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Matt Graydon

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Matt Graydon is head of corporate communications professional. He is a group director with Adkins.
He was formerly at Balfour Beatty Plc in London. Previously, he was director of corporate communications for the World Gold Council.
== Background ==
From 2004 to 2006, Graydon was head of public relations for McGrigors.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:World Gold Council - Former Employees
Category:Public Relations Professionals
Category:Corporate Communications Professionals
Matt Hughes

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Matt Hughes is the vice president of strategic planning and development at OCC. In this role, he leads the development of OCC’s strategic and corporate plans.
Hughes previously served as OCC's vice president and executive liaison to the chairman, where he was responsible for supporting and conducting strategic initiatives in conjunction with the executive chairman. He has also held various positions within OCC’s technology team. He also provided consulting services to OCC from 2000-2003 regarding the development of its clearing system, ENCORE. He has an extensive technology background, specializing in system architecture and design.
== Background ==
Before joining OCC in 2007, Hughes held positions at Deloitte Consulting, where he specialized in large-scale initiatives for the healthcare and financial services industries.
== Education ==
Hughes has an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
== References ==
Matt Kluchenek

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Matt Francis Kluchenek is a prominent lawyer specializing in derivatives, securities, and cryptocurrency regulation. He is currently a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, a well-known law firm where he focuses on enforcement and regulatory matters related to financial markets.
== Background ==
===Career===
In addition to his role at Katten, Kluchenek has been an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law since 2015.
Before joining Katten, Kluchenek was a partner at Mayer Brown from January 2019 to July 2024. During his tenure there, he was in the firm's financial markets regulatory & enforcement practice. Prior to Mayer Brown, he was a partner at Baker McKenzie from 2013 to 2019, where he led the global derivatives and hedge fund practice areas. In this capacity, he provided counsel to fund sponsors, managers, trading advisors, and a variety of financial entities on regulatory, transactional, and enforcement matters.
Kluchenek's career also includes a decade-long entrepreneurial venture as the founder and owner of Mind's Eye Winery, LLC in Napa Valley, from 2007 to 2017. 
His earlier legal roles included being a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP from 2011 to 2013, and at Henderson & Lyman from 2009 to 2011.
He also served as general counsel and chief compliance officer at DRW Trading Group from 2008 to 2009, and as director and associate general counsel at CME Group from 2002 to 2008. 
Kluchenek began his legal career as an associate in the litigation group at McDermott, Will & Emery from 1998 to 2001, and as a staff attorney at the Chicago Board of Trade from 1995 to 1998.
=== Areas of Expertise ===
* Derivatives and Securities: Kluchenek has extensive experience in handling complex legal issues related to derivatives and securities. His expertise in these areas is well-recognized in the legal community.
* Cryptocurrency Regulation: As the legal landscape around cryptocurrencies continues to evolve, Kluchenek has been at the forefront, advising on regulatory compliance and enforcement issues. He has contributed to discussions on the legal aspects of digital currencies, including Bitcoin.
=== Publications and Contributions ===
Kluchenek has authored several works on the subject of digital currencies and their regulation. Notably, he wrote an article titled "Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies: Welcome to Your Regulator," which was published in the Harvard Business Law Review Online. This work highlights the regulatory challenges and considerations associated with digital assets.
== Education ==
Kluchenek holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Loyola University in Chicago and a L.L,M degree from Georgetown University's School of Law in financial regulation. He also holds Juris Doctor degree in law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.
== References ==	
Category:Schiff Hardin LLP - Former Partners
Category:DRW Trading Group - Former Employees
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category:McDermott, Will & Emery - Former Employees
Category:Former CBOT Staff
Matt Leising

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Matthew Leising is a Los Angeles-based reporter with Bloomberg News covering the derivatives markets. He moved to Los Angeles from New York as part of Bloomberg's West Coast expansion.
Leising's beat includes market structure, blockchain and distributed ledger technology related to finance. His beat also includes developments and regulatory matters in the derivatives and fixed-income markets.
== Background ==
Leising is a native of Los Angeles. Before coming to Bloomberg, he was a reporter with the Montclarion newspaper in Oakland, CA. He has also written for the Financial Times and the Village Voice.
== Education == 
Leising holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Biopsychology and a master of journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Bloomberg
Matt McFarland

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Matt McFarland is vice president, derivatives products and business development, of MIAX Futures, named to the position in April 2021. 
McFarland was previously vice president and head of futures at Cboe Futures Exchange. He was named to the Cboe post in December 2018 and handled strategy for the exchange.
Before heading up the futures group at Cboe, he was the director of business development and head of the London office of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), later renamed Cboe Global Markets.
== Background ==
McFarland worked at the CBOE since 2007 in a variety of roles and customer service positions. He's worked with insurance companies to enhance hedging strategies associated with variable annuities and fixed indexed annuities, and managed CBOE’s FLEX options program and its Customized Options Pricing Service (COPS). 
Before joining CBOE, he worked in equity derivative sales at JP Morgan for 10 years.
He chaired CBOE’s Retail Advisory Committee and is a member of the Security Traders Association’s Listed Options Committee.
== Education ==
McFarland graduated from Marquette University in 1992 and earned an MBA in Finance from DePaul University in 2001.
==MarketsWiki Education==
McFarland participated in the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in London in October of 2016 at the Woolen Exchange.
== References ==	
Category:MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Speaker
Category:CBOE
Category:Business Development Professionals
Matt Raebel

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Matt Raebel is a Chicago-based writer and blogger.
He formerly served as an editor at John Lothian News. He left the company on May 24, 2021.
== Background ==
Raebel was born in Glenview, Illinois and later moved to Wisconsin in 2009 to attend Beloit College. He moved to Chicago in 2017. 
He has worked in the fields of healthcare, behavioral health, information technology, government administration, telecommunications, and the fine arts.
Raebel has been writing in a variety of media since he was 16, including journalism, fiction, and marketing. His interests include technology, education, mental health, politics, video games, film, and cryptocurrency. 
Raebel is an alumnus member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
== Education ==
Raebel graduated from Beloit College in 2013 with a B.A. in creative writing and psychology.
== References ==	
Category:John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. - Former Employees
Matt Trudeau

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Matt Trudeau is the chief operating officer at ErisX. He joined the company in the role of chief strategy officer in December of 2018 and was named chief product & strategy officer in January of 2020.
He is a mentor with Techstars, working with entrepreneurs.
He is also an advisor to APPLICA.AI, which applies neural language modeling to real business problems.
Trudeau is also an advisor and investor with NPX Inc., which addresses the way impact is finance in the non-profit sector.
== Background ==
Trudeau is the principal and owner of 10X Markets, a strategic advisory firm for start up businesses focused on electronic trading, fintech, capital markets and cryptocurrencies.
He was the president and co-founder of TradeWind Markets, Inc., which was a technology platform for digitizing the trading, settlement and ownership of precious metals.
He was an advisor to Hexagram, a digital advertising exchange from 2014 to 2015, as well as senior director of strategic partnerships for AppNexus.
Trudeau served as head of product and IEX Ventures for IEX Group.
Trudeau served as global head of product at Chi-X Global from 2009 to 2011. He also served as COO of Chi-X Canada, which was later acquired by Nasdaq.
Trudeau started his trading career in the early 2000s and has overseen 10 global market launches including Instinet, Chi-X, IEX and most recently Tradewind.
==Video==
In 2016, Trudeau was featured in a video by IEX explaining high frequency trading and IEX's goal.
== Education ==
Trudeau holds a. bachelor of arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in the fields of sociology and anthropology and graduated cum laude. He also holds a masters of business administration from the University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business in the field of business administration.
== References ==	
Category:IEX Group - Former Employees
Category:Chi-X - Former Employees
Category:Instinet - Former Employees
Matt Wolfe

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Matt Wolfe is a Chicago-based derivatives executive who serves as an executive director for securities finance at the OCC.
== Background ==
Wolfe has been with the OCC since 2000. He previously served as vice president of business development and vice president for product development for the OCC.
== Education ==
Wolfe holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the field of economics. He also holds a masters of science degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology in the fiend of financial markets.
==Videos==
== References ==	
Category:Clearinghouse Executives
Matt Zachowski

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The late Matt Zachowski was the cofounder and senior consultant at Lansons Intermarket (formerly Intermarket Communications). He died in September 2021 at age 68 following a long-term illness.
Zachowski was previously managing partner and executive chairman at Intermarket Communications. He was with the company since its founding in 1986. 
Throughout his career, Zachowski served as a strategic advisor on communications issues to numerous market-leading companies offering trading products and services. Companies that he has advised over the years include Citibank, the New York Stock Exchange, SWIFT, The New York Mercantile Exchange, D.E. Shaw, and Thomson Financial.
== Background ==
Before the founding of Intermarket Communications, Zachowski served for six years as vice president of marketing for COMEX, where he helped to successfully launch options on futures contracts, as well as establishing a number of financial services marketing programs.
Before his time at COMEX, he was a precious metals analyst for E.F. Hutton & Co., which is now a part of Smith Barney.
== Education ==
Zachowski held a master of arts degree in Journalism from New York University.
== References ==
Matt Zaner

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Matt Zaner is president and CEO of Zaner Group, which was founded by his father Jack Zaner. 
== Background ==
Zaner joined Zaner Group in 1997 following experience working with technology and on options trading floors.
Upon the retirement of his father, Jack Zaner, he bought Zaner Group.
== Education ==
He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Arizona.
== References ==	
Category:Zaner Group
Category:Futures Commission Merchants
Matteo Carcano

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Matteo Carcano is a sales and business development executive in integrated technology services for the London Stock Exchange.
Formerly, he was chief operating officer at ORC. He began working there in March of 2004, and became the COO in January 2011. He left in August 2013.
== Background ==
Carcano started his career as a product specialist for DEC Italia from 1986 to 1991, then was sales support at ICL from 1991-1994. He then became a project manager at CedBorsa from 1994-2000. From 2000-2004 he was the General Manager for OM Technology, before moving to his current employer ORC. Starting as the general manager Italy, he became the EMEA President in January 2008, then became COO in January 2011. 
== Education ==
He earned his degree in physics at University of Milan.
== References ==	
Category:Orc Software - Former Employees
Matthew Andresen

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Matt Andresen is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Headlands Technologies. He is a former president of Citadel Execution Services, an affiliate of Citadel Investment Group, LLC. He stepped down in March of 2009. He was replaced by Andrew Kolinsky.
Citadel manages over $20 billion from its headquarters in Chicago and offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Tokyo. Citadel Execution Services routes 500,000 options contracts a day and executes over 100 million shares a day on behalf of retail brokerage firms. 
Andresen also served as co-CEO of Citadel’s derivatives group, with Dave Smith. 
== Background ==
Andresen spent almost five years with Citadel. He led Citadel's investments in the PHLX and BOX Exchanges. He served on the board of advisors of the PHLX prior to its acquisition by Nasdaq OMX and also served on the board of directors of Lava Trading, a New York-based trading technology company, until its sale to Citigroup. He also was a member of the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee.
Before joining Citadel in June of 2004, Andresen was president and CEO of Island ECN, the largest electronic stock market in the United States. As one of the first three employees at Island, he was responsible for all strategic and operational decisions. In June of 2002, Mr. Andresen affected the sale of Island to its largest competitor, Instinet, in a transaction valued at $568 million. After the merger, Andresen assumed the duties of chief operating officer for the combined ECN. 
While running Island, Andresen lived downtown in New York City at the time of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
In 1993, Andresen was a junior assistant on a commodities trading desk at Lehman Brothers.
Andresen has appeared as an expert before many congressional committees on subjects as diverse as Venture Capital in Biotechnology, the Future of Electronic Markets, the Impact of Technology on Commodity Markets, and the Effect of September 11 on Financial Markets. He is a regular commentator on various financial and news outlets. 
Andresen is a former world-class fencer who was a National Champion and an alternate for the 1996 U.S. Olympic fencing team.
Andresent and his wife have 3 biological and one adopted children, having adopted a 10 year-old Chinese girl from Hunan Province.
== Education ==
He grew up in Chapel Hill, N.C. and attended Duke University where he earned a bachelor of arts in economics and political science.
== Testimony ==
*STATEMENT OF MATT ANDRESEN ON BEHALF OF CITADEL INVESTMENT GROUP, L.L.C. BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CAPITAL MARKETS, INSURANCE, AND GOVERNMENT SPONSORED ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
*Statement of Matthew Andresen, President, The Island ECN, Senate Agriculture Committee September 23, 1999
== References ==
Category:Citadel
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Headlands Technologies
Matthew Ardizzone

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Matthew Ardizzone is global head of FX sales at R.J. O'Brien. He was appointed to that position in September of 2013. A 20-year veteran of the foreign exchange industry, Ardizzone is responsible for expanding the firm's institutional FX business, particularly among commodity trading advisors, hedge funds and FX portfolio managers.
He reports to Phillip Fondren, executive director and head of FX. 
== Background ==
Ardizzone was most recently executive director of FX Sales Nomura Securities in New York. He previously was global head of FX Sales at Jefferies Bache (formerly Prudential Bache). Before joining Prudential in 2005, he was the founder and CEO of Aurora Capital Management Ltd. Bermuda. 
He started in the FX business as a trader at Banque Indosuez in Sydney and then became a senior FX trader at Refco Capital Markets Bermuda.
== Education ==
Ardizzone is from Australia, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in economics and finance from the University of Western Sydney.
== References ==	
Category:FCM Executives
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC
Matthew B. Gelber

Matt Gelber is executive in residence at Technology Crossover Ventures. Previously, he was CEO of TradeLink Holdings LLC, a diversified investment, trading and software firm.
He is also president of Bitterroot Asset Management LLC.
In June, 2012, Gelber was appointed as a member of OCC's board of directors. 
== Background ==
Gelber joined TradeLink from the NYSE Group, where he headed its derivatives business, leading the acquisition and integration of the Pacific Exchange and Archipelago Holdings.
Before joining the NYSE, he held senior positions at Fidelity, including terms as COO of the firm's capital markets business, and senior vice-president and head trader of its proprietary trading unit. Gelber also worked at Merrill Lynch Specialists, Inc., the Boston Stock Exchange, and Josephthal & Co.
Gelber has served as a director of PCX Holdings Inc., parent of the Pacific Exchange, and on the board of the Options Clearing Corp., as well as working with several nonprofit organizations. 
== Education ==
He holds an MBA from the Boston University School of Management and a bachelor's degree in government and economics from Skidmore College.
== References ==	
Category:TradeLink - Former Employees
Category:Archipelago - Former Employees
Category:NYSE Euronext - Former Employees
Category:OCC
Category:Merrill Lynch - Former Employees
Category:Boston Stock Exchange - Former Employees
Matthew Benchener

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Matthew Benchener is currently managing director of Vanguard Personal Investor, a role he assumed in December 2020. He is responsible for serving millions of individual investors by providing direct access to Vanguard funds, brokerage services, IRAs, cash management, and education savings representing more than $2 trillion in assets. From 2017 to 2020, Benchener led Vanguard's Personal Investor Client Services and Operations.
Benchener is a member of the board of directors of SIFMA, a leading trade association for broker-dealers, investment banks and asset managers focused on building effective and resilient capital markets.
== Background ==
Benchener joined Vanguard in 2008, via its Acceleration Into Management (AIM) program, which provides a focused leadership pipeline into the organization through the development of highly motivated young talent that display management prowess. He has held several leadership positions, including chief marketing officer for the Personal Investor practice, and senior roles in the firm's Institutional Investor and Corporate Strategy groups.
== Education ==
Benchener earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
== References ==
Matthew Bishop

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Matthew Bishop is the US business editor and New York bureau chief for The Economist. He has authored and co-authored several books related to capitalism, and also philanthropy. His book IN GOLD WE TRUST: The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty, written with economist Michael Green, was the subject of a Five Minutes interview in April 2012.
== Background ==
Bishop was previously the business editor in the magazine's London office.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:The Economist
Category:Journalists
Matthew Brown

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Matthew Brown is a Florida-based technology and sales professional who currently serves as the director of sales and trading for Blue Ocean ATS. Browns career spans multiple decades and includes various roles in execution, technology, and trading. 
== Career ==
=== Early Career ===
Brown began his career on the Boston Stock Exchange in surveillance and ITS, where he gained valuable insights into the inner workings of the exchange. He then became a listed floor broker on the Boston Stock Exchange floor at Herzog Heine Geduld, further honing his skills in trading and execution.
=== NYFIX and the Development of ATS ===
Brown's career took a significant turn when he joined NYFIX, where he pioneered the development of the first Alternative Trading System (ATS), NYFIX Millennium. This innovative platform enabled the creation of one of the industry's first distributive FIX networks, connecting the buy-side to broker-dealers and all market centers. 
=== US Trust Piper Jaffray and Algorithmic Trading ===
Brown's next role was at US Trust Piper Jaffray, where he worked on the algorithmic and program trading desk. In this position, he implemented various technology-driven execution solutions for both broker-dealers and institutional clients.
=== tZero ATS and Blue Ocean ATS ===
Brown moved to the overnight trading desk at tZero ATS, which eventually evolved into the Blue Ocean ATS. T
== References ==	
Category:tZero - Former Employees
Category:Piper Jaffray - Former Employees
Category:NYFIX - Former Employees