Mark Spitznagel has spent his 17-year career as a derivatives trader focused on exploiting mispriced tails, a career spanning from Morgan Stanley proprietary trader (head of equity options in the Process Driven Trading group) to head trader at Empirica Capital LLC (President, partner) to independent pit-trader at the Chicago Board of Trade (the youngest local in the bond pit). Mark received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.