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Mike Persico

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Mike Persico is CEO and founder of Anova Technologies and a veteran of the financial and professional services fields. He focuses on marketing, corporate vision and operations worldwide for the firm. 
== Background ==
Persico founded SMG Holdings, LLC, a financial services conglomerate. SMG Holdings, LLC is the parent of four firms dedicated to supporting the investment and trading industry: AlgoTrade, Orion Recruiting, Anova Technologies and The Sidus Group. 
Prior to forming SMG, he was a part owner and partner in Ambiron, LLC, an IT security technology firm that focused on penetration tests, network audits and compliance for the financial and credit card industries. Ambiron merged with Trustwave in 2004. 
Persico's first firm, Tekom, Inc., formed in 1997 to service Eurex, and eventually grew to provide information technology for others in the financial industry. Tekom also built the Master's of Science and Financial Engineering (MSFE) trading floor at Kent State University. The facility opened in 2003 and allows students to learn about the markets while testing their knowledge on real-world systems. Tekom merged with Ambiron in 2004.
Persico sits on the advisory board of OptionsCity, LLC.
== Education ==
Persico graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Marketing.
== MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology ==
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Persico participated in the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology interactive video series. See his responses to the following questions:
*Q4: How is regulation driving technology in the derivatives space? (August 3, 2011)
*Q5: Build or Buy? What parts of trading technology are worth building and what are worth buying? (August 24, 2011)
*Q6: What impact will technology have on high frequency trading, beyond improving speed? (September 14, 2011)
*Q7: What, in terms of technology, is missing in the financial markets? (September 28, 2011)
== Five Minute Interview ==
*June 2010
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Mike Riffice

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Mike Riffice is a broker with ICAP Futures LLC. Previously, he was head of US interest rate products at MF Global and led its new product board committee. 
He was also a board member of the US Futures Exchange while it was operating.
== Background ==
Riffice worked as a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Liffe in interest rate products and has been a member of several floor based committees. He joined MF Global, then known as Man Financial, in March 2002, having previously been a director of Digital Brokers.
Riffice was the subject of a trade practice investigation at the [CME Group]] in 2008. However, the investigation led to no disciplinary action, but the CME Group did issue him a warning letter. Riffice appealed the warning letter to the CFTC, however since a warning letter is not an appealable exchange action, the dismissed the appeal because it lacked jurisdiction.
== Education ==
Riffice graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1990 and served in Operation Desert Storm.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:MF Global
Category:ICAP Futures
Mike Ryan

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Mike Ryan is executive vice president, chief legal officer of Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT). He is responsible for all legal matters impacting the corporation, including licensing, service and hosting agreements, consulting agreements, employment, property leasing and vendor contracts. He also manages TT's contract management and facilities departments.
== Background ==
Ryan joined TT in November of 1999 from Oppenheimer, Wolff and Donnelly, where he was a member of the general litigation and insurance departments. He was involved in trademark, patent and commercial litigation as well as insurance coverage disputes and transactions.
== Education ==
Ryan is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and DePaul University College of Law.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Legal
Category:Lawyers
Category:Independent Software Vendors
Category:Trading Technologies
Mike Sankowski

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Mike Sankowski is an editor at Taipan Publishing Group. Previously, he was the director of business and product development at U.S. Futures Exchange, a Chicago-based futures exchange. 
Before joining USFE, he worked in market supervision at Eurex US, a predecessor of USFE. In his role with USFE, Sankowski conceived the patent pending Spot Equivalent Futures (SEF) mechanism, which allows true replication of spot and swap like products in the futures space. He also implemented industry-wide back office SEF accessibility.
== Background ==
Sankowski was a trader before joining Eurex US in market supervision. He was a trader and trading system designer with KovellCaldwell and a trader with MAN Drapeau Advisors. Additionally, he was a trader in the Eurodollar futures at the CME with MGI Trading.
== Education ==
Sankowski attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:USFE
Category:USFE
Category:Eurex US
Category:Eurex US
Mike Sleightholme

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Mike Sleightholme is a long-time financial services industry executive who was appointed president of Broadridge Financial Solutions in July 2023. Sleightholme, who is based in London, is responsible for Broadridge's customer support along with its portfolio of technology and data solutions throughout the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.
He joined Broadridge in 2022 as president of its asset management solutions business. 
== Background ==
Before joining Broadridge, most recently Sleightholme spent five years with SS&C Technologies serving as CEO and general manager of its DST Systems business. Before that, he spent 24 years in senior leadership positions at Citigroup, where he was responsible for their hedge fund services and led the sale of that business to SS&C and the subsequent integration.
== Education ==
He earned a B.A. (Hons) from Bournemouth University in Financial Services.
== References ==
Mike Stewart

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Mike Stewart is the global head of equities for UBS AG. The announcement came in October 2011 following the resignations of the former co-heads of global equities, Francois Gouws and Yassine Bouhara, and the discovery of alleged rogue trading by Kweku Adoboli.
== Background ==
Stewart was previously the head of global equities for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He joined Merrill Lynch in 2002, moving up in 2005 to his position as global head of cash equities, equity execution services, and the global markets strategic investments group. He has also worked for companies like Charles Schwab, Epoch Partners and Bank of America.
Barclays Global Investors hired Stewart as an equity trader in 1992, where he was named the head of equity trading in 1996.
== References ==
Category:UBS Executives
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Mike West

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Mike West is a vice president at NASDAQ OMX for options.
== Background ==
Before assuming his current position, West was managing director of sales for NASDAQ from 2001 to 2007. He also spent 3 years at Pershing as vice president of trading systems.
Additionally, He was manager of trading systems development at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange from 1991 to 1998.
== Education ==
West host a MS in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:NASDAQ OMX
Mike Wilkins

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Mike Wilkins is a New York-based fintech business development executive who is head of Go To Market at velox. He joined the company in that role in April 2023.
He was previously head of industry solutions for R3, and before that he was in product marketing with Addepar. 
Wilkins was a business development manager for Fidessa Group Plc, when it was acquired by ION, where he continued for a year after the acquisition.
Before joining Fidessa, Wilkins was the pre-sales executive for North America at SunGard Global Trading. He was responsible for the technical aspects of the sales process for the group's product suite including proposal writing, presentations and product demonstrations. 
Wilkins is also an active trader in equity index and Treasury futures. He has been quoted in publications including Crain's Chicago Business and Futures Magazine on a wide variety of topics ranging from the role of social media in financial markets to trends in commodity trading. Wilkins has also moderated and spoken on several panels at industry events.
== Background ==
Wilkins began his career as a clerk and then later a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He then moved into an electronic execution role at a Japanese bank where he was first exposed to trading technology. 
Wilkins has held business development and education roles at optionsXpress, Orc Software,GL Trade, and SunGard before joining Fidessa in 2011.
== Education ==
Wilkins attended the University of Illinois at Chicago where he studied Economics and American literature.
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Wilkins participated in the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology interactive video series. See his responses to the following questions:
*Q3: Whose responsibility is risk management technology today – exchanges, firms, brokers – and what is the best solution for risk management? (July 13, 2011)
== References ==	
Category:SunGard - Former Employees
Category:SunGard
Category:Fidessa - Former Employees
Category:ION - Former Employees
Category:ORC - Former Employee
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Mike Wisnefski

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Mike Wisnefski is the chief executive officer and co-founder of MaterialsXchange, an electronic marketplace for buying and selling raw materials. He has worked in Fintech for more than 20 years. 
He is also the owner of STX Trading, a proprietary firm that specializes in lumber futures and options. 
== Background ==
Wisnefski worked with the CME Group to introduce electronic trading to the lumber futures exchange. He was vice president of business development for Bloch Lumber, a wholesale lumber distributor, where he expanded the risk management program and developed an overseas lumber import department.
He began his career as a clerk at DRW Trading Group in Chicago in 1999. 
== Education ==
== References ==
Mike du Plessis

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Mike du Plessis is a capital markets professional who is currently a senior managing director for TP ICAP.
He joined TP ICAP in 2019 after nine years with UBS.
== Background ==
Before joining TP ICAP, du Plessis spent 4 months on garden left and rehabbed a beach house as a self defined "labourer & plogger." He continued his apprenticeship in "carpentry, plumbing and plastering."
He worked for UBS for 9 years leaving the firm in 2019 as a managing director. He held various roles in London and New York including as global head of FX, rates and credit execution services. He was a member of UBS's FX, rates and credit executive committee, a member of the FRC Fixed Income Design Council and head of SEF execution. He has direct responsibility for the profitability of revenue producers in London, Zurich, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Sao Paolo, New York and Chicago.
At FIA Europe, du Plessis served as a board member from 2013 to 2014.
He has also served as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, where he was a producer in listed options, swaptions and CDS indexes. He also served as the European head of fixed income listed derivatives at Deutsche Bank.
He was a partner at Cube Financial, which was acquired by Societe Generale in 2007. 
At Lehman Brothers, he was director of hedge fund sales. He was a manager of institutional sales at Industrial Bank of Japan.
He began his career in the capital markets as a floor broker for NatWest Markets in London at the LIFFE, where he started as a graduate trainee.
== Education ==
du Plessis holds a bachelor of arts degree from the City of London Polytechnic in the fields of banking and finance.
== References ==	
Category:LIFFE - Former Members
Category:Deutsche Bank - Former Employees
Category:Cube Financial - Former Employees
Category:UBS - Former Employees
Category:NatWest Markets - Former Employees
Category:Lehman Brothers - Former Employees
Catgory:Industrial Bank of Japan - Former Employees
Category:FIA Europe - Former Board Members
Mikko Andersson

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Mikko Andersson is the chief executive officer of Scila. He was named to that position on November 7, 2023, following an extensive search process. Andersson has more than 15 years experience as a CEO in companies active in the financial and regulated industries. He joined Scila in February 2023 as chief information officer with a focus on business development and on extending the reach and scalability of Scila's product portfolio. 
== Background ==
Andersson founded or co-founded several companies before joining Scila, including Perez Holdings and Perez Capital, Apomera AB Filial i Finland, and Kemikaliedatabasen Sverige AB.
He speaks English, Finnish and Swedish.
== Education ==
Andersson has a Master’s degree in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, with a specialisation in Finance. He also holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, including studies in theoretical physics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland.
== References ==
Milan Galik

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Milan Galik is the chief executive officer, president and director at Interactive Brokers Group, LLC. He was appointed to that role effective in the third quarter of 2019, when he succeeded Thomas Peterffy, who retired as CEO on his 75th birthday. Galik has been with Interactive Brokers for 28 years and has served as its president since 2014. He has been a member of the company's board of directors since its initial public offering in 2007.
== Background ==
Galik joined Interactive Brokers in 1990 as a software developer after he was recruited by Thomas Peterffy, the company's founder. After trading European derivatives for the firm, he moved to Frankfurt, Germany in 1991, where he helped launch Interactive Brokers' German operations and ran the derivatives trading desk on the first electronic exchange in Frankfurt.
He returned to the United States in 1992 and helped build Interactive Brokers' automated market making systems. Over time he switched his focus to building the firm's electronic brokerage segment.
Galik is on the Boards of BOX Holdings Group LLC and its subsidiary, BOX Options Market LLC.
== Education ==
He received his graduate degree from the Budapest University of Technology & Economics.
== References ==
Milan Kratka

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Milan Kratka is the CEO/managing partner of ArbHouse LLC, a quantitative trading and market making financial firm established in 2009 and based in Chicago. ArbHouse is a member firm of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). 
== Background ==
Kratka has worked in the finance and trading industries since early 1992 when he was hired by Kenneth Griffin as the first quant for what is now Citadel. Following that he spent years building trading models at TradeLink, running quantitative pricing and risk management tools for commodities at Morgan Stanley, and building equity trading robots and market making systems at Wolverine Trading.
He headed the energy trading desk and helped build FX and equity trading systems for Sun Trading. He was the first market maker in energy futures and options on ICE, the first market maker in Omani calendar spreads on the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, and the first market maker in weather futures and options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
== Education ==
Kratka earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in Mathematics in 1998.
== References ==	
Category:Tradelink - Former Employees
Category:Sun Trading - Former Employees
Miles Austin

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Miles Austin is director of the Carbon Markets and Investors Association (CMIA). He started working in the position in February of 2010.
Prior to joining CMIA, he served as head of European regulatory affairs at EcoSecurities. 
== Background ==
Austin also served as chair of the flex mech working group at the CMIA and is a board member.
He was the second person to chair the carbon trading working group at the Environmental Industries Commission.
He also served as an analyst at Point Carbon.
== Five Minute Interview ==
*February 2010
== Education ==
Austin attended the Imperial College London and University of Teesside.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Millburn Ridgefield Corporation

Millburn Ridgefield Corporation, and its affiliated entities, are successors to an asset management firm established in 1971. Millburn is a pioneer in the development of absolute return strategies and in the development of fund-of-funds portfolios. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*Harvey Beker, co-chief executive officer and co-chairman 
*George E. Crapple, co-chief executive officer and co-chairman 
*Grant N. Smith, executive vice-president and director of research 
*Barry A. Goodman, executive vice-president and director of trading 
*Gregg R. Buckbinder, senior vice-president and chief operating officer 
*Mark B. Fitzsimmons, senior vice-president, marketing and investment strategy
*Dennis B. Newton, senior vice-president, administration
== References ==
Category:Asset Managers
MillenniumIT

MillenniumIT is a technology company founded in 1996 by Tony Weeresinghe. It was sold to the London Stock Exchange in 2009. The MillenniumIT technology replaced the LSE's previous TradeElect platform and now is the main technology behind the exchange. 
 
== History ==
Millennium Information Technologies was founded in 1996 following a management buyout of the open systems division of ComputerLand Sri Lanka, a Sun Microsystems authorized reseller. Starting out as a systems integrator in Sri Lanka, MillenniumIT soon moved into the field of application software design and development, which is now the company's main source of revenue.
The catalyst for the change was a systems integration contract from the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), which was reinterpreted as an opportunity to design and install a straight-through processing system for the exchange. The CSE solution became the basis for MillenniumIT's suite of capital markets software products that followed.
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*Chairman, Herman Ziegelaar
*Chief Executive Officer (Managing Director), Tony Weeresinghe
*Chief Operating Officer (Executive Director), Dr. Anush Amarasinghe 
== References ==
Category:Independent Software Vendors
Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago school of monetary economics, which emphasizes the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and in determining business cycles and inflation. 
In 1976, Friedman received the Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science. He was also the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1946 to 1976, and a member of the research staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1937 to 1981, as well as a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1977 to 2006.
Friedman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and received the National Medal of Science the same year.
He died on Nov. 16, 2006 at the age of 94. On March 12 2009, Friedman 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. Leo Melamed accepted the award on his behalf at the FIA's 2009 International Conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
== Background ==
Friedman was born in 1912 to Jewish immigrants in New York City. In 1951, Friedman won the John Bates Clark Medal honoring economists under age 40 for outstanding achievement. In 1976, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the field of consumption analysis and monetary history and theory.
Before that, he served as an adviser to President Nixon and was president of the American Economic Association in 1967. He retired from the University of Chicago in 1977.
Friedman established himself in 1945 with Income from Independent Professional Practice, coauthored with Simon Kuznets, in which he argued that state licensing procedures limited entry into the medical profession, thereby allowing doctors to charge higher fees than if competition were more open.
His landmark work of 1957, A Theory of the Consumption Function, took on the Keynesian Economics view that individuals and households adjust their expenditures on consumption to reflect their current income. Friedman showed that, instead, people's annual consumption is a function of their expected lifetime earnings.
== Education ==
Friedman received a BA in 1932 from Rutgers University, an MA in 1933 from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in 1946 from Columbia University.
== Speeches ==
*Free Markets for Free Men - was delivered on October 17, 1974, before a group of business leaders and others concerned with commodity markets at a luncheon sponsored by The University of Chicago.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Economists
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category:University of Chicago
Category:Deceased