Is it just me or is there something missing from this Bio from CEO.TV, some other CEO experiance:
In 1983, Mr. Strickland began his career as an analyst for a trading partnership 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. During his career, Mr. Strickland has held seats on three major commodity and securities exchanges as a floor trader and was a pioneer in the development of modern index arbitrage techniques during the 1980s.
Mr. Strickland has held 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 is generally recognized as a trading, compliance and brokerage operations expert in the commodity futures area, and has over 20 years experience building complex trading models.
Mr. Strickland has been continuously registered with the National Futures Association since 1985 and at various times carried registrations as an Associated Person (AP), Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), an exchange member (CBOE) broker/dealer and Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC. During that time, he has never been cited for an exchange rule infraction, violation of any NFA rule or regulation, or been the subject of any customer complaint or inquiry.
Prior to joining 141 Capital, Mr. Strickland formed 2Zfuture.com, Inc., and registered the company as a CTA. This CTA was the trading arm of Mr. Strickland’s brokerage, while serving as the Chief Index Analyst for Alaron Trading Corporation, a Chicago based futures broker. He left Alaron to go to Austin, Texas to form 141 Publishing Group, Inc., in August of 1999.
From 1995 through 1997, Mr. Strickland was employed by Futures Analytics, Inc., a Colorado corporation he formed and registered as a commodities Introducing Broker. Mr. Strickland sold the company’s book of business in April 1997.