Our People
Our leadership is committed to becoming the premier online forex broker for active traders, proprietary trading groups, hedge funds and other asset managers. Our management team combines a unique blending of in-depth experience in alternative asset management, investment analysis, risk management as well as securities, foreign exchange and commodity futures trading and brokerage. We have a critical mass of seasoned investment professionals from diverse and complimentary backgrounds, which represent a unique convergence of expertise from academia and in-depth financial markets expertise that we believe our clients may benefit from. We believe that this is a simple yet powerful business model that requires an uncommon combination of skills, experience, and a broad network of strategic partners and FX clearing relationships, which very few firms can offer.
We invite you to meet our management team, please review the bios below for a brief history of their background.
| David Granzotti | Managing Partner / Founder |
Mr. Granzotti founded the vCap family of companies, vCap Holdings LLC, vCap FX LLC, vCap Futures LLC, vCap Investments LLC and vCap Ventures LLC. He brings over 12 years experience to the vCap family of companies with core focuses in the alternative investments industry, futures, foreign exchange and equities proprietary trading, corporate finance, private equity/venture capital and portfolio management. Prior to the formation of vCap family of companies, Mr. Granzotti managed Alexander Securities Group LLC, a private wealth management and investment advisory firm for high net worth and institutional investors.
As the firm’s CEO, he directed a team of traders and led the firm’s portfolio management, investment analysis, product development and marketing activities. During the same time period, Mr. Granzotti was the General Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager of a long/short hedge fund, ASG Market Fund. Mr. Granzotti’s earlier career included a financial advisor position at Morgan Stanley and a trader position at Cornerstone Securities. Mr. Granzotti is a registered principal with the Texas State Securities Board, CFTC and NFA member with Series 3 and Series 65 licenses. Mr. Granzotti also holds a degree in Finance from Southwest Texas State University.
| Keith Velcich | Partner / Managing Director Institutional Sales |
Mr. Velcich is co-founder and managing principal of Relativity Systems LLC., owner and developer of the CAX (Central Aggregate Exchange), a matching engine and aggregator of foreign exchange liquidity sources.
He has extensive experience in the FX and futures industry as a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for 17 years, executing orders on the CME floor for Goldman Sachs, Man Financial, Smith Barney, JP Morgan, and other top-tiered banks from 1983-1996, and trading for a major proprietary shop and his personal account from 1996-2000.
Since the summer of 2000, Mr. Velcich has devoted his resources and time to the major components of electronic trading and automated system development and advising institutional clients on clearing, connectivity, and trading system execution, primarily in foreign exchange. Mr. Velcich holds a Series 3 license and is a registered CFTC member and NFA principal.
| Paul Wilson | Partner / Institutional Sales & Software Development |
Mr. Wilson, a professional futures, equities, forex, and bond trader of 10 years, has traded for numerous trading firms and hedge funds including Cornerstone-Protrader (Austin/Chicago/Irvine) , Andover (Houston, New York), CarlinGroup (Philadelphia), and Vantage Capital Management (Dallas), specializing in arbitrage, directional futures equity baskets, and multi-class blackbox strategies. Mr. Wilson has also served as a software consultant for the Electronic Trading Group (New York) and NinjaTrader LLC (Chicago, Denver), is a beta-tester for Tradestation Securities, and is the lead technical consultant for our new TradeVec platform. He has moderated for several online futures trading rooms, is lead moderator of vCapLive, and is the Director of our Derivatives Trading Program. Mr. Wilson holds an Economics degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a Series 3 license, and is a registered CFTC member and NFA principal.
| Peter Lemke | VP Business Development |
Mr. Lemke has been active in the futures and forex markets since 1993, working as a head trader and manager of operations in multiple countries and exchanges including Germany (LIFFE), Singapore (SIMEX, TSE, TIFFE, Osaka Exchance), and London (LIFFE, EUREX) with specializations including arbitrage, risk management, and back office information technology consultation for such firms as Chicago International Arbitrage and FT Trading. More recently, he was a prop trader for York Trading and a Proprietary Trading Manager for PMB, INC., both of Chicago. From 2000-2002 he was an institutional broker for MAN Financial (Chicago) and assisted in creation of one of the first electronic execution services for institutional option trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Most recently, Mr. Lemke has traded both black box and point and click strategies for Goldenberg Hehmeyer, Shepard Proprietary Trading group, and Logicbox Trading. Mr. Lemke is fluent in German, French, and Italian and brings his broad technical and mechanical knowledge of the markets to assist vCap with providing cutting-edge solutions for institutional trading firms. Mr. Lemke holds a Series 3 license and is a registered CFTC and NFA member.
| Joe Bellina | Institutional Sales |
Mr. Bellina started out as a clerk on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1996 and was a trader on the CBOT floor from 1998 until 2000 when he became a proprietary trader for Spike Trading (now Gateway Capital), where he traded across multiple asset classes including Equities, Futures, and Mergers and Acquisitions spreads. In 2001, Mr. Bellina was offered a brokerage trading position in the Nasdaq 100 pit at the CME, filling Nasdaq, S&P, and currency futures orders for locals and brokers. Mr. Bellina joined vCap in 2008, holds a Series 65 and Series 3 license and is a registered CFTC and NFA member.
