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Michael O’Malley, Senior Vice President, Business Development
Michael O’Malley joined Advantage Futures in November 2005, and is currently the Senior Vice President of Business Development. Prior to joining Advantage Futures, Mike spent 23 years with RJ O’Brien, starting at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and working his way up to become Chief Operating Officer and Chief Risk Officer. Mike is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and has a BS in marketing and management from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota.

Michael O’Hara, President, Professional Traders Group
Mr. O’Hara has been a member of the Advantage Futures Professional Trader Group Sales and Client Service team since its inception in June 2003. As President, Professional Trader Group, Mike's responsibilities include managing the firm's sales activities directed at Professional Traders and Proprietary Trading Groups. He most recently served as Senior Vice President of the Professional Trader Group. Prior to Advantage, Mike managed the client service department at Mizuho Securities USA (formerly Fuji Futures Inc.) since 2001. He started as a clerk on the CME floor working for Merrill Lynch. Mike holds a bachelor degree from University of Illinois and holds a Series 3 license.

OUR MANAGEMENT TEAM.

Advantage Futures boasts an extremely reputable and experienced management team. Across the firm, department by department, we have brought together the highest caliber professionals in the industry committed to premier client service.

Our commitment to the futures industry is best represented by the quality of our employees. Advantage Futures allows our clients to focus solely on trading while we take care of the rest.

DISCLAIMER
This information is not to be construed as an offer to sell or a solicitation or an offer to buy commodities herein named. The factual information of this report has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but it is not necessarily all inclusive and is not guaranteed as to the accuracy and is not to be construed as representation by Advantage. The risk of trading futures and options can be substantial. Each investor must consider whether this is a suitable investment. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Account downloads are not an offer of solicitation for the purchase or sale of any Commodity. Before trading one should be aware that with potential profits there is also potential for losses that may be very large. Futures investing involves risk and is not suitable for everyone. Those acting on this information are responsible for their own actions.

Joseph Guinan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Joseph Guinan is the Founding Chairman and CEO of Advantage Futures. Through his leadership, Advantage has expanded from a boutique with 28 employees in 2003 to one of the preeminent clearing firms in the futures industry. Before establishing Advantage in 2003, Mr. Guinan served as President and CEO of Fuji Futures Inc. (one of four companies merged to form Mizuho Securities USA) where he worked from 1995 to 2003. Prior to Fuji, Joe held various trading and management positions at Merrill Lynch, Kidder Peabody, and Irving Trust from 1981 to 1995. Mr. Guinan is a registered floor broker and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and NYMEX. Mr. Guinan serves on the Boards of Mundelein Seminary, Bay Harbor Yacht Club, and is Chairman of Econ Illinois. Mr. Guinan holds a BA in economics and an MBA in finance and accounting from Columbia University.

John Schlaefke, Chief Administrative Officer
John Schlaefke joined Advantage as Chief Administrative Officer in 2005. His responsibilities include oversight of the following vital functional areas of the firm: Accounting, Human Resources, and Administration and Sales Support. Prior to Advantage, John gained a wealth of experience on the trading side of the industry as the Chief Operating Officer of Harrison Trading, LLC. There, John oversaw the day-to-day management of the company as well as the trading activities, operations, administration, HR, accounting, and risk departments. Prior to Harrison, John had over ten years of experience in the futures industry working for proprietary trading firms. He has a BA from Concordia University, Chicago.

Lisa Jones, Chief Compliance Officer
Prior to her position at Advantage Futures, Lisa Jones served in a variety of compliance roles within The Fuji Bank Ltd.’s subsidiaries, including Chief Compliance Officer of Fuji Futures Inc. She began her career in 1990 at Lind-Waldock & Company, a registered Futures Commission Merchant, where she served as Compliance Officer. In 1995 Lisa joined the Bank of Montreal and Harris Bank as the US Treasury Compliance Manager, where she was primarily responsible for overseeing US Treasury activities, including exchange trade and over the counter markets. Lisa has a BBA from Loyola University of Chicago, and maintains licenses for Series: 3, 7, and 24.

William Steele, Chief Credit Officer, Risk Management 
Prior to attaining this position at Advantage Futures, William Steele gained experience at Fuji Futures and Mizuho Securities, Linnco Futures Group, LLC, and Index Futures Group/Brokers Resource. Bill’s futures industry career began as a retail client in 1979, and has encompassed a broad range of experiences, including order desk execution, marketing, research and trading, compliance, margins, and risk management. For the past 20 years Bill has focused primarily on Risk Management. Bill possesses both a trader’s perspective as well as an understanding of the role each department plays in the risk management process. Bill was elevated to the role overseeing the Operations Department in addition to the Credit/Risk Management Departments in the fall of 2006. His process-oriented mindset helps Advantage Futures focus on minimizing all operational risks in the same methodical manner that his modeling and stress testing have helped minimize the firm’s market risk. Bill has a BS from Northern Illinois University, and completed his graduate work in economics at DePaul University.

Thomas Guinan, Chief Information Officer
Thomas Guinan has managed the Information Technology team at Advantage Futures since its inception in 2003. Tom’s career in the futures industry began on the CME trading floor in 1987. Over the years, he has gained an uncommon blend of industry experience and IT knowledge. This unique base of understanding has allowed Tom to create and maintain an IT team at Advantage Futures, focused on providing the fastest, most reliable trading network possible. Tom has a BBA from the University of Texas, as well as an MBA and MS in computer science from the University of Chicago.

Jim Haney, Chief Financial Officer
Jim is responsible for all finance and accounting functions at Advantage. He has over 20 years in the futures industry. Prior to joining Advantage, Jim served as the Director of Accounting for CSC Futures and VP of Finance for RJ O’Brien for ten years. Jim is a CPA and earned a BA in Accounting from Loras College in 1986.

Michael McLaughlin, President, Institutional Sales
As President of Institutional Sales at Advantage Futures, Michael McLaughlin oversees the CME, CBOT and Global Execution Desk teams. Prior to Advantage Futures, Michael worked at Fuji Futures as the Sales Manager, and managed the CME, CBOT, and upstairs sales staff for eight years. Michael began his career in the financial industry at Merrill Lynch in 1986, where he served as the Manager of short-term interest rates until 1995. Michael has a BS in finance from the University of Iowa.

William Harrington, Executive Vice President, Sales Manager
William Harrington joined Advantage Futures in January 2004. His current position of Executive Vice President, Sales Manager, Bill is responsible for overseeing, managing and coordinating all of the firm’s sales activities including those of the Professional Trader Group, Business Development, Institutional Sales, Value-Added Sales, and the 24-Hour Global Execution Desk. Prior to this position, Bill served as Senior Vice President of Institutional Business Development. Bill is a 21 year industry veteran, having previous experience in Institutional Sales on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor. He worked closely with large institutional accounts emphasizing interest rate, foreign currency and equity futures and options trading. Bill began his career in the futures industry with Merrill Lynch Futures in 1987, before joining Fuji Securities (currently known as Mizuho Securities USA) in 1995 as Vice President of Institutional Sales. Bill has a BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

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Philip Singer, Operations Manager
Philip Singer joined Advantage Futures as Operations Manager in May 2005. Prior to Advantage Futures, Phil managed the LFG Division of Refco since April 2000, and had served as Operations Manager for LFG, LLC for 11 years before that. At LFG, Phil supervised clearing operations for all North American futures exchanges, as well as non-U.S. customer business in individual equity options as a restricted member of CBOE. Phil is an expert in the GMI system, and has a broad range of experience in futures and options clearing operations dating back to 1979. He is a graduate of Dominican University in River Forest, IL, and holds professional licenses for Series: 3, 7 and 63.