PFGBEST's Leadership
James L. (Jim) O'Connell
Vice President of Managed Futures for PFGBEST
Jim O'Connell leads the continued growth of managed futures business for the company by supporting fully-owned PFGBEST branches and IBs in their efforts to help clients diversify their portfolios in this fast-growing alternative investment sector. Jim joined the company in 2002 as director of Business Development, a role that utilized his considerable experience gleaned over more than two decades as a futures industry professional.
Jim was a director at Lind-Waldock & Co. beginning in 1997, working in risk management, forex business development and expansion of the customer base along with products and services to distribute. He set a record of forty-eight consecutive profitable months while simultaneously creating that firm’s forex department. Jim and his staff of 12 facilitated the set-up of forex front, middle and back offices, implementation of margining rules and real-time margin monitoring.
Before that, Jim managed a futures fund in excess of $12 million as a commodity trader with R. Jeffs Kollar & Associates/Sheridan Asset Management. He established trading systems and was responsible for the associated accounting and reporting efforts.
Jim was formerly vice president and senior foreign exchange dealer at The Chicago Corporation. In that role, he increased the client base dramatically while also serving as a shift manager overseeing trade desk operations.
Jim began his career in the futures industry in 1981 as CBOT floor manager for trading firm Rouse-Woodstock, Inc. He continued as a CBOT floor manager for Harris Trust & Savings Co. in 1984. In 1986, he started working as an independent commodity trader with Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Co. and then became a general partner in a joint venture currency/EFP trade dealing desk, later joining Sanwa-BGK Securities Co., LP as vice president and government securities dealer.
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