Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a highly analytical, team oriented derivatives trading firm that employs a dynamic, disciplined approach to trading across a variety of products and strategies. We take decisive action to position ourselves at the forefront of the financial markets. We actively trade in a broad spectrum of asset classes that include Equities, Interest Rates, and Commodities. We have grown dramatically since our inception in 1995. Recognized as a leading provider of liquidity and pricing on numerous derivatives exchanges globally, we trade more than 20 hours a day, six days a week. With offices in Chicago and London, our success and rapid growth are due to our market experience, state of the art technology, risk management capabilities, and financial engineering expertise.

Wolverine is a diversified financial institution specializing in proprietary trading, asset management, order execution services, and technology solutions. We are recognized as a market leader in derivatives valuation, trading, and value-added order execution across global equity, options, and futures markets. Our focus on innovation, achievement, and integrity serves the interests of our clients and colleagues. Wolverine is headquartered in Chicago, with branch offices in New York, San Francisco, and London.

GCM Grosvenor (NASDAQ: GCMG) is a global alternatives investment firm with approximately $76 billion in assets under management in private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, absolute return strategies, and multi-asset class opportunistic investments. The firm has specialized in alternatives since 1971, and is dedicated to unlocking value for clients by leveraging its cross-asset class and flexible investment platform. GCM Grosvenor’s experienced team of over 500 professionals from diverse backgrounds serves a global client base of institutional and high net worth investors. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Seoul. In 2020, GCM Grosvenor was named among the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments.

BDT & MSD Partners is a merchant bank with an advisory and investment platform built to serve the distinct needs of business owners and strategic, long-term investors.

Create better access and prices for all – that’s our goal for financial markets the world over. As a leading global electronic market maker, we are dedicated to our mission of continuously improving the market. It’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly. It’s the driving force behind our business. Even in times of extreme volatility, we stay the course. Resolute in our belief that the market should always be liquid for economies to thrive. As one of the oldest market-making institutions, we’re a trusted partner of exchanges. Our contribution to them ensures they remain stable, transparent and competitive. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, and foreign currencies. We strongly believe in the positive power of the world’s markets. That’s why we’re committed to leading the way in market making for environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) products. Optiver is a global company with offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, Chicago, Austin, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London and Singapore.

Driehaus Capital Management is a privately-held investment management firm that manages global, emerging markets, US growth equity and alternative investment strategies. The firm has a diverse institutional client base comprised of corporate and public pensions, endowments, foundations, sub-advisory, family offices, wealth managers and financial advisors, globally.

Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP") is a leading private equity investment firm based in Chicago that, since its formation in 1992, has raised aggregate capital of approximately $28 billion and has completed over 150 investments. MDP seeks to invest in partnership with outstanding management teams to drive growth and achieve significant long-term value appreciation at its portfolio companies and for its limited partner investors globally. A flexible investment approach, encompassing both buyout and growth equity investments, expertise in five dedicated industry verticals and a focus on upper middle market and middle market companies have been and continue to be key tenets of MDP’s investment strategy. MDP’s team is among the most experienced in the private equity industry, and its five dedicated industry verticals include: Basic Industries; Business & Government Software and Services; Financial & Transaction Services; Health Care; and Telecom, Media & Technology Services. For more information, please visit https://www.mdcp.com.

We're In The Business Of What Ought To Be The business of doing, creating, and building the world the way we see fit. We seek out the transformational opportunity, making it better, more useful, more valuable. At PEAK6, we activate what is into what ought to be through world-class technology, operational excellence and purposeful design. Headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade Building, PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. While trading got us our start and still powers our center, we quickly realized that our vision was to embrace and empower today’s consumer through technology, simplifying processes, improving performance and creating new wealth.

Group One is a proprietary trading firm, focused on making markets in US equity options by leveraging superior risk management and software development. We provide an atmosphere where employees can grow with the company, and where we recognize output achieved rather than hours clocked. For more information and current opportunities, please visit our website www.group1.com.

Loop Capital is a full-service investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm that provides creative capital solutions for corporate, governmental, and institutional entities across the globe. Our reputation for integrity and service – coupled with our track record of success – has allowed us to serve an expanding number of clients from country to country. Loop Capital is composed of four primary entities: Loop Capital Markets (LCM): An agile, fast-growing investment bank and broker dealer. Our services include: Corporate Investment Banking; Public Finance; Sales and Trading; and Transition Management. Loop Capital Financial Consulting Services (LCFCS): A team of consulting professionals providing valuation, financial due diligence, forensic, restructuring and other key financial consulting services to public and private companies, as well as municipal and other public sector clients. Loop Capital Asset Management (LCAM): A rapidly growing asset management firm focused on institutional investors: JLC Infrastructure is an investment manager focused on the transportation, communications, energy, utilities and social infrastructure sectors. A fixed income asset management team employing both a top-down and bottom-up process across sectors, securities and yield curve positioning within the fixed income markets. Loop Capital Investment Management (LCIM): Loop Capital’s wealth management group supports high net worth individuals and families in the pursuit of attractive returns through the creation, execution and management of investment opportunities.

Ariel Investments, LLC is a global value-based asset management firm founded four decades ago in 1983. Ariel is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Sydney Australia. Ariel serves individual and institutional investors through five no-load mutual funds and eleven separate account strategies. Our four core values are: Active Patience®, Independent Thinking, Focused Expertise and Bold Teamwork. We model these behaviors in everything we do. For complete social media disclosures and terms of use, please visit: https://www.arielinvestments.com/social

As a leading, technology-driven, proprietary trading firm, we work with the most advanced technology and software in the market. Since 2004, we’ve continued to remain at the forefront of the industry by driving innovation, automation and financial opportunity through: TECHNOLOGY: We build proprietary software to create and capitalize on financial opportunity. TRADING: We optimize trading strategies for existing markets and develop new strategies to best capitalize on financial market opportunity. TEAM: We combine talented and dedicated technologists with data-driven traders to solve constantly evolving puzzles in the marketplace. Our employees are truly our greatest asset. We’ve spent years building our team of talented and dedicated technologists, data-driven traders and leaders who emulate our core values. Interested in joining an open, collaborative team that allows your talents to shine? We’re always on the lookout for the best and brightest! To view our available job postings please visit www.simplextrading.com/careers