executive
Caroline Ellison
Former CEO of Alameda Research
Former CEO, Alameda Research
Background
Caroline Ellison is an American quantitative trader and former CEO of Alameda Research.
In December 2022 she pleaded guilty to several fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges.
The CFTC has barred her from trading for five years and from registering with the agency for 10 years.
Key facts
- Alameda role
- co-CEO and later sole CEO of Alameda Research, a trading firm affiliated with FTXsource
- Guilty plea
- pleaded guilty in December 2022, including to conspiracy to commit commodities fraudsource
- Sentence
- sentenced on September 24, 2024 to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billionsource
- CFTC trading ban
- five-year trading ban and a 10-year registration bansource
- CFTC monetary penalties
- the Commission is not seeking restitution, disgorgement, and/or civil monetary penalties at this timesource
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Sources
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