2012 CBOE RMC Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker: William J. Brodsky	CBOE Chairman and CEO
Keynote Speaker: PJ O’Rourke	Political Satirist, Journalist & Writer
Keynote Speaker: Tobias Levkovich	Chief US Strategist, Citigroup

Other Speakers

Larry	Anderson	EVP of Finance, Covenant Ministries of Benevolence
Jim	Bittman	Senior Staff Instructor, CBOE
Jonathan	Bensimon	Head of Equities and Derivatives Trading, Société Générale
Mitch	Boraz	Senior Consultant, Asset Consulting Group
Claudio	Bufi	CFA, Product Development & Management, CI Investments
Donald	Dale	Managing Partner, Derivaguard Advisors LLC
Som	Dasgupta	Portfolio Manager, Linden Advisers
Kevin	Duggan	Vice President of Equity Products, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Brian	Finn	Managing Director, Head of Correlation/Dispersion Risk Management and Industrials Derivatives Trading, Barclays Capital
Krag “Buzz”	Gregory	Equity Derivatives Strategist, Goldman Sachs
Brad	Johnson	CFA, Investment Consultant, Cambridge Associates, LLC
Richard R.	Joss	Resource Actuary (Retired), Towers Watson
Samuel	Kadziela	Associate Director of Education, Chicago Trading Company, LLC
Steve	Karasick	Senior Portfolio Manager, Allstate Investments, LLC
Puneet	Kohli	Portfolio Manager, National Bank of Canada Alternative Investments
Marko	Kolanovic	Global Head of Derivatives and Delta One Research, J.P. Morgan
Larry	Krummen	Chief Investment Officer, MoDOT & Patrol Employees Retirement System
Berlinda	Liu	Director of Index Research and Design, S&P Indices
Jon	Loflin	Portfolio Manager, Overland Advisors
Matt	Moran	Business Development, CBOE
Sheldon	Natenberg	Co-Director of Education, Chicago Trading Company, LLC
Nitin	Saksena	US Equity Derivatives Research, BofA Merrill Lynch
Antoine	Segaud	Structuring & Strategy, Equity & Commodity Derivatives, BNP Paribas
Pav	Sethi	Chief Investment Officer, CEO, Gladius Investment Group
Shane	Schurter	Senior Consultant, Hewitt EnnisKnupp
Sue	Slocum	Treasurer, Children’s Health Care
Marc-André	Soublière	CFA, VP Fixed Income and Derivatives, Air Canada Pension Investments
Paul G.	Staneski, Ph.D.	Head of Derivatives Solutions & Training, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Jay H.	Strohmaier	CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, The Clifton Group
Gary	Trennepohl	Trustee – Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System and ONEOK Professor of Finance at Oklahoma State University
Steven	Tumen	CEO, Equitec Group, LLC
Timothy	Weithers	Co-Director of Education, Chicago Trading Company, LLC

Keynote Speaker

P.J. O'Rourke

Author & Leading Political Satirist

Covering current events, P.J. O’Rourke combines the skill and discipline of an investigative reporter with a comedian’s sense of the absurd and the stupid.Known as a hard-bitten, cigar-smoking conservative, he, in fact, bashes all political persuasions. As he puts it, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”Whether dealing with the inner workings of Washington bureaucracy or the shifting political and economic sands of the new world disorder, O’Rourke proves himself to be a savvy guide to national and global affairs. His razor sharp insights never fail to inform and entertain.

With more than 1 million words of trenchant journalism under his byline and more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations than any living writer, P. J. O’Rourke has established himself as America’s premier political satirist. He is the best-selling author of 15 books, including Parliament of Whores, Republican Party Reptile, Holidays in Hell, Give War a Chance, Eat the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa, and On the Wealth of Nations (he read the whole darn thing – so you don’t have to). Just out in paperback is his all-too-prescient take on the current election cycle, “Don’t Vote – It Just Encourages the Bastards.” And his newest book, Holidays in Heck, recounts the international travel adventures of a former war reporter now accompanied by his family and wishing he were back under artillery fire.

"If anyone ‘changed comedy forever,’ it was O’Rourke.” - The New York Times

Both TIME and The Wall Street Journal have labeled O’Rourke “the funniest writer in America.”Born in Toledo, Ohio, P. J. O’Rourke attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduate school at Johns Hopkins, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After receiving an M.A. in English, he worked at small newspapers in Baltimore and New York.In the early 1970s, he joined The National Lampoon where he became editor-in-chief and created (with Doug Kenney) the classic 1964 High School Yearbook Parody.

“O’Rourke is probably the most resilient comedy writer to come out of the early National Lampoon. He saw through the anarchists’ narcissism, and has been satirizing it for years in Rolling Stone and elsewhere. But the conservative O’Rourke was reviled by the Lampoon staff, who saw themselves as consummately left wing— or disorganized, or real, or drunk, or something. For his pains, O’Rourke, who was more professional than they, and more reliably funny, won the indignation of his colleagues, whom he later left in the dust.

Concluding in the ’80s that the real world was funnier than anything National Lampoon’s writers could create, he became a foreign correspondent and has covered crises and conflicts in more than 70 countries.O’Rourke has written for such diverse publications as The Wall Street Journal, Car and Driver, PARADE, House & Garden, Forbes Life, The Atlantic Monthly, and Rolling Stone, where he was the foreign-affairs desk chief for 15 years. He is a contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and a frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s game show “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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