Leo Chris Stefanos

PROFILE

Ten years of experience across a range of disciplines in trading, asset management, and valuation. Traded over twenty asset classes, across eight major exchanges, in equity index, single equity, commodity, currency, and fixed income products. Primary exposure to equity index, most extensively SP500 options market making (SPX,ES,SPY,XSP,VIX), both in open outcry and the electronic space. Experience includes, a broad understanding of option pricing, complex execution strategy, portfolio management, and global risk evaluation.

Market making offered dynamic exposure to a decade of extreme volatility and asymmetric economic tendency prevalent since 2008. The SP500 options market is the deepest, and most widely traded option complex worldwide, with broad global economic influences, making experience in this product among the very best platforms for both early development and comprehensive understanding of the broader financial industry. EXPERIENCE

Option Trader/Risk Manager, Belvedere Trading, LLC. 2008-2016 Head of Trading/Market Maker - 8 years experience in the SP500 open-outcry trading environment - specializing in SP500 index option trading. From 2008-2015, directly managed a large trading team (20+) through major macroeconomic events: financial crisis, flash crash, US downgrade, historic index doubling, negative global yield, yuan devaluation. Desk Manager - (2012-2015) primary desk manager for an SP500 portfolio that contributed ~70% of company profit year- over-year. Directives included: global strategy development, high volume trading, micro/macro risk assessment and management, personnel evaluation and placement.

Partnership - (2012) Offered partnership on the basis of trading success, and vertical (company-wide) contributions in eduction, leadership, and mentorship. Shortest tenured employee to be offered partnership in 15 years of operation. Head of Education - Curated a full curriculum for employee education. Training program developed from the ground up, to most effectively integrated new and existing employees into trading roles. Managed twelve instructors, teaching 20+ courses, to graduate over 65+ students from 2011-2015.

Mentorship - To promote accountability amongst mangers and to integrate new employees in a rapidly growing company, formalized a program to more effectively monitor employee progress, induce communication across employees of all tenure, and reduce opacity in expectations from management. Co-Owner/Operations Advisor, Guroo Active Ventures, LLC 2011-Present Guroo Active is a athletic solutions company based out of Los Angeles, CA. The core thematic is in identifying common problems with established performance equipment, and solving them with forward thinking product development and state- of-the-art fabrication methods. GurooActive.com

Co-Owner/CFO, LML RealEstate, LLC 2010-Present

Purchase and redevelopment of stressed residential real estate assets in the Chicago market. Including: valuation, acquisition

(50% out of foreclosure), full rehabilitation, management, and sales. *Interned at Newmark Realty Capital (2007; LA) EDUCATION

University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign; BA Econ/Fin Cum Laude (2008) REFERENCES

Simon Amich - Managing Partner (Belvedere Trading) - 312-***-****; acxol4@r.postjobfree.com Spencer Burns - Director of Options Trading (TMG) - 312-***-****; acxol4@r.postjobfree.com 312-***-****; acxol4@r.postjobfree.com; 5600 Wilshire Blvd. #468, Los Angeles 90036