Advisors

Kristin M. Fox

Kristin M. Fox is the Founder and Principal of FoxInspires LLC, a firm specializing in providing unbiased investor education. FoxInspires provides access to intelligence and information, which helps investors and managers understand each other better and assists them in making wise choices based on that knowledge. FoxInspires’ clients include hedge funds, ultra-high-net-worth investors, institutional investors and wealth management advisers. FoxInspires was formed in August of 2008.

Previously Kristin was Vice President of News & Research, as well as Executive Editor for HedgeWorld. Kristin was responsible for building the news and research at HedgeWorld, which was sold to Reuters in 2005. Her responsibilities included all aspects of the daily news, and any publications and other information products affiliated with HedgeWorld. Prior to joining HedgeWorld, Kristin was an editor for Crain’s Pensions & Investments, where her duties included editing and producing P&I Daily. Before her tenure at Crain’s, Kristin was President of Hedge Fund Research, Inc., Chicago, IL.

Ian Morley

Ian Morley is one of the leading global figures and pioneers in the development of the Hedge Fund Industry. He ran one of Europe’s first and oldest fund of funds and subsequently helped build one of Europe’s largest privately owned Fund of Funds. He founded and was elected the first Chairman of what is today known as The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). The world’s only truly global trade association for the Hedge Fund Industry. He has advised Central Banks, International Regulators and other International Organizations, such as the EU and OECD on matters related to Economics, Markets and Regulation. He holds numerous positions across a broad range of companies.

Ian trained as an Economist at LSE where he was Vice President of the Students Union. He is a member of Gray’s inn and one of the few fund managers to be accredited as a journalist. He has written extensively on a wide range of issues connected to financial markets including comment pieces in the Financial Times, Times, WSJ and IHT and a range of International newspapers and journals. He is a frequent guest commentator on TV and radio, a sort after public speaker and Chairman and author of Morley’s Laws on Business and Fund‘s Management. He taught at Kingston Business School where he is an Industrial Fellow and lectures for Fintuition on Understanding Hedge Funds.

Marc Nagel

Marc Nagel – Chief Operating Officer – Dorman Trading, LLC. After 25 years as a floor trader and broker I have combined my knowledge and experience in the futures industry with my training as an attorney and a CPA. As COO of Dorman Trading, LLC, I am focused on both operations and compliance as I work to transition Dorman from an FCM catering to floor traders into an FCM focused institutional and retail customers. I currently serve on the Kent College of Law- Financial Services Law Conference Advisory Board, and the NFA- FCM Advisory Committee. B.S. Accountancy- University of Illinois, CPA- University of Illinois, J.D. – IIT- Chicago Kent College of Law

Leon Rose

Leon Rose has more than six decades of experience in the communications industry, as a journalist, award-winning ad agency copywriter author, editor and successful financial magazine and newsletter publisher.

In 1971, he left the advertising agency industry to co-found Commodities (now Futures Magazine). After the sale of the magazine, in 1978, he and wife Joy established Futures Industry newsletter. One year later, in 1979, at the urging of participants in the futures markets he published the first issue of Managed Account Reports. That newsletter and sponsored conferences during the 1980’s and 1990’s have been recognized as significant influences in the growth and development of managed futures investing.

Joy and Leon were honored by the industry in January 1991, along with a third principal in MAR, when industry leaders established the Rose-Baratz Literary Award in financial writing. Leon was a founder of the National Association of Futures Trading Advisors and the Managed Futures Trade Association.

Todd Scanlon

Director – 23 years industry experience

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Head of Capital Introductions
  • Quality Capital Management (2 years) – Head of North and Latam Sales, Marketing, & Investor Relations
  • Ermitage Group (2 years) – Managing Director & Global Head of Sales
  • ABN AMRO Asset Management (4 years) – Head of Global Distribution Sales
  • Merrill Lynch (1.5 years) – Director, Equity Clearing, Settlement & Custody Sales
  • JPM Chase & its previous entities (Chase, Chemical, Manufacturers Hanover Trust) – VP & Head of Structured Product Sales (8 years)

Melinda Schramm

Melinda, a 35-year veteran of the futures industry, is also a practicing attorney, focusing on Intellectual Property Law, and licensed in Illinois and the District of Columiba. Melinda founded the N.I.B.A. (www.theniba.com) in 1991, a trade association of registered futures and options professionals engaged primarily in retail transactions. She has written two “how-to” books about the business of the futures business, and co-founded CTA Expo in 2008 with Bucky Isaacson and Frank Pusateri. melinda@futuresrep.com