James Rider is the Founder, President and CEO of FxVolResearch Ltd. FxVolResearch Ltd and Mr. Rider have been exclusively retained by IMFC to manage the IMFC FxVol Program. Mr. Rider has been involved in the trading, marketing, and researching of FX options markets since 1988. Co-founded Volatility Research & Trading Pte Ltd., a hedge fund company funded by a major London-based alternative investment management firm. As Research Director, Mr. Rider directed on-going research and programming with respect to limited loss volatility based trading strategies in the foreign exchange market. Previously spent over 10 years with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in both Toronto and Singapore, chiefly responsible for overseeing the development of CIBC’s Foreign Exchange options business from start up. As Executive Director of CIBC FP Asia, Mr. Rider originated the establishment of an institutional derivative product-marketing desk in the Asia-Pacific region. BA, University of Toronto, MA ( International Relations), Sussex University, post-graduate certificate in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London.