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Kelli Kast

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Kelli Kast is senior vice-president, general counsel, and chief administration officer for Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation. She was appointed to the position in March of 2009.
Before 2009, she had served as Coeur's vice-president, general counsel, and corporate secretary from May of 2005.
== Background ==
Before joining Coeur, Kast served as corporate counsel for HealtheTech. Inc. from April 2004 to April 2005.
Prior to that, she served as assistant general counsel and corporate secretary for Global Water Technologies Inc. and Psychrometric Systems, Inc. from December 1997 through February 2003.
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Kellie Ann Togashi

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Kellie Ann Togashi is an attorney and former associate at Ziliak Law, LLC. 
== Background == 
Before attending law school, Togashi worked with clients in the banking and investment industry as an investment associate for BancWest Investment Services, the broker-dealer for First Hawaiian Bank in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also worked as an operations coordinator for BancWest Investment Services and has held the FINRA Series 7 and 66 licenses as well as the State of Hawaii Life, Health and Accident Insurance license.
While in law school, Togashi served as a commercial banking law clerk with the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation in the Division of Banking. As a law clerk with the division, Togashi's responsibilities included interpreting rules of the Illinois Banking Act, drafting amendments to the Illinois Administrative Code, and implementing rules of the division by drafting orders, legal memoranda, and responsive letters to banks. Togashi also handled consumer complaints, conducted witness interviews, prepared the legal staff for depositions, and communicated with key staff of financial institutions. Also during law school, Togashi was a law student counselor with The John Marshall Law School’s Business Enterprise Law Clinic, where she provided pro bono legal services to small businesses with limited financial resources.
Before joining Ziliak Law, Togashi worked with the Law Offices of Tracy M. Rizzo, P.C. She also worked as an investigator for the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE)'s Department of Market Regulation. She prepared and presented case reports for departmental and business conduct committee meetings, created and drafted investigator procedures, and assisted in drafting the CFE’s departmental policies and procedures manual.
== Education == 
Togashi has a B.B.A. in Marketing and Finance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Shidler College of Business. Kellie Ann obtained her J.D. and J.D. Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. She is admitted to practice in Illinois and is a member of the American Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, and Illinois State Bar Association.
==References==	
Category:CBOE - Former Employees
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University

The Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University was founded in 1908 and is located in Chicago, Illinois. It's known for innovation in the field of management education across its portfolio of programs, which include full-time, part-time and executive MBA programs, as well as non-degree executive education courses. The school also offers JD-MBA, MD-MBA and MMM-MBA joint degree programs. 
The school has built a global presence through strategic alliances with business schools in Asia, Canada, Europe and the Middle East as well a recent campus in Miami to serve the Latin American market.
Alums of the school include CME Group CEO and a director Craig Donohue, who holds an M.B.A. degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Karen K. Wuertz, Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and Communications at the National Futures Association.
Dr. Richard Sandor, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a self-regulatory exchange that administers the world’s first multi-national and multi-sector marketplace for reducing and trading greenhouse gases, has also served as a research professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. 
== References ==
Category:Educational Programs
Kelly A. Howes

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Kelly A. Howes is an OF counsel for Morrison & Foerster, focusing on nationwide investment management and securities litigation and enforcement practices. She joined Morrison & Foerster in 2012. 
== Background ==
As Janus’s top legal adviser from 2007 to 2011, Howes was responsible for the company’s global legal, regulatory, corporate governance, internal audit, and insurance matters.
== Education ==
She earned a MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, her law degree from Suffolk University School of Law, and her bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Morrison & Foerster
Kelly Birt

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Kelly Birt is a London-based derivatives executive. She is currently director of listed derivatives at Deutsche Bank. 
Previously, Birt was with Goldman Sachs, where she worked with the electronic execution and clearing platform in the securities division of the company. She had been with Goldman Sachs since 1997.
 	 	
== Background ==
Birt is also a member of the Women In Listed Derivatives's Board of Directors. 
From 1994 to 1997, Birt was an operations manager with J.P. Morgan.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Deutsche Bank
Category:Goldman Sachs
Category:Women in Listed Derivatives
Kelly Brown

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Kelly Brown is a Chicago-based derivatives executive who is senior vice president derivatives products and business development for MIAX Futures. He joined MIAX in that role in January 2024.
He was previously senior principal, head of derivatives for Gemini Trust Company, where he
managed the build-out of its trading platform. Earlier, he was a co-founder and the chief commercial officer of FairX, a startup exchange.
He is also the managing principal at Derivatives Advisor, LLC.
== Background ==
Brown was the chief commercial officer at ErisX, a trading venue for the digital asset market. He was named to the post in October 2018.
He has also served as a director at the CME Group, as global head of intermediary sales. In this role, Brown worked as a liaison with futures commission merchants. Previously, Brown worked in hedge fund marketing at the CME Group.
Before joining the CME Group in July of 2004, Brown was vice president of futures clearing sales at Banc of America Securities. From 1994 to 2003, he worked for Cargill Investor Services.
== Education ==
Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola University Chicago and a master’s
degree in financial markets and trading from Illinois Institute of Technology.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category:Cargill Investor Services - Former Employees
Category:Banc of America Securities - Former Employees
Category:ErisX - Former Employees
Kelly Haughton

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Kelly Haughton is the founder and CEO of Global Index Group, LLC. 
Previously, he founded and was strategic director of Russell Investments. He served as the primary spokesperson for Russell index related issues. He retired from Russell Investments in 2008 after 27 years of work with Russell.
== Background ==
According to Intermarket Communications, as of 2008, Haughton’s vision for a representative index methodology accounted for $4.3 trillion in benchmarked assets 63 percent of all institutional products that use a benchmark.
Haughton led the development of Russell's family of U.S. equity indexe - the Russell 1000 Index, Russell 2000 Index, Russell 3000 Index, Russell 1000 Growth Index and Russell 1000 Value Index. In 2007 Haughton negotiated the exclusive listing of Russell futures and options on futures with the InterContinentalExchange.
Haughton was named to the newly created role of chief internet strategist in 2000. 
For 12 years, Haughton headed Russell’s client service programs for U.S. institutional investors. During this period, he spearheaded the development of IT initiatives for institutional investors, including developing a dedicated Web portal for Russell clients. At client services, he oversaw the provision of asset allocation, investment objective setting, investment performance reviews, trustee, custody and employee communications services to the company’s direct investment management clients. 
Haughton joined Russell in 1982 and developed the first version of the asset allocation model used by Frank Russell Investment Management Company and its bank partners in helping their clients allocate assets across the firm’s funds. He then served as director of Russell’s research and development department, coordinating research and development across all Russell offices. He also has been a client executive for consulting clients in the U.S. and Japan.
He is a member of the board of directors for the Economic Development Board of Tacoma/Pierce County and Junior Achievement of Greater Puget Sound.
The William F. Sharpe Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Haughton by the Index Business Association for a having a career filled with industry-shaping advances in index construction and methodology. 
Haughton also was instrumental in the development of the Russell/Nomura index family in Japan, where he served as the chief executive of Russell Indexes Asia, and he led the team behind the creation of the Russell Global Index and its patent-pending global-relative methodology. Most recently, he focused on the index derivatives strategy, including the historic and extraordinarily successful transition of the Russell Indexes futures contracts to the Intercontinental Exchange just prior to his retirement in October.
== Education ==
Haughton received a bachelor of science from Oregon State University and a master of science in econometrics from the London School of Economics.
== In the Media ==
*Gaming the Russell's Rebalancing
*Portfolio Managers Gear Up For Russell Rebalancing Act
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Russell Investments
Kelly Mathieson

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Kelly Mathieson is product manager at Digital Asset Holdings, a company that aims to use blockchain technology to make settlement of transactions faster. She joined the company in August of 2016 after a 25 year stint at JP Morgan. 
== Background ==
Mathieson was previously the head of JP Morgan's global collateral management and securities clearing business. Before that, she was head of global custody product. 
== Education ==
== References ==
Kelvin Dushnisky

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Kelvin Dushnisky is the president of the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp.
Dushnisky joined Barrick in 2002, and advanced through a series of progressively senior positions, before being appointed president in 2015.
He oversaw Barrick’s mines in Australia, Africa, North and South America and the Middle East, working closely with governments and communities.
On July 23, 2018 Barrick announced that Dushnisky would step down from that role and become the head of the South African gold producer AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. at the end of August. He will replace departing CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan.
== Background ==
Before joining Barrick, Dushnisky was vice chairman, general counsel and a founding director of EuroZinc Mining Corporation, vice president of Sutton Resources Ltd. (acquired by Barrick) and vice president of Rescan Consultants Inc. He has served on the boards of directors for a number of publicly listed companies.
He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the Accenture Global Mining Executive Council.
== Education ==
He holds a B.Sc. (Hon.) degree from the University of Manitoba and M.Sc. and J.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia. 
== References ==
Ken Byrne

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Ken Byrne is managing director of ConvergEx RealTick.
== Background ==
Previously, Byrne was co-founder, global head of sales at FlexiSphere. He was also a principal at Byrne Strategy Group.
He served as executive vice president of North America for BreakingViews. He was also a executive vice president, worldwide field operations for Calypso Technology.
Byrne was an executive vice president of Reuters America, a sales manager at Dow Jones Telerate and a sales executive at Standard & Poor's. He was also a marketing representative at the NYSE, a floor trader and floor manager at the New York Futures Exchange for Walter Frank & Company.
He was also dean of students at Green Vale School.
== Education ==
Byrne holds a bachelor of science from State University of New York College at Oneonta in political science and social studies education.
== References ==
Category:ConvergEx RealTick
Ken Celiano

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Ken Celiano is trained in clinical health psychology and performance management coaching. Celiano developed the Mind Map Trader Personality Profile. He works in conjunction with Mark Paulik at Even-Keel Trading to develop performance training processes for traders.
He's presented seminars/webinars on managing performance pressure in the markets on [teachmefutures.com] (sponsored by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange - CME), at Northwestern University, and has consulted with traders in an effort to determine the factors that contribute to high performance and sustained financial success.
Celiano also does family business consulting through a business called AccessCoach Inc. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
Celiano did his undergraduate training in psychology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and completed his masters and doctoral degrees from The Illinois School of Professional Psychology. 
== Five Minute Interview ==
*March 2009
== References ==
Category:Educators
Ken Keating

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Ken Mark Keating is principal, Investor Education at OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. 
He also is a certified instructor for the Options Industry Council, an industry resource provided by OCC dedicated to helping individual investors, financial advisors and institutions understand the benefits and risks of exchange-listed options.
== Background ==
Keating began his 30+ year trading career with Group One Trading in 1993 on the floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, and later transitioned to the Cboe. He has 
been a floor market maker, floor specialist, risk manager and off-floor proprietary trader. In 2007, he worked for Peak6 Capital Management as an options portfolio manager and then in 2011, traded for himself as a sole proprietor at Sumo Capital. In 2018, he transitioned to Oxford Intelligence Partners, where he analyzed equity and derivative flows for publicly listed companies. 
== Education ==
Keating earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Golden State University.
CRD#20199567.
== References ==	
Category:Oxford Intelligence Partners - Former Employees
Category:Sumo Capital - Former Employees
Ken Leech

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Ken Leech is a longtime bond investor and the former chief investment officer and star trader at the Franklin Templeton subsidiary Western Asset Management. He spent nearly 50 years as a trader and portfolio manager.
In November of 2024, federal prosecutors charged him with fraud, alleging he cherry-picked a series of trades to favor some clients while shifting losses to others. They alleged that he assigned more than $600 million in gains to favored clients and $600 million in losses to others, according to an indictment. The Securities and Exchange Commission also charged Leech in a separate action. 
Leech was charged with investment adviser fraud and securities fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; commodity trading adviser fraud and commodities fraud, both of which carry a maximum of 10 years; and making false statements, which has a maximum sentence of five years. Leech was placed on leave in August 2024, but remained an employee as of early November 2024. 
== Background ==
Leech joined Western Asset Management (aka Wamco) in 1990 and became CIO eight years later. In the following two decades, he earned a reputation for making bold and often successful calls on interest rates and credit risk that helped turn Wamco into a giant in the fixed-income business. His annual bonus ranged from $28 million to $30 million per year between 2018 and 2020, when the firm was performing well, but fell to $21 million in 2022, according to the SEC.
In October 2023, Wamco began reviewing about 17,000 trades Leech had conducted between 2021 and 2023 after a company insider flagged abnormalities in the allocations, Bloomberg reported. Following that, the SEC and the Justice Department began investigating him.
According to the indictment by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, Leech favored portfolios that used the "Macro Opportunities" strategy, after they suffered major losses on Russian debt following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and on Credit Suisse debt when the bank collapsed in 2023. Leech's bolstering of "Macro Opps" came at the expense of the "Core Strategies" portfolios, according to the indictment.
== Education ==
== References ==
Ken Pigaga

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Ken Pigaga is the CEO of NEX Optimisaton, a division of NEX Group, and a director on the board of NEX. He took over the role in October 2017 after Jenny Knott stepped down from the CEO role that month.
Prior to that, he served as the global group chief operating officer of ICAP plc, now NEX Group, since November 26, 2013.
== Background ==
Ken Pigaga joined ICAP in 2006 as COO for the Americas. He led a multi-disciplined team responsible for the development of ICAP’s SEF, which went live on October 2, 2013. Before joining ICAP, Pigaga was a managing director at JP Morgan in the investment banking division, focused on e-commerce activities. 
From 1991 to 2001 he was at Goldman Sachs where he held several roles in emerging markets trading, portfolio structuring and e-commerce. Pigaga started his career in 1982 at Salomon Brothers.
== Education ==
Pigaga has a joint MS-MBA degree from Columbia University.
== References ==	
Category:JP Morgan - Former Employees
Category:Goldman Sachs - Former Employees
Category:Salomon Brothers - Former Employees
Ken Tropin

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Ken Tropin is chairman, founder and principal of Graham Capital Management and a long-time veteran of the managed futures space. He founded Graham Capital Management in 1994 and has grown it into one of the leading alternative investment managers in the industry. His responsibilities at Graham include: chairman of the management and investment committees, senior member of the risk and compliance committees, and managing the firm's quantitative and discretionary strategies. He is also responsible for handling the investment of Graham's proprietary trading capital.
Tropin was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards by the CME Group and BarclayHedge in June 2012. He received this award based on his contribution to the development and progression of the managed futures industry. 
== Background ==
Prior to founding Graham Capital, Tropin served as president and CEO of John W. Henry & Co. from 1989 to 1993 and as senior vice president and director of managed futures at Dean Witter Reynolds from 1981 to 1989. He also served as president of Demeter Management Corporation, and chairman of the Managed Funds Association and its predecessor organization Managed Futures Association. 
== Education ==
Tropin graduated from Goddard College in 1974.
== References ==
Category:Graham Capital Management
Category:John W. Henry & Co.
Category:Dean Witter Reynolds
Category:Demeter Management Corporation
Category:Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Kendal Vroman

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Kendal Vroman is senior managing director and chief transformation officer at CME Group, Inc. He was appointed to the latter role in June 2024 to help with the transition of CME's operations into Google Cloud. 
Vroman was previously senior managing director, commodity products, OTC services and information products at CME Group. He assumed the role in February 2010. In that role, he was responsible for CME Group's energy, agricultural and metals commodities businesses, OTC services and information products business. 
In 2013, Vroman was appointed to the board of directors of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, of which the CME is majority shareholder.
Vroman serves as a member of the World Federation of Exchanges board of directors, the global trade organization for securities and futures exchanges and CCPs.
== Background ==
Vroman previously served as managing director and chief corporate development officer for CME Group starting in March 2008. He replaced John Davidson III, who left CME Group to become infrastructure risk chief for Citigroup. In that position, he oversaw the company's corporate development team, with oversight of strategic planning, business development and information products management.
He also served as managing director, information and technology services for the exchange. He has led strategic planning efforts throughout his CME Group career and developed the company's first program management function. He also played a key leadership role in integration planning associated with the CME/CBOT merger in 2007, the CME/CBOT clearing agreement in 2003-2004 and the company's initial public offering in 2002.
Before joining the company in 2001, Vroman served as vice president, corporate operations/chief of staff to the chief executive officer for marchFIRST Inc., where he was responsible for executive-level project management, including integration of staff and operations in connection with the USWeb/CKS and Whittman-Hart merger. Vroman also served as principal for Whittman-Hart's collaborative technologies group and worked as a senior consultant for Andersen Consulting LLP's Americas information systems division.
== Education ==
Vroman has a bachelor's degree in applied computer science from Illinois State University and a master's of management degree, with emphasis in finance and marketing, from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group Senior Management
Category:CME Group
Category:CME Group Management Team
Category:WFE Board Member
Kenichi Watanabe

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Kenichi Watanabe was the chief executive officer, representative executive officer, executive president and director of Nomura Holdings, Inc., as well as chief executive officer, executive president and director of its subsidiary, Nomura Securities Co., LTD., He began in that position in June 2008. And he joined the company in April 1975 and previously served as managing director.
Watanabe resigned in July 26, 2012 to take responsibility for a series of insider trading scandals about leaking information to clients ahead of planned securities offerings by energy company Inpex, Mizuho Financial Group and Tokyo Electric Power Co. in 2010. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Nomura Securities
Kenneth A. Lopian

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Lopian is a managing director at APX and leads the company’s market development efforts focusing on the carbon and renewable energy markets. He reports to John Melby, president of APX. 
== Background ==
Lopian has 25 years of executive experience in business management and market development for the financial services industry. Prior to joining APX, he served as senior executive vice president of emerging markets at the Bank of New York Mellon and before that he was the head of the Asia-Pacific region for the bank. 
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives