David Schulz, Director, Global Client Services, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE).
David Schulz, Director, Business Development, Global Client Services at CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) joined CBOE Holdings in November 2012. Currently, he is part of CBOE’s APAC Business Development sales group, leveraging his 37-year career in financial products.
Prior to joining CBOE, Schulz managed sales, order execution and market analysis on the CME trading floor for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets from 1980-1985, spent two years as an foreign exchange trader at Lloyds Bank in New York and returned to Merrill Lynch Futures in Chicago to head up FX futures and Emerging Markets on the CME trading floor from 1987-2000.
He was an independent trader on the CME trading floor from 2000-2003, then in 2003 joined CME Group as an Associate Director in FX Products, moving up to Director in 2007. His role at the CME included educating retail traders and institutional traders on the benefits of trading FX futures as well as trading FX cash versus futures. Working with the CME sales team, FX volume grew from approximately 25 billion to a high of 140 billion in daily notional during his employment there.
David was inducted into the Profit & Loss Hall of Fame class in 2011 for his contributions to the foreign exchange market. He holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.