 | | | Senior Management | |  | Michael Gooch
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer | Mr. Gooch founded the business of GFI Group Inc. in 1987 and has been GFI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1987. Prior to this, Mr. Gooch worked for Citibank, Refco Group, Bierbaum Martin, Harlow Meyer Savage and Tullet & Tokyo Forex. Mr. Gooch is the President and majority shareholder of Jersey Partners, the largest shareholder of GFI.
Mr. Gooch is a member of the Board of Trustees of Monmouth University in New Jersey and a Board Member of the Count Basie Theatre Foundation, Red Bank, NJ. In 2007, Global Capital Associates honored Mr. Gooch with the Theodor Herzl award, which salutes ‘people who had a vision to build new enterprises and movements and change existing paradigms; people with the courage to do something different.” For his support of PAX, a non-profit organization working to end gun violence against children and families in the U.S., Michael Gooch and his wife, Diane were honored in 2006. |
 | Colin Heffron
President and Director | Mr. Heffron has been GFI’s President since February 2004. Mr. Heffron is responsible for all of GFI’s brokerage, data and analytics businesses. He joined the company in 1988 as a broker of foreign currency options in New York, before moving to London to assist in the establishment of GFI’s London office.
From 1991 until 1994, Mr. Heffron headed GFI’s currency options business. From 1994 until 1997, Mr. Heffron ran the day-today operations of all GFI’s European businesses. From 1998 until February 2004, Mr.Heffron was head of all operations in Europe and joint-head of Asian operations. Mr. Heffron has been a member of GFI’s Board of Directors since 2001.
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 | James A. Peers
Chief Financial Officer | | Mr. Peers joined GFI as CFO in 2002. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Peers was a Senior Vice President at Bank One in Chicago between 1999 and 2001 where he held various positions, including Corporate Controller. He was also the CFO for Rabobank International in New York and a Senior Vice President - Corporate Development for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in New York. Mr. Peers is a certified Public and Chartered Accountant and was a partner at Ernst & Young where he spent 18 years working in the Toronto and Chicago offices mainly with financial institutional clients. |
 | Ron Levi
Chief Operating Officer | | Mr. Levi joined the company in 1993 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2006. Prior to being appointed Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Levi served as Managing Director – Europe from January 2004. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Levi was the Director of Fixed Income at Garban PLC.
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 | J Christopher Giancarlo
Executive Vice President - Corporate Development | | Mr. Giancarlo is responsible for executing strategic transactions and directing corporate communications. Mr. Giancarlo joined GFI in 2001 as part of the acquisition of Fenics, where he structured strategic alliances with major investment banks. Prior to Fenics, Mr. Giancarlo was a Corporate Partner in the New York law firm Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, LLP.
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 | Scott Pintoff
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | | Mr. Pintoff joined GFI in April 2000. Prior to assuming the duties of General Counsel in April 2002, Mr. Pintoff was GFI’s Associate General Counsel. Before joining GFI he was an Associate with the law firm Dewey Ballantine LLP from 1996 to 2000. |
 | Julian Swain
Managing Director - London | | Mr. Swain joined GFI in 2001 to head GFI’s European credit business. He became Managing Director - London in 2006 and was appointed as Head of GFI London in March 2007. Mr. Swain also has overall responsibility for GFI’s Dublin, Dubai and Cape Town offices. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Swain was at ICAP for 8 years, where he managed various credit desks. Mr. Swain graduated from Loughborough University in 1988 with an MSc in Economics and Management Science.
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 | Marc Souffir
Managing Director - Paris | | Mr. Souffir joined GFI at the end of 2005 as Managing Director - International Futures and Equities. In this role he assisted in establishing GFI’s Paris operations. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Refco’s Paris office. Before working at Refco, Mr. Souffir was a manager of various equities, equity derivatives and financial futures products at IFF, a division of AXA. |
 | Scott Tatham
Managing Director – Head of Asia | | Mr. Tatham is responsible for the day-to-day operations of GFI’s Asian brokerage businesses. He joined GFI in 2005 and recently headed GFI’s interest rate swaps business in New York. Mr. Tatham has over 20 years’ experience in interdealer broking, working in all the world’s major financial centres. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Tatham worked at Harlow and Tullett Prebon, where he brokered and managed fixed income, equity derivatives, credit derivatives and FX derivative products and businesses. |
 | Richard Brunt
Global Head of Sales - FENICS® Analytics and Data | | Mr. Brunt joined GFI from Thomson Financial Asia in 2004 where he was Commercial Director, South East Asia and Head of Major Accounts, Asia Pacific. Mr. Brunt oversees GFI’s global FENICS® FX business and market data sales. He holds a BA in Theology and Anthropology from Durham University. |
 | Nick Brown
Managing Director – Head of Financial Product Brokerage, North America | | Mr. Brown joined GFI in November 2003. Prior to this, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director of Technolia LLC, a telecom consulting company from 1998 until 2000. Mr. Brown’s experience in the interdealer brokerage industry includes positions as Managing Director, North America of Tullett & Tokyo between 1990 and 1996 and President of Harlow Meyer Savage from 1986 and 1989. Mr. Brown is also a director of Jersey Partners, the largest shareholder of GFI. In addition, Mr. Brown serves as a director of the Financial Markets Association and was formerly a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Foreign Exchange Steering Committee. |
 | Michael Cosgrove
Managing Director – Head of Commodities & Energy Brokerage, North America | | Mr. Cosgrove became Head of Commodities & Energy Product Brokerage, North America for GFI in July 2008. Mr. Cosgrove manages all of GFI’s commodities & energy business in North America, including its Amerex and StarSupply divisions. He started his career with Amerex in 1981 as a trainee with the firm’s New Jersey office and quickly excelled as a broker of North American and international crude oil. In 1986, Mr. Cosgrove became a partner in the firm and Managing Director of Amerex’s European operations. In 1989, Mr. Cosgrove founded Amerex Futures Limited, a member of the London Clearing House and International Petroleum Exchange. In 2003, Mr. Cosgrove was named Chief Executive Officer of the Amerex North American Companies. In 2004, Mr. Cosgrove was named in the Energy Risk Hall of Fame. |
 | Jim Higgins
Managing Director - Head of North American Credit Brokerage | | Mr. Higgins joined GFI in July 2008. He is a former Co-head of Global Credit Trading at Citigroup in New York where he worked for 15 years. Mr. Higgins holds a BA in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. |
 | James Martin
Managing Director - London | | As GFI’s Managing Director, London, Mr.Martin works alongside Mr. Swain in the running of the London brokerage business. Mr. Martin has held a number of roles at GFI, including the running of the FX options business, moving later into GFI’s e-Commerce division as a product manager in London, then New York. He returned to London in 2004 to set up GFI’s credit index desk and more recently was responsible for running GFI’s structured credit business. Before he joined GFI, Mr. Martin traded currency options and US government securities at Bank of New York. |
 | Tom Cancro
Corporate Controller | | Mr. Cancro joined GFI in 2008 from Mastec, Inc. where he was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller. He has over 18 years’ experience in finance, accounting and operations in the U.S. and abroad and previously served as Chief Financial Officer of EuroTel, a joint venture between Verizon, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom based in Europe, and steered that company through its debt IPO and SEC registration. Mr. Cancro also previously headed Verizon's Capital Markets Strategy team, and held roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. Mr. Cancro holds a BSc in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University, is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds a CFA Charter. |
 | Jerry Dobner
Global Head of Development | | Mr. Dobner joined GFI in 2001. He oversees business analysis, quality assurance and development of GFI’s electronic trading platforms. During his time at GFI, Mr. Dobner has helped develop CreditMatch, FENICS DealFX, GFI FENICS and most recently managed the development of GFI’s energy trading platform, EnergyMatch®. Prior to joining GFI, Mr Dobner developed real-time stock quote software at NewsAlert. |
 | Sheena Griffiths
Global Human Resources Director | | Ms. Griffiths joined GFI in 2000. Previously, Ms. Griffiths was Director of Human Resources, Europe for Garban (now ICAP). Ms. Griffiths has also worked for NatWest Group (now Royal Bank of Scotland) in both human resources and corporate roles. Ms. Griffiths is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and holds a certificate in Employment Law from Middlesex University Business School. |
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