As the Chief Strategist for OptionsPlay, Tony Zhang has assembled and manages an agile team of developers, designers, and quants that has led the company to create one of the newest innovations in options trading and analysis. The flagship product, OptionsPlay, is currently embedded within several major sell-side brokerage firms, wealth management firms and exchanges world wide, as well as a direct to consumer platform. As an advocate for the responsible use of options trading, he has lead the industry in promoting education for all market participants. On CNBC's Options Action show, Tony shares his ideas and how options can be used to leverage his views while reducing risk. Tony took OptionsPlay from the ground up, building the product suite and bringing it to market for both institutional and retail markets within 18 months. He has developed and managed many of the firm's partnerships extending from the Options Industry Council, Nasdaq, Montreal Exchange, Merrill, Fidelity, Schwab, and Raymond James.

- Managed a book of over 2000 retail/institutional clients, providing market color and structuring trades from client's market views and ideas.- Consistently bringing in over $500,000 in account deposits and maintaining over $3 billion in trading volume monthly.- Maintain account retention levels and trading volume by developing individualized relationships with active clients and supplying suitable trading research.- Coordinated with internal research team to deliver actionable research based on clients' feedback, specified trading strategies and market views.

- Created an education package for GAIN Capital clients on ISE-Exchange listed Currency Options.- Provide market color, research and execution services to existing and prospective clients for all tradable F/X derivatives.- As a sales associate, expand the existing FOREX.com client base from F/X into multi-asset classes including securities, fixed income and derivatives.- Advised marketing and technology teams on developing an intuitive trading platform catered to multi-asset trading, bridging a gap between GAIN's existing F/X and Securities platforms.

- Converted practice account leads into live trading accounts using a sales model based on consultative needs approach.- Ranked consistently as a top sales producer and averaging over 120% of the sales quota from 2006-2009.- Leveraged personal trading experiences and extensive sell-side research across multiple-asset classes to better on-board prospective clients from varying trading backgrounds.- Coordinated with internal research division to provide actionable and relevant research based on clients' feedback and specified needs.

- Manage CRM-based sales tracking and reporting tools for monthly sales performance; continuously evaluating the performance of products, tools and promotions to meet the firm's business objects and sales goals.- Present feedback and advice for developing education and trading tools catered to a retail F/X client base.- Drive new revenue from Zecco's existing clients through F/X trading while increasing their client base by 300+ F/X accounts yearly and over $2M in additional account deposits.- Maintain account retention level and trading volume by developing individualized relationships with active clients and supplying suitable trading research and tools.