our team
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, Mr. Guinan 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, Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, Econ Illinois, Trinity High School and the Boy Scouts of America, Chicago Area Council. Mr. Guinan holds a BA in economics and an MBA in finance and accounting from Columbia University.
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 traded and over the counter markets. Lisa has a BBA from Loyola University of Chicago.
William Steele, Chief Risk Officer
Prior to attaining his 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 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 Technology 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, an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an 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 more than 20 years of experience 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.
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, Business Development Manager
William Harrington joined Advantage Futures in January 2004. In his current position of Executive Vice President, Business Development, Bill is responsible for overseeing, managing, and coordinating all of the firm’s business development activities. Prior to this position, Bill served as Senior Vice President of Institutional Business Development. Bill has 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 earned a BBA in finance from the University of Notre Dame.
Michael O’Malley, Executive Vice President, Business Development
Michael O’Malley joined Advantage Futures in November 2005, and is currently the Executive 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.
