Could be a number of guys. Mr. Paul D. Strickland, Jr. has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spooz Inc. since 2004. Mr. Strickland has over 20 years experience in building complex trading models. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Strickland founded 2Zfuture.com, Inc. as a Commodity Trading Advisor.
Mr. Strickland served as the Chief Index Analyst for Alaron Trading Corporation, where Mr. Strickland's CTA placed 2nd in the U.S. for 1998 trading performance (as tracked by Barclays and reported by Futures Magazine) for CTA's having less than $10 million under management. He joined 141 Publishing Group. Inc. in August 1999. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Strickland served at Futures Analytics, Inc. Mr. Strickland began his career as an Analyst for a trading partnership in 1983, where he designed and implemented complex computerized trading systems for traders on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Mr. Strickland served trading, managerial and consultant positions with several institutional and proprietary trading firms such as Bear Stearns, G-Bar Partners, First Options Group, LIT McDonald. Petco/Peters, and Transitions Group. Mr. Strickland served seats on three major commodity and securities exchanges as a Floor Trader and was a pioneer in the development of modern index arbitrage techniques since 1980. Mr. Strickland has been Chairman of 141 Capital, Inc. since 1991 and serves as its Director.
He has been a Director of Spooz Inc. since 2004. Mr. Strickland is generally recognized as a trading, compliance and brokerage operations expert in the commodity futures area. Mr. Strickland has been continuously registered with the National Futures Association since 1985 and at various times carried registrations as an Associated Person (AP'1), Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), an Exchange Member (CBOE) broker/dealer and Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC.
