Kevin O'Hara

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Dr. Kevin O'Hara served as Board Member at Fippex. Kevin is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Law School, Chairman of the Kevin J. P. O'Hara Family (Charitable) Foundation, and a private equity and real estate investor. He sits on several boards of directors and boards of trustees, including ITG (NYSE listed: ITG) and Pivot Point Consulting, and is a member of the advisory board of Quadriserv, Inc. Mr. O'Hara was CEO of the Trading/Exchanges Division of the Gulf Finance House (Bahrain/UAE) in 2008-2009. He served as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) Holdings, Inc. in 2006-07. (CBOT was acquired by CME in 2007.) He was employee no. 11 and served as Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Archipelago Holdings, Inc., from 1999 to 2006; and served as Executive Vice President and Co-General Counsel of NYSE Group, Inc. in 2006. (Archipelago was acquired by NYSE in 2006.) Mr. O'Hara worked in Romania and Lithuania from 1995 to 1999 on capital market development for the consulting firms Financial Markets International and Pragma Corporation. He worked as a civil prosecutor in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission during 1991-1995 and as Special Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1988 to 1991, he practiced law at the Chicago firm of (McGuire Woods) Ross & Hardies. Mr. O'Hara earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and B.A. from the University of Chicago.