Mike Cavanaugh
President-Elect

Mike worked on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade as a broker and a floor trader from 1997 to 2003. At the CBOT he provided market insight to clients from the wheat and bond pits. Beginning in 2003 Mike brokered futures and options on futures for individual clients and professional investors off the floor.

Mike has been Series 3 licensed since 1998. He obtained the Series 7 and 63 in 2004, and the Series 65 in 2007. Mike graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1997.

Mike is currently the President of Sweetman Cherry Group, (SCG)advocates for institutional and individual investors to ensure they are properly rewarded for the risk they take in the financial markets.

Joe Demarco
Vice-President

Joseph DeMarco, CPA is a partner and founding member of DeMarco Sciaccotta Wilkens & Dunleavy, LLP. He was formally associated with a large regional CPA firm. Joe has been in the public accounting industry since beginning his career in 1995. He specializes in the financial services, manufacturing and wholesale industries and has worked with numerous privately held clients with annual sales up to $250 million. Joe graduated from University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and is an active member of the AICPA and Illinois CPA Society.

Jeff Richardson
Treasurer

Jeff Richardson, is owner of Elliter Enterprises LLC, a trading and investment firm specializing in stocks, stock indexes, ETFs, currencies, interest rate futures and metals. Prior to his founding of Elliter, he was President and CEO of Albany-Chicago Company, a manufacturer of custom die castings for the automotive and heavy equipment industries, where he served for twenty-five years. Jeff has also acted as a business consultant for various entrepreneurial start- ups during his business career. Besides serving as Treasurer of the SBAC, Jeff is currently president of his condo association where he resides in Highland Park, Illinois.

Geoffrey Kasselman
Secretary

In addition to be SBAC’s Secretary, Geoff is the Founder and President of Op2mize, a real estate technology services firm that delivers enhanced ROI through Sustainable Intelligence™. In his 25-year career he has completed more than 1,000 project worth in excess of $1 billion. Geoff is a LEED AP, a Cisco Registered Partner, and a Realcomm Technology Advisory Board Member, and has won several awards including CAR’s 2010 Platinum Leasing and Sales Broker of the Year amongst other distinctions. Geoff is a past president of AIRE and SIOR-Chicago, and spent 7 years as a member of AAUM’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

Terry Keating
Executive Committee

Steve Banke
Executive Committee

Steve and his partner Kevin Doyle designed 3Points to provide IT-related services to businesses that have between 10 and 100 employees. The Company currently serves businesses in 15 vertical markets, ranging from manufacturing and logistics companies, to law firms, accounting firms, professional service firms, non-profits organizations, healthcare providers, retailers, and construction companies. 3Points’ business model is designed to simplify technology for small businesses, and the company focuses primarily on delivering high levels of system uptime, and protecting data, for their clients. 3Points continues to be recognized for their success in the greater Chicago area markets, especially as measured by their high client retention rate. 3-Points has also maintained an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau since the BBB began tracking 3Points in 2005; and their corporate offices are located in Oak Brook Illinois.