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.

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Memphis Branch Manager – Account Executive

William J. “Bill” DuBard, Jr.has worked in the futures industry for more than ten years and continues to sevice clients in various segments of the agricultural food chain providing risk management to assist clients in managing their margins. Upon graduating from Mississippi State University, Bill spent more than fifteen years working in the Cotton Industry. Bill was also active in his family’s farming and agri-business interest located in the Mississippi Delta.

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Account Executive

Mr. Dunn began his career as a livestock marketing specialist with the Colorado Extension service covering the outlook for feed grains in 1969. He then moved to St. Louis to join Doane Agricultural Services as a feed grain analyst and marketing specialist. He left Doane in 1976 to join the brokerage firm of Anspacher and Associates in Dallas and became a series 3 registered broker dealing with grain and livestock clients. In 1978 he joined Clayton Brokerage Co. of St. Louis as a technical analyst and earned the position of Director of Technical Research. In 1987 Mr. Dunn joined Sparks Commodities (now Informa Economics Inc) as a crops analyst and worked in that division for several years before moving to their consulting division. Mr. Dunn began project work in marketing that took him to several foreign countries including the Ukraine and Egypt where he assisted farm and business clients in developing operating and marketing strategies for grain, livestock and other agricultural products in both domestic and export markets. In 2007 he joined Informa’s producer services division where he assists grain and livestock farm clients manage risk and developing marketing plans. Terry has retained his series 3 registration.

gbezrukov@sweetfutures.com

1-800-495-8063

Executive Phone Clerk

George Bezrukov was introduced to the commodities industry in 2007 as a runner on the CBOT grain floor with Rosenthal Collins Group. Shortly after, he was appointed to a phone clerk position at the RCG grain desk. George left the grain floor in 2010 when he was asked to join the RCG IT team where he gained knowledge in basic infrastructure and IT support aspects of electronic trading. He was then able to combine his knowledge of both, IT and trade execution in the RCG wire room where he started as an electronic phone clerk in early 2011. There, he was introduced to a number of trading platforms and gained in-depth expertise in operating several electronic trading systems. George joined Sweet Futures in June of 2011 as an executive phone clerk. George attended Lake Forest College, fluent in Russian and also works closely with PAWS Chicago, the largest no kill animal shelter in the Midwest .