John McGonegal 917.488.0551 John has been responsible for developing strategy, managing teams on large technology projects, product and business development, relationship and vendor management and has lead teams with global mandates as Vice President at NYSE Euronext, NYSE LIFFE U.S. and Senior Vice President at The American Stock Exchange. He also worked as a global capital markets subject matter expert for The Verizon Financial Network (VFN), a trading ecosystem with over 500 customers globally. At The American Stock Exchange John held the position of SVP, Equities. He was responsible for the equities business including strategy, product development, sales, client service, order flow and trading as well as the equities liaison with the internal regulatory team. He was a member of the Senior Staff and was responsible for the elevation of the S.P.A.C. product to national exchange status. John also managed the equities group through the process of having the trading technology on the floor upgraded to meet REG NMS requirements. During his tenure at NYSE LIFFE U.S., he was responsible for creating two new futures products on the MSCI EAFE and MSCI Emerging Markets indices. This included the successful migration of all open interest from a competing global exchange. John worked very closely with global proprietary trading and market making firms to establish liquidity and devise payment and incentive plans for these firms to make competitive markets. In addition, John worked with the world’s largest buy side firms and money managers to build interest in the futures and explain the features and benefits of utilizing the products versus OTC instruments. At VFN, John acted as the SME to the global Verizon sales force on capital markets, global market structure, trading, global exchanges and regulatory matters. John also led a large interdepartmental team on the roll out of an ultra-low latency line between key data centers in New York and Chicago. At Quick and Reilly John ascended through the organization to run the firms large branch office network with over 50 employees and several billion dollars in customer assets. John holds his Series 4, 7,8,63 and 65 licenses. He holds a BA from The State University of New York at Buffalo and has recently completed more than half of the required course work for an MBA in Finance from Northeastern University. John is an accomplished public speaker having appeared on panels or as a moderator at events throughout the Americas and Europe. John is a former NCAA Intercollegiate men’s basketball player.