ALLEN JAN BAIRD‎,‎ PhD‎,‎ is a director of equity trading responsible for training and managing proprietary traders as well as trading firm capital‎.‎ He was a member of the New York Board of Trade where he was an options market maker for thirteen years‎.‎ He has taught at the New York Institute of Finance and is the author of Option Market Making‎:‎ Trading and Risk Analysis for the Financial and Commodity Option Markets ‎(‎Wiley‎)‎‎.‎ He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania‎.‎ He can be reached at [email protected]‎.‎com‎.‎