Brian Zboril

Brian Zboril is a seasoned financial industry professional with over 30 years of experience, currently at CME Ventures leading teams focused on strategic and venture investment, new growth, and market structure initiatives.

His expertise includes strategic investment, portfolio and relationship management, financing, capital raising, building market structures, ecosystems & network effects, exchange and matching platform technologies, and global commodity and financial markets.

Brian excels in day one market making, launching new asset classes, products, platforms, and markets, as well as in building global commodity, futures, options, cash, physical & OTC markets. Additionally, he has a background in board level advisory & representation, M&A, and strategic partnerships.

His educational background includes studying MS in Financial Markets & Trading at the Illinois Institute of Technology and BA in Economics & Psychology at DePaul University.

Throughout his career, Brian has held various board positions and advisory roles in organizations such as Revelate, Kemiex, Blockfills, Symphony, Axoni, OpenFin, OpenGamma, SparkCognition, Mercaris, Cloud9 Technologies, LLC, Acadia, Duco, RSRCHXchange (Acquired by Liquidnet), Maxeler Technologies, National Runaway Safeline, Commodity Markets Council, FIA PTG, and Eris Exchange, LLC.