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Mark B. Fisher

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Mark B. Fisher is the founder and CEO of MBF Clearing Corp., a large futures commission merchant (FCM) in New York that caters to proprietary traders, hedge funds and financial institutions. His floor trading acronym was "FSH."
Fisher is also the managing member and portfolio manager for MBF Asset Management, LLC. 
In August of 2010, Fisher was named to the board of directors of TruMarx Data Partners, a Web-based execution platform that allows power and natural gas market participants to create an individual private market for each of their bilateral OTC transactions.
== Background ==
Fisher started in the futures industry at age 12 as a floor "runner" on the COMEX. He "moon-lighted" as a independent member of COMEX while completing his education. While studying at Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Fisher developed the ACD trading system as part of his research. He has taught this trading system to over 4000 people.
In December of 2010, Fisher participated in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC roundtable to discuss "disruptive trading practices" and "spoofing."
== Education ==
Fisher earned an masters of business administration in Finance and Accounting with honors (summa cum laude 1982) from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.
== Published Works ==
*Introduction To The Logical Trader: Applying A Method To The Madness
==Resources==
*MBF Asset Management
== References ==	
Category:NYMEX Members
Category:Futures Traders
Category:Brokerage Executives
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:NYMEX
Category:Former NYMEX Members
Category:COMEX
Category:Former COMEX Members
Mark B. Sachs

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Mark B. Sachs is a Chicago-based brokerage executive. Most recently, he ws executive vice president, sales and marketing at R.J. O'Brien & Associates (RJO). He was named to the position in March of 2012.
== Background ==
He was previously a senior vice president and global head of online trading for MF Global. Before that, he was president of Lind-Waldock, a subsidiary of MF Global.
He began his career with Lind-Waldock in 1986 as an account executive, and from 1990 to 1996 opened and managed both its London and Hong Kong offices. He returned to the United States to manage the firm's corporate relationships and 24-hour global trade operations from 1996 to 1999. 
After spending 1999 through 2000 with futures broker Vision Financial Markets LLC, Sachs returned to Lind-Waldock in 2001 as chief marketing officer. In 2002, he was promoted to the position of president of Lind-Waldock.
== Education ==
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982 – 1986
== Registration ==
*MARK BERNARD SACHS - NFA ID: 0190814 
== References ==	
Category:FCM Executives
Category:Lind-Waldock - Former Employees
Category:Lind-Waldock
Category:MF Global -Former Employees
Category:MF Global
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates
[[Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC
Mark Beeston

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Mark Beeston is founder and CEO of Illuminate Financial, a London-based investor and advisor to emerging financial technology firms. He founded the firm upon leaving inter-dealer broker ICAP, where he spent four years as head of post-trade risk and information.
In May 2014 he was named chairman of the board of directors of Duco, a trade-matching and reconciliation engine for large financial institutions.
== Background ==
Before joining ICAP, Beeston spent four years as president of T-Zero, a subsidiary of Creditex Group Inc., which was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in 2008 and re-branded as ICE Link.
Beeston started his carrer at Deutsche Bank, where he spent 13 years, first as a trader, then as chief operating officer for OTC derivatives (2001-2002) and global credit trading (2002-2005).
== Education ==
Beeston received an honors degree in Economics from The London School of Economics in 1992.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:ICAP
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Mark Benfield

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Mark Benfield is Executive Managing Director and Director of BGC Market Data, a subsidiary of BGC Partners. Benfield was appointed in July 2011 following his departure from ICAP plc in December 2010. He is based in the Asia-Pacific region.
== Background ==
Benfield formerly worked for ICAP as Regional Managing Director for ICAP Information Services in the Asia-Pacific region. During his time there, he managed global strategic marketing for the ICAP Information Services Group and built the company's Asia-Pacific information franchise.
== Education ==
*Brighton & Hove College - Sussex
== References ==	
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:BGC Partners
Mark Benzaquen

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Mark Edward Benzaquen is principal, Investor Education at OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. He joined OCC in 2016, where he is responsible for managing the operations of a comprehensive options resource enter that provides information and education about options and supports products traded on all OCC exchanges.
Benzaquen also serves as an instructor for the Options Industry Council, conducting options seminars and presenting online webinars for all segments of the investing community, including registered representatives and advisors.
== Background ==
After spending seven years as a mortgage broker with Draper and Kramer, Benzaquen began his career in options as a trading clerk with Stafford Trading in 1998, before transitioning to brokerage operations with MF Global in 2000. He spent the next decade as lead broker in the NDX/RUT trading pit, gaining deep insight into customer order flow and trade execution.
== Education ==
Benzaquen earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Illinois State University.
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== References ==	
Category:MF Global - Former Employees
Mark Blundell

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Mark Blundell is a capital and derivatives market professional. He is currently a director with The Global Markets Exchange Group in London.
== Background ==
Prior to joining GMEX, Blundell was the CEO of The Open Models Valuation Company, LLC, a valuation platform that brings quantitative analysts who model complex, illiquid securities, commercial loans, and blocks of life insurance with financial institutions who need objective external valuations of their asset portfolios.
He has been a consultant to various investment firms. He was also the CEO and finance director for Derivatives Vision, a start-up Internet television station focused on finance.
Blundell was a director of strategic business development with Tullett-Prebon Ltd. from 2004 to 2006. He was also the managing director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 2002 to 2004.
He has also worked for Sabre Fund Management, Rabobank, Sakura Global Capital and Citibank.
He began his career as a forex trader for Bank of New England.
== Education ==
Blundell hods a bachelor of arts from Williams College in political economy and Asian Area Studies. He also holds a masters of arts in international business and medial from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
== References ==	
Category:Former CME Officials
Category:Citibank - Former Employees
Category:Rabobank -Former Employees
Mark Brown

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Mark Brown is an independent consultant and trading system developer. He is the creator of Oddball Systems, a trading system whose underlying code he published in Active Trader Magazine.
== Background ==
Brown published the programming code for the Oddball trading system in the December 2000 issue of Active Trader Magazine. Oddball is a mechanical trading program designed for trading the emini S&P index futures. The Oddball algorithmic trading signals are generated not by price movement, but from momentum of market breadth represented by Advance Issues data from the New York Stock Exchange.
Brown was one a partner and one of the developers of TraderWare, a platform intended to compete with Omega's Tradestation.
Brown was a licensed vendor for the Market Profile with the Chicago Board of Trade.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Trading System Developers
Category:Consultants
Mark C. Oman

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Mark Oman is senior executive vice president of home and consumer finance for Wells Fargo & Co..
Currently, Oman is also leading the integration of Wachovia’s mortgage operations into the Wells Fargo home mortgage line of business.
== Background ==
Oman began his career in accounting at Deloitte, Haskins and Sells in Des Moines. He joined Wells Fargo (then Dial Finance) in 1979 at Des Moines-based Wells Fargo Financial, Inc., where he held a variety of management positions. 
In 1985, he joined Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and held a number of senior management positions until 1989 when he was named president and chief executive officer.
In 1997, Oman was promoted to group executive vice president of Wells Fargo & Co with responsibility for multiple business units, and in 2005 was promoted to senior executive vice president. 
== Education ==
Oman holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Mark Connelly

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Mark Connelly was a financial services professional and accountant who passed away in September of 2022 at the age of 60. He was the president of Connelly Consulting.
He also worked outside the financial services industry, holding the role of senior vice president, operations at All Clean Services, responsible for the Midwest region. He joined the company in March of 2018.
A veteran financial services professional and back office specialist, he previously served in a variety of roles in the futures industry, including vice president and divisional control officer at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
== Background ==
He previously served a director on the financial services team at the accounting firm of FGMK and prior to that he was a futures controller at Macquarie Futures USA LLC. 
Connelly also has extensive background in cost control consulting (clearing & exchange fees, brokerage fees, give up fees, NFA fees and other specialized projects (commission review, commission payout review and carrying broker review).
Connelly previously was a director for ALaS Consulting.
Before that, he was with SunGard and RSM McGladrey, where he was a director in their financial services practice.
Connelly is the author of a White Paper titled “Market Participant’s Perspective: Status of Transaction (Clearing and Exchange) Fees on a Global Basis” which deals with the challenges surrounding controlling transaction fees.
Previously, Connelly was a senior financial consultant at Rolfe & Nolan, a senior internal auditor at Rosenthal Collins Group, a senior auditor at Checkers, Simon & Rosner, a financial examiner at Chicago Board Options Exchange and a stock settlement balancer/cashier at Fossett Corporation.
== Education ==
Connelly received a bachelors of arts in accounting and personnel management from Loyola University of Chicago and an MBA in Finance from Dominican University.
== References ==	
Category:Accounting‏‎
Category:Macquarie Futures USA
Category:Auditors
Category:Sungard - Former Employees
Category:Rolfe & Nolan - Former Employees
Category:Cboe - Former Employees
Category:Fossett Corporation - Former Employees
Category:Checkers, Simon & Rosner - Former Employees
Category:Rosenthal Collins Group - Former Employees
Category:Deutsche Bank - Former Employees
Mark Cutifani

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Mark Cutifani is the chief executive officer of AngloGold Ashanti. He was appointed to the position in October of 2007. He was also appointed to the board of the company in September of 2007.
== Background ==
Prior to joining AngloGold Ashanti, he held the position of chief operating officer at CVRD Inco, a Toronto-based company, where he was responsible for Inco's global nickel business.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Mark D. Young

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Mark D. Young is a partner in the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His main area of practice is derivatives. In August of 2009, he spoke on behalf of the Futures Industry Association (FIA), a client of the firm, to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). His testimony came as part of the CFTC's third hearing to discuss energy position limits and hedge exemptions. He said that the FIA’s primary concern is that if new position limits would be too restrictive domestically, traders would simply conduct business overseas.
He has given testimony on behalf of other high-profile futures industry clients, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). 
== Background ==
Young started as a staff attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the CFTC in 1977. He worked at the CFTC for five years.
== Education ==
* Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1977
* Tufts University, B.A., 1974 magna cum laude
== Resources ==
* Aug. 5, 2009 CFTC Hearing on Price Discovery, Position Limits and Hedge Exemptions Written Testimony of Mark D. Young, Kirkland & Ellis LLP on behalf of the Futures Industry Association
== References ==
Category: Lawyers
Mark Davies

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Mark Davies is the co-founder and CEO of S3 Matching Technologies, a compliance and trade analytics software company that services many of the world’s largest financial institutions and exchanges. Davies is responsible for the company’s overall business strategy, as well as the daily operations.
Davies is co-chair of the FIF Rule 606 Committee and a member of several other industry groups, including the STA Listed Options Committee, the Security Traders Association of NY, the Dallas Security Traders Association, and SIFMA. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and three children.
== References ==
Category:S3 Employees
Mark Dehnert

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Mark F. Dehnert is a former financial executive and managing director with Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing LP (GSEC). 
He is also on the board of directors for OCC. At its April 29, 2022 stockholder meeting, Dehnert was elected a public director for a term ending in 2025.
== Background ==
Dehnert was with the Hull Group (now part of Goldman Sachs), as a financial engineer in 1992. He relocated from Chicago to Frankfurt in 1995, where he helped Hull build its electronic equity options trading system and businesses in Europe. 
In 1996, Dehnert was named a principal at Hull. In 1997, he relocated to Hull's joint venture with Daiwa Securities in Tokyo, where he focused on the venture's launch into single stock options. 
In 1999, Dehnert returned to Chicago to take up his current responsibilities at Goldman Sachs and assist with Hull's ISE implementation. He became a Goldman Sachs managing director in 2000 and a partner in 2002. In 2002, he moved to New York to help develop a strategist group for the equities division. In 2004, he was named head of the quantitative trading business in equities.
== Education ==
Dehnert holds a bachelor of science degree and MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
== References ==	
Category:Goldman Sachs Executives
Category:ISE Board Member
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:OCC Board of Directors Members
Mark Dowd

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Mark Dowd is a New York-based public relations and communications professional who is a co-founder and managing director of Forefront Communications Group, Inc.
He is a board member of the charity Rides FAR, which supports the Autism Science Foundation.
== Background ==
Before building the Forefront Communications Group, Inc., Dowd lead the marketing and communications efforts of REDI after it was spun out of Goldman Sachs. 
Dowd also spent nearly a decade as the head of marketing and communications at Nomura's Instinet subsidiary, which he helped reposition from an ECN to a technology-enabled agency broker. He also helped launch Chi-X's exchange business globally. 
He has found and led the national media practice of Citigate Communications, and was an account executive with Weber Shandwick. 
Dowd earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He likes to play ultimate frisbee.
== Education ==
Dowd holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University in public relations.
== References ==	
Category:Public Relations Professionals
Category:Corporate Communication Professionals
Mark E. Cermak

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Mark E. Cermak was a futures industry executive and exchange board member. 
He was director of execution services at ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC, formerly Fortis Clearing Americas, and president of the William F. O'Connor Foundation. He was also a member of the board of directors of CME Group.
== Background ==
Cermak was president of the futures division of O'Connor & Co, the Chicago-based clearer which merged to form Fortis Clearing Americas in 2006. He joined O'Connor in 1988 and was named to its board in 1995. Prior to O'Connor, he was a vice-president with Paine Webber in Chicago. He became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1987, and joined its board in 1999.
Cermak served in the U.S. Army from 1969-1971. 
 
== Registration Information ==
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== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Bios - Board Members
Category:Deceased
Category:Fortis Clearing Americas
Category:ABN AMRO
Category:CME Group Board
Mark F. Duffy

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Mark F. Duffy is a managing member of Cornerstone Trading Group and vice chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). 
Duffy also serves as a director of the National Stock Exchange (NSX). 
 
== Background ==
A long-time veteran of the options industry, Duffy began working at the CBOE in 1975. In 1985, he became a member of the exchange and has served on a number of committees and in executive positions. 
In 2001, he was elected vice chairman of CBOE and was re-elected for two more consecutive one-year terms. He was named CBOE vice chairman again in 2009 and serves on the executive committee of CBOE's board of directors.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Mark Faulkenberg

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Mark Faulkenberg is a managing director of Conifer Financial Services in San Francisco, CA.
Previously, he wasthe executive director of global operations at AlphaMetrix. 
== Background ==
Most recently, Faulkenberg was Global Head of Operational Risk Due Diligence for International Asset Management Limited. He was also previously the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Operational Risk Due Diligence, Hedge Fund Accounting and Administration at Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management, later acquired by Neuberger Berman Alternative Investment Management. 
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:AlphaMetrix - Former Employees
Category:AlphaMetrix
Mark Fessler

Mark Fessler is the Chief Operating Officer at HTG Capital Partners in Chicago, Illinois. 
== Background ==
Mark has many years of operational, financial and technology experience in a proprietary trading business. 
Fessler came to HTG from Kingstree Trading LLC (Kingstree), which merged certain electronic proprietary trader groups with HTG in December of 2009. At Kingstree, Mark was the General Manager/Chief Financial Officer responsible for all aspects of the trading atmosphere. 
Prior to that, Fessler obtained finance and management experience as a Director of Finance at RR Donnelley and spent six years providing auditing services at Price Waterhouse. 
Fessler is now responsible for HTG Capital Partners, LLC (HTG) day-to-day management of the firm’s operations, technology, risk management, accounting and human resources.
== Education ==
Fessler earned a Bachelor of Business Management (major in Accounting) degree at the University of Toledo and has a Master of Management (finance/marketing major) from the J.L. Kellogg School Management of Northwestern University. 
== Certifications ==
He has held various regulatory certifications, including Series 63 (Uniform State Law), Series 27 (Financial and Operations Principal) and Certified Public Accountant. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Proprietary Trading Firm Executives
Mark Fields

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Mark Fields is CEO of Wickr, a platform for online messaging. He joined the firm in May 2015 after an extensive career with CME Group.
== Background ==
Fields joined CME Group in 2000 as director of business development. He then served as director of corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions. In 2013, the exchange group launched CME Ventures, a subsidiary that makes strategic investments in early stage technologies that may impact the financial market space. Fields served as head of the subsidiary until one of the companies in which it had invested, Wickr, named Fields as its new CEO. 
Prior to joining CME Group, Fields worked at Ernst & Young LLP, Toronto-Dominion Bank and TD Securities in a range of merger & acquisition roles. He also worked at the Canadian Imperial Bank in a corporate banking role. 
== Education ==
Fields graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in economics and Pepperdine University with an MBA. 
== References ==
Mark G. Bagan

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Mark G. Bagan was the CEO of Minneapolis Grain Exchange ("MGEX"). He assumed the position on July 1, 2005 after climbing the ranks at the exchange over the years. He died on April 17, 2024 while still in the position, though Miami International Holdings had recently announced Troy Kane as the new president of MGEX and CEO of the newly formed MIAX Futures, with Bagan transitioning to executive chairman of the board over time.
He also served as a board member of the Commodity Markets Council.
In November of 2024, Bagan 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. He is a member of the class of 2025.
==Background==
In 1987, Bagan joined MGEX as a trading floor clerk and held various positions with MGEX in the operations, compliance, membership and regulation departments. Prior to his appointment as president and chief executive officer, Bagan was vice president of market administration and corporate secretary of MGEX. 
He was instrumental in the exchange’s original implementation of electronic trading. He was also responsible for project plans that focused primarily on operations and regulatory approvals and led the audits and investigations department through numerous Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rule enforcement reviews.
Since Bagan became president and CEO of MGEX, there have been a number of advancements in the Hard Red Spring Wheat HRSW contract including the highest volume in MGEX history broken in 2007. The HRSW contract also hit its highest price ever by a wheat contract when it reached $24 in February 2007. There also was growth in MGEX's five financially settled agricultural index products. 
Also during Bagan's tenure, membership hit all-time highs and numerous electronic records were set. A seat was sold at $285,000 on December of 2008. Bagan also oversaw a transition to full electronic futures trading. The first move was side-by-side trading of futures first, then options. The exchange moved to CME Globex from e-CBOT in January 2008 and moved to futures electronic trading on Dec. 22, 2008. 
Bagan represented MGEX in a variety of industry organizations including the Joint Audit Committee, Joint Compliance Committee, Inter-Financial Surveillance Group, Futures Industry Association, the board of National Futures Association, the Commodity Markets Council and task forces of the CFTC.
==Education==
Bagan earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in finance and management from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
== References ==	
Category:Exchange CEOs
Category:NFA Board of Directors - Former Members
Category:NFA Finance Committee - Former Members
Category:Minneapolis Grain Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Deceased
Category:Commodity Markets Council
Category:Commodity Markets Council Board
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members