Brent is the founder of SpotGamma, and has been featured as an options thought leader many times in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Markets.

Matt Fox is a serial entrepreneur and former professional global healthcare investor. During the Volatility Challenge, Matt will be leading challenge participants as the week's emcee.

Noel Smith is a Managing Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of Convex Asset Management, as well as the Head of Options Trading at Tanius Technology. As a member of the CME, CBOT and Cboe, Noel has over 25 years of experience trading volatility, market making and managing risk. Previously, Noel was the CIO and Portfolio Manager of two separate Chicago-based proprietary derivatives trading firms. He was the seed investor who financed the launch of GETCO LLC (KCG/Virtu), a global high-frequency trading firm that grew to account for 20%+ of trading volume in the U.S. As a quantitative investor and risk manager, Noel is versed in high-frequency trading (HFT), relevant market structure and the underlying technology.

Russell Rhoads is a highly regarded strategist, educator, and consultant – among other things he is perhaps best known as the author of Trading VIX Derivatives, the textbook in the space. Russell spent a decade at Cboe Global Markets, including a stint as director of education at The Cboe Options Institute. He has a 25-year career, which includes buyside firms such as Balyasny Asset Management, Caldwell & Orkin, and Millennium Management. Currently, Russell is an Associate Clinical Professor of Financial Management at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and he received a PhD from Oklahoma State University with a dissertation focusing on behavioral finance.