Carrick Pierce serves as CEO of Derivix where he oversees business development, product strategy and global sales.  Before joining Derivix, Pierce served as the Chief Information and Technology Officer at Parallax Fund L.P, a trading firm that specializes in relative value volatility trading. 

Prior to his role at Parallax Fund, Pierce served as infrastructure manager for the flow volatility desk at Lehman Brothers and was also a partner in private equity at Aegis Holdings, LLC. Earlier in his career, he was an options market maker on the American Stock Exchange for a quantitative trading hedge fund, focusing on leading-edge options and volatility trading strategies. Pierce also studied computational finance at Carnegie Mellon University and finance at Georgetown University.

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Carl Schranz has over a decade of experience in the electronic trading industry. Prior to joining Derivix, Carl served as both CCO and COO of ITG Derivatives and more recently at Red Sky Financial. Prior to ITG Derivatives, Carl served as Professional Client Services Manager for Interactive Brokers Group and as a financial analyst for Capital Forensics, Inc, a firm providing expert testimony in securities litigation cases. Carl currently holds FINRA licenses 3, 4, 7, 24, 55 and 63 and earned a BS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin LaCrosse.

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Brian brings with him over 20 years of financial, operational and strategic experience in numerous industries, which included high tech, managed services and manufacturing companies.  Before joining Derivix, Brian was the Controller for Message Secure Corporation, a managed security services company.  He managed the accounting and human resources departments and played instrumental roles in securing venture funding and the sale of the company to Perimeter Internetworking.

Brian attended Fitchburg State College and is actively involved volunteering in youth activities and serving on various boards in North Andover, MA.