JJ Kinahan Joins tastytrade as Vice President and Chief Market Strategist

Fazzaco learned that tastytrade, a Chicago-based fintech startup, has appointed JJ Kinahan as its  Vice President and Chief Market Strategist, effective from 11 April 2022.

tastytrade was founded and is led by the entrepreneurial management team who previously created the highly successful options trading platform, thinkorswim, acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2009. IG Group has completed the acquisition of tastytrade on June 28.

Kinahan has extensive trading experience and rich market knowledge. In the new position, he will focus on accelerating the growth of the business and provide guidance on the scaling of tastytrade. In addition, he will help facilitate the development and delivery of innovative new offerings for retail investors as tastytrade's market-leading online brokerage, tastyworks, and trading education platform continue to grow.

Kinahan was formerly Chief Market Strategist and Managing Director of market structure strategy and client advocacy, as well as Managing Director of Trading Platforms for TD Ameritrade, a subsidiary of Charles Schwab. Prior to his position at TD Ameritrade, JJ was the Managing Director of active trader services at thinkorswim, where he also led the Educational Events Team.

"tasty's ethos to disrupt the status quo and offer online trading to a broad audience of retail investors and traders was a huge attraction for me to join this team,"said JJ Kinahan."They set out to build an entire ecosystem, which holistically combines compelling, informative content with intuitive technology to enable individuals to understand the markets and act on them in real time. This company's efforts to bring new engagement and understanding of investing is second to none. I share this commitment and I look forward to bringing this approach to a much wider audience of self-directed investors."