2011 Speakers
Keynote Speakers
| Keynote Speaker: William J. Brodsky | CBOE Chairman and CEO |
| Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jose Pinera | Former Minister of Social Security of Chile |
| Keynote Speaker: David M. Blitzer | Ph.D. , Managing Director & Chairman of the Index Committee, S&P Indices |
Other Speakers
| Braj | Agrawal | Managing Director, Columbia Management Investment Advisors |
| Dr. Vineer | Bhansali | Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO |
| Jim | Bittman | Senior Staff Instructor, CBOE Options Institute |
| Keith | Black | Associate Director of Curriculum, CAIA |
| Adam | Blitz | Chief Investment Officer, Evanston Capital Management |
| Paul | Britton | Chief Executive Officer, Capstone |
| J.D. | Cronin | Derivatives Analyst, Concept Capital |
| Dean | Curnutt | President, Macro Risk Advisors |
| Srikant | Dash | Managing Director, S&P Indices |
| Bertrand | Delarue | Global Head of Equity Derivatives Product Design, BNP Paribas |
| Maneesh | Deshpande | Managing Director, Barclays Capital |
| Jerry | Eipers | Director of Trading Optimization, DRW Trading Group |
| Chuck | Fanin | Portfolio Manager and Options Trader,First Quadrant |
| Ken | Grant | President and Founder, Risk Resources |
| Jason | Hedberg | Head of US Equity Derivative Flow Sales, Société Générale |
| Joanne | Hill | Head of Investment Strategy, ProFund Advisors |
| Daniel | Hutchinson | Risk Manager, Pengana Global Volatility Fund |
| Anurag | Joshi | Senior Derivatives Portfolio Manager, Aviva Investors |
| Phillip J. | Kosmala | Executive Vice President and Director of Manager Research, Lowery Asset Consulting |
| Ken | Kwalik | Vice President, Goldman Option Advisory Services |
| Matt | Moran | Vice President, CBOE |
| John-Mark | Piampiano | Portfolio Manager, Pine River Capital Management |
| Michael | Purves | Chief Market Strategist and Head of Derivatives Research, BGC Financial |
| Olivier | Sarfati | Director, Citigroup Global Markets |
| Stephen | Stone | Vice President, SunAmerica Financial Group |
| Mika | Toikka | Managing Director, Credit Suisse Alternative Investments |
| Gary | Trennepohl | Trustee at Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System and Professor of Finance at Oklahoma State University |
| Timothy | Weithers | Co-Director of Education, Chicago Trading Company, LLC |
| Jeremy | Wien | Head of VIX Trading, Peak 6 Capital Management |
JOSE PINERA
As Minister of Labor and Social Security of Chile (1978-1980), Dr. José Piñera was the architect of Chile's successful private pension system.Dr. Piñera has been invited to speak at Clinton's White House Summit on Social Security and to explain his Chilean reform to George W. Bush at his home in Austin.
He has met President Putin in his dacha outside Moscow and Prime Minister Romano Prodi at Palazzo Chigi in Rome.
He has testified at the Social Security Committee of the UK House of Commons invited by its Chairman, Labor MP Frank Field, and also at the U.S. Senate Banking Committee invited by its Chairman, Republican Senator Phil Gramm.
He has helped the Solidarity government in Poland and President Fox of Mexico. He has been visited in Santiago by parliamentary delegations from many countries, among them Sweden, China, Colombia, South Africa, Slovakia and Nigeria.
He has shared the podium with Alan Greenspan and Milton Friedman.
He has addressed the U.S. Business Roundtable and shared a panel with the Labor Ministers of France and Germany at the Davos World Economic Forum.
He has been a keynote speaker at Cato Institute Conferences in Beijing, Shanghai, Moscow, St Petersburg and London, and been invited to speak at conferences sponsored by private corporations, think tanks and universities.
Now, Dr. Piñera promotes all over the world the creation of pension systems based on personal retirement accounts. He does so with complete independence.
Dr. Piñera holds a Master and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University, has published numerous articles and written eight books.
Click here to see an interview with Dr. Pinera discussing the need for Social Security reform.
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