Mr. Ganis co-founded eLocal, LLC (later renamed eLocalAccess, LLC) in March 2000.
From 1980 to 1982 Mr. Ganis was a member of the New York Futures Exchange while managing the
floor operations for Heinold Commodities and then the British firm Rouse Woodstock at the Chicago
Board of Trade. In addition Mr. Ganis began his pit-trading career, trading his own account at the
Chicago Board of Trade. In 1984 he took over the management of all trading operations at the Chicago
Board of Trade for Oppenheimer Futures. From 1986 until March of 2000 Mr. Ganis was the owner and
partner of S&G Associates servicing floor traders at the Chicago Board of Trade. In addition Mr.
Ganis was a pit trader in the Municipal Bond futures pit for 11 years with a two year break trading
the Ten Year Not Futures. In the late 90's Mr. Ganis was selected by the Chicago Board of Trade to
participate on the Dow Jones Futures contract Pit Planning committee to work on the release of the
contract. After the contract release, Mr. Ganis was appointed Co-Chairman of the Pit Committee and
continues to trade Dow Futures to date. In March of 2000 Mr. Ganis was a founding partner and C.O.O.
of eLocal L.L.C., a cutting edge pioneer in the field of electronic execution in the futures market.
At eLocal, Mr. Ganis uses his extensive professional trading and operations experience to deal with
professional traders adding emphasis on the state of the art electronic execution and service.
Mr. Ganis is a managing member and responsible for the operations and management of TradeMaven
Group LLC, TradeMaven Clearing, TradeMaven Software, TradeMaven Inside Edge, and eLocalAdvisors LLC.
In addition he is using his 28 years of experience in the business to build investment relationships
and market the firm's services. Mr. Ganis is currently, and has been a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade since 1982.
Mr. Ganis holds the Series #7 registration with the National Association of Securities Dealers
(NASD) and the registered floor trader/broker 8-R with the National Futures Association.