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Gary Katz is a founder and Chief Operating Officer of ISE. Mr. Katz heads ISE's Corporate Initiatives Division as well as the state-of-the-art technology program (including technical services member services and IT operations) and the market operations team. Additionally he is responsible for ISE's marketing and business development efforts and the Exchange's finance administration and facilities management functions. He also co-heads the ISE Stock Exchange. Mr. Katz is one of the principal developers of ISE's unique market structure - an auction market on an electronic platform. He is co-inventor on eleven patents that the ISE has made application for.
From 1997 to 1998 he was President and co-founder of K-Squared Research LLC a financial services consulting firm. From 1986 to 1997 Mr. Katz was Managing Director Options and Index Products at the New York Stock Exchange. There he managed the research and development of new options products and spearheaded a major marketing program for the promotion of NYSE options products.Mr. Katz is a co-founder of The Options Industry Council a trade group dedicated to promoting the equity options sector through the education of the investing public. Prior to 1986 Mr. Katz was an actuary with the Equitable Life Assurance Company and is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries.
Mr. Katz formerly was an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the Stern School of Business New York University where he conducted classes in business mathematics applications and also taught classes in options strategies and pricing at the New York Institute of Finance. Mr. Katz has an MS in Statistics with Distinction from New York University and a BA from Queens College. Mr. Katz represents ISE on the Board of Directors of The Options Clearing Corporation. | 