Michael J. Joubert Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Supervise a the team of surveillance analysts responsible for monitoring Equity and Interest Rate futures and options markets. Manage the Equity and Interest Rate EFRP review program. Assign reviews, offer guidance and support to team members as they process cases and evaluate analysts completed case work. Coach established analysts to foster increased productivity and career progression. Provide honest constructive feedback for bi-annual performance reviews. Train and mentor new surveillance staff.

Greater Chicago Area

Surveillance of Interest Rate and Equity futures and options and related cash and derivative markets in order to detect indications of manipulative activity that potentially could disrupt the performance or orderly expiration. Proactively monitor market participation, deliveries, fundamental factors and news that influence the market behavior of futures contracts. Conduct investigations in connection with the Market Regulation Department’s (MRD) monitoring of compliance with exchange rules regarding; ex-pit transactions, speculative position limit, and position reporting. Train new and existing MRD staff in the use of proprietary large trader software. Work independently and as part of several teams in conducting these responsibilities. Also responsible for a variety of assigned projects related to the department’s self-regulatory responsibilities.

CME Group Market Regulation Department

Chicago

• Actively managed the Fixed Income trading operations of a 30-trader cash and futures trading team.• Oversaw risk management of entire firm by continuously monitoring all current positions to insure trade size and/or loss limits were not exceeded. Confirmed that all trades were properly hedged and within Darwin risk parameters at all times.• Coached and counseled new and experienced traders daily and participated in their quarterly performance reviews.• Recruited and taught trader trainees to successfully exploit various arbitrage spread trading strategies involving the U.S. yield curve markets. • Administered many of the firm’s back-office functions, including statement dispute resolution and trader profit distributions, as well as reconciliation of all expense charges and rebates.

Chicago

• Executed trades in both fixed income securities and Chicago Board of Trade financial futures markets. Responsible for making trading decisions based on own analysis of the market. • Employed a range of arbitrage spread trading strategies, including cash/futures basis, FIT and NOB spreads to enhance the firm’s profitability. • Extensive knowledge of commonly used front-end trading software and market-charting tools, TT, eSpeed, BrokerTec, CQG and Bloomberg. • Throughout career at GHCO, consistently pursued additional responsibilities to improve the firm’s performance, including:-One-year assignment to GHCO’s London office to take on the additional role of recruiting experienced traders to the firm, while assisting in the rollout of new trading software.-Tested new proprietary trading software created by GHCO’s software development team, provided essential feedback on user enhancements prior to being released to traders.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Dual Concentration; Finance And Strategy, Execution And Valuation (Sev)

Graduated with Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics