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Chris Corrado

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Chris Corrado is the former group chief operating officer and groups chief information officer at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). He was named to those positions in November of 2015 and left the roles in 2020. He was also a member of the LSEG executive committee. 
Corrado joined the LSE from MSCI, where he was a managing director, responsible for technology, data services and program management, CIO/CTO, starting in 2013.
== Background ==
Corrado has more than 30 years of experience in managing technology platforms in the financial services industry. Before joining MSCI, he held a variety of senior CTO roles in leading banks, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS. He has also worked for technology companies as CTO at eBay, CIO at AT&T Wireless, and SVP of Technology, Strategic Initiatives and Business Architecture at Asurion. He began his career at IBM. 
== Education ==
He graduated with a B.S. in Management Information Systems & Business Administration from the University of New York at Albany.
== References ==
Chris Damilatis

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Chris Damilatis is a corporate vice president at ADM Investor Services. Previously, he was managing director, head of listed futures for Prudential Bache Commodities LLC. 
 
== Background ==
Damilatis told Risk News in 2008 that he welcomes the efficiencies produced by exchange consolidation, but he worries about how the exchanges are run. He said that its important to see good corporate behavior and that he and his colleagues applaud the synergies created by consolidation so long as the exchanges do not behave like monopolies. 
He previously served on the board director of the Futures Industry Association (FIA).
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:ADM Investor Services
Chris Derossi

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Chris Derossi is ceo and chief architect of CyberArts , a gaming software developer. Derossi was chief executive officer of independent software vendor and developer of trading software Trading Technologies for five months. 
His two-decade computer career includes stints at Apple Computer, where he was chief architect of the Macintosh operating system, as well as ePeople, which he founded. He has written for many computer magazines.
Derossi is cofounder of CyberArts Licensing. He is an avid poker player and is co-author of "Winning at Internet Poker For Dummies."
== Background ==
== Education ==
Derossi studied computer science at the University of California, Irvine.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:CEOs
Chris Flint

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Chris Flint is the president and CEO of ProEquities, an independent financial advisory and brokerage firm and subsidiary of Protective Life Corporation. 
He also serves as senior vice president for distribution companies for Protective Life Insurance Co.
Flint was elected to the board of Finra in August 2019, beating out the incumbent Andrew S. Duff. Flint's candidacy for the large-firm seat on the board was formally endorsed by the Financial Services Institute (FSI) and the Bank Insurance and Securities Association (BISA).
== Background ==
Flint has 23 years of experience in the financial industry. He is a former president of Lincoln Financial Services.
== Education ==
== References ==
Chris Friese

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Christine Friese is the director of human resources for Spot Trading LLC, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm.
== Background ==
Before joining Spot Trading, Friese was director of human resources for Research International from 2004 to 2008. She has also served as associate director of compensation for IRI and as a human resources director with Comdisco.
== Education ==
Friese holds a bachelors degree from Purdue University in Political Science.
== References ==
Category:Spot Trading
Chris Gale

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Chris Gale is the chief executive officer and managing director of Latin Resources Limited, an iron ore and gold exploration company based in Perth, Australia.
== Background ==
Gale established the company Peruvian Latin Resources SAC in Peru, South America in 2008. In September 2010, he was appointed as a managing director of Latin Resources Limited. His contract was extended in March 2012. Gale's accomplishments at Latin Resources include a successful, oversubscribed IPO and the delineation of a JORC Resource at the company’s Guadalupito Heavy Minerals Project in Peru. He has more than 20 years experience in both the public and private sectors and has founded a number of businesses.
== Education ==
== Interviews ==
*Five Minutes With Chris Gale, Latin Resources Limited
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Chris Gibson-Smith

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Chris Gibson-Smith is a banker and exchange executive who is the vice chairman of corporate solutions for Europe, Middle East and Afric for UBS.
Formerly, he was the chairman of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE), Europe's largest cash equities platform following its 2007 acquisition of Borsa Italiana. He took over the position in May 2003, two years after the LSE floated on its own market. He oversaw the group’s three largest purchases – Borsa Italiana in 2007, a majority stake in LCH.Clearnet in 2013, and the planned $2.7bn deal to buy Frank Russell Investments. He also helped to defend the exchange against repeated takeover attempts, starting with the move by Deutsche Boerse in late 2004 and repeated efforts by the Nasdaq.
On July 16, 2014, he announced that he would step down as chairman in 2015 after more than 11 years in the role. 
== Background ==
Gibson-Smith spent most of his early career in the energy business, joining British Petroleum - as the former state-owned company was then called - from university. He rose to become chief geologist and then group managing director of the privatized group - renamed BP - from 1997-2001.
He left BP in 2001 to become chairman of National Air Traffic Services, the privatized UK aviation administrator, a post he held until 2005, and was director of Lloyds TSB, the UK bank, from 1999 to 2005. He was a governor of the London Business School from 2005-2012, and a director of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority from 2006–2012. He was chairman of The British Land Company PLC, the UK’s second largest property group by market cap, from January 2007 – December 2012. 
Gibson-Smith succeeded Don Cruickshank as LSE chairman in May 2003.
== Education ==
Gibson-Smith has a BSc in Geology from Durham University (1967), a PhD in Geochemistry from Newcastle University (1970) and a Masters in Business from Stanford University (1985). He was a Sloan Fellow of the Stanford Business School (1984-85), and is an Honorary Fellow of University College, Durham.
== References ==	
category:Exchange Chairmen
Category:London Stock Exchange - Former Employees
Category:UBS
Category:BP - Former Employees
Category:Bios - Executives
Chris Grams

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Chris Grams is a corporate communications professional in Chicago. He is a former director of corporate communications for the CME Group, where he was responsible for commodity products.
== Background ==
Before joining the CME Group in 2010, Grams was a vice president of GolinHarris. He has also served as an account manager with Foxmark International in Tokyo.
== Education ==
Grams holds a bachelor of arts degree in international business, with a minor in Japanese, from Northwestern College.
== References ==	
Category:Corporate Communication Professionals
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Chris Haverkamp

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Chris Haverkamp is the founder and CEO of Paragon Investments. 
He has worked with and for several corporations in research, logistics, and origination of commodity products. Among these are Continental Grain, Kansas Wheat Commission, National Livestock Association, Kice Industries, and Land 'O Lakes. He provides fundamental and technical research for Bloomberg, DTN, Dow Jones, The Wall St. Journal, CNN and CNBC. Haverkamp sat on the board of directors for the NIBA (National Introducing Brokers Association) in Chicago for five years and on the National Futures Association's nominating committee for one year. He began trading in 1987 and founded Paragon Investments in 1996. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:National Introducing Brokers Association (NIBA)
Chris Haworth

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Chris Haworth is vice president of global support services for Trading Technologies International (TT).
Haworth oversees TT’s international customer support operations, including staff in North America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. He is responsible for customer support, quality assurance and education - including the management of TT’s around-the-clock CSC call centers, field support teams, online customer support initiatives and customer training programs.
== Background ==
 
Haworth, who comes from a family of traders, joined TT in 2002 as a director of professional services. At that time he managed TT's consulting and application development group. 
Prior to TT, Haworth was the support services manager in the U.S. for Patsystems, based in Chicago. Previously, he held positions in systems administration and branch management with Salomon Smith Barney, and he worked as a proprietary futures and options trader for Buck Trading Group.
== Education ==
Haworth received a B.A. degree from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA and has completed coursework at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL.
== References ==
Category:Trading Technologies
Category:Patsystems
Chris Jones

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Chris Jones was appointed chief risk officer for LME Clear, the London Metal Exchange's self-clearing program. He takes up that role in early 2013. 
== Background ==
He was previously a managing director and chief risk officer for LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd. During a 20-year career at LCH, he was at the forefront of developments in the risk and clearing space, including regulatory change, the launch of several clearing services in new markets and active management of major defaults such as Lehman Brothers and MF Global.
== Education ==
== References ==
Chris Kingsbury

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Chris Kingsbury is the chief architect officer at TradingScreen Inc.. He joined the company in 2000 and has headed the firm's development group since 2002. 
== Background ==
Kingsbury has extensive experience in the electronic trading space. He also spent about 4 years as a systems architect and developer in the aerospace industry. Prior to joining TradingScreen, Kingsbury was the assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo. He was responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the company's equity order management and real-time position systems. Before that, Kingsbury was a developer on NASA's EOS project from 1994-1997. He helped design and develop a data management system used to collect, process and archive the enormous steams of data from NASA's earth science satellites. 
== Education ==
Kingsbury received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from George Mason University.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Trading Screen
Chris LaRosa

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Chris LaRosa was named director, associations relations at CME Group on August 28, 2008.
LaRosa is responsible for CME's global association strategy and aligning its professional and industry associations with CME corporate initiatives with a goal of delivery value to customers.
He is member of the board of directors of the Washington, DC-based Commodity Markets Council.
 
== Background ==
Prior to joining CME Group, LaRosa, spent more than 10 years in stakeholder relations and the public sector in consulting and other roles. He most recently served as principal and practice leader with SRA International in Arlington, Va., where he led business development initiatives and provided consulting services in the areas of energy and environmental policy, including emerging carbon regulatory programs and markets. 
He also worked for the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and Office of Economic Development at James Madison University.
== Education ==
LaRosa earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Allegheny College, a master's degree in public administration from James Madison University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group
Category:Commodity Markets Council
Category:Commodity Markets Council Board
Chris Landis

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Chris Landis is head of IT at SIX Swiss Exchange. He took over that role on April 1, 2018, after having been division CEO at the company starting on November 12, 2015. He was previously head of the IT division of SWX Swiss Exchange. He works to provide services to the financial institutions based in Switzerland as well as SWX members across Europe.
== Background ==
Landis has been employed by the SWX Swiss Exchange and its predecessor organizations since 1993.
He has been in charge of the information technology division since 1999, with a major focus on developmental and external IT projects.
== Education ==
Landis graduated with a Type B Matura in Zurich in 1978. He also did some academic work in the areas of medicine, information technology and economics.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Ripple and the executive chairman of its board of directors.
== Background ==
Larsen was born in San Francisco, California. In 1984, he graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in accounting and finance. Soon after earning his degree, he began working as an international auditor for Chevron's South American operations.
In 1996, he founded E-Loan, one of the first online mortgage lending service providers in the U.S. He ran the company as CEO until it was purchased in 2005. He then founded a peer-to-peer lending service called the Prosper Marketplace, which he ran as CEO until 2012.
In August 2012 he co-founded Ripple with Jed McCaleb. He worked for the company as CEO until he stepped down in 2016, naming Brad Garlinghouse in his place. Larsen took on the role of executive chairman of Ripple's board of directors instead.
As of January 2018, Larsen personally held over 5 billion XRP, the native digital token of Ripple. He also had a 17 percent stake in the company. This made him one of the 15 richest people in the U.S.
== Education ==
Chris Larsen graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in accounting and finance in 1984. In 1991, he graduated with an MBA from Stanford University School of Business.
== References ==	
Category: digital assets
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: altcoins
Category: People
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
Chris Lee

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Christopher Mark Lee is a financial technology executive with extensive experience in global markets, particularly in Asia. He currently serves as the chief commercial officer at Bilby AI, a company specializing in regulatory intelligence and analysis.
Lee was a founding trustee of Futures For Kids.
== Background ==
Lee has over two decades of experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on electronic trading, market structure, and fintech. He has held leadership positions at major financial institutions and exchanges, contributing to the development of electronic trading infrastructure in Asia.
=== Bilby AI (2024-Present) ===
In 2024, Lee joined Bilby AI as the chief commercial officer. Bilby AI is a company that uses artificial intelligence to analyze government regulations and policies, providing insights for financial and business decision-making.
=== Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) (2016-2024) ===
Lee served as the managing director and head of markets at HKEX. In this role, he was responsible for cash, derivatives, and commodities markets, as well as market data and connectivity. He left HKEX in June of 2024.
=== ABN AMRO Clearing (2010-2016) ===
At ABN AMRO Clearing, Lee held the position of global head of execution services. He was responsible for the firm's global execution business across all asset classes.
=== RTS Realtime Systems (2000-2010) ===
Lee worked at RTS Realtime Systems for a decade, serving as the managing director for Asia Pacific. He was instrumental in establishing and growing the company's presence in the region.
===Others===
Lee also worked for NatWest and Barclays as a sales trader.
== References ==	
Category:Fintech
Category:Electronic Trading
Category:Market Structure
Category:Bilby AI
Category:Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Category:Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited - Former Employees
Category:ABN AMRO Clearing
Category:ABN AMRO Clearing - Former Employees
Category:RTS Realtime Systems
Category:RTS Realtime Systems - Former Employees
Chris Mayer

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Chris Mayer is a Senior Technical Analyst at PRIME Analytics, LLC, makers of the option valuation and pricing application ProOpticus.
== Background ==
Mayer is a former system developer and support specialist in the IT department of Sears Holdings Corp. He spent four years trading/clerking in the futures markets at the CBOT.
== Education ==
Mayer received a B.S. from Penn State University in 1997 and an
MBA from Depaul University (in Chicago) in 2007.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Technical Analyst
Category:PRIME Analytics
Category:PRIME Analytics
Chris McIsaac

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Chris McIsaac currently serves as managing director of the International Division of The Vanguard Group, a role he assumed in January 2021. The division provides investments to institutions, financial advisors and individual clients in more than 80 countries around the world.
From 2015 to 2020, McIsaac was head of Vanguard's Planning and Development group, now known as the Strategy, Product, Marketing, Communications group. Before that, he was head of the Institutional Investor group.
McIsaac is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Franklin Institute. He also is a member of the Saint Joseph's University Board of Trustees.
== Background ==
McIsaac joined Vanguard as a business analyst in 1997.
== Education ==
McIsaac earned a BS from Saint Joseph's University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. 
== References ==
Chris McMahon

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Chris McMahon is a Chicago-based financial journalist and marketing professional who serves as a senior marketing manager at EIS Group Ltd.
He is a former editor of the John Lothian Newsletter - Metals Edition and a former member of the MarketsWiki Development Team.
== Background ==
McMahon was previously a manager and analyst for Duck Creek Technologies. He has also served as a managing editor for Reverb.com
He was previously senior associate editor at Futures Magazine. He began at Futures Magazine in February of 2005. His respective reporting beat included writing feature stories on the markets, news reporting and managing book and software reviews. 
At Futures, McMahon wrote the monthly "Markets" feature, as well as "Hot Commodities," “Trading Places,” and “New for Traders.” He contributed to "Trendlines," and "International News," and was also Futures book review and online editor.
In the winter of 2004, McMahon was a Capital Hill correspondent and covered the 2004 midterm elections and other issues for the Times of Northwest Indiana. He also covered the beverage industry for TNWI and other Chicago newspapers.
For a decade he was a sales and marketing professional in the technology industry, where he worked for both large firms and start ups, and served as the business development manager for a software company in the Netherlands. 
== Education ==
Prior to joining Futures, McMahon earned a Master of Science in journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he concentrated on business reporting and new media production. 
He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Michigan State University, where he studied contemporary American literature and creative writing, as well as philosophy and studio art. 
== Personal ==
He is married and has a child, is an avid reader and photographer, and has accumulated a large library of music and books.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:MarketsWiki Dev Team Alumni
Category:John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. - Former Employees
Category:John J. Lothian & Company, Inc.
Category:Futures Magazine - Former Employees
Category:Futures Magazine
Category:Insurance Networking News
Chris Pento

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Chris Pento is a New York-based American business executive and entrepreneur, who is the co-founder and CEO of Clear Street, a financial technology company. 
On September 5, 2024, Clear Street announced that Pento would depart his CEO role at Clear Street at the end of the year and assume an executive and partner role at White Bay, the family office of Clear Street Co-Founder Uriel Cohen. Pento will remain on Clear Street's board of directors.
== Background ==
Pento's experience in the financial services industry spans over three decades. His career includes:
*Merrill Lynch: Vice President of Operations from January 1989 to February 2002.
*Knight Capital Group: Managing Director of Global Operations from February 2002 to June 2014.
*Arxis Capital Group LLC: Chief Operating Officer from July 2014 to March 2016.
*Engineers Gate LP: Chief Operating Officer of EG Market Technologies from March 2016 to November 2017.
*Exos Financial: Managing Director and Head of Global Operations from November 2017 to August 2018.
=== Clear Street ===
In September of 2018, Pento co-founded Clear Street, a modern financial infrastructure company focused on providing capital markets services including clearing, custody, execution, and prime brokerage.
As CEO, he led the company to significant growth. Clear Street was valued at $2 billion in 2023. The company has raised close to $600 million in equity and debt from investors including Prysm Capital, NextGen Venture Partners, and IMC Investments.
== Education ==
Pento holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and finance from Rutgers University, which he attended from 1984 to 1988.
== References ==	
Category:Merrill Lynch - Former Employees
Category:KCG - Former Employees
Chris Schellhorn

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Chris Schellhorn is the chairman and CEO of Confirmation.com, the Tennessee-based electronic auditing service. He previously served as managing director of Integrion Financial Network, an online banking platform owned by 18 of the world's largest banks, IBM, and VISA International.
At a July 26, 2012, CFTC Technology Advisory Committee meeting, Schellhorn presented a proposed solution that addresses the issues recently surfaced from the $200 million Peregrine Financial Group (PFGBest) fraud.
== Background ==
Prior to Integrion, Schellhorn was the president and CEO of VISA Interactive, VISA International's wholly-owned online banking and bill payment subsidiary. He has experience in commercial banking, online banking and bill payment, and managing technology businesses. 
Schellhorn is a retired Naval Officer and was an assistant professor at the University of Rochester's College of Arts and Sciences.
== Education ==
Schellhorn completed his MBA at The Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester and received an AB in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.
== References ==
Category:Auditors
Category:Confirmation.com
Category:Bios - Executives
Chris Smith

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Chris Smith is the chief executive officer of Clear Street Futures, the futures clearing division of Clear Street. He joined the firm in August of 2023 from ED&F Man Group, where he founded ED&F Man Capital Markets, a futures clearing merchant he built from scratch. He had served as global CEO at ED&F Man Capital Markets.
== Background ==
Earlier, he served as global chief operating officer and deputy CEO of Man Financial. He has more than 30 years of experience in the capital markets sector.
== Education ==
== References ==