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Dan M. Berkovitz

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Dan M. Berkovitz is chairman, external and regulatory affairs with Millennium Investment Management. He is a member of the firm’s Compliance, Legal & Ethics Oversight Committee. 
Berkovitz is a Washington, DC-based former regulator and lawyer who served as a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as general counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 
Berkovitz was confirmed as a CFTC Commissioner on August 28, 2018 by the U.S. Senate, and held one of the Democratic commissioner seats at the agency. He joined the SEC under former CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler as general counsel in November of 2021 and served until 2023. 
== Background ==
Before joining the CFTC as a commissioner, Berkovitz served as a partner in the Washington, D.C. securities practice of WilmerHale, a global law firm with over 1,000 attorneys in 14 offices. He joined the firm in September 2013 after serving for four years as general counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
During his tenure at the CFTC, Berkovitz was instrumental in the passage and implementation of rules related to the Dodd-Frank Act. He also served as the commission's deputy representative to the Financial Stability Oversight Council. 
Earlier, he served as counsel to the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. During that time, he led several major investigations into oil markets and energy prices, including the role of financial speculation in natural gas and crude oil prices; the effect of the Department of Energy’s program to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on oil prices and energy security; the effect of increasing concentration in the gasoline refining industry on retail gasoline prices; and allegations of illegal payments by American companies to Iraq during the United Nations Oil-for-Food program. 
From 1995-2001, Berkovitz served as deputy assistant secretary for planning, policy, and budget in the Department of Energy’s environmental management program. He was responsible for formulating and presenting to Congress the Department’s $6 billion annual budget for the clean-up of nuclear and hazardous wastes generated by the production of nuclear weapons. Prior to that, he served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Berkovitz has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School, where he has taught energy trading and regulation.
== Education ==
He graduated cum laude with an A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1978, and received a J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1982.
== Resources ==
* "Market Speculation and Energy Prices: A Congressional Perspective, Dan M. Berkovitz, Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, United States Senate" 
== References ==	
Category:Former CFTC Commissioners
Category:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Former Employees
Category:Lawyers
Category:Regulators
Category:Wilmer Hale - Former Employees
Category:Adjunct Professors
Category:Government Officials
Dan Mathisson

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Dan Mathisson is a managing director at Credit Suisse, where he is the head of advanced execution services, the global market leader in electronic trading. Mathisson founded the AES group shortly after joining Credit Suisse in 2000. Prior to that, he was the head equity trader at D.E. Shaw Securities, where he joined in 1992.
In February, Mathisson was quoted by Forbes.com as saying that "more and more of the world's trading is done by spraying dark orders across multiple destinations using deliberately complicated patterns and algorithmic models that can't be discovered or duplicated."
== Background ==
Mathisson is on the board of directors for the BATS Exchange, and he is a member of the NYSE's Electronic Traders Advisory Committee (ELTAC). He serves as a contributing writer and regular columnist for Traders Magazine, and his recent publications include a chapter on the effects of regulatory change on markets in "The Handbook of Electronic Trading." In August of 2008, he was named #6 on Institutional Investor's annual list of the 40 most influential people in trading today. 
== Education ==
Mathisson graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Economics, and he is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).
== Resources ==
 Credit Suisse’s Dan Mathisson Predicts a Cheaper, Faster and Cleaner Trading Landscape for 2008, FinanceTech, Nov. 14, 2007
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Dan Passarelli

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Dan Passarelli is an experienced options trader and the author of the books Trading Option Greeks and The Market Taker’s Edge. He is the founder of Market Taker Mentoring, LLC, which provides options education for traders. He teaches basic and advanced trading concepts at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Options Institute, which he joined in 2005. He also has conducted webinars for the International Securities Exchange and appeared on The Options Insider’s radio show.
The Market Taker Mentoring web site offers options training videos, live online seminars, personalized options coaching, an options newsletter, plus the Market Taker Minute, a series of brief video clips in which Passarelli answers viewer’s/readers questions about options strategies. 
== Background ==
Passarelli began his option trading career as a market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, trading equity options. He has also traded agricultural options and futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). 
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Market Educators
Category:Options
Dan Raju

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Dan Raju is a co-founder and chairman of the brokerage platform Tradier, as well as its CEO. Tradier offers an array of investor platforms, including the most widely used brokerage web APIs used for trading platforms, advisors and developers to build embedded or complete investing experiences. 
== Background ==
Prior to founding Tradier, Dan Raju was the chief information officer of Trade King from May 2010 to January 2013. Previously, from 2007 to 2013, he was the head of global technology operations and infrastructure for Associated Press.
== Education ==
Dan Raju received his masters degree in computer science from the University of Mississippi and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, in Hyderabad, India. 
== References ==
Dan Romanelli

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Dan Romanelli is a Chicago-based business development professional who is the global head of sales and account management for Bloomberg - Broadway Technology. He is also the president of the Chicago chapter of the Securities Traders Association, known as STAC. 
He joined Bloomberg when it acquired Broadway Technology. Before joining Broadway Technology, Romanelli was chief strategy officer at USAM Group Inc. He has also been a senior consultant to Delta Risk.
Additionally, Romanelli has served as a vice president at NYSE Euronext and managing director at NYSE Technologies. He was responsible for the managed transactions group, which includes risk management and compliance efforts. 
== Background ==
Before joining the NYSE, Romanelli worked at Merrill Lynch where he managed the cash equity direct market access and sponsored access support desks. He was also involved with the options OMS development, low latency order routing, post-trade clearing processes and compliance risk analytics.
== MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology ==
Romanelli spoke at the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology event on October 5, 2011 in Chicago. He addressed Question 3: Whose responsibility is risk management technology today – exchanges, firms, brokers – and what is the best solution for risk management?
== Education ==
Romanelli graduated from DeVry University with a Bachelor of Science focused on electronics engineering technology. As of 2011, he was enrolled at the University of Chicago and expected to receive an MBA in 2013.
== References ==	
Category:NYSE Euronext - Former Employees
Category:Merrill Lynch - Former Employees
Category:Delta Risk - Former Employees
Category:USAM Group Inc. - Former Employee
Dan Sheridan

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Dan Sheridan is a 22-year CBOE veteran who worked with the specialist firm Mercury trading, which was headed up by Jon Najarian. At Mercury Trading, Sheridan was responsible for training most of the traders including Pete Najarian, one of the current hosts of CNBC's Fast Money. 
Sheridan has been teaching individual traders on the techniques and methods he has used every day to trade options since 2004. He also hosts the weekly CBOE TV show "Options Safari" at CBOE.com and does educational webinars for the CBOE and many brokers. 
He offers his own personal education through his company, Sheridan Options Mentoring, which opened in 2007. He was the first to offer one-on-one education to retail traders, using live trades. He started his own free options tv show called Sheridan TV, which airs weekly and is open to the public. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Dan Tierney

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Dan Tierney is a Chicago-based trader, venture capitalist and entrepreneur who co-founded GETCO with friend Stephen Schuler in 1999.
== Background ==
Tierney, who has been described as a "cerebral economist and philosopher," started his trading career at the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1993.
When GETCO merged with Knight Capital to form KCG Holdings, Tierney and Shuler became board members in the new entity.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:GETCO
Category:Proprietary Trading Executives
Dan Weingarten

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Dan Weingarten joined ITG as a managing director in December of 2010. His focus is on expanding ITG's client base by introducing the firm's liquidity solutions to new retail and institutional broker-dealers. 
== Background ==
Prior to joining ITG, Weingarten was vice president and co-director of global sales and marketing for Penson Worldwide, Inc.. He joined Pension in July of 2007 as head of the firm's sales and marketing efforts. . Previously, Weingarten was the senior vice president and co-head of sell-side transaction sales. Before joining NYFIX in 2003, he worked as sales executive at the Island ECN, managing both buy and sell side business. He also held trading and product management positions at TD Waterhouse (now TD Ameritrade) and Credit Suisse First Boston (now Credit Suisse).
He is currently a director of the Security Traders Association of NY (STANY).
== Education ==
Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Daniel A. D'Aniello

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Daniel A. D’Aniello is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group. 
== Background ==
Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, D’Aniello was Vice President for Finance and Development at Marriott Corporation, where he was responsible for valuation of all major mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, debt and equity offerings, and project financings. Before joining Marriott, he was a financial officer at Pepsico and TWA.
== Education ==
D'Aniello is a 1968 magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, and a 1974 graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was a Teagle Foundation Fellow.
== References ==
Daniel A. Driscoll

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Daniel A. Driscoll is a former regulatory executive who retired as special policy advisor at National Futures Association in 2024. Driscoll joined NFA at the time NFA began operations in 1982. In 2000, he was named executive vice president and chief compliance officer. In January of 2003, Driscoll became executive vice president and chief operating officer; and in January of 2020, he was named NFA's Special Policy Advisor. 
In 2023, Driscoll 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. 
==Background==
Before joining NFA, Driscoll worked for the CFTC for several years where he held a number of positions, culminating as deputy director in the CFTC's Division of Trading and Markets.
Driscoll is one of four executives at NFA whose bonuses were cut by the NFA board after the fraud at the Peregrine Financial Group came to light in 2012.
Driscoll is on the faculty of professors of the Regulatory Compliance Association. 
He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Financial Markets as their secretary and treasurer. He has been a member of the trustees since 1989.
==Education==
Driscoll holds a bachelor's degree in accounting with a second major in economics from Aquinas College.
== FIA Hall of Fame ==
== References ==	
Category:CFTC - Former Employees
Category:NFA Staff
Category:Regulators
Category:National Futures Association (NFA)
Category:The IFM
Category:The IFM Board of Trustees
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Daniel Aromi

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Daniel Aromi is an economist with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He joined the SEC in August of 2007. His areas of specialization include auction theory and industrial organization. Aromi will focus on issues related to mutual funds and market microstructure.
 
In December of 2008, he and fellow economist at the SEC, Cecilia Caglio said in a report to former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox that the so-called uptick rule was less effective when needed most, during panics that drive prices down and volatility up. Even with delays imposed by an aim to curb speculators in the market, short sellers in a simulation executed trades 25 percent faster on average when stocks plunged than when prices were steady, according to the study.
 
== Background ==
== Education ==
Aromi earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland. While at the SEC, Aromi will focus on issues related to mutual funds and market microstructure.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Economists
Daniel B. Stern

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Daniel B. Stern is a trader, investment advisor and part of a historical Chicago Board of Trade family. He is a registered investment advisor and founder of Stern Investment Advisors, LLC. He is a veteran financial services professional and experienced commodities and futures trader.
== Background ==
Stern founded Stern Investment Advisors, LLC in 2004. The firm offers services to a select group of high net-worth individuals, including owners of closely-held businesses, professional athletes and active stock and commodities traders.
Previously, he spent four years as a financial advisor for Morgan Stanley. Additionally, before joining Morgan Stanley, he was a registered representative for Securities America, Inc., a subsidiary of American Express Financial Advisors.
He was a member the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) from 1975 and active in its internal governance prior to its becoming a public company. He served on the CBOT Real Estate, Project A (electronic trading) and Arbitration committees.
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Also, he was a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) from 1988 to 2009. 
He is licensed to sell both life and health insurance, as well as variable annuities, and long-term care insurance.
Stern's father, Lee B. Stern, is a long-time member of the CBOT.
Stern was an executive with Lee B. Stern & Company, Inc., a CBOT clearing firm founded by his father Lee, when in October of 1992 it was the victim of an unauthorized trading scheme perpetrated by two floor traders, that cost the firm $8.6 million. Stern & Company fulfilled all financial obligations to the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation (BOTCC), but subsequently voluntarily withdrew as a clearing member firm as a condition of its return to the CBOT after initially being suspended by the exchange.
For 18 years, Stern was an executive vice president of Lee B. Stern and Company, a CBOT member and clearing firm. He also served as executive vice president of LBS Limited Partnership for 12 years, a non-clearing member firm of the CBOT.
== Education ==
He holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Arizona.
== John Lothian News Interview ==
*Five Minutes with Dan Stern - May 2011]
== References ==
Category:Registered Investment Advisors
Category:Stern Investment Advisors
Category:Bios - Executives
Daniel Bouton

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Bouton was chief executive officer of the Paris-based bank but lost the position in January of 2008 when Société Générale was involved in a trading scandal that cost the bank over $7 billion. He announced his resignation as chairman in April of 2009 after personal attacks were made against him. 
== Background ==
Bouton began his career with the French Ministry of Finance in the Inspection of Finance department from 1973- 1978 and the Budget Department from 1978 - 1986. He joined Société Générale in 1991 and became chief executive officer in 1993. In 1997, he was elected chairman of the board.
== Education ==
Bouton graduated from Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Daniel Busby

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Dan Busby is chief operating officer at OCC.
== Background ==
Busby joined the OCC in January of 2009. He is responsible for national operations, corporate actions, membership services and collateral services. 
 
Before that he was a vice president of internet and investor services for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). He also served as a director and manager at CBOE.
He was a trading floor associate with American Trading Group.
Busby worked for Arthur Anderson from 1991 to 1995 as an auditor.
== Education ==
Busby has a bachelor's degeree in accounting from Fairfield University and an MBA from Loyola University in Chicago.
== References ==
Category:Auditors
Category:CBOE - Former Employee
Category:OCC
Daniel Coleman

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Daniel Coleman is the chief executive officer of Knight Capital Group KCG, a proprietary trading firm, market maker and brokerage firm formed from the merger of Getco and Knight Capital. He was appointed CEO of Getco in late February 2012 and led the company through its merger with Knight Capital Group in July 2013. 
Coleman joined GETCO in 2010. His most recent roles there were global head of equities and global head of client services. 
== Background ==
At GETCO, Coleman most recently served as the global head of equities and client services. In his old role, Colemen oversaw GETCO Execution Services (GES), GES Europe and the company’s designated market making unit at the New York Stock Exchange. 
 
He joined Getco in September 2010 as a managing director and was responsible for the firm's business development. Before joining Getco, Coleman served as global head of equities at UBS and also as a member of the firm's Investment Bank's Executive Committee and the Group Managing Board. He also chaired the Equities Management Committee and the IB-Institutional Client Committee.
Early in his career, Coleman worked for O’Connor & Associates, a trading firm focused on equity options market making (later a part of the Swiss Bank Corporation).
== Education ==
Coleman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
== References ==
Category:GETCO
Category:KCG
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Daniel Cook

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Dan Cook is a Chicago-based financial services business development professional. He is the director of business development for the exchange operator Nadex.
== Background ==
Cook began his career in a sales position with WorldCom. He was later a senior broker with Global Forex Trading. He also served as CEO of IG Markets, Inc.
He began trading for himself in the equities markets in 1998. In 2006, Cook moved the currency markets as a trading coach.
== Education ==
Cook attended Highland College.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:NADEX - Employees
Daniel Dicker

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Daniel Dicker is currently CEO of wealth management group MercBloc after spending over 20 years as a local trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange. He served on various committees at NYMEX and helped develop the PJM electricity futures. 
== Background ==
Dicker has spent over 20 years as a local floor trader and commodities trade adviser in the energy market, actively trading crude oil, natural gas, unleaded gasoline and heating oil futures. He also performs fundamental and technical analysis and trades outright, intermarket and intramarket spreads and cracks. In 2003 he helped design and launch the new NYMEX PJM electricity futures, which helped trigger a resuregence in NYMEX power contracts and traded 600,000 contracts in 2007. 
== The Media Market ==
Dicker is also well known to energy traders as a frequent author and commentator on commodity and equity markets. He writes regular columns for TheStreet.com and RealMoney.com and has appeared as an energy-markets analyst on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and CNNfn. He has recently been arguing that the price of oil is being driven upwards more by speculativ e activity than by market fundamentals.
== Education ==
Dicker holds a bachelor of science degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
== Published Works ==
*CME and NYMEX Look Like a Winning Pair
== References ==	
Category:Local Traders
Category:Former NYMEX Members
Category:NYMEX
Daniel F. Brophy

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Daniel F. Brophy is a CBOT member, NFA-registered floor broker, prinical of Tenco Inc. and owner of Red Rock Trading, LLC. He formerly served as a member of the board of directors of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. He is chairman of the futures committee of the Commodity Markets Council. 
== Background ==
Brophy is a former member of the New York Stock Exchange. 
As a CBOT member, Brophy traded grain futures for more than 20 years and traded catastrophe futures developed by Richard Sandor among other contracts.
He also previously served on the board of governors of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation. He was a board member in 1999 when BOTCC restructured their structure, giving larger firms more representation.
Brophy is a member of the board of regents of the Mercy Home for Boys & Girls.
== Education ==
== Registration ==
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== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:CBOT Members
Category:Tenco
Daniel Feldman

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Daniel Feldman is vice president, service architecture with Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT). He joined TT in 2004, to work as a network architect, on special projects, and as a systems integration manager. 
== Background ==
Before Trading Technologies, Feldman was a network systems administrator at Discover Financial and a senior network engineer at Arthur Andersen.
== Education ==
He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, earning a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering.
== References ==