CHAD KAGEN

An accomplished entrepreneur, Chad has been a principal founder and co-founded numerous successful companies, such as Obsidian Capital Group, a technology-driven quantitative management firm with a proprietary trading group headquartered inside the Chicago Board of Trade; Vertu Equity, a proprietary trading firm focused on algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies; Magic Worx, an advisory and media finance company working with major motion pictures, indie films, and episodic entertainment; and Kagen Interests, an investment company specializing in financial derivatives, class A commercial real estate, information technology, entertainment, and green technology... Chad believes Obsidian Capital Group's approach was responsible for setting the company apart from their competitors. They were scientists and mathematicians; they didn't necessarily feel as emotional as the average person would about trading the global markets because they were a different kind of breed, deferring to..