Distinguished Lecture: Tom Sosnoff
June 3, 2026
Location
CMWT 227, Irwin Auditorium
Calendar
Download iCal FileThe University of Illinois College of Medicine is pleased to invite you to a special distinguished lecture, featuring Tom Sosnoff, an entrepreneur, options trader, and media personality who formerly floor traded on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange and co‑founded the online brokerage thinkorswim in 1999.
- Wednesday, June 3, 2026
- Noon–1:00 p.m.
- CMWT 227, Irwin Auditorium
- Boxed lunches provided
About the Speaker:
Tom Sosnoff began his career on the CBOE floor in 1981, where he spent two decades as a market maker, money manager, and running a prop trading firm. In 1999, he co-founded thinkorswim, a new broker-dealer and the leading options boutique in the US. The thinkorswim platform provided retail traders with professional-grade analytics and HFT execution tools. The company went public in 2007 and was acquired by TD Ameritrade in 2009 for $750 million.
Following the acquisition, Sosnoff co-founded tastytrade in late 2010. tastytrade quickly became the largest streaming digital network for finance. In 2017, tasty launched a next-generation brokerage platform offering the industry’s most advanced derivative trading technology. IG Group acquired tastytrade in 2021 for $1.1 billion.
After leaving tastylive in September 2025, Sosnoff announced Lossdog, an AI-driven platform designed to aid in negotiating compensation. Sosnoff serves as its founder and chief executive. The platform uses intelligent, math-driven algorithms to calculate the optimization of both a user's investment portfolio and career profile.
Date posted
May 14, 2026
Date updated
May 15, 2026