Executive Profile

Russell R. Wasendorf Sr. Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Peregrine Financial Group, Inc.

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Background

Russell R. Wasendorf, Sr. serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Pfgbest.com. Mr. Wasendorf founded Pfgbest.com, in 1980. From 1980 to 1990, Mr. Wasendorf invested in technological capabilities to create one of the futures industry's first platforms for electronic trading. PFGBEST.com BEST Direct online trading system was the first to make a direct connection for personal traders into the CME's Globex in 1998. In addition to PFGBEST.com, SFO, ... Wasendorf & Associates and Wasendorf & Son, Mr. Wasendorf is a partner in a real estate investment company headquartered in Romania, and in fine dining restaurant located in Chicago's gallery district. He began his career as director of public affairs for the American Soybean Association and is a photographer and cinematographer. He heads Wasendorf & Associates, Inc., a Cedar Falls, Iowa research firm specializing in managed futures investments. And, he heads Wasendorf & Son Company, a many-faceted introducing brokerage firm providing full service to a global client base of speculators, hedgers and institutional investors since 1980. Mr. Wasendorf's dedication to trader education is also demonstrated through founding the Center for Futures Education, now an independent, non-profit corporation, and creation of the E-CADEMY of Trading, which provides multi-media tools and simulation capabilities to enhance understanding of the markets for novice and professional traders alike. The “E-Guide To Futures Trading” CD-ROM is one product of the E-CADEMY of Trading. Just two years ago, Mr. Wasendorf founded SFO (Stocks, Futures and Options, The Official Journal For Personal Investing In Stocks, Futures And Options.) Since its inception in 2001, SFO magazine has become the most widely-distributed monthly publication specializing in these investments. Mr. Wasendorf is widely recognized as an industry expert in the areas of risk management, stock and futures hybrid products such as E-mini contracts and single stock futures, alternative investments, electronic trading, managed futures and investment education. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the National Futures Association (NFA). His philanthropic endeavors are channeled through the Peregrine Charities. Three key areas of charitable focus include research and cures for childhood diseases, the Leukemia Research Foundation, and The Peregrine Fund, located in Boise, Idaho, a non-political, solution-oriented, science-based organization working worldwide to conserve wild populations of birds of prey. Mr. Wasendorf is a noted writer and educator, having written six books about futures and commodities trading. These include: Commodity Trading: The Essential Primer (Dow Jones-Irwin, 1985); All About Futures From The Inside Out (Probus Publishing Company, 1992); All About Commodities From The Inside Out (Probus Publishing Company, 1992); All About Options From The Inside Out (Probus Publishing Company, 1993); and All About Managed Futures From The Inside Out (Probus Publishing Company, 1993.) The Complete Guide To Single Stock Futures, (McGraw-Hill, 2003).

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