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Anita S. Liskey

Anita S. Liskey is senior managing director, global brand marketing and communications with CME Group. She is responsible for managing corporate marketing and communications efforts to promote the CME brand worldwide. 
In addition, she serves as president of FuturesFundamentals.org, an online CME Group resource designed to simplify and explain complex market topics. FuturesFundamentals.org is supported by CME Group, the FIA, NFA, the Institute for Financial Markets (IFM), and the CFTC. She also is a former board member of the CME Group Foundation.
Liskey is an active community volunteer. In May of 2021, she was elected to serve as Clerk of Wheatland Township in Will County, Illinois where she has resided for almost 20 years. 
She also has demonstrated a strong commitment to the arts, having previously served as a board member of the Grant Park Orchestral Association and, more recently, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 
 
== Background ==
Before joining CME in 2002, Liskey held communications leadership roles with T. Rowe Price, Wells Fargo, and the Chicago Board of Trade. She also held account management roles at Financial Shares Corp. and Manning, Selvage & Lee. 
== Education ==
Liskey received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northern Illinois University.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group Senior Management
Category:CME Group
Category:Corporate Communication Professionals
Category:Former CBOT Staff
Ankur Kamalia

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Ankur Kamalia has been a managing director of Deutsche Boerse since November 2015 and serves as the managing director, head of venture portfolio management at DB1 Ventures. 
== Background ==
He was previously employed at Polygon Investment Partners LLP. Prior to this, he was an executive director at UBS Investment Bank, an executive director of alternative capital markets at UBS Securities LLC and an executive director of equity capital markets at UBS Securities LLC.
== Education ==
Kamalia attended Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Mumbai and Sydenham College.
== References ==
Ann Dennison

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Ann Dennison is vice president, controller and chief accounting officer at Nasdaq. She has been with Nasdaq since 2015.
On March 1, 2021, Dennis will take over as chief financial officer, succeeding Michael Ptasznik, who will retire at the end of February after four years as CFO.
== Background ==
Starting in 2017, Dennison has led an effort to modernize Nasdaq’s financial and reporting infrastructure, including developing an automation program, according to the Wall Street Journal. Dennison also has overseen the company’s financial planning and analysis.
She has over 19 years of experience in financial reporting and analysis. She previously served at Goldman Sachs as managing director and as head of financial reporting.
== Education ==
She holds a BBA and MBA, Accounting and Finance from Pace University - Lubin School of Business.
== References ==
Ann E. Berg

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Ann E. Berg is a senior consultant for United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (UN-FAO).
She has worked as an independent consultant with Financial Markets International, Inc.
 
== Background ==
Berg began her career as a grain exporter, engaging in international contract negotiations, hedging, execution, shipping, arbitrage, cost/risk analysis, and physical swaps. 
In 1982, Berg became a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and operated as an independent futures trader for 18 years. She was elected twice to the board of directors of the CBOT and served on the executive committee of the National Grain Trade Council in Washington D.C. 
Berg has advised foreign governments, the United Nations, Catalyst Institute, and multinational and foreign corporations on a variety of market related issues. Since 2000, Berg has served as an arbiter for the North American Export Association. She has worked on commodity/capital markets projects in Turkey, Puerto Rico, United Arab Emirates, Canada and most recently India as a member of the FMI’s B.A. (international relations), Johns Hopkins UniversityCommodity Futures Market Project team. In 2007, she organized a commodity exchange conference for the UN-FAO in Istanbul that included participants from dozens of countries. 
Berg has written for various media outlets, and is an exhibiting artist. She has worked on a body of work entitled The Unknown Unknowns – The Things You Don’t Know You Don’t Know, which explores U.S. national security policy.
In 2008, she was quoted in a media story as saying that unchecked and poorly regulated speculation was one of many distortive forces driving commodity markets higher than they would go if supply and demand were the only factors, but that government efforts to rectify those forces often created more distortion.
== Education ==
She received a B.A. degree from from Carleton College.
== References ==
Category:Former CBOT Board Member
Ann M. Cresce

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Ann M. Cresce is the general counsel and head of compliance for the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange. Cresce came to HKMerc from the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), where she served as senior vice president and general counsel.
== Background ==
She also served as director of compliance and assistant general counsel for InterContinentalExchange (ICE) prior to joining the Chicago Climate Exchange CCX. Additionally, she served as corporate secretary/director of shareholder relations at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
Cresce has also held senior positions with Carr Futures, Inc. and with the Chicago Board of Trade and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Prior to CCX, Cresce was director of compliance and assistant general counsel at Intercontinental Exchange, and was previously Corporate Secretary/Director, Shareholder Relations for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where she was part of the demutualization and IPO teams. Ms Cresce held senior management legal/regulatory positions with Carr Futures Inc. and with the Chicago Board of Trade and held a regulatory role at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
== Education ==
Cresce holds a juris doctor from the Chicago-Kent College of Law and is admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and the State of Illinois Bar. She also holds a bachelor of science degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She serves on the advisory board of the Center for International Business Education and Research at the University of Illinois. Cresce was appointed to the Compliance Curriculum Advisory Board at Chicago-Kent. She was also selected to the DirectWomen Institute of 2011, an organization honoring women in corporate governance and board work.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange
Category:Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange
Category:General Counsels
Category:Compliance Professionals
Ann Mulholland

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Ann Mulholland is the chief information officer at Penson Futures. Her responsibilities include developing new products and improving the client experience. 
== Background ==
Prior to joining Penson Futures, Mulholland was the Executive Director of Client Solutions at JP Morgan Futures. She also held senior level roles in technology and operations at Cargill Investor Services, focusing on client driven solutions. 
== Education ==
Mulholland received her Bachelor's of Science with a focus on Finance in 1984 and graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1999. 
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Mulholland participated in the MarketsWiki Questions: Exploring Financial Technology interactive video series. See her responses to the following questions:
*Q1: What is the single greatest opportunity for technology in the financial markets? (June 1, 2011)
*Q2: Where is money wasted, lost or inefficient in the transaction chain and how can technology fix it? (June 22, 2011)
== Resources ==
LinkedIn Profile
== References ==
Ann Sacra

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Ann Sacra is the president and chief operating officer of the Nodal Exchange.
== Background ==
Sacra has been at Nodal Exchange since 2007, developing all aspects of the business. Before joining Nodal, Sacra was a partner at Spheric Capital and a manager at Dean and Company.
== Education ==
Sacra holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Ann Saphir

Ann Saphir is a reporter with Thomson Reuters, covering exchanges and financial markets. She started at Thomson Reuters in January 2010.
== Background ==
Previously, she worked as a senior reporter with Crain's Chicago Business, covering financial exchanges and the media industry, a position she has held since 2006. 
Before that, Saphir was a reporter with Bloomberg, from 2000 to 2006.
== Education ==
 
She received a bachelor of arts in East Asian Studies from Harvard in 1989 and an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles - School of Public Health in 1998.
 
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Thomson Reuters
Category:Crain's - Former Employees
Category:Crain's
Category:Bloomberg - Former Employees
Category:Bloomberg
Ann Shuman

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Ann Shuman is general counsel at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). She was promoted to that position on February 1, 2017, taking over from Larry Thompson, who stepped down to serve full-time as vice chairman of DTCC.
Shuman was previously DTCC's managing director and deputy general counsel. 
As general counsel, she is responsible for advising senior management and the DTCC Board of Directors on legal and regulatory matters. She will also join the firm’s management committee and continue to oversee its global legal team. 
Shuman is also a member of the board of OneChicago.
== Background ==
Shuman was previously managing director and deputy general counsel at the CME Group, a position she held since 2007. Before joining CME in 2000, Shuman served as an attorney in the derivatives and investment products group of Sidley & Austin in Chicago. 
== Education ==
Shuman earned a bachelor's degree in English from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX and a JD degree from the University of Chicago.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Legal
Category:University of Chicago
Category:Lawyers
Anna Irrera

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Anna Irrera is a New York-based journalist how is a fintech correspondent at Thomson Reuters.
== Background ==
Irrera joined Thomson Reuters in late 2016 after covering fintech for more than three years at Financial News, a Dow Jones newspaper in London, where she played a key role in the publication’s expanded fintech coverage. She joined Dow Jones as an online reporter for Financial News in 2012 after having moved to the UK from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she worked at Reuters’ English language international service. 
In between journalism school and law school, she worked at the Italian national publication ItaliaOggi, covering law and taxes.
Irrera is the author of “Prendo a calci il sole- Bahia, i bambini, la strada,” 13 true stories of Brazilian meninos de rua (children of the street), a project she began while a visiting student at Harvard University in 2007. She is fluent in English, Italian and Portuguese.
== Education ==
She holds an M.S. degree (with honors) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and a graduate degree in law from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
==MarketsWiki Education==
Irrera participated in the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in New York in July of 2017.
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Fintech
Category:MarketsWiki Education
Category:Dow Jones - Former Employees
Anna M. Ewing

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Anna Ewing is the executive vice president and chief information officer at Nasdaq OMX. She is responsible for global software development, global IT services and market technology. 
== Background ==
Ewing has 25 years of experience with financial services technology. She led a team that re-platformed Nasdaq's technology after the acquisitions of the Boston Exchange and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. She also played a role in launching a multi-lateral trading facility in London and prepared the Nordic markets for their move to the INET platform after the acquisition of OMX. 
Prior to joining Nasdaq, Ewing was the managing director of global application services at CIBC World Markets in New York and Toronto as well as a founding member of CIBC.com. Before that, she served as vice president at Merrill Lynch.
== Education ==
Ewing graduated from Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. 
== References ==
Anna Manz

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Anna Manz is the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Nestlé. She joined the company in that role in March of 2024. Previously, she was the chief financial officer of LSEG from November 2020 to March 2024. She was also on the board of LSEG plc. as a director.
 
== Background ==
Earlier, Manz served as chief financial officer and executive director of ICE Johnson Matthey PLC for over four years, leading its finance, procurement and IT functions. 
Before this, Manz spent 17 years at ICE Diageo PLC in a number of senior finance roles, including chief strategy officer and member of the executive committee, finance director of Spirits North America, group treasurer and chief financial officer, Asia Pacific. 
She also served as a non-executive director of ITV plc. 
== Education ==
Manz holds a BA and MA in chemistry from the University of Oxford.
== References ==	
Category:LSEG - Former Employees
Anna Schwartz

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Anna Schwartz was a well-known U.S. economist. She spent her career at the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York. She co-authored books with Milton Friedman about monetary policy. She passed away at the age of 96 in 2012. 
== Background ==
She is considered a pioneering monetarist and was one of the founders, in 1973, of the Shadow Open Market Committee.
The first book Schwartz wrote with Friedman was “A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960." Published in 1963, the book advanced the idea that the Great Depression had been triggered by the central bank’s reduction in the U.S. money supply from 1928 until the early 1930s. That contradicted the prevailing view that it had resulted from the 1929 stock-market crash. In all, Schwartz wrote or edited nine books on monetary policy, including three with Friedman. Friedman won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for work that included his projects with Schwartz.
== Education ==
Schwartz graduated from Barnard College and went on to earn her Master’s Degree in economics from Columbia University. 
== References ==
Category:Deceased
Category:Economists
Category:Bios - Executives
Anna Watson

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Anna Watson is a London-based communications professional who is the director of communications for Fidelity International, a role she assumed in 2023. She spent the previous year in corporate communications with the RBC Royal Bank of Canada. From 2020 to 2023, she was managing director of her own firm Watson Wordsmith.
== Background ==
From 2016 to 2020, Watson served as head of communications for the World Federation of Exchanges.
Between 2010 and 2016, she served as head of communications of Belron, vice president of communications for Barclays Wealth and Investment Management and associate director with Capital MSL in Dubai and Mumbai. 
From 2006 until 2010, she was an associate director of Greentarget Global Group and, in 2005, a PR and media relations officer for Deutsche Bank.
She has also served as an account manager with Weber Shandwick Square Mile.
== Education ==
Watson earned a degree in anthropology from the University of Durham.
== References ==	
Category:World Federation of Exchanges - Former Employees
Category:Barclays - Former Employees
Category:Deutsche Bank - Former Employees
Annabelle Baldwin

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Annabelle Baldwin is a business executive and the chief revenue officer at Spider Rock Trading, a financial technology company specializing in algorithmic stock and options trading platforms..
== Background ==
=== Career ===
Baldwin leads business development and strategic planning at Spider Rock, leveraging her extensive experience in exchanges, global banks, brokerage, and trading firms.
Spider Rock's client base and product offerings have developed new tools for institutional clients, including a block trading platform and an options trading system designed to serve a broader set of institutional clients during her tenure at Spider Rock..
Baldwin has also overseen Spider Rock's expansion into new markets, including the development of execution techniques for options on futures and the launch of a concierge desk in New York City to facilitate the transition of institutional clients from high-touch to automated low-touch workflows.
=== Recognition ===
In 2023, Baldwin was recognized for her contributions to the financial industry, receiving the Excellence in Business Development Award at the Women in Finance Awards.
== Education ==
Baldwin holds degrees in agronomy engineering from Ecole Supérieure d'Agriculture, France, and a Master of Science in ag-business from Illinois State University.
== References ==	
Category:Women Executives
Category:Options Trading
Category:Financial Services
Category:Trading
Category:Technology
Anne Byerwalter

Anne Byerwalter is a vice president at JP Morgan Chase and president of the Chicago Division of the Futures Industry Association. 
== Background ==
Byerwalter was previously director of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Before joining Citigroup, she worked at GL Trade as a senior project manager from 2004-2005. She was also a vice president at Morgan Stanley for 20 years, from 1984 - 2004.
Byerwalter sits on the Board of Directors for Women In Listed Derivatives. 
== Education ==
She graduated from St. Joseph's College with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics. She went on to receive her MBA from National - Louis University.
== Resources == 
*LinkedIn Profile
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Women in Listed Derivatives
Anne S. Polaski

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Anne S. Polaski is special counsel for the division of clearing and risk at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
==Background==
Before joining the CFTC, Polaski was an associate director and regulatory counsel at the CME Group Inc. Polaski also served on the NFA Educational/Testing Advisory Committee and on the NFA Hearing Committee.
Polaski has also been an associate attorney at Gottleib and Schwartz, practicing before federal and state courts, the SEC, NFA, NASD and the American Arbitration Association.
She had also served a previous tenure with the CFTC from 1980 to 1988 as a deputy regional counsel.
Polaski served as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Carlisle E. Pratt, Superior Court Judge, District of Columbia
==Education==
She holds a bachelor of arts from Allegheny College in psychology. She also holds a masters of science in social work from the University of Pennsylvania and a juris doctor from The George Washington University Law School.
==References==
Category:CFTC
Category:NFA Educational/Testing Advisory Committee
Category:NFA Hearing Committee
Anne Stiles Bagan

Anne Stiles Bagan was a financial services executive and Certified Public Accountant who served as a managing director at CME Group before her retirement. She had a long career in the futures industry, particularly focused on clearing and risk management.
She died in October of 2024.
== Background ==
Bagan joined the CME in 1998 and before that held auditing and accounting roles for Arthur Andersen and Saul Stone & Company. She was married to Mark G. Bagan, the late CEO of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
She served as a managing director for audits at the CME Group. She was promoted to the position in February of 2008. She was responsible for overseeing the CME Group's clearing house audit function.
During her time at CME Group, Bagan was involved in various industry initiatives related to clearing and risk management. In 2012, she participated in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission roundtable discussion on customer protection in the futures markets, representing CME Group's perspective as a derivatives clearing organization.
== Education ==
She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Iowa. She was a Certified Public Accountant.
== References ==	
Category:CME Group - Former Employees
Category: CME Group
Category:Saul Stone - Former Employees
Category:Arthur Andersen
Category:Arthur Andersen - Former Employees
Category:CPAs
Category:Clearing
Category:Risk Management
Annette Nazareth

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Annette Nazareth is a partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardell She also serves as a director for the Managed Funds Association. 
== Background ==
Nazareth has done legal work for the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Wall Street’s biggest lobbying group. She is married to Roger Ferguson, a former Federal Reserve vice chairman and the current president and chief executive of TIAA-CREF. 
A former commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nazareth left the SEC in January 2008. As a commissioner, she focused on systemic risks to the markets posed by securities firms and traders such as hedge funds. Nazareth participated in 2007 in an SEC review of whether Wall Street investment banks set strict enough limits on the loans they make to hedge funds. 
Nazareth also advocated for a merger of the NASD with most of the New York Stock Exchange’s regulatory arm, eventually approved by the SEC and formed as The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), in July 2007.
Before becoming a commissioner in 2005, Nazareth ran the SEC Division of Market Regulation, which oversees brokerage firms, market surveillance and stock exchanges. She led the unit in 2004 when it designed a program to monitor whether Wall Street’s five biggest securities firms had adequate capital and liquidity. Prior to joining the SEC, Nazareth held several positions in the financial services industry. 
== Education ==
Nazareth has an A.B., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. She received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar.
== References ==
Category:MFA Board Member
Category:Bios - Executives
Annie Ropar

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Annie Ropar is the Chief Financial Officer of Aequitas Innovations Inc. and has been with the company since its inception. She is also the managing director of global equities at RBC Capital Markets where she is responsible for business management and strategy execution for the institutional sales and trading side of the business. 
Annie Ropar began her career at Deloitte & Touche in Toronto. And then she spent 7 years at CIT Group Inc. as senior vice president and group CFO of structured finance division. Ropar joined RBC in 2005 originally as director of finance supporting the capital partners and strategic transactions portfolios. She used to serve as a partner with RBC Capital Partners and she is currently responsible for managing the Global Investment Banking Private Equity Fund portfolio in addition to select companies in RBC's direct investment portfolio. 
Annie Ropar is a CA, CMA and also holds a US CPA designation. In addition, she is a director on several corporate boards, such as Foragen Technologies Management Inc. and the board of directors of Women in Capital Markets as Treasurer since 2008.
== References ==