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Adena Friedman
Adena T. Friedman is an American executive who led Nasdaq as CEO since 2017 and Chair since 2023, transforming the stock exchange into a financial-technology company.
Brad Katsuyama
Brad Katsuyama (Bradley Katsuyama) is a Canadian financial executive who, while at Royal Bank of Canada, identified high-frequency traders front-running large orders, then co-founded IEX, the Investors Exchange, in 2012.
Changpeng Zhao (赵长鹏)
Changpeng Zhao (赵长鹏), known as CZ, is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded Binance in 2017 and built it into the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange within a year.
Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner, also known as Christopher Gardner, is an American stockbroker and entrepreneur who went from homelessness with his young son to founding the Chicago brokerage Gardner Rich & Co.
Gennady Timchenko (Геннадий Николаевич Тимченко)
Gennady Timchenko, also known as Guennadi Timtchenko, is a Finnish businessman who co-founded Gunvor and controls the Russia-based Volga Group, a holding with major stakes in Novatek.
Harshad Mehta (હર્ષદ શાંતિલાલ મહેતા)
Harshad Mehta (હર્ષદ શાંતિલાલ મહેતા), born Harshad Shantilal Mehta, was an Indian stockbroker and the central figure of the 1992 Indian securities scam, dying in custody in 2001.
Howie Hubler
Howie Hubler is a former Morgan Stanley bond trader behind the largest single-trader loss in Wall Street history, about $9 billion on subprime bets in 2007.
Ivan Boesky
Ivan Boesky, born Ivan Frederick Boesky, was an American risk arbitrageur who built a $200 million fortune and became the central figure of the 1980s Wall Street insider-trading scandal.
Ivan Glasenberg
Ivan Glasenberg is a South African-born, Australian-citizen billionaire commodities trader who was chief executive of Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader, from 2002 until his retirement on 30 June 2021.
Jeffrey Sprecher
Jeffrey C. Sprecher is an American businessman, founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which he built in Atlanta from 2000 and took to the New York Stock Exchange.
Jérôme Kerviel
Jérôme Kerviel is a French former Société Générale trader whose concealed index-futures positions, discovered in January 2008, cost the bank €4.9 billion, the largest loss then attributed to a single trader.
Jesse Livermore
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877–1940) was an American stock speculator who made and lost several fortunes, most famously by shorting the 1929 Wall Street crash, and died by suicide in 1940.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt
John Aspinwall Roosevelt, also known as John A. Roosevelt, was an American stockbroker and the sixth and last child of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
John Bollinger
John Bollinger is an American financial analyst and president of Bollinger Capital Management, best known for creating Bollinger Bands, the volatility-based trading bands he developed in the early 1980s.
John Vernou Bouvier III
John Vernou Bouvier III, known on Wall Street as Black Jack, was an American stockbroker and socialite, father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and his daughter Lee.
Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker who founded the brokerage Stratton Oakmont, pleaded guilty in 1999 to securities fraud, and inspired the film The Wolf of Wall Street.
Julia Hoggett
Dame Julia Hoggett, also known as Julia Anne Hoggett, is a British financial executive who has been CEO of the London Stock Exchange since 2021.
Ketan Parekh (કેતન પરેખ)
Ketan Parekh (કેતન પરેખ) is a Mumbai stockbroker and chartered accountant who ran the brokerage NH Securities, was the central figure in the 2001 Indian stock market scam, and was convicted in 2014.
Larry R. Williams
Larry R. Williams is an American futures trader and author who created the Williams %R indicator and set a record 11,376% return in the 1987 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading.
Leonard Jerome
Leonard Jerome (1817–1891) was an American stock speculator nicknamed the "King of Wall Street" who made and lost several fortunes and was Winston Churchill's maternal grandfather.
Lewis Ranieri
Lewis Ranieri, also known as Lou Ranieri, is an American bond trader who built the mortgage-backed securities market at Salomon Brothers between 1978 and 1987.
Luana Lopes Lara
Luana Lopes Lara is a Brazilian cofounder and chief operating officer of the prediction-market exchange Kalshi, and according to Forbes the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire.
Mark Karpelès
Mark Karpelès, known online as MagicalTux, is the French-born developer who ran the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which lost 850,000 BTC before collapsing in 2014.
Michael Marin
Michael Marin was an American former Wall Street trader and Yale Law graduate who died by cyanide in a Phoenix courtroom in 2012, minutes after an arson conviction.
Michael Milken
Michael Milken, known as Mike Milken or the Junk Bond King, is an American financier who led Drexel Burnham's junk bond operation, pled guilty to securities felonies in 1990, and became a philanthropist.
Nick Leeson
Nick Leeson (Nicholas Leeson) is a former British derivatives trader whose concealed unauthorized trading in Singapore lost £827 million and collapsed the 233-year-old Barings Bank in 1995.
Stock trader
A stock trader, also known as an equity trader, is a person who buys and sells equities to profit from price movements, for clients or a firm's own account.