# Giovanni Vicioso

> Giovanni Vicioso is a person who is a New York–based derivatives markets executive leading CME Group’s cryptocurrency products, overseeing futures, options, reference rates and pricing indices for major digital assets.

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- Created: 2026-09-10T22:53:50.247Z
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**Giovanni Vicioso** is a New York–based derivatives markets executive who serves as Global Head of [Cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) Products at CME Group, the Chicago-based derivatives marketplace that operates futures and options exchanges. In that role he leads the development and execution of CME Group's [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) product strategies, overseeing a suite that spans [Bitcoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/bitcoin) and [Ether](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ether-eth) futures and options.[\[1\]](#cite-id-we36nn2f28) [\[2\]](#cite-id-kj7l0fesyk)​

## Education

Vicioso holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Columbia Business School in New York.[\[1\]](#cite-id-we36nn2f28)​[\[3\]](#cite-id-h05vfcbuxi) His engineering training preceded his move into financial markets, and he began his working life outside of finance.

## Career

Before entering banking, Vicioso worked as a senior engineer at Pratt & Whitney, the East Hartford, Connecticut aerospace component manufacturer, from August 1985 to September 1992.[\[3\]](#cite-id-h05vfcbuxi) He then transitioned into finance, spending the summer of 1993 as a summer associate at Citibank in New York.[\[3\]](#cite-id-h05vfcbuxi)​

Vicioso began his career in financial markets at Deutsche Bank, where he worked as an associate in the Global Equity Derivatives Division between August 1994 and May 1998. During that period the bank's global equity derivatives group ran trading operations across New York, London, Hong Kong, and Frankfurt, spanning flow derivatives, structured products, equity swaps, and exotic derivatives.[\[2\]](#cite-id-kj7l0fesyk)​[\[1\]](#cite-id-we36nn2f28)​

He subsequently joined RBC Capital Markets, where he served as a vice president in the Equity Derivatives Group, working on the over-the-counter (OTC) equity derivatives desk. The desk structured and traded bespoke derivative products for institutional counterparties, work that required hedging complex exposures, managing counterparty risk, and negotiating customized contract specifications.[\[2\]](#cite-id-kj7l0fesyk)​[\[1\]](#cite-id-we36nn2f28) After RBC, he spent 2007 as a senior consultant at S-Network Global Indexes and then served as head of operations for the futures group at Marco Polo Network, a New York financial services firm, from December 2007 to July 2012.[\[3\]](#cite-id-h05vfcbuxi)​

Vicioso joined CME Group in 2012 as Senior Director of Equity Products. His initial responsibilities covered equity index products, including futures and options tied to major benchmark indices.[\[2\]](#cite-id-kj7l0fesyk) It was in this Senior Director capacity that he also began his involvement in CME Group's [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) business.[\[1\]](#cite-id-we36nn2f28)​[\[2\]](#cite-id-kj7l0fesyk)​

## Media Appearances

In July 2026, Vicioso participated in an ETHGlobal fireside chat on developments in [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) derivatives markets. The discussion covered institutional and onchain trading, crypto futures and options, volatility products, the growth of [Ether](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ether-eth) derivatives, 24/7 trading, tokenized collateral, and the convergence of traditional finance with decentralized markets.

[YOUTUBE@VID](4cECiTJxfl8)