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Eric Aldous

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Eric Aldous is managing director and global head of clearing services and futures at RBC Capital Markets. He has been in that role since 1999. 
== Background ==
Before joining the futures business, Aldous was head of due diligence and fund research for the Alternative Asset Group (AAG), which provides fund linked derivatives and credit to hedge fund portfolios. Aldous joined RBC Capital Markets in 1999 as part of Group Risk Management in Toronto. 
== Education ==
Aldous has a Bachelor of Commerce from Dalhousie University.
== References ==	
Category:Risk Management Professionals
Eric Bolling

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Eric Thomas Bolling (born March 2, 1963) is an American conservative political commentator, television personality, author, and former commodities trader. He has worked as a financial commentator for various television networks, most notably Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
== Early Life and Career ==
Bolling was born in Chicago and attended Loyola Academy for high school. He graduated from Rollins College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 22nd round of the 1984 MLB draft but his baseball career was cut short due to a rotator cuff injury.
==Trading Career==
Bolling worked as a commodities trader on Wall Street and served as a board member of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) for five years, later becoming a strategic advisor to the exchange.
== Television Career ==
=== CNBC and Fox News ===
Bolling joined CNBC as a panelist on the show "Fast Money" before moving to Fox News in 2008 as a financial analyst. At Fox News, he co-hosted "Happy Hour" and later "The Five" and "Cashin' In" on Fox Business Network. He was an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump and interviewed him multiple times during his presidency.
In 2017, Bolling was ousted from Fox News after an investigation into allegations that he sent unsolicited lewd photos and messages to female colleagues, which he denied. Fox News and Bolling "agreed to part ways amicably."
=== TheBlaze and Sinclair Broadcasting ===
After leaving Fox News, Bolling joined TheBlaze in 2018 to host the show "America." In 2019, he began hosting the Sunday morning talk show "America This Week" for Sinclair Broadcast Group. At Sinclair, he promoted baseless claims of voter fraud related to mail-in voting.
=== Newsmax TV ===
In 2021, Bolling launched the weeknight show "Eric Bolling The Balance" on Newsmax TV. He left Newsmax in 2024.
=== Personal Life ===
Bolling is Catholic and lives in Boca Raton, Florida. His son Eric Chase Bolling died of an accidental drug overdose in 2017 at age 19, on the same day Bolling departed Fox News.
== References ==	
Category:NYMEX - Former Members
Category:Journalists
Category:TV Personalities
Eric Bommensath

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Eric Bommensath was managing director and head of markets for Barclays from October of 2012 to January 2015, when he stepped down. He was hired as part of a restructuring of the company. 
== Background ==
Bommensath joined Barclays in London in 1997 as head of derivatives, Europe. He was appointed head of fixed income in 2002. Between 2006 and August 2010, he was based in New York and held the additional position of head of trading, Americas. He relocated back to London in September 2010 as head of FICC. In this role, he was responsible for the Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Emerging Markets and Prime Services trading businesses globally. He also had responsibility for all trading in the EMEA region. 
Before joining Barclays, Bommensath spent eight years at Bankers Trust in London, Tokyo and Paris. A French national, he began his career trading French government bonds before moving to European fixed income derivatives in 1991. He was appointed a managing director of Bankers Trust in 1995.
== Education ==
Bommensath studied Science at École Polytechnique in Paris and Engineering at École Ponts et Chaussées.
== References ==
Category: Bios - Executives
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Eric C. Bettelheim

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Eric C. Bettelheim is Executive Chairman and General Counsel at Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd, in London. 
 
A founder of SFM, Bettelheim is a commercial lawyer and a specialist in the law of financial institutions. His clients have included investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, commodities dealers, securities brokers, securities and derivatives exchanges throughout the world.
Mr Bettelheim has published many articles and papers on the subjects of financial law and regulation, as well as environmental markets and climate change. He is co-editor and contributor to a seminal work on carbon sequestration published by The Royal Society. His work on commodity and derivative markets has been published by many leading journals including International Financial Law Review and Euromoney. He has chaired and presented at numerous conferences and symposiums.
 
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Eric Chern

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Eric Hilton Chern is an Chicago-based American businessman and co-founder of Chicago Trading Company (CTC), a prominent derivatives trading firm based in Chicago, Illinois. He served as the CEO of CTC from 2009 to 2019. He was replaced by Daniel Feuser.
Chern also serves on the board of directors of the Commodity Markets Council. 
Chern serves as the vice-chair of FINCA, an international micro-finance organization that provides financial services to the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs, helping them to create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. 
He also serves on the board of advisors at the University of Illinois' Master of Science in Financial Engineering program. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors of A Better Chicago, a venture philanthropy firm that invests in the most promising nonprofits helping children escape poverty. 
== Background ==
Chern co-founded Chicago Trading Group, LLC in 1995, along with other partners. Under his leadership as CEO, CTC grew into a leading provider of liquidity and pricing on numerous derivatives exchanges globally, actively trading across various asset classes, including equities, interest rates, and commodities. 
Chern co-founded Chicago Trading Company ("CTC") in 1995. CTC is an industry leader in analytics-based options and derivatives trading and risk management with offices in Chicago, London, and Hong Kong. He established the firm's Global Risk Management function and has been involved in the financial markets since 1992. Previously, Chern traded US equity index options at O'Connor & Associates/Swiss Bank Corporation.
He serves on CTC's board of directors and focuses on the company's external engagement, advocacy, and corporate citizenship efforts. During his tenure as CEO from 2009 to 2019, he led CTC's growth and expansion.
=== Involvement and Affiliations ===
Chern serves as a manager at CTC Holdings, LP, the parent company of Chicago Trading Group, LLC. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Commodity Markets Council (CMC), a trade association representing firms involved in the trading of commodity futures and derivatives
In his personal capacity, Chern has made significant political donations, with the largest reported donation of $126,950 to the Republican Party.
==Video==
Chicago Trading Company 20th Anniversary Video
== Education ==
Chern holds a Bachelor of Science degree in General Engineering from the University of Illinois. 
== References ==	
Category:Commodity Markets Council - Board Members
Eric Cott

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Eric Cott is a Boca Raton, Florida-based business development professional who serves as the director of sales marketing for RIA Database. He previoiusly served as a the publisher for conferences and media for Financial Advisor Magazine. 
He has also served as vice president of business development at Tidal Financial Group and worked in institutional sales at Interactive Brokers from November 2020 to May 2022. 
Earlier, he served as director, financial adviser education for the Options Industry Council (OIC), responsible for expanding OIC's outreach to financial advisers. He also participated in conference panel discussions, presents adviser-oriented educational seminars, and guides the development of options curricula and content for advisers on the OIC website.
== Background ==
Over the last 22 years, Cott has supported financial advisers through different roles. Before joining OIC, he was a regional vice president and retirement income consultant at Sunlife Financial Distributors Inc., where he identified and cultivated new business, increasing assets and revenue share. Prior to that, Cott spent the majority of his investment career as a producing manager and assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., where he built and maintained a successful wealth management practice. He has also operated his own consulting practice, Cott Consulting.
== Education ==
Cott holds a BA from University of Wisconsin Madison and the CRPC designation from the College of Financial Planning.​
== Video ==
Cott was interviewed for the Options Discovery video series by Asma Awas about how liquidity, market volatility, and technology. affect the role of market makers in the options industry.
== References ==	
Category:OIC - Former Employees
Category:Merrill Lynch - Former Employees
Category:Interactive Brokers - Former Employees
Eric Crampton

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Eric Crampton is senior vice president and chief technology officer at Cboe Global Markets, reporting to Chris Isaacson. He was promoted to the role in January 2017, and was senior vice president and global head of software engineering. 
== Background ==
Crampton joined Cboe in 2017 after the exchange acquired Bats. He joined Bats, in 2008 and led the Bats' exchange technology team and the integration of Bats' technology with Chi-X Europe and Direct Edge. 
Prior to joining Bats, he served in management roles at Amazon and Automated Trading Desk.
== Education ==
== References ==
Eric Delain

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Eric Delain is the corporate counsel and chief regulatory officer of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX).
== Background ==
Before joining MGEX, Delain was on the staff of CPA Global. He was also an associate attorney with Faegre & Benson LLP. 
He has also worked for Ernst & Young and Charles Schwab.
== Education ==
Delain hods a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Valparaiso University and a juris doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:MGEX
Category:Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Eric Detterman

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Eric Detterman is the CTO of Green Key Technologies. He has held the position since 2013, when he helped found the company.
== Background ==
Eric is a VoIP technologist with 15 years of experience managing global development teams. He has designed and developed non-linear, quantitative trading systems. He began his career as a business analyst in 2004, working for Soltec, Inc. before moving on to The Dolan Company in 2006. In 2011, he founded Solid Logic Technology Inc., where he served as CEO until 2014. In 2013, he helped found Green Key Technologies, and began his tenure as CTO.
== Education ==
Detterman has a bachelor's degree in Economics from Oakland University.
== References ==
Eric Einfalt

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Eric Einfalt is a Chicago-based capital markets executive who is the Founder of Bandon Advisors, a capital markets consulting, advisory and search firm.
He recently served as chief strategy officer at Eventus. 
Prior to that, he spent 13 years as a partner at two different global proprietary trading / HFT firms. He was head of strategic development at XR Trading, and before that served as chief strategy officer at Sun Trading LLC, a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm. He was responsible for identifying new business opportunities and building business relationships.
== Background ==
Before joining Sun Trading in 2007, Einfalt worked as a CPA at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a director at Pax Clearing (which was acquired by Merrill Lynch in April 2005).
Einfalt is a veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve and served in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm.
== Education ==
He holds a BS in Business Administration from Indiana University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
== References ==	
Category:Proprietary Trading
Category:Accounting‏‎
Category:Sun Trading - Former Employees
Category:XR Trading -Former Employees
Eric Folkemer

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Eric Folkemer is the president, COO and co-founder of Nasdaq Private Market. He has worked for Nasdaq in various roles for more than 16 years. He was named to his current position in 2016. 
Previously, Folkemer was vice president of strategy in the global listing services group. 
In 2021, he led NPM’s corporate spinout from Nasdaq, Inc., transitioning the company into an independent entity.
== Background ==
Folkemer has 20 years of experience in the industry. In 2013, he led the creation of NPM as a direct response to the JOBS Act. 
Before joining NPM, he spent more than 18 years at Nasdaq, Inc., where he held several roles, including head of strategy within the Global Listing Services division and vice president within Corporate Strategy. While at Nasdaq, he focused on new business ventures, acquisitions, and partnerships. He also led the acquisitions of eight core assets that formed Nasdaq Corporate Solutions.
== Education ==
Folkemer earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics and economics from Bates College.
== References ==
Eric Frait

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Eric Frait is vice president, business analysis for the CBOE Holdings Inc. His primary responsibilities are strategy related to C2, the company's all electronic exchange. 
 
== Background ==
Previously Frait was vice president strategic planning CBO. Before that time he was chairman of the board of HedgeStreet. He also was director of strategic planning for the CBOE and a senior instructor for the options institute. Before that, he was a senior investigator at the CBOE. Prior to the CBOE, Frait was an assistant trader at Hull Trading.
== Education ==
He received his MBA in Finance, Economics, Financial Derivatives from Loyola University Chicago. He also received his BA in Political Science/Russian Studies from the University of Iowa.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Hull Trading
Category:Hedgestreet
Eric G. Gurdian

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Eric Gurdian is the chief investment officer for R.J. O'Brien Investment Management. 
Previously, he was the treasurer for North America for MF Global Inc., the largest non-bank futures broker.
== Background ==
Previous to MF Global, Gurdian was the global treasurer at Calyon Financial. Prior to that, he served as the vice president and treasurer for North America. He was responsible for directing all investments, managing banking relationships and overseeing all cash and collateral movements. During the merger between Calyon and Fimat, Gurdian oversaw the analysis of the dual treasury services. Gurdian was at Calyon from 1997 - 2004. Before that, Gurdian directed the funding activity for Sanwa bank and Long Term Credit Bank, two Japanese banks located in Chicago. He served as the vice president of treasury and chief customer dealer for nine years.
He began his career at Northern Trust supervising the options and futures settlement area for its Trust Clients and Investment Management Division.
He is a member of the Futures Industry Association, the Association for Financial Professionals and a Certified Cash Manager.
== Education ==
Guridan graduated from Millikin University with a Bachelors of Science in Finance and Economics.
== References ==	
Category:MF Global
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates - Employees
Category:R.J. O'Brien & Associates, LLC
Eric Gulbrandsen

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Eric Gulbrandsen is a managing director of financial services practice for Maven Wave Partners.
 
== Background ==
Prior to Maven Wave Partners, Gulbrandsen held senior leadership positions at Allstate Investments, a wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation, and at Northern Trust. 
He has expertise in strategic development and delivery of business and technology solutions for investment managers, global custodians, investment banks and broker-dealers. He has broad experiences with all traded product types, with particular expertise in developing and integrating full life cycle listed and over-the-counter (OTC) derivative systems.
In his current position, Gulbrandsen leads the financial services practice at Maven Wave Partners where he works with mid to large-sized financial services institutions including investment banks, investment managers, broker-dealers and hedge funds to optimize their business and technology operations to deliver growth. He is a frequent commentator on topics related to cross-asset trading systems, enterprise data management and strategic business and technology architectures.
== Education ==
Gulbrandsen has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN with a concentration in Information Systems and a minor in Sociology.
== References ==
Category:Maven Wave Partners
Eric Hess

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Eric Hess is a New York-based financial services lawyer. 
Recently he serves as the general counsel for Direct Edge ECN. He announced his departure from the company in July 2011 in an effort to pursue other opportunities.
== Background ==
Prior to joining Direct Edge, Hess worked for Lehman Brothers as senior vice president of the Equities Division. He has also worked for SunGard Data Systems as General Counsel and for Brut ECN as Chief Legal Officer. Early in his career, Hess was with Bloomberg as Legal Head of Transactional Services and with the law firm Wachtel & Masyr as an associate.
== Education ==
*J.D., Fordham University School of Law
*Bachelor's, State University of New York at Binghamton
== References ==
Category:Direct Edge
Category:Direct Edge - Former Employees
Category:Sungard
Category:Sungard - Former Employees
Category:BRUT LLC
Category:BRUT LLC - Former Employees
Category:Bloomberg
Category:Bloomberg - Former Employees
Category:Bios - Legal
Category:Lawyers
Eric Hunsader

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Eric Scott Hunsader is the founder of Nanex, LLC, a market data and analytics firm based in Winnetka, IL.
Hunsader's career spans over 25 years as a software developer focusing on real-time trading applications.
Hunsader is a vocal and frequent critic of abuses of high-frequency trading and is featured in the movie Ghost Exchange. He is also featured in a video about the Flash Crash titled 'Money and Speed: Inside the Black Box.'
== Background ==
Before founding Nanex in 2000, Hunsader was a senior software engineer with Quote.com. He also spent three years as a senior software developer for CQG.
== References ==	
Category:Nanex
Category:Quote.com - Former Employees
Category:CQG - Former Employees
Eric Litvack

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Eric Litvack is a managing director and head of regulatory strategy for Société Générale’s global banking and investor solutions business. On Dec. 1, 2014 he was appointed chairman of the board of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), effective Jan. 1, 2015. He succeeds Stephen O’Connor. 
Litvack has worked at Société Générale for nearly 29 years in a variety of roles, and has served on the ISDA board since 2006. He was appointed vice-chairman of the ISDA Board in 2012. 
Litvack has also been a member of the Board of LCH.Clearnet SA since April 2013. 
 
== Background ==
Eric Litvack joined SocGen in 1986. He has been based in Paris since 1996, and before that he worked as a derivatives trader in the firm's London office. 
Before his current role at SocGen, he was chief operating officer for the equities and equity derivatives activities of the company's CIB global markets division. He has also held various trading and business management positions within SocGen's equity derivatives business.
== Resources ==
Eric Litvack LinkedIn
== Education ==
Litvack earned a BA in Economics, Commerce and Political Science in 1985 from the University of Toronto.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:ISDA Board of Directors Members
Eric Maine

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Eric Maine is financial services professional with a focus on derivatives and commodities.
Most recently, he was director of business development projects at the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx). He was appointed to that position on Dec. 4, 2012. He was responsible for managing new product launches from origination to market execution and delivery. He reported to HKMEx Co-President William Barkshire.
== Background ==
Before he joined HKMEx, he was head of product development and management, commodities, at Singapore Exchange. Before that, he was head of product and research at the Singapore Mercantile Exchange, and before that he held a similar position at the InterContinentalExchange (ICE). 
He also held several senior position in New York with investment firm Canning/Maine Inc., Allied Irish Banks and Prudential-Bache (now Jefferies Bache). 
== Education ==
Maine holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Villanova University.
== References ==	
Category:Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange - Former Employees
Category:Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange
Category:InterContinentalExchange
Category:InterContinentalExchange - Former Employees
Category:SGX - Former Employees
Category:SGX
Category:Singapore Mercantile Exchange
Category:Singapore Mercantile Exchange - Former Employees
Eric Mainz

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Eric Mainz is a Chicago-based derivatives professional who serves as a contractor with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
He had previously served as a senior production support engineer at Ullink. 
Previously, he was a EMDS Support Engineer at ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago. 
== Background ==
Also, Mainz has been a senior trading system engineer at Blue Fire Capital and also at ITG Derivatives. He also served as a senior support engineer at Getco, LLC.
Outside of the derivatives industry, Mainz has served as chairman of the economic development commission for the Village of Villa Park in Illinois. He has also been a realtor with Coldwell Banker.
Mainz has also worked for Exodus Technology Services, Inc. as a consultant and was a FIX manager for Fimat USA, LLC.
He has also been an order entry clerk for Townsend Analytics, global trading support for Trading Technologies and a senior technical trainer at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:ABN AMRO - Former Employees
Category:Trading Technologies - Former Employees
Category:Townsend Analytics - Former Employees
Category:CME - Former Employees
Eric Metz

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Eric Metz is co-founder and chief investment officer at SpiderRock Advisors, LLC. In that role, he oversees investment strategies and portfolio management activities at the firm. 
In May of 2018 he was appointed to the Options Industry Council's Institutional Advisory Council. 
== Background ==
Before joining SRA, Metz was the derivatives strategist and a portfolio manager at RiverNorth Capital Management, managing both mutual fund and hedge fund assets. He was also a client of SpiderRock. 
He began his career with the Chicago Trading Company on the floors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). After leaving the trading floors, he worked as a senior trader and partner at Ronin Capital and Bengal Capital, both proprietary trading firms specializing in volatility arbitrage. 
== Education ==
Metz graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Michigan with a B.S.E in Industrial and Operations Engineering. He earned an M.S.E. with honors, in Industrial and Operational Engineering, and was enrolled in the program’s PhD program. 
He is a CFA Charterholder as well as a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Chicago.
== References ==