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Kristi Ross is Co-Founder, Co-CEO & President of tastytrade and has been in the fintech and  trading industry for more than 30 years. Kristi is the Co-Founder of original dough, a visual front end trading technology platform launched in 2014, which was ultimately combined with and  rebranded when the team launched their own online brokerage firm tastyworks in 2017. Kristi serves as Executive Board Member of tastytrade and is Chairman of tastyworks. She also co hosts the show Bootstrapping in America, where she interviews innovative entrepreneurs. Kristi is passionate about empowerment of do-ers, self-directed investors and entrepreneurs.

Previously, Kristi was the CFO of thinkorswim Group as a private company, where she led  numerous mergers, acquisitions and integration including thinkorswim’s acquisition by TD  Ameritrade for $750M in 2009. Prior to thinkorswim, she was CFO of Automated Trading Desk  Specialists, a stock specialist on the Chicago Stock Exchange. Kristi has held positions in public  accounting, specializing in financial services industry clientele including traders, proprietary firms,  market makers, specialists, discount brokerage and advisory firms.

Kristi has been honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, the IL Tech Assoc, CityLights’ Prominent Tech Woman, the Moxie Awards’ Woman in Tech, James Haugh Award  and has been named to Innovate Finance Global Women in Fintech Powerlist, Crain’s  Chicago’s Tech 50, the Techweek 100 list, Chicago Business Journal’s Women of Influence list  and Midwest Women in Tech Award. She has spoken at many technology events has been featured by prominent publications such as Fortune, Chicago Tribune, and Crain's Chicago.

Kristi is an active board member of companies in the banking, trading, technology and finance  industry. She has actively participated as a member of the ChicagoNEXT Fintech Council of  World Business Chicago, P33 Technology Initiative and Co-Chair Capital & Finance Committee,  Executive Committee board member of CEC/1871, Economic Club of Chicago member, The  Chicago Network member and The Commercial Club member. Her philanthropic passions include Midtown Educational Foundation, Rock the Street Wall Street, entrepreneurship, overall  financial literacy and the importance of physical fitness.

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