ==
Short holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and history from Texas Tech University (2008).
== References ==	
Category:Communication Professionals
Michael Simon

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Michael Simon is an attorney who is a principal in Darmaron, LLC.
He is the former general counsel, secretary and chief regulatory officer of International Securities Exchange (ISE, LLC) and secretary of ISE Holdings. The ISE was sold to Nasdaq on June 30, 2016 and, after a brief transition period where he served as an advisor to Nasdaq, Simon left the ISE on Sept. 30, 2016.
== Background ==
From 1993 to 1998, Simon was of counsel to Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, and previously had been senior attorney and an associate with the firm since 1988. Simon practiced in the firm’s corporate and banking department, where for six years he had primary responsibility for representation of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), focusing on corporate listings, market structure and regulation. 
From 1986 to 1988, Simon was vice president and associate general counsel of the National Securities Clearing Corporation, where he handled general corporate and regulatory matters. There, he also worked on international clearance and settlement and on the development of the first clearance and settlement facility for government securities. From 1978 to 1986, Simon was with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission where he was assistant director for over-the-counter market regulation and structure. 
== Education ==
Simon is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the University of Rochester, and is a member of the American Bar Association.
== References ==	
Category:International Securities Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Securities and Exchange Commission - Former Employees
Category:National Securities Clearing Corporation
Category:Bios - Legal
Category:Lawyers
Category:General Counsels
Michael Sonnenshein

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Michael Sonnenshein is the CEO of Grayscale Investments. He is a member of the company's board of directors. He is also a member of the CME Group Bitcoin Futures Council and the NYU Blockchain Association. 
He is regularly featured on CNBC and Bloomberg, and was honored in 2021 as one of 100 People Transforming Business by Business Insider and in 2018 as the publication’s Rising Stars of Wall Street. 
Before joining Grayscale, Sonnenshein was a financial adviser at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions, and an analyst at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle‐market hedge funds and institutions. 
== Education ==
Sonnenshein earned a BBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University. 
== References ==