Brett Paulson

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Brett Paulson
Occupation	President & COO
Employer	The Clearing Corp.
Location	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Web site	http://www.clearingcorp.com

Brett F. Paulson is president and CEO, as well as founder, of ETM Global, an information technology consulting company. He was formerly chief operating officer of The Clearing Corporation (“CCorp”).

Background

Before he became COO of The Clearing Corporation, Paulson was the company's executive vice president and chief information officer, from December 2002 until February 2005. He joined The Clearing Corporation's information systems department in May 1995 as the director of business application development, database administration. He was named senior vice president and CIO in December 1999^[1].

Prior to joining CCorp, Paulson was a vice president, fixed income trading technology at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York from 1994 to 1995. From April 1990 to January 1994, he was a director, global markets technology for Continental Bank (and later ISSC, a subsidiary of IBM). From September 1981 to April 1990, he was assistant vice president, information technology at Harris Trust and Savings Bank, a subsidiary of the Bank of Montreal in Chicago. From May 1977 to September 1981, Paulson held positions of increasing responsibility in Information Technology at International Harvester Company.

He has served as an officer for several technology-related user groups and committees amd is currently active with the Technology Committee of the Futures Industry Association and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee.

Paulson is also a member of the Economics Club of Chicago, the Bond Club and the Executives Club of Chicago.

Education

He holds an MBA with a finance emphasis from DePaul University and a Bachelor with a Finance emphasis from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lewis University.