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Alex Mashinsky

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Alex Mashinsky is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and business executive, best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer of Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending platform that filed for bankruptcy in 2022. Mashinsky has a long history in the technology and telecommunications industries, having founded several companies and holding numerous patents.
== Background ==
Mashinsky was born in 1965 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. His family emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. After serving in the Israeli Army, Mashinsky moved to the United States in the 1980s to pursue business opportunities.
=== GroundLink and Transit Wireless ===
After selling his stake in Arbinet in 2005, Mashinsky used the profits to start GroundLink, a company that allowed users to book limousine and car services from smartphones or computers. He also founded Q-Wireless, which later became part of Transit Wireless, a joint venture that installed wireless cellphone and free Wi-Fi internet service in the New York City Subway system.
=== Celsius Network ===
In 2017, Mashinsky co-founded Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending platform that offered high-interest rates on cryptocurrency deposits and allowed users to borrow against their crypto assets. As CEO, Mashinsky became known for his critical stance against traditional banking, often wearing T-shirts with slogans like "Banks are not your friends" at public events.
However, in 2022, Celsius Network faced significant financial difficulties and ultimately filed for bankruptcy. Mashinsky resigned as CEO in September 2022 amid controversy and legal scrutiny.
== Legal Issues ==
In July 2023, Mashinsky was arrested and faced criminal charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, including allegations of defrauding customers and manipulating the value of Celsius' native token, CEL. The Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission also filed lawsuits against Mashinsky and Celsius Network.
== Patents and Recognition ==
Throughout his career, Mashinsky has been credited with over 50 patents related to exchange, VOIP, messaging, and communication technologies. He has received several awards, including the Albert Einstein Technology Medal and recognition as one of the "Top 100 Telecom Executives.
== Education ==
Mashinsky holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. He also earned a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.
== References ==	
Category:Entrepreneurs
Category:Technology Executives
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Blockchain
Category:Celsius Network
Category:Celsius Network - Former Employee
Category:GroundLink
Category:GroundLink - Former Employee
Category:Transit Wireless
Category:Transit Wireless - Former Employee
Category:Arbinet
Category:Arbinet - Former Employee
Alex Matturri

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Alex Matturri is CEO of S&P Dow Jones Indices, the benchmark index licensing firm jointly owned by McGraw-Hill and CME Group. He has held the position since 2007.
 
== Background ==
Before joining the index company, Matturri was senior vice president and director of Global Equity Index Management at Northern Trust Global Investments. He came to Northern in its 2003 acquisition of Deutsche Asset Management's index business. He had joined Deutsche after a 13-year career at the Bank of New York, where he managed the Special Investment Products group.
Earlier in his career, Matturri worked as a risk arbitrage analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, as a security analyst at First Fidelity, and as a law clerk in the New Jersey Superior Court.
== Education/Accreditation ==
Matturri earned a BS in Finance in 1980 from Lehigh University and a JD from the Syracuse University College of Law. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). 
== References ==
Alex McCallum

Alex McCallum was a financial journalist and former futures trader who was most recently the editor of InsurerAM News. He died in March of 2017. He was also the owner and moderator of MarketForum, a trading related discussion web site. He was a former Chicago Mercantile Exchange public relations executive.
== Background ==
McCallum was a veteran financial editor and media relations specialist. He was the owner and moderator of MarketForum, a message board on the internet for traders active in the futures and options markets. MarketForum was launched in 1999.
McCallum was closely involved with online news for more than 30 years. In the early 1970s, as U.S. financial editor of Reuters, he was a member of the team that designed and operated the news agency’s first screen-based service, called Reuters News Retrieval. 
Later, he was the first manager of the Telerate online financial service in London, and also helped to establish INO.com, a futures and options information service. In addition, he worked at the Harvard Business Review, and was the founding editor of UK&USA, the magazine of the British-American Chamber of Commerce.
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McCallum’s online enterprises included InsurerAM News, a news and information service for insurance company investment executives and the investment firms that specialize in managing outsourced insurance company assets. 
McCallum also worked as a PR practitioner in the field of corporate and financial communications, including spending three years (1979-1982) as vice president-public affairs at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (now CME Group). He was a media consultant to the New York Cotton Exchange and the Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange prior to their merger, which created the New York Board of Trade.
McCallum worked in London, Brussels, New York and Chicago, and Exeter, New Hampshire.
== Education ==
McCallum was born and educated in the United Kingdom. He received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in geography from the University of Oxford.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Corporate Communications Professionals
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Former CME Staff
Category:Deceased
Alex McDonald

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Alexander James McDonald is a British financial executive who has served as the CEO of the European Venues and Intermediaries Association (EVIA) since 2009. He is also the CEO of the London Energy Brokers Association (LEBA), a position he has held concurrently with his EVIA role.
== Background ==
=== Career ===
McDonald joined EVIA (then known as the Wholesale Market Brokers Association) as CEO in 2009. Prior to this role, he had an extensive career in banking and fund management. His experience spans over two decades in the financial services industry, including roles as a macro trader and portfolio manager at various financial institutions. He was a director of emerging markets and foreign exchange trading at CSFB for eight years, and prior to that he was an executive director at Goldman Sachs on their fixed income proprietary trading desk. He began his career with JP Morgan in 1988 as a trader of fixed income arbitrage and FX. He also spent over twenty years as a trader and portfolio manager, at BSAM Global Alpha Fund, OLEA Capital Partners and at BlueCrest Capital, where he focused on commodities, fixed income and currencies.
In his capacity as CEO of EVIA and LEBA, McDonald has been instrumental in representing the interests of wholesale market venues, platforms, and arranging intermediaries. He has played a key role in advocating for the industry in policy discussions and regulatory matters.
== Education ==
McDonald holds a Master of Arts in Geophysics/Geochemistry from Cambridge University.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:WMBA
Category:Financial Services
Category:Trade Association Executives
Category:Wholesale Market Brokers' Association
Alex Merriman

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Alex Merriman heads external regulatory affairs for SIX Securities Services, the post-trading arm of the SIX Group. He joined the firm in Zurich in October of 2010. 
== Background ==
After graduating from Trinity College, Oxford, Alex’s early career was spent at the Bank of England, where he specialized in European Union financial services issues, and served as a banking supervisor.
He also led the British Bankers' Association work on market infrastructure and financial market issues, and chaired the European Banking Federation’s Clearing & Settlement Working Group. He was also present in the European Commission’s advisory groups lifting the Giovannini Barriers and implementing the code of conduct for market infrastructures.
== Education ==
Merriman is a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford.
== References ==	
Category:SIX Group
Category:SIX Securities Services
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Alex Oh

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Alex Oh was appointed director of the Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 22, 2021 by SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. She resigned six days later after a judge questioned her conduct in a lawsuit involving Exxon Mobil.
Previously she was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and co-chair of the law firm’s anticorruption and foreign-bribery practice group. 
== Background ==
Earlier, Oh was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was a member of the Securities & Commodities Fraud Task Force and the Major Crimes Unit. During her tenure, she was the lead trial lawyer in numerous jury trials. 
She is a member of the New York City Bar Association. She previously served as a trustee for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and on the board of trustees of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. Oh also served on the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
== Education ==
Oh earned a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Williams College.
== References ==	
Category:U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Former Employees
Alex Perry

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Alex Perry is an Alabama-based journalist who recently graduated from Northwestern University in Illinois. She is a former associate editor for John Lothian News. Perry was briefly the host of Optionstopia on the weekly video series, The Spread, at JLN.
== Background ==
Alex Perry is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. She grew up anchoring her elementary school “newscast,” and has pursued storytelling ever since. 
Most recently, Perry served as a multimedia journalist for Northwestern University’s Medill News Service in Chicago, where she covered everything from politics to arts and culture. 
== Education ==
Perry holds a Master of Science in Journalism with a specialization in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University. 
She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Alabama.
== References ==	
Category:John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. - Former Employees
Category:Journalists
Alex Teng

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Alex Teng is a college student at the University of Illinois in Chicago, studying finance. 
He is also an intern with John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. and John Lothian News serving as an associate editor on The Spread video series. He is the host of a show on JLN called Options Discovery. 
He is also an intern with with CrossRealms, Intl., as well as a fitness instructor.
== Background ==
Teng grew up in Downers Grove, Ill. and graduated from Downers Grove North High School. 
At the University of Illinois Chicago, Teng is a member of the UIC Finance and Investing Group and the University of Illinois at Chicago Boxing Club. 
He was a finance intern with Cenfura and created components of pro forma statements for renewable energy projects and modeled cash flows for long term Solar PV projects in excel.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Students
Alexa Jaworski

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Alexa Jaworski is a freelance writer and copy editor.
Previously, she was a senior copywriter at Sage Communications. Previously, she was a senior editor and web producer at Securities Technology Monitor, formerly known as Securities Industry News.
== Background ==
At Securities Industry News, she was based in New York and covered market structure, trading technology and exchanges.
She joined the Securities Industry News in 2005 as markets reporter. Prior to SIN, she was a reporter with Mergermarket and Operations Management, an Institutional Investor newsletter. 
Jaworski began her journalism career at The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville as a general assignment reporter based in St. Augustine covering law enforcement, education and real estate. 
== Education ==
Jaworski received an MS in journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2000, and a BA in English with a minor in American Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 1998.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Securities Industry News - Former Employees
Category:Sage Communications - Former Employees
Alexander "Sandy" Broderick

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Alexander "Sandy" Broderick is an exchange and clearing executive and consultant.
He currently serves as the non-executive chairman of the London Derivatives Exchange, formerly GMEX. 
He also currently serves as non-executive director at Lombard Risk, a director at ClearCompress and as director of Broderick Associates Ltd.
== Background ==
He was previously the chief executive officer of DTCC Deriv/SERV, DTCC’s repository for over-the-counter derivatives trades. He left that position in August 2014 and was replaced by Chris Childs. 
Broderick ran the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's (DTCC)'s global trade repository since August 2013. He oversaw the business following the advent of mandatory trade reporting in Europe. He also led the establishment of DTCC's trade repositories in Japan and Singapore.
In October 2014, he was named to the advisory board of Clarus Financial Technology, a software and service platform for the derivatives market. 
Broderick was previously the chief executive officer of New York Portfolio Clearing (NYPC), DTCC’s jointly owned company with NYSE Liffe. He was appointed in April 2012 and relocated to New York from London for the NYPC position. He has since returned to London to run DTCC DerivSERV full time, while Lynn Martin takes over as interim CEO of NYPC during the transition of the clearing of NYSE Liffe U.S. products to ICE Clear Europe.
Broderick was previously the head of GBP derivatives and bond trading at Societe Generale for 14 years. He was key in developing the LCH.Clearnet SwapClear system and served as chairman of the OTCDerivNet board. Broderick also worked for Bank of America trading swaps and options from 1994 to 1998. He began his career as a trader for Continental Illinois National Bank of Chicago in 1986.
== Education ==
*BSc, Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University (1984)
== References ==	
Category:NYPC
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Clearing Executives
Category:NYPC - Former Employees
Category:DTCC - Former Employees
Category:Societe Generale - Former Employees
Category:Bank of America - Former Employees
Alexander Afanasiev

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Alexander Afanasiev has been chairman of the executive board and CEO of Moscow Exchange since June 2012.
== Background ==
Before joining the Moscow Exchange, Afanasiev spent 13 years at Bank WestLB Vostok, a subsidiary of the German banking group WestLB AG, most recently as a deputy chairman of the executive board. He previously was an executive board member of Bank Imperial. From 2005 to 2011 Afanasiev was Chairman of the MICEX FX Market Council. From 2009 to 2013 he co-chaired the National Foreign Exchange Association and from 2011 to 2014 the National Securities Market Association.
== Education ==
Alexander Afanasiev graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute with a degree in international economic relations and holds a PhD in economics.
== References ==
Alexander C. Tabb

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Alexander C. Tabb is a partner at TABB Group. His area is crisis and continuity services.
== Background ==
== Education ==
Alex is a graduate of the American University where he received a B.S. in history. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute where he studied economics, security and international affairs.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), George Washington's former military aide and a renowned financier, was the first Secretary of the Treasury and the architect of the department's structure. He was appointed to the position at the inauguration of the constitutional government in 1789.
== Background ==
Hamilton, unlike Thomas Jefferson, favored a strong, centrally controlled Treasury, and constantly battled with Jefferson, then Secretary of State, and Albert Gallatin, then a Congressman, over the amount of power the Department of the Treasury should be allowed to wield. He designed the Treasury Department for the collection and disbursing of public revenue, but also to promote the economic development of the country.
He introduced plans for the First Bank of the United States, established in 1791 which was designed to be the financial agent of the Treasury Department. The Bank served as a depository for public funds and assisted the Government in its financial transactions. The First Bank issued paper currency, used to pay taxes and debts owed to the Federal Government.
Hamilton also introduced plans for a United States Mint. Though he wanted the Mint to be a structural part of the Treasury, he lost the battle to Jefferson and it was established in 1792 within the State Department. The Mint became an independent agency in 1797 and was eventually transferred to Treasury in 1873. Under personal financial pressure, his office paying only $3500 a year, Hamilton resigned in 1795 and joined the New York bar. He kept in close contact with President Washington, however, and continued to give financial advice to his successor, Oliver Wolcott. Hamilton was killed in 1804 in a duel with Aaron Burr arising from a political dispute.
== Education ==
== Resources ==
U.S. Treasury Department 
http://www.treasury.gov/Pages/default.aspx
== References ==	
Category:Former US Government Officials
Category:Former US Treasury Secretaries
Alexander Höptner

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Alexander Höptner is the chief executive officer of BitMEX, which he joined in that role in January 2021. 
He was previously the CEO and chairman of Boerse Stuttgart GmbH, CEO of Euwax AG, and authorized signatory of Euwax Aktiengesellschaft. He has been chairman since January 2018. He left the boerse in November 2020.
Before that, he was part of the Top50 Management Circle of Deutsche Börse Group and was a member of the management bodies of both the cash market and the IT department.
== Background ==
As executive vice president of Deutsche Börse AG for many years, Höptner's responsibilities included global member operations in the cash, derivatives and clearing markets, securities listing and admission, IT development and operations for all Group clients, worldwide sales of the marketplace infrastructure, the Capital Markets Academy training program and the global primary market. 
After leaving Deutsche Börse AG in 2015, he set up a global marketplace for trading virtual goods in two start-ups and won the Gartner Cool Vendor 2016 Award for its innovation.
== Education ==
== References ==
Alexander Konetzki

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Alexander Konetzki is an associate at Ziliak Law, LLC, a Chicago-based boutique law firm focused on the trading and investment management industry. He joined the firm in July 2015, and now focuses his practice on providing legal services to startup companies.
 
== Background ==
Before joining Ziliak, Konetzki served as an associate attorney at Bernstein Law and Levin Riback Law Group. He has also worked on the campaign staff for several politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanuel. While attending law school, he served as a law clerk for the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Earlier in his career, Konetzki served as assistant editor of The American Conservative, a magazine and public policy forum. 
== Education ==
In 2004, Konetzki earnd a BA in Political Science and English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The following year, he earned an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. He then attended the DePaul University College of Law, earning a J.D. in 2010. 
== References ==
Alexander Kranz

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Alexander Kranz is a research and development executive with Bloomberg LP.
He previously was managing director, Europe, for RTS Realtime Systems before it was acquired by Bloomberg. 
== Background ==
He started with RTS in 2000 as a system administrator. He later moved to be a technical director, product manager, head of technical product management and head of product services for Europe at RTS.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:RTS Realtime Systems - Former Employees
Alexander Northcott

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Alexander Northcott is is the CEO and a founder of Gorkana. 
== Background ==
Northcott founded Gorkana Limited in 2003 and has served as its CEO since 2003. 
He previously served as a vice president of corporate communications Division at Morgan Stanley.
He has also been an associate in media relations team at J.P. Morgan. He served as account manager of Ludgate Communications.
Northcott has also served as Captain of 7th Gurkha Rifles (later became Royal Gurkha Rifles) since 1992.
== Education ==
University of St Andrews, MA (Hons) in Modern History and Russian Literature
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Alexander Osipovich

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Alexander Osipovich is a financial journalist and reporter for The Wall Street Journal, specializing in exchanges, market structure, and cryptocurrency markets. His reporting often focuses on high-frequency trading, derivatives markets, and regulatory developments impacting global financial systems. Osipovich has covered major events such as the collapse of FTX and investigations into crypto exchange malpractice.
== Background ==
Osipovich began his career in San Francisco as a software engineer for Classroom Connect, developing technologies from Java, ASP and SQL to build interactive features on the company's website.
He joined The Moscow Times as a reporter in 2005 in Moscow covering Russian politics at the end of Vladimir Putin's first presidency. 
In 2008, he moved to AFP as a reporter in Moscow, covering Russian politics, economics and business. 
He moved to New York in 2010 to participate in a year-long graduate program for journalists, the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economics Journalism.
In 2011, Osipovich joined Incisive Media as a reporter for Energy Risk magazine before being promoted at Risk.net to the editor in charge of energy and commodities content. 
In 2016, he joined The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and led the coverage of the collapse of FTX and the collapse of Terra/Luna. Osipovich played a key role in The Wall Street Journal's coverage of GameStop, Robinhood, Citadel and the retail trading phenomena. and the rise of 24/5 trading platforms
== Education ==
Osipovich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in history from Stanford University, a Masters of Science degree in computer science from Stanford and has attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. 
== References ==	
Category:Financial journalists
Category:The Wall Street Journal people
Category:Cryptocurrency journalists
Category:Market structure analysts