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William E. Conway, Jr.

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William E. Conway, Jr. is a founding partner and managing director of The Carlyle Group, where he serves as chairman of Carlyle's investment committees.
He is an active supporter of various local charities, particularly supporting education and the Catholic Church.
== Background ==
Before forming Carlyle in 1987, Mr. Conway spent three years as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MCI Communications Corporation. He was a Vice President and Treasurer of MCI from 1981 to 1984. While at MCI, he arranged several billion dollars of debt and equity financing, both in the public and private financial markets, and negotiated MCI's most significant acquisitions and divestitures. 
Before he joined MCI, Conway served in a variety of positions for almost ten years with The First National Bank of Chicago in the areas of corporate finance, commercial lending, workout loans and general management. 
== Education ==
Conway is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Caryle Group
Category:Caryle Group
Category:University of Chicago
William E. Ford

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He is chief executive officer and a managing director of General Atlantic LLC, a global private equity firm.
William E. Ford was a member of the Supervisory Board of NYSE Euronext. 
== Background ==
Ford served on the boards of NYMEX Holdings, GETCO and Computershare. Since 2001, he has served as a Trustee of Amherst College where he chairs the Investment Committee. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller University, the Common Ground Community, the New Museum of Contemporary Art and The Collegiate School. He formerly served on the boards of E*Trade, Priceline, SSA Global Technologies and Zagat Survey. 
== Education ==
Ford received his B.A. in Economics from Amherst College in 1983 and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1987.
== References ==	
Category:NYSE Supervisory Board Members
Category:NYMEX
William Evans

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William Evans is a derivatives industry executive and currently serves as the CME Group's executive director alliance and venture management.
== Background ==
Evans first joined the CME in 2001. He left to become chief operating officer of Swapstream LTD, a CME Group company. Later, he served as director of global markets derivatives and forex trading for Bank of America before rejoining the CME Group in 2010.
== Education ==
Evans holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Northern Illinois University.
== References ==
Category:CME Group
Category:CME Group
William Floersch

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William C. Floersch is a director with ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC. Previously, he was chief executive officer of Fortis Clearing Americas LLC. 
Floersch serves as a member of the advisory committee of Infinium Capital Management on the board of advisors and executive committee of Efficient Capital Management and on the board of advisors of GLL Investors, a fund of hedge funds. 
 
== Background ==
Floersch was president and CEO of O'Connor & Company LLC from 1997 until O’Connor was acquired by Fortis Bank in January 2006. He became a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1974, and served as vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee of the CBOE from 1991 to 1997. Floersch also served a term as chairman of the board of the former Board of Trade Clearing Corporation.
== Education ==
== Registration Information ==
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== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:ABN AMRO
William Ford

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Bill Ford is CEO of General Atlantic, a US-based private equity firm with investments in a number of exchanges, as well as the media and communications and healthcare sectors. 
Ford joined the firm in 1991, and was promoted from managing director and head of its investment committee to president in February 2005, becoming CEO in January 2007.
He also serves on the boards of several portfolio companies including CareCore National, Tory Burch, Oak Hill Advisors, First Republic Bank and Markit. He was formerly a director of prior GA portfolio companies including NYSE Euronext, E*Trade, Priceline, NYMEX and Zagat Survey.
== Background ==
Before joining General Atlantic, Ford worked at Morgan Stanley as an investment banker. He received his BA in Economics from Amherst College in 1983 and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1987.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
William G. Parrett

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William G. Parrett is chairman of the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), a position he assumed in April 2005. Parrett chairs the USCIB Executive Commtttee and Board of Trustees and serves on the executive board of the International Chamber of Commerce, the business organization for which USCIB is the American affiliate. Parrett serves as a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. 
 
== Background ==
== Education ==
Parrett is a graduate of St. Francis College in New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Committee On Capital Markets Regulation Members
William Gallwas

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William Gallwas is president of Striker Securities, an introducing broker based in Elmhurst, Illinois. He is the firm's Financial & Options Principal, Stock-Futures Principal, and General Principal. His licenses include: Series 3, Series 4, Series 7, Series 24, Series 27, Series 30, and Series 63. 
== Background ==
Gallwas learned the futures business starting as a clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and later moved to The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). He is a member of the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange and a past member of the CBOT. 
== Education ==
He holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Economics from the Honors Program at Washington State University and studied in Japan, where he learned to speak fluent Japanese.
== References ==
William Giannone

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William Giannone is a member of the COMEX Governors Committee, the guiding body for gold, silver, copper and aluminum futures and options traded at CME Group.
 
Giannone is also president of WMG Consultants, a commodity advisory firm. He has been a member of COMEX since 1988 and was previously president of Hudson River Futures. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
Giannone attended Columbia University in the City of New York from 1980 to 1984. 
== Resources ==
 LinkedIn Page for William Giannone
== References ==
Category:CME Group
Category:COMEX Governors Committee
William Goodell

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William Goodell is on the board of directors at the Managed Funds Association (MFA). Goodell is also the chief operating officer of registered investment adviser Maverick Capital, Ltd.
== Background ==
At the MFA, Goodell focuses on lobbying issues such as carried interest tax treatment, short-selling bans and financial transaction taxes in the U.S. and in Europe, continuing the work of former chairman Darcy Bradbury.
Goodell previously worked for Tiger Management LLC's Julian Robertson. His brother Roger Goodell is the commissioner for the National Football League (NFL) and his father, the late Charles Goodell, was a U.S. senator (NY).
== References ==
Category:MFA
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
William H. Navin

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William H. Navin is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). 
== Background ==
He joined OCC in July 1999. Prior to joining OCC, Navin was a partner at Schiff Hardin & Waite from 1975-1999 and an associate from 1972 to 1975. He was a law clerk for the Hon. George N. Beamer (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana) from 1969 to 1972.
== Affiliations==
Navin is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
== Education ==
He received his LL.B. degree from Yale Law School in 1969 and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1966.
== Resources ==
The Options Clearing Corporation
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Options Clearing Corporation
Category:Options Clearing Corporation
William Harrington (R.J. O'Brien)

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William Harrington is managing director, global head of internal audit at R.J. O'Brien & Associates. He was appointed to the new role in June 2019, and oversees RJO's internal audit activities globally. He reports to the audit committee of the board of directors, with administrative reporting to Brad Giemza, chief risk officer at RJO. He also serves on the firm's corporate risk committee.
He is not William Harrington, Executive Vice President and Sales Manager at Advantage Futures. 
== Background ==
Prior to joining RJO, Harrington served for four years as a partner in the risk & controls practice of FGMK in Chicago. Before that, he spent more than 20 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as a partner in its risk assurance practice, working with financial services clients.
He is a board member of the Risk Management Association of Chicago, Harrington is also a member of ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association), where he previously served as president of the Chicago Chapter Board of Directors. 
== Education ==
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
== References ==
William Harts

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William "Bill" Harts is the chief executive officer of the Long-Term Stock Exchange. He joined the company in that role in June of 2023. He is also a start-up founder and private equity investor with more than thirty five years of expertise in both regulatory frameworks and financial services technology. He has held senior management positions at NASDAQ as well as at Bank of America, Citigroup, and Modern Markets Initiative.
He was most recently senior adviser at the Modern Markets Initiative, a policy advisory group representing quantitative and high-frequency trading firms. He had previously been the CEO. He joined the initiative in July 2014.
He is also a board member of the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts. 
 
== Background ==
Harts has spent over 25 years in the financial sector, including exchanges, banks, trading firms and his own consulting firm. Prior to joining the MMI he served as head of strategy for sales and trading for Thomson Reuters. Before that, he served as a board member for financial software provider StreamBase Systems. From 2001-2003 he worked for NASDAQ, first as executive vice president, then as head of corporate strategy. He is a former head of electronic trading services for Bank of America Corp Securities and managing director of global program trading for Citigroup Inc. He has also held managing director positions at Salomon Smith Barney, and spent two years at Goldman Sachs.
Harts was a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Market Information. He also served as a director and vice chairman and member of the board of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange from 1994 through 1999. He has been a member of the board of directors of JapanCross, an electronic trading system for Japanese equities. He has served on the boards of BRUT and MarketXT, two electronic communications networks, as well as the managing advisory committee for Primex, an electronic auction facility of Nasdaq.
== Education ==
Harts holds a bachelor's degree in business management and economics from the State University of New York.
==MarketsWiki Education==
Harts participated in the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in New York at Nasdaq in July of 2016.
== References ==	
Category:Thomson Reuters - Former Employees
Category:Bank of America - Former Employees
Category:NASDAQ - Former Employees
Category:Citigroup - Former Employees
Category:MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Speaker
William J. Bott

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William J. Bott was a Barclays floor specialist at the NYSE. As a specialist, Bott was charged with the day-to-day operations for the bank's designated market making unit. On July 31, 2012, Bott passed away at age 33. 
== Background ==
Bott got his first job on Wall Street in 2001 at LaBranche & Co., starting the week after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. He left LaBranche after being bought out in 2007 by Cowen Group to work at Van der Moolen Holding NV which transferred its NYSE specialist unit to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. at the end of that year. Barclays bought Lehman’s brokerage in 2008.
== Education ==
Bott graduated from SUNY Albany in 2001. 
== References ==
Category:Barclays
Category:Deceased
Category:NYSE
William J. Mallers, Sr.

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William (Bill) Mallers Sr. was a former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade and the founder of First American Discount Corporation, a Chicago-based futures commission merchant. He died in 2006 at the age of 77.
In 2024, Mallers was posthumously inducted into the Futures Industry Association's Futures Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 to commemorate outstanding contributions to the global futures and options community. 
== Background ==
Mallers was the youngest man ever elected to be chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was 39 years old in 1969 when he was elected CBOT chairman as a maverick candidate, one not slated by the nominating committee.
Originally a wheat broker in the CBOT trading pits, Mallers had a large retail and commercial order book. He was one of the brokers who bought wheat futures to fill the Russian wheat purchased from the U.S. in the early 1970s. He was also president of a prominent Chicago-based brokerage firm, Hennessy & Associates, before founding First American Discount Corp. (FADC).
At FADC, Mallers led the training of a group of employees, which included his sons William Mallers, Jr. and Tom Mallers and daughter Joanna Mallers and John J. Lothian, founder of MarketsWiki.
His grandson, Jack Mallers, is founder and CEO of Zap, a Bitcoin investment and payments company powered by the Lightning Network.
He was prominently involved in many CBOT and futures industry watershed events of the late '60s and 1970s, including the creation of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the creation of National Futures Association and the expansion of the CBOT building. 
The CBOT had explored the listing of a cash settled Dow Jones futures contract, but this was turned down by the SEC. The CBOT had long had a dormant securities license and had been sent a letter by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to "use it or lose it." Mallers was appointed chairman of the securities committee at the CBOT in 1968, prior to his becoming chairman of the exchange. Eventually, with committee member Edmund O'Connor, the committee settled on the idea of a market on options on stocks.
== Education ==
Mallers was a 1946 graduate of Loyola Academy, in Wilmette, IL.
== Pictures ==
File:Mallers Family.png|The Mallers Family
File:Mallterstheteacher.png|Bill Sr. the Teacher
== References ==	
Category:Former CBOT Chairmen
Category:Former FCM Executives
Category:Deceased Members of the Chicago Board of Trade
Category:Deceased
Category:First American Discount Corporation
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
William J. Rainer

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William J. Rainer is a former regulator and an industry executive. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Dow 30 Premium & Dividend Income Fund Inc.
He was previously the chairman of Defined Strategy Fund Inc., a diversified closed-end management investment company that went out of business in 2009. He also serves on the international advisory board of Madrid-based IE Business School. 
He is a former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and former chairman of the single-stock futures exchange OneChicago. He also co-founded Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., a primary dealer of government securities. 
 
== Background ==
Rainer was recruited in 2001 to lead Chicago financial markets' venture OneChicago LLC into the trading of single-stock futures. He resigned from the position in 2004, stating that he was leaving to spend more time on family-owned enterprises. OneChicago was authorized by a 2000 rewrite of federal securities laws that included input from Rainer during his stint as chairman of the CFTC.
Rainer was sworn in as a commissioner and the eighth chairman of the CFTC on Aug. 11, 1999. Rainer was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 23, 1999 and confirmed by the Senate on Aug. 5, 1999 to serve a term expiring Apr. 13, 2004. It was reported that Arkansas native Rainer slept in the Lincoln Bedroom at least once during the Clinton presidency, and his friendship with the Commander in Chief harked back to their Arkansas days.
In 1981, Rainer co-founded Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., now a part of RBS. From 1981 to 1987, he served as managing director of the firm. From 1988 until he joined the CFTC, Rainer was a private investor. From 1994 until its privatization in 1998, Rainer was chairman of the United States Enrichment Corporation, a government-owned company set up to sell the nation’s uranium stockpile. 
From 1971 to 1981, Rainer worked on numerous assignments for Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. His positions included: managing director, Kidder, Peabody Securities, Ltd. (London); manager, corporate bond trading; and director, fixed income marketing. 
After being part of minor league baseball, Rainer played professional baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers' organization. He bats left and throws left.
Rainer's nonprofit activities have included serving as trustee, Southern Methodist University; executive board member, the Fletcher School, Tufts University; and member of the board, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. He joined the Dean's Council of the Harvard Divinity School in 2004 and served as its chairman from 2005 until 2013.
== Education ==
Rainer received B.A. and MBA degrees from Southern Methodist University (SMU). While attending SMU on a full athletic scholarship, he played both basketball and baseball. 
== References ==	
Category:Regulators
Category:Futures Regulators
Category:Bios - Educators
Category:Former CFTC Chairmen
Category:Former CFTC Commissioners
Category:Former CFTC Officials
Category:Former Exchange Chairmen
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category:CFTC
Category:OneChicago
Category:OneChicago
William Karsh

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William Karsh is a special adviser to the National Stock Exchange, focusing on the exchange's strategic growth initiatives. 
Prior to this, Karsh was an executive with 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He served as Direct Edge’s chief operating officer from July 2007 to January 2011.
== Background ==
Karsh left Direct Edge at the end of 2010 after serving as chief operating officer. He originally joined the company in March 2006, serving as chief executive officer while the company operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Knight Capital Group. 
Karsh has more than 25 years of financial services experience. He has served in senior management positions at a number of firms, including the Bass Division of BTIG, Trading Services Group, LLC, UNX Inc., and National Discount Brokers.
Karsh served on the board of directors of Track Data Corporation (TRAC) and on the board of advisors of Neovest, Inc.
== Education And Training ==
He has a BA in accounting from Queens College, and is a certified public accountant and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He's served as an arbitrator for the New York Stock Exchange and NASD. Karsh holds Series 7, 63, 24 and 27 licenses.
== References ==
Category:Direct Edge
Category:Direct Edge - Former Employees
Category:National Stock Exchange
William Knottenbelt

William Knottenbelt is the senior managing director, international, in charge of Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America for CME Group. He was promoted to that position in September 2014. He replaced Julien Le Noble, who left the firm after three years in the post. 
He was previously head of European business operations for CME Group and the CEO of CME Europe. 
== Background ==
Knottenbelt previously served as the global head of futures for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) from 2000 to 2010. He then moved to global head of central counterparty clearing at RBS before joining CME Group. He was responsible for over-the-counter clearing solutions, and held other prominent titles in futures, FX and interest rate derivatives during his time at RBS. Knottenbelt began his career as a commodities trader for C Czarnikow.
He is a former executive board member at the Futures Industry Association and the Futures and Options Association.
==Publications==
Knottenbelt is featured regularly in CME Group's Open Markets blog. Publications include:
*These Are the Risks Bringing FX Volatility to Europe, December 2014
*Navigating Through Regulatory Changes in Europe, April 2013
*Why London? Our Choice Was Clear, September, 2012
==John Lothian News Interviews==
Revved Up: CME Europe’s Knottenbelt Says Currencies Just The Beginning
CME Europe launched in March with an eye on currencies. William Knottenbelt, head of European business operations for CME Group and the CEO of CME Europe, says that the exchange has a core group of seven clearing members with more on the way and its currency products are positioned well for the market. And that, he says, is just the beginning for the European exchange.
“We’re starting now to see the volume beginning to come into the market,” Knottenbelt told JLN at the IDX conference in London. “As we get more and more clearing members and execution members coming on board, we’re getting a good flow of business and we just see that building.” 
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== References ==	
Category:CME Group
Category:CME Group Senior Management
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
William M. Farrow III

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William McKnight Farrow III is the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Cboe Global Markets. He was appointed to that role on September 19, 2023, after having been lead director of Cboe. 
Farrow is the former founding director, president and chief executive officer of Urban Partnership Bank, a commercial bank in Chicago, Illinois.
 He is the owner of Winston and Wolfe LLC, a privately held technology development and advisory company. He also works as an advisor for the asset management company Cedar Street Management LLC.
He sits on the boards of NorthShore Edward-Elmhurst Health System and WEC Energy Group. He was appointed to the board of CoBank as an outside director in 2007.
He is a Lecturer of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University, J L Kellogg School of Management. He is also partner and CEO at FC Partners Group, LLC (FCPG), which focuses on new ventures and advising on business turnarounds.
Before founding FCPG, Farrow was technology leader for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), where he helped create the road map for the CBOT's technical architecture as it moved from open outcry to electronic trading. 
== Background ==
Farrow was previously executive vice president and CIO at the Chicago Board of Trade. Before that, he was senior vice president of eBusiness at JP Morgan Chase (Bank One).
 
== Education ==
Farrow holds a bachelor’s degree from Augustana College and a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University.
== References ==	
Category:Former CBOT Staff
Category:JP Morgan Chase - Former Employees