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William M. Gruzynski

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William M. Gruzynski is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) futures instructor and head futures mentor at The Chicago School of Trading LLC.He is also vice chairman of the Chicago Floor Trader Alumni Association.
== Background ==
Gruzynski has been actively involved in the futures industry since 1974. He began his futures industry career at the Chicago Board of Trade as a runner and then a grain analyst. He later moved to Rosenthal Collins LLC and ran the firm's Chicago Mercantile Exchange operation until 1980, when he became an independent trader and broker.
 
He held a membership on the International Monetary Market (IMM), a division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) where he traded in gold, T-Bills, Eurodollars and foreign currencies. He later held a membership on the Index and Options Market (IOM), a division of the CME, trading in the S&P 500 Stock Index Futures and various commodity options markets. He executed trades on behalf of some of the largest hedge funds, commodity trading advisors (CTAs), and investment institutions in the world. 
 
He has served on numerous exchange committees, including: arbitration, business conduct, floor practices, IOM new products, commodity trade reconstruction, pit oversight, as well as various pit committees, including Vice-Chairman of the S&P 500 pit committee and IOM divisional vice-chairman. He also served as a director of the Commodity Futures Political Fund. 
He is the founder of the Emerald Group of Companies which specializes in the financial sector, and includes Emerald Market Systems, a company delivering technological innovations for the financial industry, Emerald Asset Management, and Emerald Strategies LLC that concentrate on alternative investment solutions including hedge funds and managed futures programs for high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors. 
 
He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) a professional designation exclusively for alternative investment specialists. He is a member of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association, which established the industry’s first and only specialized educational standards covering real estate, private equity, commodities, hedge funds and managed futures. 
== Education ==
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb Illinois.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
William Mallers Jr.

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William J. Mallers Jr. is a former futures commission merchant executive who was an early Bitcoin adopter who has transitioned to the cannabis industry. He is the father of Jack Mallers, founder and CEO of Zap, a Bitcoin investment and payments company powered by the Lightning Network and son of William J. Mallers, Sr., a member of the FIA Hall of Fame. 
Mallers, Jr. served as the first president of First American Discount Corporation.
== Background ==
Mallers father is a former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. He also brother to Joanna Mallers and Tom Mallers.
Upon the sale of FADC to ED & F Man International, Inc., Mallers joined Man as a vice president, continuing to run the operation as a division.
== Education ==
Mallers is a 1982 graduate of Duke University.
== References ==	
Category:Former FCM Executives
Category:First American Discount Corporation
Category:First American Discount Corporation - Former Employees
Category:Man Financial
Category:Man Financial - Former Employees
William McCoy

William McCoy is a managing director of Morgan Stanley.
He serves as an FCM representative on the board of directors of National Futures Association and as a member of the NFA Appeals Committee.
==Background==
McCoy began his career as an enforcement and compliance attorney for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He later served as vice president and counsel to Manufacturers Hanover Trust. He was also a vice president and counsel with Metallgesellschaft Corp. 
He joined Morgan Stanley in 1993 and serves as a managing director and counsel.
McCoy served on the Futures Industry Association board of directors from early 2004 until early 2007.
He served as a member of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group from August 2003 until February 2007, . 
Also from 2008, McCoy has been a member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Energy Markets Advisory Committee, and its reconstituted Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. 
==Education== 
McCoy holds a juris doctor from Fordam University School of Law. He also holds a bachelor of science degree in economics in 1981 from the Wharton School of Business and Economics at The University of Pennsylvania.
==References==
Category:NFA Board of Directors Members
Category:NFA Appeals Committee Members
Category:Morgan Stanley
Category:Futures Brokers
Category:FCM Executives
Category:Bios - Board Members
Category:Bios - Legal
Category:Lawyers
William McNeill

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William McNeill is a Chicago-based trader and financial markets executive.
Formerly, he was the managing director of trading at HTG Capital Partners in Chicago. 
== Background ==
McNeill began his career as a currency broker at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) in 1987. He became a market maker for Alpart Trading LP in 1999, and traded Eurodollar options at the CME and eventually moved over to the CBOE as a market maker in IBM and the SPX option pits. 
In 2001, McNeill left Alpart Trading to start an index options group for DRW Trading, where he focused on fixed income.
In 2003, McNeill rejoined Alpart at Harrison Trading Group, LLC to help the firm build and grow its off-floor electronic fixed income trading group. He was appointed CEO of Harrison in 2005. His duties and responsibilities include working with the managing member and executive team to develop and execute the strategic direction and initiatives of the firm, oversight of day-to-day trading, firm risk management, operations and technology.
After helping to facilitate the merger between Harrison Trading and GH traders McNeill stayed on as the CEO of HTG Capital Partners, LLC until being offered the position of managing director of trading.
== Education ==
McNeill has a Bachelor of Art's degree in Management from Concordia University.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Proprietary Trading Firm Executives
Category:HTG Capital Partners
William Mitting

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Will Mitting is managing director of Acuiti, a business intelligence platform for insights and analytics in the global derivatives market. He launched the company in February 2019.
== Background ==
Previously he served as managing director of Global Investment Group, owned by Euromoney Institutional Investor plc.
He was the publisher and editor of FOW, a British financial publication that offers a magazine, newsletter and events, before it merged with Global Investor in 2016. 
Mitting was the publisher of FOW from 2012 to 2017 and served as editor from 2011 to 2012.
He has also served as a managing director of Business Malawi and news editor of Haymarket Media Group. Also, he was editor at Corporate UK and in sales for Bluechip Publishing.
== John Lothian News Interview ==
John Lothian interviewed Mitting about FOW's 30th anniversary. Published Oct. 19, 2011.
== Education ==
He holds a bachelor of arts degree from The University of Birmingham in English Literature. He graduated with honors.
== Interviews ==
* Futures Daily Yao Yibing Interview with FOW William Mitting, July 1, 2011 
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:FOW
Category:Journalists
William Mougayer

William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain."
==Background==
Mougayar's interests include many facets of startup development, including formation, marketing role of venture capital, product development, management, technology, and growth. On his Startup Management website at startupmanagement.org, Mougayar provides an archive of his previously published advice for new business enterprises as well as his more recent blog entries regarding cryptocurrencies. 
In Spring 2018 Mougayar established a new investment fund called JM3 Capital which focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency start-ups as well as individual tradable cryptocurrencies.
==Education==
Mougayar received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1980. He later attended the Graduate School of Commerce at the University of British Columbia and the Ivey Business School at Western University.
==References==
Category: digital assets
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: People
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
William N. Goodwin

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Bill Goodwin is the chief executive officer and founding partner of Crossland LLC. He is responsible for overall operations, management and strategic direction at the company. 
== Background ==
Goodwin has 25 years experience with clearing and trading services. Prior to establishing Crossland LLC, Goodwin worked for Bielfeldt, Lauritsen & Hagemeyer where he held roles as a research analyst, trader, floor trader and broker. His background includes agricultural and financial futures trading. 
== Education ==
Goodwin received a bachelor of science degree from Bradley University. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:FCM Executives
Category:Crossland LLC
Category:Crossland LLC
William P. Janulis

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William P. Janulis is a chief trial attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Janulis is a lead attorney on the Commission's case against the failed futures brokerage, PFGBest and its CEO and founder Russell R. Wasendorf, Sr. The case alleges fraud, misappropriation of customer funds, violation of customer fund segregation laws, and making false statements. In the litigation, the CFTC sought a restraining order to freeze assets, appoint a receiver and preserve records. Further, the litigation sought restitution, disgorgement, and civil monetary penalties among other appropriate relief.
== Background ==
== Education ==
Janulis received a B.A. from Depaul University and a J.D. from the University of Illinois School of Law. 
== References ==
Category:Regulators
Category:Futures Regulators
Category:Lawyers
Category:CFTC
Category:PFGBest
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
William P. Miller

William P. Miller II is the senior investment officer for the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and is a board member of CME Group.
== Background ==
Previously, Miller served as senior risk manager for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority from April 2003. From June 2002 to April 2003, he was risk management advisor for the Rockefeller Foundation and an advisor to Africa Global. From September 1996 to May 2002, he served as senior vice president and independent risk oversight officer for Commonfund Group, an investment management firm for educational institutions. 
Miller previously served as director, Trading Operations and Asset Mix Management with General Motors Investment Management Corp. and as a financial analyst with the U.S. Department of Transportation. Miller is a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Standing Advisory Group. 
== Education ==
Miller is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Investment Officers
Category:CME Group Board
William Parke

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Bill Parke is an award winning director of corporate marketing and a financial communications professional.
He was previously with the CME Group in Chicago.
Parke's responsibilities at the CME Group included corporate advertising and branding, marketing communications and financial public relations. 
== Background ==
Before joining the CME Group in 2004, Parke was director of financial communications for Motorola. Additionally, from 1993 to 2000, he was the director of financial management communications for Sears, Roebuck and Company, where he handled financial media relations, the annual meeting and annual reports, corporate advertising and community affairs. 
Earlier in his career, Parke was with Ameritech from 1987 until joining Sears in 1993 as head of financial communications.
He is past president of the Chicago chapters of both the National Investor Relations Institute and PRSA. 
Among other works, Parke has published The Handbook of Communications in Corporate Restructuring and Takeovers and How Communications Can Help Foster Quality Improvement with the Arthur W. Page Society.
In 2010, Parke was honored along with the CME Group's Pamela Plehn with the IABC Chicago 2010 Communications Skills Awards of Merit in their Bronze Quill Awards.
== Education ==
He holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Northwestern University. 
== References ==	
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category:Chicago Federal Reserve- Former Employees
Category:NIRI
Category:Corporate Communication Professionals
William Poole

William Poole took office on March 23, 1998, as the eleventh chief executive of the Eighth District Federal Reserve Bank, at St. Louis. He is serving a full term that began March 1, 2001. In 2007, he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.
== Background ==
Poole began his career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1964 and worked as a senior economist there from 1969 to 1974. In 1974, he joined the faculty at Brown University, twice served as chairman of the economics department, and for five years directed the university's Center for the Study of Financial Markets and Institutions. He was the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics there when he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Throughout his career, Poole has served as a visiting scholar and an adviser at numerous institutions. From 1970 to 1990 he was a member of, and became senior adviser to, the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, and from 1982 to 1985, he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the Academic Advisory Panels of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Boston. 
From 1985 until his appointment to the St. Louis Bank, Poole was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. From 1989 to 1995, he served on the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors. In addition, he has been an adviser and consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a visiting economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Poole wrote Money and the Economy: A Monetarist View, published in 1978, as well as numerous scholarly papers in professional journals, and he was co-author of Principles of Economics, published in 1991.
Dr. Poole is a director of United Way of Greater St. Louis and member of the Webster University Board of Trustees. He was a member of the Chancellor's Council of the University of Missouri-St. Louis 1999-2003.
Poole was born on June 19, 1937, in Wilmington, Delaware.
== Education ==
He received an A.B. degree in 1959 from Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. in 1963 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1966, both from the University of Chicago. Swarthmore honored him with a Doctor of Laws degree in 1989.
== References ==
Category:Federal Reserve System
Category:Bios - Economists
Category:University of Chicago
William R. Hambrecht

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William R. Hambrecht is the founder, chairman and CEO of financial services firm WR Hambrecht + Co, a company that he started in 1998. In this role, Hambrecht pioneered the use of auction-based IPOs.
 
Most recently, he proposed the creation of a stock exchange that would specialize exclusively in smaller companies, or small-cap stocks.
He serves as a director for Motorola Inc. and AOL Inc., is on the board of trustees for The American University of Beirut and serves on the advisory council to The J. David Gladstone Institute.
 
== Background ==
In 1968, he co-founded Hambrecht & Quist, an investment banking firm specializing in emerging high-growth technology companies. 
== Education ==
In October, 2006, he was inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from Princeton University.
== References ==
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category: WR Hambrecht + Co
William R. Power

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William Redmond Power II was an equities, futures and options trader and member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He was among the first market-makers at the CBOE on its first day of trading and also served on the board of directors of the CBOE. He was also an advisor to the New York Stock Exchange. He died on May 28, 2021.
He served on the board of directors for the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX). He also was the chair of the regulatory oversight committee for the MGEX and on its executive committee.
== Background ==
Power was born in Atlantic City, NJ and was a graduate of the Brooklyn Academy of the Arts High School and the College of Insurance. He grew up in Far Rockaway, NY. Each July, he would participate in the RAGBRAI ride (Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) across Iowa, which he completed 23 times.
He was the chairman and largest shareholder of Compumat, which marketed microcomputers, software, peripherals and related computer products and services.
== References ==	
Category:MGEX Board Members
Category:MGEX
Category:CBOE - Former Board Members
Category:CBOE - Former Members
Category:Deceased
William R. Shepard

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William R. Shepard is the founder and president of Shepard International, Inc., an introducing broker guaranteed by FC Stone, LLC. Shepard is a member of CME Group Inc. board of directors, where he has served since 1997. 
Sheppard serves on the CME Group executive committee, as well as the compensation, finance and nominating committees.
== Background ==
Previously Shepard served as second vice chairman from 2002 to July 2007. He has been a member of CME for more than 40 years. 
Shepard is the only member of the board of the CME Group without a picture displayed on the site.
In 2009, Crain's Chicago Business listed the CME Group as having the #135 worst board and noted Shepard was paid $195,746 in 2008 for his duties as a non-executive director of the CME Group.
According to a 2014 Bloomberg article, Shepard is alleged to be a part-owner of Jump Trading LLC.
In 2010, after the CME Group share prices were down 23 percent in the previous three months, Shepard bought 5,000 A shares for a total of $1.2 million.
Shepard is notoriously shy about being pictured, and the image shown above is the image displayed on the CME Group website for him on the directors page. 
== Education ==
Shepard attended the University of Oklahoma.
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== References ==	
Category:CME Members
Category:Introducing Broker Executives
Category:CME Group Board
Category:Bios - Executives
William R. Weldon

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William ("Bill") Weldon is a professional coach for executives and managers at various stages of their careers. He has been principal at Weldon Resources, LLC since September 2011. 
== Background ==
Before Weldon Resources he was principal at Elevation LLC, an institutional broker-dealer focused on agency execution for its clients across multiple platforms. From February 2010 to September 2010 he served as senior vice president at Prudential Securities. 
From February 2005 - December 2009 he was executive vice president at Advantage Futures.
== MarketsWiki Education Video August 2018 ==
“I had this happen to me. I came in in the morning. A wonderful colleague, a great person, says, ‘Billy, how are you doing?’ ‘I’m doing great.’ ‘Really? Tell your face.'” 
What is the authentic you? How do you act under pressure? Is that reflective of your authentic self? In this MarketsWiki Education video, Bill Weldon, who’s in the business of executive coaching after years in trading, talks about how to deal with stressful situations. 
== Education ==
Weldon earned an MBA in Finance from DePaul University - Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, and has a professional coaching certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.
== References ==
William Raffety

William Raffety is the director of commodity sales, brokerage and trading at Penson Futures in New York.
== Background ==
Raffety joined Penson Futures in 2003 where he covers futures and options on the New York and Chicago markets. He expanded the business by developing clientele in softs, ags, metals and energies and improved risk management support and services by cultivating relationships with analysts and hedging strategists. He also grew the business internationally, establishing introducing brokers in Brazil and India providing access to clients in the Middle East and South America. 
Before joining Penson, Raffety worked on the production side in grains and cotton. He began his career in 1990 at Dunavant Enterprises, the world’s largest cotton merchant, helping set up and manage divisions in the Former Soviet Union/Central Asia. In 1999, he joined Raffety and Company, a 75-year-old family farming and agri-business company. As principal and manager, he collaborated with the labor force to improve operational efficiency and lower costs. 
Raffety provides market commentary on grains, softs and metals .
== Education ==
Raffety earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Rhodes College and an MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management
== References ==
Category:Penson Futures
William Rhind

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William Rhind is the chief executive officer of World Gold Trust Services, a subsidiary of the World Gold Council. He was appointed to that position in September 2014. 
== Background ==
Before joining the World Gold Council in 2013, he was a senior executive at ETF Securities, an independent exchange-traded product provider, from 2007 to 2013. He was also formerly a principal at iShares. He began his career as an investment banking analyst at Nomura International in London.
== Education ==
Rhind is a graduate of the University of Bath, in England, with a Bachelor of Arts in French, Russian, Politics and Economics.
== References ==
William S. Jackson

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William S. Jackson was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as its president in 1903 and 1904.
He was the founder of Jackson Brothers & Company, a grain commission merchant in Chicago.
== Background ==
Jackson was born in Adrian, MI. His father served as a sheriff in Wisconsin during the Civil War in the U.S. and Jackson served as a deputy Sheriff.
He moved to Chicago when he was 34 years old and joined the CBOT the following year. He was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade from 1876 until the time of his death in November of 1914.
Jackson was an alderman in Chicago, first elected in 1896 in the old 3rd Ward.
== Education ==
He attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. 
== References ==	
Category:Deceased
Category:Deceased Members of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:CBOT Members
Category:Former CBOT Officials
Category:Presidents of the Chicago Board of Trade
William S. Seaverns

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William S. Seaverns was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as its president in 1889.
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Deceased
Category:Deceased Members of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:CBOT Members
Category:Former CBOT Officials
Category:Presidents of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:Former Exchange Presidents