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Salomon Sredni
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TradeStation Group, Inc. |
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Salomon Sredni joined
the Company in December 1996 as its
Vice President of Operations and Chief
Financial Officer and was named Treasurer
and a director of the Company in July
1997. In September 1999, he was named
President and Chief Operating Officer, and became Chief Executive Officer and President in February 2007. In June 2009, Mr. Sredni was elected Chairman of the Board. In December 2000, Mr. Sredni became
a director of the Company's operating
subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities,
Inc. and TradeStation Technologies,
Inc. Mr. Sredni was recognized, together with the Company's co-founders, Bill and Ralph Cruz, as the "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year" for the State of Florida in 2005.
Before joining the Company,
Mr. Sredni was Vice President of Accounting
and Corporate Controller at IVAX Corporation,
a publicly-held pharmaceutical company,
from August 1994 to November 1996.
Prior to that time, from January 1988
to August 1994, Mr. Sredni was with
Arthur Andersen LLP, an international
accounting firm.
Mr. Sredni is a Certified
Public Accountant and a member of
the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants and the Florida
Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
He has a bachelor's degree in accounting
from The Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Sredni serves and has served on the board of various nonprofit organizations in the community including the David Posnack Hebrew Day school (where he served as Chairman of the Board for two years), the Jewish federation of Broward county and the Jewish Community Foundation. He is also a founding member of the Miami chapter of the Young Presidents Organization where he served as its chairman for two terms. |
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John R. Roberts
Chief Operating Officer, TradeStation Group, Inc. |
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John R. Roberts was appointed TradeStation Group’s Chief Operating Officer effective January 1, 2009. He joined TradeStation Group as Chief Marketing Officer on July 1, 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Roberts served as Chief Marketing Officer and a Managing Director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the world’s largest financial exchange, serving as its first chief marketing officer following its initial public offering.
From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Roberts was a Managing Director of Barclays Global Investors (BGI), an asset manager managing active and indexed funds, serving as Head of Marketing and Communications from 2000 to 2004. Prior to BGI, Mr. Roberts served, from 1988 to 1999, as Senior Vice President, Marketing, of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), where he directed worldwide business development, and helped create the Options Industry Council, a recognized leader in options education.
Mr. Roberts’s other marketing positions have been with Citicorp Savings of Florida, Campbell Soup Company, and General Mills. Mr. Roberts has an MBA degree in marketing from Amos Tuck School and a bachelor’s degree in math and economics from Dartmouth College. |
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David H. Fleischman
Chief Financial Officer, Vice President
of Finance and Treasurer, TradeStation Group, Inc. |
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David H. Fleischman joined
the Company as Chief Financial Officer,
Vice President of Finance and Treasurer
in February, 2001. Prior to joining
TradeStation Group, Mr. Fleischman
was engaged as a Director of Crossroads
LLC, a firm that provides financial
and management expertise and services
to companies seeking to maximize the
efficiencies and performance of their
management teams. From January 1998
until October 2000, Mr. Fleischman
served as Senior Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and member of the
Board of Advisors of The SeaSpecialties
Group.
From 1992 to 1997, he
served as Senior Vice President and
Treasurer of The Kislak Organization
- J.I. Kislak, Inc., an organization
that during those years included the
largest privately-held mortgage-banking
company in the United States. From
1983 to 1992, Mr. Fleischman served
as a Director, Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer of the U.S.
group of Berisford International plc,
a publicly-held United Kingdom company.
From 1969 to 1983, he held several
positions with subsidiaries of Midland
Bank plc, including London American
Finance Corporation and Drake America
Corporation.
He began his career
in 1967 in the audit division of a
predecessor firm of Ernst & Young.
Mr. Fleischman has a bachelor's of
science degree in accounting from
The New York Institute of Technology. |
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Marc
J. Stone
General Counsel, Vice President of Corporate Development
and Secretary, TradeStation Group, Inc.; Director,
TradeStation Securities, Inc., TradeStation
Technologies, Inc., and TradeStation Europe Limited |
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Marc
J. Stone joined the Company in May
1997 as its General Counsel, Vice President of Corporate
Development and Secretary.
In December 2000, Mr. Stone became
a director of the Company's U.S. operating
subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities,
Inc. and TradeStation Technologies,
Inc. and, in 2005, became an executive director of TradeStation Europe Limited, the Company's UK subsidiary.
From January 1993 to
May 1997, Mr. Stone was a partner
at a predecessor law firm of Bilzin
Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod
LLP ("Bilzin Sumberg"),
which currently serves as the Company's
regular outside counsel. Prior to
that time, from 1985 to 1992, Mr.
Stone was an associate with that predecessor
law firm.
Mr. Stone has a bachelor's
degree with a double concentration in English and American Literature and Theatre Arts and Dramatic Literature from Brown University, and received
his law degree from University of
California (Boalt Hall) School of
Law at Berkeley. Mr. Stone is a member
of the Bar of the State of New York,
The Florida Bar, the American Bar
Association and the New York State
Bar Association. |
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William P. Cahill
Vice President of Brokerage Operations, TradeStation Group, Inc.; President & Chief Operating Officer, TradeStation Securities, Inc. |
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William P. Cahill was appointed TradeStation Group’s Vice President of Brokerage Operations in October 2008 and was named President & Chief Operating Officer and Designated Executive Principal of TradeStation Securities, Inc., the company’s principal operating subsidiary, effective January 1, 2009. Mr. Cahill joined TradeStation Securities, Inc. as Chief Operating Officer in 2004. Over his long career in the brokerage industry, Mr. Cahill has served as chief operating officer and in similar senior management roles with various brokerage firms.
From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Cahill served as Senior Vice President, Operations Analysis of Fahnestock & Co., Inc. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Cahill served as Chief Operating Officer of Wyse Securities, a division of Pyramid Financial Corporation. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Cahill served as Managing Director of Operations for the Montgomery Division of Banc of America Securities LLC. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Cahill served as Vice President, Operations of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and, from 1984 to 1992, Mr. Cahill served as Vice President, Operations of Newbridge Securities Inc. |
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T. Keith Black
Vice President of Product Development, TradeStation Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Black was appointed Vice President of Product Development for TradeStation Technologies, Inc. in February 2007. Prior to that, from October 1999 through February 2007, he served as Vice President of Server Technology for TradeStation Technologies.
Before joining the company, from October 1991 through October 1999, Mr. Black was a co-founder and President of Window On WallStreet Inc., which was acquired by the Company in October of 1999. Prior to founding Window On WallStreet, Mr. Black served, from 1985 through October 1991, as a Senior Software Engineer or Software Consultant for various companies, including Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Micrografx, Inc., and Software AG, USA.
Mr. Black received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of North Texas in 1985. |
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