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Doug Duquette

Executive Vice President/CTO, Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT)

Doug is a veteran electronic trader and developer of trading system technologies. Doug currently serves as CTO and is responsible for all product design and engineering, global support, R&D, and internal IT. Doug is also responsible for global TTNET operations. Although his responsibilities are wide-ranging, he approaches his work with a simple goal: optimize system performance for the trader. Doug possesses a unique combination of technical skill and extensive electronic trading experience, which helps him understand, design and apply technology from the trader’s perspective. Doug has worked with virtually every commercially available futures trading platform and has designed proprietary trading systems, which he used daily in his own trading.

Doug began his trading career in the early 1990s, trading bond futures while operating a mortgage lending business in Boston, MA. In 1995, he exited the mortgage industry and transitioned to become a full-time futures trader and system developer. He created the first prototype of a patent pending, event-based graphical front-end system based on existing market data feeds. In 1998, he left Boston for Chicago and became a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). While trading CME products, Doug continued development of his proprietary trading systems and built connections to CME, Eurex and the Chicago Board of Trade which he used daily in his own trading. He worked in this capacity trading for his own account until his technologies were acquired by TT in 2005.