Mr. Geffner began his legal career with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, where he investigated and prosecuted violations of the Federal securities laws. He also assisted federal and state criminal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Attorney's Office and the Attorney General's Office, in connection with their investigations of possible criminal violations of federal and state securities laws.

Prior to joining Sadis & Goldberg, Mr. Geffner was associated with two other New York City based law firms, where he represented domestic and offshore private investment vehicles, as well as broker-dealers, registered investment advisers and registered investment companies. He began his corporate legal career as in-house counsel to the Investment Management Industry Services Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He provided legal advice to the Group regarding investment advisers, registered investment companies and broker-dealers.

Mr. Geffner is often interviewed as a legal expert in the securities industry and has been interviewed on television on Fox News, CBS Morning Show, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Squawk Box and Power Lunch on CNBC, British Broadcasting Channel, Bloomberg Radio, and is regularly quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Barron's, Barron's Online, Reuters, Dow Jones, Financial Times, New York Newsday, London Daily News, TheStreet.com, Private Equity Week and other national and international publications. On April 6, 2005, Mr. Geffner was invited to speak to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington D.C. as a panelist on the CPO and Commodity Pool Roundtable in connection with recent developments in the hedge fund industry. In addition, he has published a number of leading industry and legal articles.

Mr. Geffner received his J.D. in 1991 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and received his B.A. degree in 1988 from Rutgers University. He is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars.

Matthew develops and leads training courses for Ernst & Young professionals on accounting and auditing issues facing the hedge fund and private equity industries and on the use of various financial products. Matthew also has extensive product and operational knowledge. He has assisted in documenting and issuing policy and procedures manuals for hedge funds and advisory businesses. Matthew has experience in valuation and assessment of complex portfolio positions for alternative funds.

Matthew is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the AICPA. Matthew has also participated on hedge fund panels at various industry conferences, including GAIM Cayman and NICSA’s Midwest Regional Meeting.

Mr. Lubin is responsible for the executive management of the organization. At Hyman Beck Mr. Lubin’s key focus is on product development, strategic planning, investment strategy and business development. Prior to joining Hyman Beck & Co. in July 2003, Mr. Lubin was a Senior Vice President within the Fixed Income Division of Lehman Brothers from 1999, where he was responsible for establishing the foreign exchange business with Alternative Investment Managers. From 1980 to 1999, Mr. Lubin held positions of increasing responsibility with Merrill Lynch. During his tenure with Merrill Lynch, Mr. Lubin was employed in the Futures, Foreign Exchange and Alternative Investment divisions. At the time of his departure, Mr. Lubin was managing the Foreign Exchange business with Alternative Investment Managers and was a member of the Investment Committee of MLFIP, the sponsor of Merrill Lynch’s Alternative Investment funds. The Investment Committee was responsible for the selection of the Alternative Investment Managers retained by the entity.

Attain Capital Management ("Attain") is a specialized asset management firm built upon the belief that an investment portfolio with exposure to alternative investments such as technical based trading systems and managed futures programs can consistently outperform traditional stock, bond, and real estate portfolios. Attain is the only firm who has been solely focused on both trading system and managed futures investments since inception, with a team of six registered brokers with over 93 years of trading system and managed futures experience. Under Mr. Malec’s guidance, Attain has analyzed and reviewed 586 trading systems and 1,055 managed futures programs, authored 372 (and counting) articles and research reports on trading systems and managed futures spanning over 1,515 pages, and have assisted clients in investing over $204 Million into trading systems and managed futures since 2002.

Attain Portfolio Advisors (“APA”) is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor and Commodity Pool Operator managing client assets in two managed account programs and a fund. Each program employs a portfolio of objective, technically-based trading systems and a multidimensional diversification strategy which allots capital to different markets, trading strategies, and time frames. The selection of component strategies, time frames and markets follows a rigorous quantitative analysis that considers the liquidity and volatility of markets traded, types of strategies employed, trade duration, risk of loss, and probability of achieving performance objectives.

Mr. Malec earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, CAIA, designation in 2005. The CAIA designation promotes adherence to high standards of professional conduct and certifies one’s mastery of the concepts, tools and practices essential for understanding traditional and modern alternative investment vehicles; including real estate, private equity, commodities, hedge funds and managed futures. www.caia.org

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.

Mr. Petillo is now the Vice President of Coquest Inc., a brokerage firm dealing in futures, the foreign exchange markets and OTC markets with offices throughout the US.

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.

Paul joined TABB Group in 2009 from Alphacution LLC, where he was managing director from 2004 to 2009, focusing on the design, development, strategy and research for market intelligence and data management systems. He also holds a patent for an automated event-risk management/research focusing on the design, development, strategy and research for market intelligence and data management systems. He also holds a patent for an automated event-risk management/research platform and data model for global capital market participants.

From 2001 to 2004, he served as managing director, research and knowledge management, for Ritchie Capital Management, LLC, a multi-strategy hedge fund manager, where, in additional to leading the research team and various business development initiatives, he designed and managed the development of a centralized trading intelligence system. At Ritchie, he also directed the development of a customized investor relationship management (IRM) system, which was incremental in achieving peak assets of $3 billion, and developed real-time risk management dashboards and other transparency tools for senior management, investors and counterparties.

From 1996 to 2004, he served as chief investment officer and director at Quantlab Financial, LLC, where he co-managed $6.5 million venture capital fundraising to develop quantitative trading systems for global equity and futures markets, and directed a team of 20 for highly-automated trading strategy development and full-workflow system integration. He also led a high-frequency, market-neutral statistical arbitrage fund and designed a real-time portfolio monitoring and risk management system. Prior to Quantlab, he spent five years as a research analyst and portfolio manager at leading global derivatives shop, O’Connor & Associates, LP.

Paul earned a Master of Management from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelors of Science in business administration from Valparaiso University.

At TABB, Paul has authored “OTC Interest Rate Swaps and Beyond: The Path to Electronic Markets” and “US Futures Markets: In the Crosshairs of the Algorithmic Revolution”; and co-authored “(Hedge) Fund Administration: The Selection Criteria for a New Market Reality”; “The Investment Assembly Line: Alpha Discovery and the Illusion of Automation”; and “Risk Analysis On-the-Fly: Fast Markets, Complex Portfolios”.

Mr. Rulle has worked in the financial services industry for 30 years. He created and ran the derivatives business at Lehman Brothers in the 1980’s and rose to become a member of the Executive Committee until his departure in 1994. He became CEO of CIBC World Markets Inc.---CIBC’s US Investment Bank---where he was primarily responsible for global derivatives, securitization and the US loan businesses. In 1999, he left CIBC to become President and CIO of Hamilton Partners, the internal “hedge fund” for the Bermuda reinsurance company, Stockton Inc.

In February 2002, he became President of hedge fund manager Graham Capital Management. Mr. Rulle chaired the Investment and Risk Committee and was also directly responsible for the Firm’s portfolio managers. As part of the senior management team, he also worked closely with the firm’s quantitative research group. He left Graham in late 2007 to form MSR Investments.

Mr. Rulle has his B,A. from Hobart and William Smith, an M.A. from William and Mary in Political Philosophy and also an MBA from the Columbia Business School where he graduated first in his class. He has taught finance as an adjunct Professor at the Columbia Business School and has published articles in a variety of texts.

Her deep experience and background qualify her to provide a broad and unique perspective on the issues and regulations facing the financial markets and market participants. Ms. Trkla also previously practiced futures, securities and corporate law as a partner with another Chicago law firm.

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.