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Carolyn Mitchell
The Options Clearing Corporation
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| Carolyn Mitchell is First Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Strategy at The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). She was previously First Vice President of Internet Services, Investor Services and Procurement. She joined OCC in 1999.
Prior to OCC, Ms. Mitchell was Vice President at The Chicago Board Options Exchange from 1994 to 1999, where she was responsible for building the CBOE website and investor help desk department. Prior to OCC, Ms. Mitchell was Vice President of Customer Operations at Prime Cable from 1991 to 1994. She also held positions at Ameritech and Hartmarx.
Ms. Mitchell holds an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and a B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago. She completed the Securities Industry Association's Securities Industries Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Joseph Reynoso
Reynoso Asset Management
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| Joe Reynoso is a principal and founding member of Reynoso Asset Management LLC (RAM) and is the investment manager for the firm. In his career, Mr. Reynoso has managed option market-making operations on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the London International Financial Futures & Options Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, the American Stock Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Eurex. He is a graduate of San Francisco State and received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago , with a concentration in finance.
Mr. Reynoso has been trading options since December 1985, joining Chicago Research and Trading Group (now a division of Bank of America) while attending the University of Chicago. In February 1989, he left CRT and began trading for his own account. In January 1993, he and his partners formed a proprietary trading group to trade their own capital, named Apollo Derivatives Group LLC and later known as The Helios Group LLC and Anteros Capital Markets LLC. In 2000 Mr. Reynoso focused on creating an asset management company, Reynoso Asset Management. Mr. Reynoso's other business ventures include a vineyard in Sonoma County, California. |
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Dr. Francisco Vaca
Vaca Capital Management LLC
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| Dr. Vaca is the founder and sole trading principal of Vaca Capital Management LLC and he is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer.
Dr. Vaca has over 15 years of experience in the research, development and trading of quantitative investment strategies. He is an expert in Statistics, Probability, Computer programming, Algorithmic trading, Electronic trading, High frequency trading, Game theory, Portfolio management and trading Equities, Futures and Options.
Prior to forming Vaca Capital Management LLC in November 2000, Dr. Vaca was an Executive Researcher at C&D Commodities, Inc., where he researched and implemented systematic trading strategies for the futures and equities markets from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Vaca earned his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the Universidad Michoacana (México) and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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