Mr. Gary Gastineau

Council Member Biography

Gary Gastineau is the Principal of ETF Consultants, a firm providing specialized exchange-traded fund consulting services to ETF issuers, exchanges and other markets, market makers, research organizations and investors. He is also Managing Director and co-founder of Managed ETFs, a firm that has applied to the SEC to offer actively managed ETFs. Mr. Gastineau is a recognized expert on exchange-traded funds. Previously, he was Managing Director of ETF Advisors and Managing Director for ETF Product Development at Nuveen Investments. Preceding his tenure at Nuveen, Mr. Gastineau was Senior Vice President for New Product Development at the American Stock Exchange for five years. He was instrumental in the introduction of many derivative contracts and ETF products. Earlier, Mr. Gastineau held senior positions in research, product development and portfolio management at major investment banking firms. A new edition of the book, The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual was published by Wiley in 2010. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2003 - Unspecified

Principal, ETF Consultants LLC

2002 - 2003

Managing Director, ETF Advisors, LP

2000 - 2002

Managing Director, Exchange-Traded Fund Product De, NUVEEN INVESTMENTS, INC.

1995 - 2000

SVP,New Product Devpt. (American Stock Exchange), NYSE AMEX LLC

1994 - 1995

Senior Vice President/Head of Global Equity Deriva, S G WARBURG & CO LTD

1992 - 1994

VP/Director Customer Risk Mgmt (Swiss Bank Corp), UBS AG

1988 - 1991

Vice President,Derivative Securities and Portfolio, Salomon Brothers

1975 - 1988

Vice President/Manager of Options Portfolio Servic, Kidder Peabody and Company