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Mr. Collins served as the President of New York Mercantile Exchange (“NYMEX”) from 2001 to 2004, which was the largest commodities exchange in the world. During his tenure as President, NYMEX launched Clearport Clearing, the first commercially successful OTC clearing platform. Dubai Mercantile Exchange was founded by NYMEX under Mr. Collins’ leadership.

During his time at NYMEX, Mr. Collins brought the exchange into a new era of electronic trading and increased the market-cap from $600 million to $2.7 billion within 3 years (amidst the 9/11 attacks, Enron bankruptcy and largest power outage in U.S. history). Additionally, he led the exchange to an initialS&P credit rating of A++ and its recognition by Energy Risk Magazine as the 2004 “Exchange of the Year.” In 2008, in partnership with NASDAQ, Mr. Collins launched a new clearinghouse, the International Derivatives Clearing Group, which was later sold to LCH.Clearnet Group.

Mr. Collins is an active entrepreneur and respected FinTech professional currently involved in successful ventures such as Matrix Global, the first crude oil storage auction platform. He has also launched an incubator initiative to utilize innovative solutions such as digital currencies and blockchain technology to improve infrastructure development, physical logistics, financial trading and exchange clearing.

Eric Edwards is a thought leader in the financial services regulatory space with over 25 years of experience in a broad range of banking and financial services matters – from retail banking to prudential standards and the non-bank capital markets.

Mr. Edwards’ experience includes more than a decade as a senior counsel on Capitol Hill specializing in bank regulatory policy and another decade in the private sector, including a senior position at GoldmanSachs.

Mr. Edwards comes to MBI from FS Investments, a leading “alternatives” asset manager based in Philadelphia, PA, where he was Managing Director, Head of Government Affairs and served on the firm’s management committee.

Previously, Mr. Edwards served as a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP, where he advised banks on complex regulatory matters, including Dodd-Frank Act compliance; Vice President for the Goldman SachsGroup, Inc., where he advised the firm on financial services policy and regulatory issues; and as a counsel on the U.S. House Financial ServicesCommittee, where he helped reform the U.S. remittances laws and played a lead role in developing the nation’s first ever anti-money laundering strategy.

He received his J.D. and LL.M. (with honors) from the University of Illinois at Chicago (John Marshall), his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his B.A.from Purdue University.

Mr. Wyman brings 20+ years of trading technology development. He most recently served as CTO at NEO Markets, overseeing the design and development of a state-of-the-art exchange-matching engine and front-end trading solution. This innovative platform brought together OTC physical, OTC financial and listed futures for the first time onto one screen. He spent 12 years as CTO of Houston Street Exchange, an innovative electronic exchange offering trading in physical crude oil, refined products, biofuels, natural gas liquids and grain.

As a founding partner with DirecTrade, an online equities brokerage and trading firm, he led the design, architecture and development of the company’s proprietary trading solution. He also founded Engineered Information Systems, a management consulting firm, and has held management and technical positions at MCI Communications, Softbridge Microsystems and Coordination Technology.

Mr. Wyman studied computer science at Iona College and the University of New Haven.