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Alan Greenspan

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Alan Greenspan works as a consultant through his company Greenspan Associates, LLC. He is perhaps best known as the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board from 1987 until 2006.
In 2005, Greenspan was 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. 
As Fed chairman, Greenspan dominated the American economy for two decades, using monetary policy to steer through several disasters as well as through one of the longest economic booms in history.
Greenspan weathered the Black Monday stock crash of 1987; the first Gulf War and the recession that followed in 1990 and 1991; the dot-com bubble that burst in 2000; and the housing boom that collapsed just after he left the Fed. His tenure was exceeded only by William McChesney Martin, who served from 1951 to 1970.
Less than a year after testifying that his free market approach to the financial sector was "wrong 30 percent of the time," Greenspan took aim at what he called "government activism." Writing in International Finance in March of 2011, Greenspan railed against the "frenetic pace of new financial regulations," which he said hampered "what should be a broad-based robust economic recovery."
== Background ==
Greenspan was appointed head of the Federal Reserve in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan. He served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. He was born and educated in New York City.
Before joining the Federal Reserve Board, Greenspan served as director for numerous corporations, including Mobil Corporation, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and JP Morgan & Co. Inc.
After earning his MA, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of the philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness," "Atlas Shrugged" and the founder of Objectivism. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and contributed a chapter for one of her books.
== Education ==
Greenspan attended The Julliard School, where he played the saxophone and clarinet. He received a BA (1948) an MA (1950) and holds a Ph.D. (1977) in economics from New York University. He also studied at Columbia University from 1950-1951.
== References ==	
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category:Former Federal Reserve Officials
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Alan Grigoletto

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Alan Grigoletto is vice president, education at the Options Industry Council (OIC). He was promoted to that position in December of 2012. In that role he oversees OIC’s educational outreach to retail investors, financial advisors and institutional investors. He will also build options-focused wealth advisor summits, expand OIC’s educational efforts to credit unions and CPAs, and assist in the development of European education programs. 
Grigoletto is also the chairman of the STA Derivatives Group at the Securities Traders Association.
He was previously director of education at OIC, beginning on June 21, 2011. He is based in Chicago.
Before moving to OIC, he was senior vice president of business development and marketing for the Boston Options Exchange Group, LLC (BOX).
He is also an OIC instructor, industry panelist and noted expert on market structure. 
He is an active member of the Securities Traders Association and the Options Industry Council. In addition, he has served as a steering committee member for the Futures Industry Association, a guest speaker at the Securities Exchange Commission, and a panelist for a House of Representatives discussion on the topics of best execution and penny pricing in the derivatives markets.
==John Lothian News Interviews==
Alan Grigoletto on OIC’s new education efforts
Alan Grigoletto was recently promoted to vice president, education at the Options Industry Council (OIC), where he is responsible for expanding OIC’s educational efforts, including developing educational programs for the European markets. He was interviewed by Sarah Rudolph of John Lothian News about the challenges for market makers in the current atmosphere and OIC’s response to those issues, the growing use of options by pension funds and others, what’s ahead for options volume, and the OIC’s new seminars for 2013. Published Jan. 31, 2013.
== Background ==
Grigoletto was with BOX beginning with its formation in 2002. He was head of all business development at the exchange, and was responsible for maintaining client relationships and making recommendations that enhanced business on BOX. He also acted as BOX's ambassador. 
 
Before joining BOX, Grigoletto was a founding partner at the investment advisory firm of Chicago Analytic Capital Management. He has nearly 30 years of expertise in trading and investments as an options market maker, stock specialist, institutional trader and portfolio manager. Alan was formerly the portfolio manager for both the S&P 500 and MidCap 400 portfolios at Hull Transaction Services, a market-neutral arbitrage fund. He has considerable expertise in portfolio risk management as well as strong analytical skills in equity and equity-related (derivative) instruments.
 
== Education ==
Grigoletto received a degree in Finance from the University of Miami.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Boston Options Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Securities Traders Association
Alan J. Dean

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Alan J. Dean is the retired chief financial officer and treasurer of Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), and was responsible for all financial activities of the exchange, investor relations, market data services, human resources, facilities and office services. 
The exchange announced in November 2017 that Dean would retire on December 31 after 38 years at the company. 
== Background ==
Dean joined Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1979 after serving as a staff accountant from 1976 to 1979 for the American Osteopathic Association. From 1979 to present, he rose through Cboe's ranks from staff accountant, accounting manager and assistant controller to assistant vice president and controller, and his current position as executive vice president and CFO, which he assumed in 1988.
== Education ==
Dean, a certified public accountant, holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Western Illinois University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
==Affiliations==
Dean is currently on the board of directors of LifeSource, a non-profit corporation which supplies blood and blood products to 94% of Chicago's hospitals. He also has served as a member of the Economic Development Commission of Tinley Park, Illinois.
== References ==	
Category:CBOE Executives
Category:Cboe - Former Employees
Category:Bios - CBOE
Category:CBOE
Alan Knuckman

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Alan Knuckman is a partner in business development at Incight, a company that offers an iPad app that aggregates videos on financial topics so users can track and share them. He is also chief market strategist at Bulls-Eye Options, a subscription option advisory service in partnership with Barchart, as well as senior market strategist OneStopOption.com, which he co-founded in 2003. 
He frequently appears on television as a market analyst and commentator.
== Background ==
Knuckman started his career as a floor broker at the Chicago Board of Trade with the firm Rosenthal Collins.
His past roles include chief market strategist at Optionshop from July 2012 - April 2013, and senior market strategist at Agora Financial. 
== Education ==
Knuckman earned a Bachelors of Arts and Sciences in Advertising from Michigan State University. He also attended The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
== References ==	
Category:Rosenthal Collins Group - Former Employees
Alan Konn

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Alan Konn is an executive vice president with Uhlmann Price Securities and co-chairman of Price Holdings. He is a registered investment advisor, senior portfolio manager and member of Uhlmann Price Securities, LLC and Uhlmann Investment Management. Konn is responsible for the Institutional Department at Uhlmann Price Securities.
== Biography ==
Konn has worked his entire business career in the financial services industry. He joined Uhlmann Price Securities in early 2003 after spending 17 years as an investment executive with William Blair & Co. where he worked as a portfolio manager helping individuals manage and allocate their financial assets. Prior to that he worked in the Corporate Finance department at the First National Bank of Chicago. 
== Education ==
Konn was born in 1959. He has a BA in Psychology from Hamline University, St. Paul MN and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from UCLA. 
== Miscellaneous ==
*Alan Konn Interview with Jim Rogers about commodities as an asset class including his Rogers® International Commodity Index and specifically the agricultural
commodity sector
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== References ==	
Category:Stockbrokers
Category:Futures Brokers
Category:Uhlmann Price Securities
Category:Price Holdings
Alan Snyder

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Alan Snyder is the founder and managing partner of Shinnecock Partners and managing director of Shinnecock Group. 
== Background ==
Snyder was also founder, CEO, president and chairman of Answer Financial Inc. and the Insurance Answer Center, CEO of Aurora National Life Insurance, president and COO of First Executive Corporation and executive vice president and member of the board at Dean Witter Financial Services Group (a predecessor firm to Morgan Stanley).
He is also president of the Western Los Angeles Boy Scout Council. 
== John Lothian News Interview ==
Alan Snyder of Shinnecock Partners Discusses the Potential for Managed Futures
Alan Snyder is managing partner of Shinnecock Partners, a Los Angeles-based alternative investment firm that specializes in third-party futures managers. Snyder spoke about his firm, the managed futures space and his opinion of managed futures mutual funds at the 2012 Emerging Managers Forum in London. Interview by JLN Managed Futures editor Jim Kharouf. Published August 1, 2012. Watch at JohnLothianNews.com
== Education ==
Snyder is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. 
== References ==
Alan Sobba

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Alan Sobba is president & CEO at Sobba Public, LLC and partner, public policy at UDHC, a private investment company that invests in blockchain-based companies and projects. 
From 2012 to 2016 he was the president & CEO of the start-up company Green & Grow Inc.
Previously, Sobba was the chief policy and communications officer for the International Derivatives Clearing Group. Before that, Sobba was the director of the Office of External Affairs for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 2002 to 2007. This office was established as part of a commission-wide restructuring aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. 
== Background ==
Before joining IDCG, Sobba operated Sobba Public LLC, a lobbying firm. One client of Sobba Public was the Futures Industry Association, which hired the firm to lobby the U.S. federal government on the reauthorization of the Commodity Exchange Act and other issues.
 
Prior to joining the CFTC, Sobba was the director of government relations and chief lobbyist for the Commissioner of Baseball, and before that he worked for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
== Education ==
Sobba received an undergraduate degree from Kansas State University, an MBA from Arizona State University, and a law degree from the University of Kansas law school.
== References ==	
Category:Former CFTC
Category:CFTC
Category:IDCG - Former Employees
Category:IDCG
Alan Sutherland

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Alan Sutherland is a managing director at Jefferies & Company.
Previously, he was a senior vice president of Customers at StreamBase.
== Background ==
Sutherland’s experience includes director of IT at Salomon Brothers, managing director of technology at UBS and JPMorgan, where he supported back office and middle offices for the equity, fixed income and emerging markets businesses across all geographies.
Sutherland has twice founded and sold his own firms. In 1996, he founded Sutherland Consulting which he sold in 2001 to the French conglomerate, Altran. In 1999, he co-founded Broker-to-Broker Inc, (“B2B”), a financial technology company that specialized in the electronic processing of cross-border equity transactions across over 80 markets. In 2004 B2B was acquired by Tradeware Inc. to create Tradeware Global.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Jefferies & Company
Category:JP Morgan - Former Employees
Category:UBS - Former Employees
Alan Whiting

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Alan Whiting was a derivatives executive. He passed away in June of 2015 from cancer.
He served as the non-executive chairman of NYSE Liffe, having succeeded Hugh Freedberg, who was the NYSE Liffe CEO from 1999 to 2009 and chairman from 2009 to 2012.
In 2017, Whiting 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 ==
After university, Whiting worked for the University of East Anglia, the Treasury, the Department of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Technology, the European Free Trade Association (Geneva) and the Confederation of British Industry. He re-entered the Civil Service in 1974 as an economic adviser at the Department of Trade and Industry, eventually becoming chief economist and director of finance. In 1992, Whiting joined HM Treasury as under secretary and head of financial regulation. In that role, he oversaw structure, legislation and oversight of banking, mutuals and financial services regulation. He was also a member of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Technical Committee and represented the UK for the G7 work on financial regulation. Whiting was a member of the European Union's Banking Advisory and the High Level Securities Regulators Committees. He played a key role in developing financial regulation reform in the United Kingdom as a whole, and in creating the Financial Services Authority.
In 1997, Whiting joined the London Metal Exchange as executive director of regulation and compliance. He served in this role for seven years, and was heavily involved in international regulation of commodity markets and the commodity derivatives business. He founded his own company, Merlan Financial, in 2004 and was appointed to the LIFFE board in 2006. He also held non-executive directorships on The Mortgage Code Compliance Board, The Banking Code Standards Board, the Lending Standards Board, the Debt Advice Gateway Trust, NYMEX Europe Ltd and CME/ NYMEX London Ltd. Whiting was the chairman of The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.
Whiting was also a managing director of Merlan Financial.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:NYSE Liffe
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:London Metal Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Deceased Industry Executives
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category: Deceased
Alaron Trading Corporation

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Alaron Trading Corporation was a full-service financial firm that offered futures trading, investment banking and asset management services to institutions and retail clients. It also offered services for trading gold, silver, and platinum coins, bars, and granules. In May of 2009, Peregrine Financial Group, PFGBest, bought the customer assets of Alaron Trading. 
Alaron was formed into a new division of PFGBEST called ATD.
On July 31, 2009, an involuntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 was filed against Alaron Trading Corporation in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
On July 24, 2012, Alaron filed a complaint in Cook County Court against Chris Hehmeyer, chairman of the National Futures Association, NFA, over events that occurred between August 2008 and June 5, 2009. Alaron’s president, Steve Greenberg, alleges that Hehmeyer interfered with their efforts to sell customer accounts to PFGBest and intentionally misrepresented an offer that would expand business relationships with Alaron. The complaint seeks $4 million in damages and another $12 million in punitive damages. 
== History ==
Alaron was founded in 1989 headquartered in Chicago.
On Nov. 13, 2008, Alaron announced it had acquired Axis Global Management, a Los Angeles-based Introducing Broker with nine employees, establishing a foothold for Alaron in California.
In 2008, Alaron was ranked 33rd among all U.S futures brokers in Futures Magazine’s annual Top 50 Brokers. Alaron was also ranked the eighth largest independent, privately owned broker.
In 2008, Alaron Trading Corporation announced an expanded global clearing relationship with Penson GHCO, a subsidiary of Penson Worldwide, Inc. Alaron chose Penson as a clearing FCM.Alaron contended the move was an integral part of Alaron's growth strategy.
== References ==
Category:Brokerages
Category:Defunct Firms
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Alasdair Haynes

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Alasdair Haynes is the founder and CEO of Aquis Exchange. 
Haynes is the former chief executive officer of Chi-X Europe Ltd. and was responsible for growing the business into Europe's largest equities trading platform and into profitability before its sale in late 2011. He left the company in 2012 to set up Aquis as an alternative trading system in competition with his previous employer and traditional exchanges. 
He is also the chairman of Neonet Securities AB, a Stockholm-based broker. He was appointed to that position in April 2014, replacing Peter Melbi, who took another board directorship.
In June of 2024, Haynes was appointed to the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Markets Practitioner Panel. 
== Background ==
Haynes served as CEO of Chi-X Europe from 2009 to 2012. He replaced Mark Horwath in December 2009, who served as interim CEO. 
From 2006 to 2009, he served as chief executive of the broker ITG International, where he was responsible for all of the firm's North American business. Before that, he served for 10 years as CEO of ITG Europe. ITG International, a European broking joint venture was set up in 1998 between U.S.-listed broker Investment Technologies Group and Société Générale. 
Haynes has a background in derivatives from a stint as head of global equity derivatives at HSBC James Capel. He also was head of European listed derivatives at UBS, head of listed and short dated equity options at Bankers Trust and head of equities risk management at Morgan Grenfell.
He was also on the board of the London Traded Options Market, which the London Stock Exchange sold to the London International Financial Futures Exchange – now part of Intercontinental Exchange.
He is a director of FIX Protocol Ltd., and previously was co-chair for EMEA and received the “Best Personal Contribution” award by the Financial News in 2008.
He was named number 25 in Institutional Investors 2016 Trading Technology 40.
== Education ==
Haynes attended Wellington College. 
== References ==	
Category:UBS - Former EMployees
Category:LIFFE
Alastair Brown

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Alastair Brown is the CEO of Lombard Risk, a Vermeg company. He joined the company in that role in December 2015. A former divisional CIO and digital leader at RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), he has worked in the financial services industry for more than 25 years in both front line businesses and technology groups.
== Background ==
He is a veteran of the NatWest and ABN AMRO integrations with RBS, and led migrations to new back-office platforms for the company's fixed income, lending and FX businesses. 
== Education ==
Brown holds a First Class Degree in Economics with an MSc (Dist.) in Information Technology, both from De Montfort University. 
== References ==
Alastair Goodwin

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Alastair Goodwin is a London-based technology executive who serves as the CEO and co-founder of Adoptech.
He is also an advisor to BTON.
Previously, he was the CEO of Cinnober's market surveillance subsidiary Irisium. He was named to the newly created post in May 2017, after Cinnober purchased Ancoa Software, a UK-based exchange, regulatory agency and buy-side and sell-side surveillance technology firm, also in May 2017. 
== Background ==
Before taking the post, Goodwin joined Boat Services in 2015 as head of business development. The UK-based Cinnober subsidiary focuses on services to the banking and insurance sectors. He is credited with creating the partnership between Boat and the London Stock Exchange, which merged their reporting services to form TRADEcho, a fixed income and equity trading publication.
Prior to joining Boat, he was executive director at Goldman Sachs in its Equities One Delta Strategy team, focused on emerging markets, market structure, trading costs and optimization. He also has worked in various positions at Morgan Stanley, Barclays, HSBC and Fidelity Investments.
== Education ==
Goodwin holds degrees in computing and management from Loughborough University.
== References ==	
Category:Cinnober - Former Employees
Category:Boat Services - Former Employees
Category:Goldman Sachs - Former Employees
Category:Morgan Stanley - Former Employees
Category:HSBC - Former Employees
Category:Fidelity Investments - Former Employees
Albert H. Brinkman

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Albert H. Brinkman is a veteran exchange executive. He is a principal with Brinkman Group, LLC.
Previously, he was a senior vice president of marketing for Miami International Holdings, Inc.
== Background ==
He was also previously a director of equity derivatives marketing for the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), responsible for equity, sector index and currency option marketing and educational services to investors, brokerage firms and institutional clients in North America.
Brinkman spent over 20 years as a member of the PHLX, as both a equity specialist and options floor broker. He also serves as a staff instructor for the Options Industry Council (OIC) and sits on its educational committee.
== Education ==
Brinkman received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Christian University, and is a graduate of the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a NASD Series 7 and Series 4 Registered Representative. 
Brinkman served over 30 years in the United States Army Reserve as an infantry and civil affairs officer retiring with the rank of Colonel.
== Resources ==
*LinkedIn Profile
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives 
Category:NASDAQ
Category:PHLX - Former Employees
Category:Miami International Holdings, Inc. - Former Employees