Marketing and Sales

Mike Popilchak has thirty four years of experience in the futures industry. His first position in 1976 was as a chalk board marker on the old catwalks above the CBOT grain trading floor. He then went on to work for six premier clearing member FCM’s spending his next twelve years in virtually every back office position, including that of compliance officer for a major FCM. In 1989 he turned his hand to sales. From 1989-2006 he successfully recruited Ag-based Introducing Brokers to his respective clearing firms. Today as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Sweet Futures he is responsible for both retail and commercial business growth.

Account Executive, Manager of Sweet Futures Execution Desk

Paul Gauger spent 18 years of his career with Rosenthal Collins Group. He has many years of CME and CBOT floor experience ranging from: trading in the tumultuous S&P 500 pit to fast moving execution desks on the trading floors. Paul has successfully worked with many types of clients. Over the last 5 years Paul has managed the busy Sweet Futures Execution Desk. Paul is also an NFA registered account executive with Sweet Futures. He attended the University of Northern Iowa. Paul is married with 3 children.

Account Executive

Francis Cohen started in the futures industry in 2003 as a runner on the CME meat floor with Rosenthal Collins Group. He transferred to the grain floor as a runner in 2005, where after only a couple months, he became a phone clerk. Frank gained experience as a phone clerk in the grains where he worked until 2007. Then he left the floor to take a position as an electronic phone clerk for Rosenthal’s wire room. There he broadened his market knowledge and became familiar with a wide array of state-of-the –art electronic trading platforms. Frank joined Sweet Futures as an execution services clerk in March of 2008. He became an NFA registered account executive with Sweet Futures in June 2008.

fnona@sweetfutures.com

1-800-661-5618

Account Executive

For over 10 years, Fadi Nona has been helping clients protect, save, and invest their wealth and retirement dollars. With a B.B.A. in Corporate Finance and Economics from Loyola University and experience working for some of the largest financial institutions in the world, Mr. Nona knows how money works. He has enjoyed a rewarding career sharing his advanced skills, knowledge, and talents with JP Morgan Chase, Coastal Equities, Munder Capital Management, SunGard Data Systems, Northwestern Mutual, and now with Sweet Futures. Travelling nationally and internationally has afforded Mr. Nona the opportunity to speak to thousands of advisors and their clients on time- tested, investment strategies and proven, risk management solutions, gaining him the confidence and respect of both advisor and client. Mr. Nona approaches each and every client meeting with the philosophy that the object of approaching money is not about the product, but about guiding people in the right direction with skillful experience and the best information available—so together we can create the most appropriate solution. Mr. Nona holds the series 3, 6, 7, 24, 63, 65, Registered Representative license and Life Insurance License.

kroth@sweetfutures.com

1-800-661-5618

SVP, Business Development

Kevin graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1981, Kevin applied for membership at the CBOT and started trading as a local in the grain room. In 1986, Kevin was hired at and worked at Lind Waldock until it was bought out by Refco, Inc. 15 years later. In 1991 was made a managing partner at Lind Waldock and was in charge of the Chicago trading floors. During that time, Lind Waldock was one of the first firms to start printing orders via their own in-house order routing system directly to the floor. Under his direction, Lind Waldock was also the first house to go live with sending orders directly from an order desk to a broker’s station live in the pit. Kevin diligently served on the ME reconfiguration committees of the S&P and Eurodollar pits. With the advent of electronic trading, Kevin subsequently felt like it was time to leave the floor and do what he enjoyed even more than trading: giving people the advice of a professional that had been in the business for 29 years. That advice can be given to a new customer who is figuring out how to get involved in trading for the first time or to that professional trader looking for that extra edge in the marketplace. Kevin's vast knowledge of the industry is an invaluable tool to Sweet Futures customers.