Leslie Sutphen is president of Financial Markets Consulting, a firm she founded in 1998, and co-founder of Women in Listed Derivatives (WILD), an organization that provides a voice for women in the global industry. Over the past 25 years, Sutphen has been involved in numerous roles in the futures industry including head of electronic trading at Newedge (now Société Générale) and head of strategy at Chopper Trading (now part of DRW Trading.)
During her career, Sutphen was involved in many industry-wide efforts to draft best practices for the electronic trading of listed derivatives. She also worked with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and FIA on several projects where her technical expertise proved invaluable, including an effort to streamline Ownership and Control reporting and a survey of the top 20 FCMs on trends in clearing and trade processing.
Sutphen began her career in the futures industry as an analyst at a number of brokers, before joining Prudential Bache as a financial futures analyst and subsequently becoming head of clearing sales at the firm.
