Two teams saw the same gap from opposite sides.

Tony has spent more than four decades building markets and the businesses that serve them. He started in 1979 on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, was elected to the CBOE Board of Directors in 1987, and later served on the board of the Chicago Stock Exchange. He is the only options trader profiled in Jack Schwager's classic book Market Wizards.

From the trading floor, Tony went on to build the firms that train, connect and serve today's options markets. He founded International Trading Institute, which created the first options trading simulator and has trained traders in more than 22 countries. He then built LiquidPoint into an options execution and technology firm, which ConvergEx Group acquired in 2007. Along the way he co-founded Efficient Capital Management and founded Matrix Holding Group and Fortify Technologies. In 2019 the industry recognized his career with the U.S. Options Lifetime Contribution Award. Tony has also written several books on trading, including Managing Expectations.

Today he leads Liquid Mercury, the Chicago-based institutional digital asset infrastructure company whose technology powers CertiVere. He holds a BS in Accounting from Indiana University and serves on the boards of several foundations.

Sandra is a serial entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience building businesses, raising capital and bringing new technology to market. She began her career in corporate roles at Kodak, where she was an executive, and IBM.

In 2014 she co-founded a 3D imaging technology company and served as its CEO. Its proprietary scanning and fit algorithms turned precise measurements into made-to-measure products. The company was accepted into Google's accelerator program, was covered by Fast Company, CNBC and Quartz, and raised capital through an equity crowdfunding round. Sandra also pitched it to Tim Draper as a finalist on Meet the Drapers. She knows firsthand what it takes to plan, pitch and fund a growing company.

Today she is Founder and CEO of Recurved, an AI-powered planning and forecasting platform that connects a company's CRM, accounting and ERP data into a live plan, giving founders and their investors one current source of truth. She holds a business degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Rochester's Simon School.