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Jim Bittman

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Jim Bittman is director of program development and a senior instructor for The Options Institute at CBOE, the educational arm of the Company. 
Bittman, who joined CBOE in 1993, designs the curriculum for The Options Institute and teaches a variety of options courses for public and institutional investors in the U.S. and around the world. 
Bittman is the author of four books: Options for the Stock Investor, 2nd Edition; Trading Index Options; Trading and Hedging with Agricultural Futures and Options; and Trading Options as a Professional. He is a regular contributor of options education articles to financial media, including a weekly article for www.investors.com, and also teaches a Masters level options program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
== Background ==
He began his trading career in 1980 as an equity options market maker at the CBOE. From 1983 to 1993, he was a Commodity Options Member of the Chicago Board of Trade, where he traded options on financial futures and agricultural futures.
== Education ==
Bittman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1972 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1974. 
== References ==	
Category:Options Institute Instructors 
Category:Market Educators
Category:Bios - CBOE
Category:CBOE
Jim Chanos

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Jim Chanos is president of New-York-based Kynikos Associates, the world’s biggest short-selling hedge fund. He is one of the most successful hedge-fund managers on Wall Street, his short positions having earned him a return of a reported 50 percent in 2007. He manages about $7 billion, and Trader Monthly estimated his paycheck in 2007 at more than $300 million. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Hedge Fund Executives
Jim Draddy

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James J. Draddy, Jr. is the director of regulatory affairs and chief operating officer of Jump Trading, a proprietary trading group.
Previously, he was senior vice president and chief regulatory officer of NYSE Arca, Inc. He was appointed on August 3, 2006. He was responsible for the regulation of equities and options trading on NYSE Arca, including exchange traded funds, exchange traded notes, and index linked notes. He is also responsible for the regulation of trading of certain NYSE products and services, specifically NYSE Bonds and NYSE MatchPoint.
== Background ==
Draddy spent eight years trading various sectors of the corporate bond market. In 1996, he joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a staff attorney. 
In 2004, he joined the Pacific Stock Exchange (PCX) as Vice President of Equities Regulation. PCX was merged into Archipelago Holdings, Inc. in 2005. Archipelago later became NYSE Arca after it was merged with the New York Stock Exchange in 2006. 
== Education ==
Draddy received a bachelor of arts from Cornell University and a J.D. at New York Law School. He is a member of the bar in the State of New York.
== References ==	
Category:Regulators
Category:Bios - Legal
Category:Lawyers
Category:NYSE Euronext
Category:NYSE Arca
Category:Jump Trading
Category:Securities Exchange Commission
Category:Archipelago
Jim Gabriele

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Jim Gabriele is an executive vice president and chief financial officer of R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC. He joined the firm in September of 2012 as CFO of the holding company, RJO Holdings Corp. In that role, he has ultimate responsibility for R.J. O'Brien's accounting and treasury departments. 
== Background ==
Gabriele has spent more than two decades in senior operational, financial, management and consulting roles for alternative investment and brokerage firms. He most recently served as a management consultant with Barrington Partners, a boutique consulting and investment banking firm. 
From 2009 to 2011 as managing director, he ran the U.S. office of Butterfield Fulcrum, an independent administrator for the alternative investment industry. Previously, he helped establish and led Caledonian Fund Services (USA) LLC, a venture between The Caledonian Group and The Gabriele Group that provided fund administration and tax consulting services to hedge funds and fund of funds.
From 1993 to 2001 he was managing director and CFO of ING's global derivatives clearing and execution business. In addition to financial and management reporting for the firm's global business line and Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), Gabriele managed U.S. regulatory reporting.
Gabriele co-founded the Midwest Chapter of the Hedge Funds Association (HFA) and served as its Director from 2009 to 2011.
== Education ==
Gabriele earned a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Accounting from Chicago's Loyola University.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - CFOs
Category:Bios - FCM Executives
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC
Jim Gorman

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Jim Gorman is a public relations professional who currently serves as director of media relations and internal communications at Mizuho Amercas.
Most recently, he was director of communications for the Modern Markets Initiative and before that vice president of corporate communication for Bats Global Markets, Inc. 
He was previously head of corporate communications for Direct Edge prior to its merger with BATS.
== Background ==
Prior to joining Direct Edge in 2011, Gorman was managing director and head of financial services for Kwittken & Company. He has also served as head of public relations for Liquidnet and Deutsche Bank.
He was director of media relations for Padilla Speer Beardsley from 1996 to 2000. He also served as a vice president of Prudential Bache.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Direct Edge
Category:Direct Edge - Employees
Category:BATS Global Markets - Former Employees
Category:Public Relations Professionals
Category:Corporate Communications Professionals
Category:Modern Markets Initiative - Former Employees
Jim Greco

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Jim Greco is a consultant with Liberty Street Advisors and former CEO and a co-founder of Direct Match. He describes himself as a "trader, developer, and market structure enthusiast."
He is also the editor of the TradingPlaces blog.
== Background ==
Before joining Direct Match, he was a trader and software developer at Getco (now KCG Holdings). At Getco, he launched the first bi-lateral streaming venue for US Treasuries, which offered primary dealers an alternative to trading on the inter-dealer broker markets.
Previously, he was a VP of rates trading at Jefferies, where he built out their algorithmic trading capabilities. 
== Education ==
Greco holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is a principal of the firm and Series 3, 7, 24, 63, and 99 registered.
== References ==	
Category:Direct Match - Former Employees
Category:GETGO - Former Employees
Category:KCG - Former Employees
Category:Jeffries - Former Employees
Jim Haney

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Jim Haney is the Chief Financial Officer of Advantage Futures, a Chicago-based futures commission merchant.
== Background ==
At Advantage, Haney is responsible for all finance and accounting functions.
Prior to joining Advantage, Haney served as the Director of Accounting for CSC Futures and Vice Presdient of Finance for RJ O’Brien for ten years. 
== Education ==
Jim is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a bachelor of arts in accounting from Loras College in 1986.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Advantage Futures
Jim Harkness

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Jim Harkness is a partner and chief operating officer of Wolverine Trading, LLC, a diversified financial institution specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions.
== Background ==
Prior to Wolverine, Harkness was managing director of MicroHedge, Inc.
Also, Harkness held various trading and sales positions with Drexel Burnham Lambert and LaSalle Arbitrage.
Harkness previously served as a board member for the International Securities Exchange.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category: Bios - Executives
Category: Wolverine Trading
Category: Proprietary Traders
Category: Proprietary Trading Executives
Jim Hensel

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Jim Hensel works at New Jersey-based SFB Market Systems.
== Background ==
Previously, Hensel was the managing partner at Kai Trade and assisted in the global business development strategy. Hensel also works as a commodity trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He also worked at Cable News Network (CNN) reporting on the White House during the Reagan era.
== Education ==
Hensel graduated from George Washington University.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Jim Hourihane

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Jim Hourihane is a manager at the National Futures Association (NFA). He joined the association in that role in 2013. 
== Background ==
Before the NFA, Hourihane was an audit manager at OfficeMax from May 2012 to Oct. 2013. Earlier, he was a senior auditor at Deloitte & Touche, and then a principal auditor at Exelon. 
== Education ==
Hourihane earned a BS in Finance from Northern Illinois University and an MS in Accounting from De Paul University's Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
== References ==
Jim Kharouf

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Jim Kharouf serves as communications director at IncubEx, responsible for content development for the firm.
His career as a Chicago-based media executive, reporter and editor spanned all aspects of the financial markets in print, online and video formats. He developed media products, services and business lines with John J. Lothian & Co. for more than a decade and reported on global markets from stocks, options and futures markets to real estate and economics since 1996. 
== Background ==
He served as CEO of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. from January to December of 2017 and followed as a contributing global markets editor to John Lothian News. 
Previously, Kharouf was president of the John Lothian News (JLN) division of the firm. He was also editor-in-chief of JLN, as well as a member of the MarketsWiki Development Team, leading John Lothian Productions, the video production division of the firm. 
Kharouf first joined John Lothian & Co. in a joint venture, developing and co-founding Environmental Markets Newsletter in 2006, (which changed its title to JLN Environmental/Energy in 2012) with John Lothian.
A freelance writer and editor from 2001 until 2008 when he joined John J. Lothian & Co., Kharouf wrote extensively on exchanges, securities, indexes, commodities, currencies and bonds in the United States, Europe and Asia. He also served as the U.S. correspondent for Futures & Options Week from 2001 to 2008. He also contributed to magazines and newspapers such as: The Wall Street Journal, Stocks, Futures and Options – SFO Magazine, Active Trader and The Banker.
He also helped launch Traders Source magazine in January 2004 and served as editor of that publication, which covered financial and commodities futures and options markets. 
Kharouf has extensive experience with daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. and Europe. He reported on banking and technology for the Budapest Business Journal in Hungary from 1995 to 1996. He also served as an associate editor for Futures Magazine, covering international markets and reporting on various market sectors from 1996 to 1998. 
Prior to working in Budapest, he covered the retail sector in Chicago, real estate and the U.S. and local economy as a business writer for the Daily Southtown from 1992 to 1995. Kharouf began his reporting career in North Carolina in 1989, reporting for the Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, NC, and then the Goldsboro News-Argus in Goldsboro, NC, from 1990 to 1992.
== Education ==
He graduated from Marquette University in 1989 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in journalism.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:MarketsWiki Development Team
Category:John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. - Former Employees
Category:John Lothian News
Category:Environmental Markets
Category:Futures Magazine - Former Employees
Category:FOW
Jim Kirk

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Jim Kirk is senior vice president and editor-in-chief at Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.
Previously, he was managing editor of Chicago News Cooperative and chief of editorial operations at Crain's Chicago Business. Before that, he oversaw Bloomberg's coverage of the White House and Congress as a U.S. government team leader. Additionally, Kirk was formerly business editor of the Chicago Tribune.
== Background ==
Kirk joined the Chicago Tribune in June 1997 as a marketing and advertising writer. He served as a columnist and business editor before his appointment to the business section’s top job in February 2005. Kirk's departure from the Tribune followed several other high-level editors and reporters as the paper reorganized and cut staff. Tribune Co. filed for bankruptcy protection Dec. 8 as boss Sam Zell tried to renegotiate its debt.
Kirk previously was a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times and Midwest managing editor for Adweek magazine.
== Education ==
Kirk is a graduate of Illinois State University.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Chicago News Cooperative - Former Employees
Category:Chicago Tribune - Former Employees
Category:Chicago Tribune
Category:Suntimes Media
Jim Kustusch

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Jim Kustusch is executive vice president, strategic clearing initiatives at OCC. OCC is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization and the foundation for secure markets.
== Background ==
Kustusch is responsible for the national operations, corporate actions, membership services, and collateral services areas. He also oversees management of the business operations and controls group. Kustusch previously served as first vice president of business operations and was the business lead for the ENCORE clearing system program, OCC's largest systems implementation project to date. He joined OCC in 1985 as director of new products and following that, served as vice president, concentrating on OCC's initial business expansion into futures clearing and building out controls within OCC's operations areas.
Kustusch is a member of OCC's operations roundtable and other industry operations committees.
== Education ==
Kustusch graduated with a B.A. from Illinois State University and completed the Securities Industry Association's Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
== References ==
Jim Lawie

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Jim Lawie is a in transformation programme management at HSBC.
Previously, he was the head of implementation for the London Metal Exchange.
== Background ==
Lawie joined the LME in 2013 from Citi where he was an IT consultant.
He has also been a development manager for RBS GBM, an associate director for UBS and a development team lead for City Networks.
== Education ==
Lawie holds a bachelor of science from the University of Aberdeen.
== References ==	
Category:UBS - Former Employees
Category:Citibank - Former Employees
Jim Lee

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Jim Lee is a founder and chief operating officer at BIDS Trading. His responsibilities include managing the day-to-day market and IT operations of the company, and support of the BIDS Trading ATS. 
== Background ==
Lee has 25 years of experience in technology and business management, including 20 years in exchange systems technology. He has designed trading and order matching systems, auction and negotiation systems, block trading and negotiation systems for equities and OTC derivatives products, as well as systems for trading and clearing electrical power transmission and electrical power spot contracts and forward contracts. He has worked with a global customer base including Merrill Lynch, CBOE, the Boston Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Boerse, the Saudi Arabian Central Bank, SIA S.p.A and the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
== Education ==
Lee graduated from the University of Calgary with a Computing Science degree. He also holds his FINRA series 7, 24, 55, and 63 licenses.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:BIDS Trading
Category:BIDS Trading
Jim May

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Jim May is a vice president of The Price Futures Group, Inc., a Chicago-based introducing broker. 
== Background ==
May was a founding member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and from 1973 to 1995 he performed all the functions associated with being a member of the CBOE. He served as a broker for large institutional clients and was also an independent market maker. Prior to joining the Price Group, May was with Fuji Futures (Mizuho Securities) and Merrill Lynch. 
In 1995 May left the CBOE trading floor and began his career upstairs as both a retail and institutional futures and equities broker. May holds a Series 3, Series 7, 63 broker.
== Education ==
May graduated from Loras College in 1973 with a degree in business administration. 
== References ==
Category:Futures Brokers
Category:Price Futures Group
Category:Price Futures Group
Jim McCormick

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Jim McCormick joined TransMarket Group in 1982 and served as its president and CEO since 1991. 
== Background ==
McCormick brings 35 years of experience in the financial services industry beginning at the Continental Illinois Bank (now Bank of America) in 1977. He was transferred to London to work at the affiliated UK Merchange Bank, Continental Illinois LTD where he developed and managed the International Securities Department and established the bank of the London International Financial Futures Exchange. He also served as the vice chairman and director of The Clearing Corporation. McCormick is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and a registered Principal with the National Association of Securities Dealers.
== Education ==
McCormick received a BA/BS and an MBA from Miami University. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:TransMarket Group
Category:TransMarket Group
Jim McDonough

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Jim McDonough is the managing partner at Trading Continuity Services. 
== Background ==
McDonough has over 20 years experience in Information Technology (IT) concentrating in both Sales & Marketing roles. He has held strategic sales positions with IT companies such as, Computer Associates, Platinum technology, Network Associates. 
Before co-founding Trading Continuity Services, Inc. Jim was the President of Proactive Data Systems, Inc. 
== Education ==
McDonough graduated from Saint Xavier University with a Bachelors of Science in Marketing and an MBA in Management Information Services.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Jim Miller

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Jim Miller is co-founder and head of product development at trueEX. He was previously chief technology officer of Creditex Group Inc. and also led the development of technology for Creditex's subsidiaries T-Zero LLC and LoanX. Following Creditex, Miller worked for Barclays Capital and InterContinental Exchange. 
 
== Background ==
== Education ==
Miller has a Masters in Computer Science and a B.S. from Virginia Tech.
== References ==
Jim Mullen

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Jim Mullen is co-founder and chief technology officer at Firm58. 
== Background ==
Mullen previously director of back office products for Townsend Analytics. He was also the founder and president of Intercap Systems, a computer software company.
He also served as a manager of the midwest telecom group for Oracle. Additionally, he worked as a product manager for Reuters.
== Education ==
Mullen holds a bachelor of science degree from Purdue University in computer and electrical engineering.
1982 – 1986 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Firm58
Category:Firm58
Jim Pappas

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Jim Pappas is one of the principles of Eldorado Trading. He is responsible for developing Automatic Trading Systems (ATS) for the company and enhancing the trading platforms and strategies. 
 
== Background ==
Pappas spent time as a pit trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. 
== Education ==
Pappas attended DePaul University.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Jim Rosenthal

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Jim Rosenthal is chief operating officer at Morgan Stanley. He was named to that position in January 2011. He succeeds Thomas Nides, who held that position for less than a year. Rosenthal had previously been head of Morgan Stanley's technology and operations, and then was named chief operating officer of the newly integrated Morgan Stanley Smith Barney brokerage business. He was also head of corporate strategy for Morgan Stanley.
He will also oversee human resources, corporate communications, marketing, community affairs and corporate services.
Rosenthal was selected in November 2010 as one of the top CIOs on Wall Street for that year by Securities Technology Monitor.
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Morgan Stanley
Category:Morgan Stanley
Jim Ross

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Jim Ross is a senior managing director of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) and is the global head of SSgA's Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) business.
He worked on the original team at State Street who brought the SPY to market. He also serves as chairman of the Investment Company Institute’s Exchange-Traded Funds Committee.
== Background ==
Ross was previously responsible for the product development, product management and marketing of ETFs at SSgA.
== Education ==
== References ==
Jim Sampson

Jim Sampson is the trading and market operations officer of the International Securities Exchange (ISE, LLC. He oversees and is responsible for all aspects of day-to-day operations of the ISE marketplace including real-time trade support of both market maker and order-flow-providing firms. Additionally, Sampson is responsible for the listing and allocation processes for the Exchange. 
Prior, Sampson was in charge of the ISE’s surveillance and regulatory program, where he developed the surveillance program and oversaw the creation of an automated surveillance system. During this time, Sampson was chairman of the Options Group of the Intermarket Surveillance Group, a collective of the world’s exchanges. 
Prior to joining the ISE in 1999, Sampson was the director of option surveillance for the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, California. 
 
Sampson has a B.S. in Finance from the University of the Pacific.
Category:International Securities Exchange
Category:International Securities Exchange
Jim Seligman

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Jim Seligman is the Beta Manager and a senior strategist at MEB Options. His current role is focused on specialized trading tools that MEB has developed for customers facing automated markets. He is also helping MEB with strategic issues, structures, and partners. 
== Background ==
Seligman has spent nearly three decades in the derivatives world with experience at O'Connor and Associates, PFTC, Knight Trading, and proprietary trading operations. Jim has been a Market Maker, specialist and broker in options, commodity futures, and index products. 
He has been involved with Donors Choose, The Allen-Stevenson Alumni Association and GARP.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Options
Jim Skillen

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Jim Skillen is a senior manager for Internet and distribution services at Grainger.
He was previously the director of systems engineering for CME Group. He was responsible for leading CME Group's enterprise technology production assurance team.
== Background ==
Before joining the company in 2002, Skillen managed technical infrastructure for W.W. Grainger, Inc. 
== Education ==
He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Loras College.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category:CME Group
Jim Stearns

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Jim Stearns works in business development at PDQ ATS, Inc.
== Background ==
Before PDQ, Stearns was Director, Sales & Business Development at the National Stock Exchange, and prior to that he was Director of Marketing at LaBranche Structured Products LLC. He was previously MD, Member Firms, at Nasdaq Liffe; Derivatives Coordinator at Susquehanna, and Vice President at the CBOE.
== Education ==
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1977 – 1981
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives