Christopher Nagy
President and Founder, KOR TradingChristopher "Chris" Nagy is president and founder of KOR Trading LLC, an advocacy and consulting firm that specializes at helping stock, option and futures exchanges, brokers and advisors maneuver structural, regulatory and political issues. Chris, a 25 year veteran of Wall Street was previously the managing director of order routing, sales and strategy at TD Ameritrade for 12+ years where his responsibilities included developing and implementing best execution, routing strategy, cost and execution analysis, as well as developing and enhancing market center relationships for the firm's NASDAQ, listed and options business lines. Chris also integrated order-flow and execution systems for over 10 mergers during his tenure with the firm. Chris also co-headed the firm's government relations efforts as a registered lobbyist. During Chris' tenure with TD Ameritrade, he helped take the company from a sea of over 100 online brokers doing less than 25,000 trades per day to the largest firm by trades today. Prior to joining TD Ameritrade in 1999, Chris served eight years with US Bancorp as Vice President of Trading where Chris held responsibilities of building Online, touch tone and proprietary trading along with also educating US Bancorp's registered representatives on market-structure, political and sales issues. Prior to joining US Bancorp, Chris held various positions within the securities industry in roles from back-office to trading beginning in 1986 where Chris began his career as a sales assistant with Shearson Lehman Brothers. Chris is a regular commentator regarding securities market structure on various financial and news outlets and has testified before the Senate on Market Structure issues along with testimony to the SEC and CFTC and the Joint SEC/CFTC committee on the events of May 6th 2010. Chris currently serves as a member of the FINRA Uniform Practice Code Committee and He serves or has served on a multitude of industry committees, including the NASDAQ Quality of Markets Committee (QMC), the Security Traders Association Trading Issues Committee and the Options Industry Council (OIC) Roundtable. Chris was chairman of the SIFMA Options Committee from 2005-2007. Chris also served on the board of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange as the off-floor vice chairman from 2000-2004 and on the NYSE AMEX Options Board from 2010-2012. He completed the Securities Industry Institute Wharton program in 2009.
Chris also holds his FINRA Series, 4, 7, 24, 53, 55, 63 Licenses.
