Kristi Ross
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Kristi Ross is an entrepreneur based in Chicago. She is co-CEO and President of tastytrade, Inc., a financial media company[https://www.chicagoideas.com/speakers/kristi_ross Kristi Ross] Chicago Ideas. Retrieved 2019-04-01. and parent company to tastyworks, an online brokerage firm;[https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170103/NEWS01/170109981/co-founders-of-chicago-online-broker-thinkorswim-launch-new-firm Co-founders of Chicago online broker Thinkorswim launch new firm], Crain's Chicago Business, March 20, 2017. Retrieved 2019-04-01. Quiet Foundation, Inc., a registered investment advisory firm;[https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180221005491/en/Quiet-Foundation-New-tastytrade-Venture-Offer-Zero-Fee Quiet Foundation, a New tastytrade Venture, to Offer Zero-Fee Investment Advisory Service], Business Wire, February 21, 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-01. the Small Exchange, Inc., a futures exchange awaiting CFTC approval;[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-small-exchange-to-deploy-eventus-systems-technology-for-real-time-market-surveillance-300809647.html The Small Exchange to Deploy Eventus Systems Technology for Real-Time Market Surveillance ], Cision PR Newswire, March 11, 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-01. and dough, LLC, a new fee free online brokerage firm launching sometime in 2019.
Career
Kristi Ross began her career as a CPA and was the chief financial officer of Automated Trading Desk Specialists, a stock specialist on the Chicago Stock Exchange.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagoideas.com/speakers/5657|title=Chicago Ideas: Kristi Ross|website=Chicago Ideas Week|access-date=2016-06-24}}
Ross was the chief financial officer at thinkorswim Group, a private trading experience company, which sold to TD Ameritrade for $750 million in 2009.[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/td-ameritrade-to-buy-thinkorswim-for-606-million TDAmeritrade to Buy thinkorswim for $606 Million], Marketwatch. Retrieved 2019-04-01. As CFO, she led numerous merges, acquisitions and integration.
She is co-founder of dough, Inc., a visual front-end trading technology platform, which was launched in 2014. It was combined with and rebranded to tastyworks in January 2017.[https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2018/06/28/tastytrade-raises-20m-for-financial-media-platform.html], Chicago Business Journal, June 28, 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
Ross currently co-hosts the show 'Bootstrapping in America,' where she interviews entrepreneurs.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
She holds active memberships at various technology and trading companies such as ChicagoNext Fintech Council of World Business Chicago, P33 Technology Initiative co-chair Capital and Finance Committee, board member of CEC/1871, Economic Club of Chicago, and The Chicago Network.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
Ross started the non-profit, EveryHandCounts, that provided fun educational children's books and stories that taught children how to get involved with philanthropy at a young age.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2015/03/20/meet-kristi-ross-women-of-influence-honoree-and.html|title=Kristi Ross, co-CEO & president, dough Inc. and Women of Influence honoree – Chicago Business Journal|access-date=2016-06-24}}
She has received various awards and recognition such as the Illinois Technology Association CityLights' Prominent Tech Woman,[https://www.illinoistech.org/page/CityLIGHTSHistory/CityLIGHTS-Awards-History.htm], Illinois Tech Association. Retrieved 2019-04-01. the Moxie Awards' Woman in Tech,[https://www.americaninno.com/chicago/dough-ceo-and-moxie-tech-woman-of-the-year-kristi-ross-gives-advice-for-women-in-tech/], Americaninno, 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2019-04-01. Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young,[http://influencecentral.com/tom-and-kristi-ey-entrepreneurs-of-the-year/], Influence Consulting Group, Inc. Retrieved 2014-06-19. James Haugh Award,[http://newsroom.dom.edu/node/2216], Dominican University, 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2019-04-01. Innovative Finance Global Women in Fintech Powerlist,[https://www.scribd.com/document/332773344/Women-in-Fintech-Powerlist-Nov-2016], CrowdfundInsider, 2016. Retrieved 2019-04-01. Crain's Chicago's Tech 50,[https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140920/ISSUE02/309209993/meet-kristi-ross-the-ceo-of-trading-platform-dough], Crain's Chicago Business, 2014-09-20. Retrieved 2019-04-01. TechWeek 100 list,{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140605190334/http://bluesky.chicagotribune.com/originals/chi-techweek-100-chicago-bsi,0,0.story]}}, Bluesky Innovation, 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2019-04-01. Chicago Business Journal's Women of Influence list,[https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2015/03/20/meet-kristi-ross-women-of-influence-honoree-and.html], Chicago Business Journal, 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2019-04-01. and Midwest Women in Tech Award.[https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171206/BLOGS11/171209923/chicago-women-s-tech-group-takes-shape], Crain's Chicago Business, 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
Personal life
Kristi Ross grew up in Wisconsin. Ross trained to become a CPA at St. Norbert College.
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External links
- [https://www.illinoistech.org/news/prominent-woman-in-tech-kristi-ross Kristi Ross on Illinois Technology Association]
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