IPO-VID Livestream Podcast with Patrick L Young

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #138 by Patrick L Young with Tom Caldwell.

Thomas S. Caldwell has been in the investment industry since graduating from McGill University in 1965. 

Mr. Caldwell is President, CEO & Director of  Urbana Corporation, a publicly traded investment company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”).  He is also a past Chairman of the CSE, “The  Exchange for Entrepreneurs”. 

Mr. Caldwell is a Retired Honorary Colonel of The  Lincoln and Welland Regiment and was a Governor of the Toronto  Stock Exchange who is recognized as one of the world’s foremost investors in securities exchanges. 

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #137 by Patrick L Young with Magnus Haglind, SVP, Head of Marketplace Technology within the Market Platforms division of Nasdaq responsible for business management and product portfolio strategy across a broad suite of mission critical market infrastructure solutions for market operators. 

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #136 by Patrick L Young with Gunnar Stefansson.

Gunnar Stefansson has a background in statistics. In his day job, he is a professor at the University of Iceland. His research and applications attempt to merge blockchain and cryptocurrency with educational technology and charity.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #135 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann, a German historian, sociologist and multiple bestselling author, whose 26 books include “In Defence of Capitalism.” His books have been translated into 30 languages around the world along with his copious quantity of Op-Eds and he has twice been our guest on IPO-VID

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #134 by Patrick L Young with Hamish Adourian, Head of Sales and Marketing at Sinara, a London-based software house established for over 30 years well known as a trusted software partner to leading financial institutions worldwide.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #133 by Patrick L Young with Tiaan Bazuin.

Tiaan Bazuin is an entrepreneurial qualified lawyer who has been CEO of the Namibian Stock Exchange since 2013 and MD of the Central Securities Depository (Pty) Ltd, and MD of Birdsong Properties (Pty) Ltd, a real estate developer company situated outside of Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. Tiaan is chairman of the CoSSE Legal Sub-committee and serves on the Board of Trustees of NMC (Namibia Medical Care).

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #132 by Patrick L Young with Rafael Plata.

Rafael is the Secretary General of the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH), the trade body that represents European CCPs. A seasoned professional of capital markets industry for over 20 years, he has in the past represented the interests of regulated market at FESE, contributed to EU policy-making at an MEP office at the EuroParl and advised pension funds as an investment consultant.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #131 by Patrick L Young with Brad Schaeffer.

Polyglot commodities trader, musician, author & widely read columnist on a range of topics everywhere from The Hill to the Wall Street Journal, Brad Schaeffer has just published his third book: "LIFE IN THE PITS: My Time As A Trader On The Rough-And-Tumble Exchange Floors", recounting Brad's time as clerk then trader in the mosh pit of the commodities trading floors in Chicago and New York.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #130 by Patrick L Young.

Join us for our annual review of the year with content from:

Christopher Sturgess, Eamonn Butler, Yra Harris, Scott Shellady, Hamish McRae, Susan Gidel, Rainer Zitelmann, Mark Wheatley, Andreas Schweitzer , Andrea Corcoran, Rod Blondin, John Ensley, Ann Berg, Richard Sandor, Lucas Schmeddes, Johan Norberg, Stephen Donofrio and Steve Zwick

Discussing their thoughts on where the “Capital Market Revolution!” goes next, beginning the 25th anniversary year of the original book’s publication!

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #129 by Patrick L Young with  John Fildes.

Having grown Chi-X Australia from 4% to 21% market share in Australian equities, John Fildes knows all about how CEOs can drive change in markets. He has been involved in markets across the globe with a strong background in innovation, having launched the first ETF in Europe (SPDR S&P500) in 1993 across a vast experience in financial markets…

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #127 by Patrick L Young.

Join us for our annual review of the year with content from:

Simon O'Brien, Les Male, Bruce Goldberg, Alina Aldambergen, Craig Pirrong, Monica Singer, Tim Worstall, Jeffrey Kutler, Albert Menkveld, Jennifer Ilkiw, Collin Formosa, James Block, Bob Pisani, Jim Oliff, Alex Lamb, Rainer Zitelmann, Philip Roscoe, Jeff Carter, Paul Constantinou,  Pat Kenny, Gedon Hertshton

Discussing their thoughts on where the “Capital Market Revolution!” goes next, beginning the 25th anniversary year of the original book’s publication!

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #126 by Patrick L Young with Steve Zwick & Stephen Donofrio.

Steve Zwick writes about the economics of sustainable development and the interplay between land-use and climate change -- two subjects he developed a fascination for in a 30-year career that brought him from Chicago's trading pits and led to subsistence farms in rural parts of Kenya, Vietnam, and Brazil.

Stephen Donofrio is Managing Director of Ecosystem Marketplace, the world’s first and only globally recognized and standardized Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) end-to-end transparency platform providing exclusive carbon trade pricing data, insights, and news.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #125 by Patrick L Young with Johan Norberg, an author and documentary filmmaker, born in Sweden. He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from the University of Stockholm and is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. Norberg has written books on a broad range of topics, including global economics and popular science. He has achieved a worldwide readership with books like Progress, Open and most recently The Capitalist Manifesto translated into more than 30 languages. Norberg also regularly hosts documentaries on development and economics for American public television, including India Awakes, The Real Adam Smith and Sweden: Lessons for America?

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #124 by Patrick L Young with Lucas Schmeddes, President & COO of leading continental European energy exchange ICE Endex, ICE Endex provides liquid European gas, emissions and power markets as well as gas balancing markets in the Netherlands and the U.K. (OCM).

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #123 by Patrick L Young with Richard Sandor,  CEO of Environmental Financial Products (EFP), which was the incubator to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the American  Financial Exchange (AFX).  Among Dr. Sandor’s academic roles, he is currently the Aaron Director Lecturer in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School and an honorary Professor at the School of  Economics at Fudan University and the University of Hong Kong.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #122 by Patrick L Young with Ann Berg, a leading expert in commodities, commodity futures, and food security issues. She is a former grain exporter, futures trader and CBOT director. She has worked for governmental and intergovernmental organizations including the USAID, the World Bank, UNCTAD, EC/EU and was a senior advisor  to UN-FAO from 2008-2021. She has worked truly worldwide…

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #121 by Patrick L Young with John Ensley.

John Ensley, is leading a financial planning revolution to help you take back control of your money. After losing almost everything during the great recession, John became obsessed with finding safe, predictable ways to save and create wealth.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #120 by Patrick L Young with Rod Blondin.

Rod Gravelet-Blondin has a lifetime of experience in agricultural economics having been Agricultural Counselor at the South African Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland responsible for South African agricultural representation at the GATT (now WTO.)  and Agricultural Counselor at the South African Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium responsible for agricultural relations between South Africa and the European Union.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #119 by Patrick L Young with Andrea Corcoran, Principal of Align International and former director of two divisions at the CFTC, advises the C-suite of firms and regulatory authorities located on five continents on various regulatory and policy puzzles. Her consulting services include confidential evaluation of organizational structures and processes, development of regulatory and compliance strategies, training, adaptation to international standards, and much more after 15 years as a consultant. Previously she was the initially Trading and Markets, the CFTC’s then-principal regulatory arm, and, subsequently, the newly created, Office of International Affairs.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #118 by Patrick L Young with Andreas Schweitzer, the Managing Director of London based Arjan Capital Ltd, a UK FCA regulated trade and corporate advisory firm with a focus on factoring, supply chain financing and payment mechanisms in complex jurisdictions.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #117 by Patrick L Young with Mark Wheatley.

The City of London remains the world’s most cosmopolitan international financial centre. With well over a thousand years of continuous history at the forefront of commerce, it’s hardly surprising moves are afoot in the Square Mile to make the UK’s financial hub an epicentre for investing in the Space economy. Join us for a fascinating discussion with leading City politician and advisor, Mark Wheatley.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #116 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann, a German historian, sociologist and multiple bestselling author, whose 26 books include “In Defence of Capitalism.” His books have been translated into 30 languages around the world along with his copious quantity of Op-Eds.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #115 by Patrick L Young with Susan Gidel.

Susan Abbott Gidel specializes in financial astrological market research honed from 35 years in the commodity futures business as a journalist and brokerage firm marketing executive.

Based in Chicago, she is a regular on the conference circuit for professional astrologers and in 2018, Susan published “Trading In Sync With Commodities—Introducing Astrology To Your Technical Toolbox.” Her first book, published in 2000, was about stock indexes.

Currently, Susan publishes a newsletter, “Red Letter Trading Days,” alerting traders & investors to important astrological energy. She also writes the weekly “Finstrology” column at Astrology.com.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #114 by Patrick L Young with Hamish McRae.

Acclaimed author, former Euromoney Editor, and adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin, Hamish McRae is one of Europe's foremost speakers on global future trends in economics, technology, business and society.  

He is a columnist for the i newspaper and the Mail on Sunday.  His books include “The World in  2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity.” and its sequel “The World in 2050: How To Think About The  Future.”  Hamish's other books include “Capital City - London as a Financial  Centre,” co-authored with Frances Cairncross.  

Amongst his awards are the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism in 2005,  the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year in the 2006 British Press Awards, and Communicator of the Year at the 2007 Business Journalist Awards. 

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #113 by Patrick L Young with Scott Shellady.

Scott Shellady is an experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the capital markets industry. Who is best known as “The Cow Guy.” A financial TV regular for decades, often in his remarkable trading jacket, Scott is Markets Anchor on RFD TV in Nashville Tennessee where he is Host of The Cow Guy Close show.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #112 by Patrick L Young with Yra Harris.

Yra Harris has over 46 years of experience in all areas of commodity trading, with broad expertise in cash currency markets, Yra is an active macro-global trend trader. He is a regular guest analyst on Currency & Global Interest Markets on Bloomberg & CNBC.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #111 by Patrick L Young with Eamonn Butler.

Dr Eamonn Butler is the much garlanded Director & co-founder of the prestigious Adam Smith Institute, a leading global policy think-tank promoting a free society and free economy. 

His award winning books include ‘Foundations of a Free Society’ which has been translated into more than thirty languages. 

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #110 by Patrick L Young.

Join us for a different show with celebrations and thoughts on the AFM 25th anniversary conference as well as kicking off our 10th anniversary celebrations for Exchange Invest.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #109 by Patrick L Young with Christopher Sturgess.

Chris Sturgess has over 25 years’ commodities market experience having begun with South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX) where a small team revolutionized South African commodity trading. 

Until early 2018 Chris was Chairman of the Association of Futures Market, a position he held for 5 years. More recently he has concentrated on consulting services on the African continent, working with various stakeholders in Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo and Nigeria. He has also been engaged with the World Bank and their various carbon funds.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #108 by Patrick L Young with Gedon Hertshten.

Gedon Hertshten has been a hugely successful and influential figure in the growth of the global derivatives industry. Join us as we look at how markets can develop in future decades after the dizzying rise of modern ETD from the 1970s on…

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #107 by Patrick L Young with Paul Constantinou &
Pat Kenny.

AFM President Paul Constantinou is best known in the exchange business for his years selling trading systems to exchanges particularly in the energy and commodities space with Trayport and other vendors. 

AFM Chairman Patrick J. Kenny is Senior Vice President of client relations for CQG. His responsibilities include business development and working with account management. He joined the firm in July 2010. Previously, Kenny had been with Patsystems, North America as an Officer and Managing Director for 10 years. Patrick has worked in the financial trading sector for more than 42 years years. Spent 20 years at the CBOT on the Floor trading. Board Member of FIA Tech Division, Board Member of The Small Exchange, Chairman Of AFM and President of Fontana on Geneva Lake in Fontana Wisconsin. Sometimes referred as The Most Interesting Man in the Futures world, mostly by John Lothian

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #10 by Patrick L Young with Jeffrey Carter.

Jeff Carter notes his key strengths include being Innovative, Strategic, Transparent, & knowing how to get the edge. He took the ethic from the trading floor of "My word is my bond" and brought it into practice with early-stage investing.

Jeff is a partner at early stage VC WestLoopVentures.com, an early stage VC fund that invests in B2B Fin Tech companies & was the driving force behind HydeParkAngels.com, the most active angel network in the Midwest.

An independent trader at CME for over 2 decades he was a member of the CME Board of Directors while remaking the member mutual into a for profit, public company as an active member of the Strategic Planning Committee who chaired or co-chaired several committees.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #105 by Patrick L Young with Philip Roscoe.

Philip Roscoe is Reader in Management at the University of St Andrews. His research takes a sociological approach to markets and finance across diverse topics such as online dating, Santa’s Lapland hideaway, and many other topics. A former journalist, he was one of the first of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers. His new book, How to Build a Stock Exchange, mingles history, technical detail and humorous anecdotes to explore the nature and purpose of finance.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #104 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann.

Historian and sociologist Rainer Zitelmann is a serial bestselling author, whose 26 books including “In Defence of Capitalism” have been translated into 30 languages around the world. 

His Opinion pieces have appeared worldwide in the likes of Forbes, Newsweek, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Le Monde, Corriere della Sera, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, as well as publications across South America and Asia. Rainer runs a unique index on the image of rich people having spent much time analysing the personality traits of the rich…

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #103 by Patrick L Young with Alex Lamb.

The head of Americas for Scila AB, Alexander Lamb is a veteran futures industry technology executive with a long pedigree including senior roles at TT and RTS Realtime Systems Group. Where he sat on the Executive Board.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #102 by Patrick L Young with Jim Oliff.

A recent inductee into the FIA Hall of Fame, Jim Oliff was a member of the CME board of directors for some 30 years. As Chairman of the exchange’s Strategic Planning Committee, Oliff played a leading role in CME’s journey from a member-owned organization to a demutualized exchange, and the first publicly traded marketplace in the United States of America.

Jim helped to guide the exchange’s brokers and traders through the critical transition from open outcry to electronic trading as chairman of the Electronic Transition Committee, spearheading the creation and build-out of the Globex Learning Center. He also chaired the CME Clearing House Risk Committee, introducing the clearing of interest rate and credit default swaps, and chaired CME’s Professional Responsibilities Committee, leading a program that became a model for exchanges nationwide. 

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #101 by Patrick L Young with Bob Pisani.

A CNBC reporter since 1990, Bob Pisani has covered Wall Street and the stock market for 25 years. Pisani covered the real estate market for CNBC from 1990-1995, then moved on to become Stocks Correspondent in 1997. 

His book “Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange” was published in October 2022.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #100 by Patrick L Young with James Block.

Lifelong Midwesterner, James Block is a psychiatry resident at the University of Michigan, having completed an MD/Ph.D. at Wayne State University. During medical school, he started researching cryptocurrency markets and discovered red flags concerning fraud and money laundering. This research grew into a newsletter, Dirty Bubble Media, dedicated to original investigations of various aspects of the "Dirtiest Bubble of the 21st Century." 

Dirty Bubble Media has exposed and contributed to the unravelling of 2 major frauds (Celsius Network and FTX) as well as exposing potential malfeasance at Signature Bank of New York.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #099 by Patrick L Young with Colin Formosa.

Secretary General of the recently established Malta Numismatic Society, Colin Formosa is a Master Mariner by education and Marine pilot by profession where he shepherds ships at the busy Grand Harbour of Valletta and the Malta Freeport (which handles circa 3 million TEUs PA).

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #098 by Patrick L Young with Jennifer Ilkiw.

Jennifer Ilkiw is President of ICE Futures U.S., having previously served as ICE’s Head of Asia Pacific where she was instrumental in the 2014 acquisition of Singapore Mercantile Exchange and the subsequent development of ICE’s first exchange and clearing house in the region.

Prior to joining ICE in 2007, Ilkiw opened and managed the Asia Pacific office of NYMEX.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #097 by Patrick L Young with Albert Menkveld.

Albert Menkveld is a Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. In 2002, he received a Tinbergen PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was in visiting positions for multiple years at various U.S. schools (NYU, Wharton, and Stanford).

Albert’s research agenda is focused on securities trading, liquidity, asset pricing, and financial econometrics and has been widely published in leading financial journals. For three years in a row, he has been the best publishing Dutch economist according to the Economentop 40 published by ESB (2020, 2021, and 2022).

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #096 by Patrick L Young with Jeffrey Kutler.

Jeffrey Kutler’s journalistic career has seen quite an arc, from the mass adoption of ATMs through the growth of technology to fintech and most recently the rise of cryptocurrencies with every technological innovation in between!

Jeffrey is an award winning journalist and contributing editor to TabbFORUM. He is also a contributing editor of the Global Association of Risk Professionals’ GARP Risk Intelligence site. He served as editor-in-chief from 2008 through 2019. Before joining GARP, he had senior editorial roles at Institutional Investor, Securities Industry News and American Banker.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #094 by Patrick L Young with Professor Monica Singer.

Professor Monica Singer is a Chartered Accountant (SA) by training who was the first CEO of South Africa’s CSD, Strate (Pty) Ltd which she set up in 1998 and ran until she resigned in August 2017.

In October 2017, Monica was appointed as South Africa Lead for ConsenSys, a leading blockchain company. Monica is an Advisory Board member to the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association and holds a professorial post at the University of Johannesburg specialising in blockchain for the accounting and auditing profession. Monica previously worked at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the World Bank in Washington DC.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #093 by Patrick L Young with Craig Pirrong.

Dr. Craig Pirrong is Professor of Finance and Director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, best known in markets by his moniker “The Streetwise Professor” digesting financial and particularly commodity futures data into fascinating insights.

  Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #092 by Patrick L Young with Alina Aldambergen.

Alina Aldambergen is CEO of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) and Chairman of the KASE Clearing Centre. Alina sits on the board member of FEAS, the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges and is an advisory board member of the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #091 by Patrick L Young with Bruce Goldberg.

Bruce Goldberg CEO & Founder of Goldberg Group, a leading authority on brand positioning / marketing. He was formerly Chief Marketing Officer at ISE.

His award winning "Revolution" branding campaigns helped establish the ISE brand as it grew to become the largest US options market by 2003.

Formerly at CBOE, Bruce’s achievements included branding LEAPS®, while previously he was Product Manager of Frito-Lay's two largest brands, Lays and Doritos where his marketing initiatives drove record growth.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #090 by Patrick L Young with Les Male.

Les was most recently CEO of both Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) and the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) – the largest and most diversified derivatives Exchange group in the Middle East.

A leader in the development of Europe’s first gas spot market (the OCM), Les later became Commercial Director at EnMO and then APX-Endex. In 2010 he became the European Managing Director for the Green Exchange, which was acquired by CME where role took on the European gas and Global LNG strategy for Nymex, prior to joining Nasdaq in 2014 where Les was responsible for EU/UK client facing activities on the Global Commodities product suite.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #089 by Patrick L Young with Simon O’Brien.

Simon O’Brien leads the Markets Department, which is responsible for the authorisation and supervision of Market Infrastructures at the FSRA of ADGM.

Simon has led key projects including the development of ADGM’s Virtual Asset regulatory framework, its Spot Commodities/Environmental Instruments Framework, and its Remote Member framework for ADGM Exchanges and Clearing Houses.