Jonathan Kleisner

Elected June 2010
NOLS Courses: 2006 Patagonia Backpacking and Fly-Fishing, 2008 Mt. Rainier

Jonathan is Principal and Managing Director of Investment Strategies for The REX Capital Group, a group of commodity-based hedge funds in New York City. He is a member of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE Futures US) and serves as chairman of the Business Conduct Committee, and he is a member and former chairman of the Executive Floor Committee. He is a registered Principal, Associated Person, and Floor Trader with the National Futures Association (NFA), as well as a Floor Broker, Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and Commodity Pool Operator (CPO). REX Capital is also a Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) with the SEC. Jonathan currently serves as a board director of ICE Clear US Inc. (NYSE:ICE).

Jonathan is a certified New York State EMT pursuing a second career volunteering on New York City ambulance crews. When not on the trading floor or riding ambulances, Jonathan can be found with his wife and two sons at their farm in the western Catskills, tending to his apiaries (beehives) and training as a triathlete. An avid fly-fisherman, he takes advantage of the nearby trout waters of the Delaware, Willowemoc, and Beaverkill rivers of the western Catskills.

Jonathan served as a member of the NOLS Advisory Council from 2008–2010.