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Lloyd Blankfein
— Senior Chairman & Former CEO, Goldman Sachs .
<p>Lloyd Blankfein is the former Senior Chairman & Former CEO, Goldman Sachs.</p>
<p>He joined the J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division of Goldman Sachs in 1982 after working as an attorney in a law firm. Lloyd was named partner in 1988 and co-head of the J. Aron Division in 1994. He became co-head of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division as of its formation in 1997 and was based in London from 1997 to 1999 in that capacity.</p>
<p>Lloyd served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2002 through 2003, with management responsibility for the FICC and Equities Divisions. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from December 2003 through June 2006. He served as the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer from 2006 through September 2018, and remained as chairman through December 2018.</p>
<p>Among his affiliations with nonprofit organizations, Lloyd is a member of several Harvard advisory boards, a member of the Executive Committee of the UJA Federation of New York, a Board Fellow of Weill Cornell Medical College and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.</p>
<p>Lloyd earned a JD from Harvard Law School in 1978 and an AB from Harvard College in 1975.</p>
<p>Lloyd’s book, Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs is a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence.</p>
Will Bartlett
— Chief Executive Officer, Parallax Volatility Advisers.
<p>Will Bartlett is the Chief Executive Officer of Parallax Volatility Advisers. Will has been involved with equity options since 1995 and has been with Parallax since 1996.<br />
In his 30 years at Parallax, he has played an active role transforming the firm from a small, floor-based equity options trading operation into a large participant in the global volatility market.<br />
Prior to joining Parallax, Will worked on the floor of the Pacific Coast Exchange while earning his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. </p>
<p>Will proudly serves on the Board of Governors of Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, the Board of Trustees of San Francisco University High School, and is a Senior Member of The Guardsmen, an organization helping at-risk youth by providing scholarships, support, and outdoor education programs to students in the San Francisco Bay Area.</p>
Greg Bond
— Chief Executive Officer, Man Numeric.
<p>Gregory (“Greg”) Bond is Chief Investment Officer at Man Group, focused on strengthening collaboration between the firm’s investment teams and accelerating innovation in new capabilities. He is also Head of the Americas for Man Group, and lead portfolio manager for Man Group’s flagship multi-strategy fund. In addition, he serves on the Man Group Executive Committee.</p>
<p>Greg was formerly CEO of Man Numeric. Prior to that, he was Director of Research at Man Numeric, responsible for research initiatives, including the day-to-day management of Man Numeric’s strategic alpha research team. Before becoming Director of Research, he was a portfolio manager for various hedge fund strategies at Numeric as well as being Co-Head of its hedge fund group, having joined in 2003.</p>
<p>Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and biology from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.</p>
Paul Britton
— Founder & CEO, Capstone Investment Advisors.
<p>Paul Britton, OBE is the Chief Executive Officer of Capstone, one of the leading firms in derivatives and complementary strategies, which he founded in 2004. Headquartered in New York with 10 offices globally, Paul formed Capstone to offer investors access to, and exploit the inefficiencies present in, complex derivatives markets, creating value for the firm’s clients, team, and industry over two decades of growth.<br />
Paul’s philosophy of constant evolution and the firm’s store of unmatched talent are the twin pillars of Capstone’s success. The firm’s emphasis on enduring relationships with investors at all tiers, technology, analytics, and innovation, are priorities that Paul has developed and brought through to the present day. His career began in the pit with Saratoga Limited, where Paul traded options on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) before co-founding Mako Global Derivatives in 1999. Throughout his career, Paul has embraced a global perspective, working across key financial centers including New York, London, and Amsterdam, and most recently Milan. Operating from this strategic European location allows Paul to remain the most accessible to our teams and clients worldwide.<br />
Paul currently serves on the Boards of the US Soccer Foundation, and The Tate America’s Foundation. Paul was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his dedication and notable philanthropic contributions to the Tate Americas Foundation.<br />
Paul received a BA in European Business Finance from London Metropolitan University.</p>
Dr. Lester Coyle
— Principal and Chief Investment Officer, III Capital Management.
<p>Dr. Lester Coyle is a Principal and Chief Investment Officer, and he is also the portfolio manager for the III credit and asymmetric funds. Dr. Coyle joined III in February 2005 from Commerzbank where he was U.S. head of credit correlation trading. Prior to that, he worked at Bank One as a single name and correlation trader and as a credit model builder. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and a BA in Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin. Dr. Coyle was also a Mathematics professor at Duke University and Loyola University.</p>
Peter van Dooijeweert
— Head of Strategic Investment Partnerships, Capstone Investment Advisors.
<p>Peter van Dooijeweert joined Capstone in December 2024 as Head of Strategic Investment Partnerships. Prior to Capstone, Peter spent six years at Man Group where he was Head of Defensive and Tactical Alpha working closely with Man’s largest clients to design customized actively managed investment portfolios and strategies. Prior to Man, Peter spent over 15 years as a volatility arbitrage portfolio manager at Paloma Investments Partners, Soros Fund Management and Tudor Investment Corporation. Peter has served on investment and portfolio risk committees at Man and Paloma bringing over 25 years of experience in derivatives and alternatives to capital allocation and firm wide portfolio management decisions. He began his career with Goldman Sachs in Equity Derivatives Trading in Tokyo and<br />
New York.<br />
Peter holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Accounting and Finance from Wake Forest University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.</p>
Jason Goldberg
— Senior Portfolio Manager, Capstone Investment Advisors.
<p>Jason Goldberg joined Capstone in June 2018 as a Senior Portfolio Manager.</p>
<p>Jason has been trading equity derivatives since 1998. Prior to joining Capstone, he was most recently an Executive Vice President at PIMCO, managing up to $1 billion in capital dedicated to equity dispersion. He also ran the equity execution desk for PIMCO and helped advise Portfolio Managers on equity-related strategies and trades. Before joining PIMCO in 2014, he was a Managing Director at Och-Ziff in New York. Jason worked at Och-Ziff from 2006 to 2013, focusing mostly on equity dispersion. Prior to working at Och-Ziff, Jason was a partner at Onyx Capital from 1998 to 2006. He started his career at J.P. Morgan in 1995 and worked on both the equity derivatives and municipal derivatives desks.</p>
<p>Jason received a dual degree in Math and Economics from Claremont McKenna College in 1995, graduating magna cum laude.</p>
Dr. Chris Jones
— Head of Solutions and Chief Executive (London), Graham Capital Management.
<p>Chris Jones, Ph.D., is Head of Solutions and Chief Executive (London) at Graham Capital Management, L.P. (“Graham”), an alternative investment manager with $22B AUM as of August 1, 2026. </p>
<p>Dr. Jones works with Graham’s clients to develop customized solutions that best fit their portfolios, utilizing the broad range of strategies across Graham’s investment platform. Dr. Jones also oversees the management of Graham’s London office. Prior to joining Graham in 2016, Dr. Jones was Managing Director and Head of Investment Advisory at bfinance, an investment consultancy specializing in large pension plans, from March 2012 to February 2016, where he advised a variety of global institutional clients. From January 2005 to February 2012, Dr. Jones was Chief Investment Officer of Key Asset Management, a fund of hedge funds, where he was responsible for the oversight of the investment and risk management of several funds of hedge funds. </p>
<p>Dr. Jones is currently an Honorary Fellow in Finance at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, where he lectures MFin and MBA courses on Alternative Investment Management. Dr. Jones has co-authored a number of published academic papers about liquid alternatives and hedge fund strategies as well as having authored a book on the subject. Dr. Jones received a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University in 1992 and a PhD in Mathematical Finance from the University of Cambridge in 2000.</p>
Nick Smith
— Head of Index Options Sales, Nasdaq.
<p>Nick Smith leads Nasdaq-100 Index Options (NDX®) Sales at Nasdaq working with banks, funds, brokers, platforms and allocators to develop Nasdaq’s proprietary index options business.</p>
<p>Originally from the Yorkshire Dales in England, Nick graduated from Aston Business School in Birmingham, England with Economics & Management first class honors.</p>
<p>Starting his career in London at Deutsche Boerse Group in Group Sales efforts and Eurex Fixed Income Sales (OTC clearing & exchange-traded), Nick relocated to the United States in 2018 joining FIS (Sungard) before returning to Eurex (the derivatives exchange of Deutsche Boerse Group) as VP Sales covering U.S. buy side. Nick joined Nasdaq in 2024.</p>
Dan Stone
— Principal and Portfolio Manager, Ionic Capital Management.
<p>Dan Stone is a co-founder of Ionic Capital Management LLC, where he manages the firm’s interest rate, currency, and credit strategies. He has over 25 years of experience in managing relative value arbitrage and long volatility strategies across multiple asset classes. Stone was previously a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in the US and European Volatility and Credit Arbitrage Group at Highbridge Capital Management. He earned an AB in Economics magna cum laude from Harvard College.</p>
Matt Tonelli
— Head of Investment Strategies, Capstone Investment Advisors.
<p>Matt Tonelli is Capstone’s Head of Investment Strategies and oversees the firm’s Multi-Strategy platform and the Risk Management team. Matt has been with Capstone since inception in 2004 and has enjoyed being part of Capstone’s evolution from market-maker to a leading derivatives-focused investment manager. He has managed derivative portfolios across many asset classes and became Capstone’s Head of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange three years before becoming the Chief Risk Officer in 2010. Matt began his career as an equity and index options market maker on the CBOE and AMEX.</p>
<p>Matt received a BA from University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business.</p>
Mrinal Vikram
— Equity Derivatives Sales , Societe Generale.
<p>Mrinal Vikram works in Equity Derivatives Sales within Global Markets at Societe Generale, based in New York. He covers hedge funds and asset managers across listed and OTC derivatives as well as QIS products. He led the development of SG’s equity-linked note and alternate risk transfer businesses.</p>
<p>Mrinal began his career as an Associate at Deutsche Bank. He then moved to the buy side, trading structured derivatives at Vicis Capital and Paloma Partners. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.</p>
