Chris Hausman

Chris is a graduate of Wharton business school with a degree in Finance, Chris started his career in investment banking as an analyst in Structured Finance for NationsBanc Capital Markets. In 1995, he moved to Chicago where he became a market maker for Wolverine Trading, a multinational index arbitrage firm. At Wolverine, Chris worked on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, trading options on the S&P 500 futures index and on the Pacific Stock Exchange trading options on Microsoft.  In addition to his daily responsibilities on the trading floor, he served as the firm's trainer for new pit trading trainees.  After leaving the floor in 1999, Chris joined Tony Saliba as Head Trader at STC, L.L.C., a proprietary options trading firm in Chicago. Chris also served as Lead Instructor for the International Trading Institute teaching option strategies to market makers and traders from around the world. Mr. Hausman is currently Senior Vice President for CAZ Investments, a wealth management firm in Houston, Texas. His primary responsibilities include utilizing the listed options markets to generate returns and reduce risk for the portfolio as well as monitor and assist in all trading activities of the firm.  

Joseph C. Corona

Joe is currently a Senior Trader with STC LLC in Chicago, where he trades equities and equity options. Prior to this he was Senior Trader with Refco Overseas Ltd. where he was responsible for proprietary trading of derivative instruments in equity, fixed income, FX and commodity markets with a global orientation. He has extensive experience as a trader working from London and Chicago and trading at the CBOE, CBOT, CME, and LIFFE markets. He has trading experience in a wide range of derivative instruments including equity, fixed income, FX and commodity markets. Joe has worked with a range of companies including BZW, Fuji Securities and his own private company. He has highly developed skills in proprietary trading, pricing and managing risk. He has been a trainer and consultant for ITI on a part time basis for the past six years training both international and domestic clientele in advance option trading and risk analysis techniques.

Achal Darbari

Achal has a strong experience in Derivatives Trading, Financial services, & Risk Management. While working for Ernst & Young LLP in Chicago he has worked in the capital markets and risk management areas of several big financial institutions and fortune 500 Corporations in US. Prior to joining E&Y he worked for a large derivatives trading firm in Chicago where he traded Index, Currency and Commodity options at CME and CBOT. Mr. Darbari holds an MBA and MS from Syracuse University New York 

Timothy J. Kelly 

Timothy J Kelly is a graduate of the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Upon graduation, Timothy began an extensive run as a stockbroker. Initially, he was an Account Executive at Laidlaw Adams and Peck in New York, where he would become Assistant Vice President. He went from there to Shearson Lehman/American Express Inc. in Melville, New York, where he was an Account Executive and was consistently among the leaders in opening new accounts. Since 1987, Timothy has worked as a floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade where he trades options as well as agricultural futures. He has been an instructor with the International Trading Institute since the fall of 2000.