Anthony M. Sanfilippo
Governor
Term Ending: December 31, 2008
Westport, Connecticut
amsanfilippo@hotmail.com
Mr. Sanfilippo is currently Managing Partner at Etico Capital. He has over 30 years experience in the financial service industry. Through February 2006, he held the position of Executive Vice President, Head of U.S. Equity Trading for Jefferies & Co. Mr. Sanfilippo’s responsibilities included all aspects of the domestic execution and trading in equities and derivatives. Mr. Sanfilippo joined Jefferies in February 2004, returning to the firm that helped shape his career in the early 1980s.
Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Sanfilippo was an Executive Vice President at Knight Trading Group. He held the title of President and Chief Executive Officer of Knight Capital Markets, Knight’s wholly owned NASDAQ InterMarket trading firm. From February 2002 to May 2002, Mr. Sanfilippo was the interim Chief Executive Officer of Knight Trading Group, Inc. He joined Knight in 1997, when Tradetech Securities, a NASDAQ InterMarket trading firm he founded in 1993, was acquired by Trimark Securities (later named Knight Capital Markets LLC). Mr. Sanfilippo was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Tradetech. Additional roles at Knight included Head of Global Equities, Chairman of Knight International, LTD., President and CEO of Knight Asia Holdings, Inc. and Chairman of Knight Roundtable Europe, LTD., a venture between Knight and its broker-dealer and bank partners in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Sanfilippo served as a board member of Knight Trading Group from 1997 to 2004.
Prior to founding Tradetech, from 1989 to 1993, Mr. Sanfilippo was an Executive Vice President at Mesirow Financial, managing the firm’s Institutional Equity Division and Regional Exchange Specialist Operations. He also has held trading and management positions at William Blair & Co., Dillon Read & Co. and Bateman Eichler in his 30-year career.
Mr. Sanfilippo currently serves as a Governor of Security Traders Association (STA) and co-chairs the Trading Issues Committee, along with its Options Subcommittee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP), and is a past member of the Board of Directors of NASDAQ Europe and the SIA Trading Committee. He also serves as Treasurer for the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation, Inc. Mr. Sanfilippo has also served as the President of the Security Traders Association in Chicago, and he is the former Chairman of the District 8 Business Conduct Committee (DBCC) of NASD Regulation, Inc. He attended DePaul University.
