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Futures veteran Peter Wind leaves Penson
23 April 2010
Peter Wind, vice-chairman of Penson GHCO, the Chicago-based futures broker, left the company on February 26.
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Wind is a senior figure in the
futures industry, having worked in the market for nearly 40 years. He is also
senior vice-president of Penson Worldwide, the holding company for several of
the group’s businesses.
He joined Penson as a senior
vice-president in November 2002. Before that, he had worked at Cargill since
1972 in a variety of trading and management positions, latterly as senior vice-president
of global financial markets. In that capacity he ran the firm’s equity,
interest rate and FX trading.
He has been a member of the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade and is a member of the
National Futures Association and Futures Industry Association.
Penson hired Wind to help build
its financial futures business. He also worked closely with Integrated Trading
Solutions, a subsidiary that provides direct access trading systems for
equities, options and futures.
Daniel Son, the president and
co-founder of Penson Worldwide, said Wind had left “to pursue other things. We
will miss him and were pleased with his performance.”
He said there were no immediate
plans to replace Wind.