Mr. Winges is President and CEO of Hilltop Securities. Previously, he was head of fixed income services and firm investments and trading at Piper Jaffray, and president of Piper Jaffray Investment Management LLC. Before joining Piper Jaffray in 1991, he was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Mr. Winges was chairman of the Bond Dealers of America from 2013 – 2015 and now serves on the executive committee. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- Michael Heaney, who retired as the Global Co-Head of the Fixed Income Sales and Trading Division at Morgan Stanley.
- Dan Allen, former President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Anchorage Capital Group.
- Matt Andresen, CEO and co-founder of Headlands Technologies.
- Robin Foley, CIO in the Bond group within the Fixed Income division at Fidelity Investments.
- Gilbert Garcia, Managing Partner of Garcia Hamilton & Associates.
- Larry Harris, who holds the Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.
- Mark Kim, COO of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
- Ananth Madhavan, Global Head of Research for ETF and Index Investing at Blackrock Inc.
- Lynn Martin, President and COO of ICE Data Services.
- Richard McVey, founder, Chairman, and CEO of MarketAxess.
- Suzanne Shank, Chair, CEO, and Co-Founder of Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co. LLC.
- Elisse Walter, former SEC Commissioner and Chairman.
- Rachel Wilson, Senior Vice President, Finance of Iron Mountain.
This is a brief overview, and each individual has an extensive and impressive background in their respective fields.