Innovator ETFs: About our team
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Our goal is to bring revolutionary exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that change the investing landscape and bring more certainty to the financial planning process. We accomplish this through:

Innovation

We are passionate about moving the world forward in the way it manages money, risk, and retirement. To this end, we are committed to providing investors with innovative products they never considered or thought possible.

Disruption

Innovator is leading the Defined Outcome ETF Revolution™, through its Defined Outcome ETFs™ —the world’s first and largest ETF family that seeks to provide defined exposures to broad markets; a concept that has formerly been confined to the multi-trillion dollar annuity and structured products markets.

Relentless Simplification

We believe the investment product world has become convoluted and complex. The inner workings of a product may be intricately woven, but the way it is delivered must be relentlessly simple.

Bruce Bond

Co-founder & CEO

BIO
Bruce is co-founder and CEO of Innovator Capital Management. Having cofounded PowerShares Capital Management in 2003, he is recognized as one of the pioneers of the ETF industry. His leadership, creativity and entrepreneurial vision challenged the conventional thinking about ETFs and blazed a trail that made way for the massive growth of what is known today as smart or strategic beta. In addition to being recognized for best-in- class products, Bruce has been named the ETF industry’s most influential person on multiple occasions. He is a thought leader and has been quoted in financial publications around the globe.

John Southard

Co-founder & President

BIO
John is co-founder and President of Innovator Capital Management, overseeing research initiatives, portfolio management and trading operations of the company. He is the co-founder of PowerShares Capital Management, LLC and T2 Capital Management, LLC, a commercial real estate private equity company. John has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Crain’s, Investment News, TheStreet.com and others. He is a CFA charter holder, holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College and an MBA from DePaul University.

Graham Day

EVP, CIO

BIO
Graham Day, CFA, joined Innovator Capital Management in 2017 and is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, responsible for product development, capital markets, and research efforts. Prior to joining Innovator, Graham was SVP - Head of Product & Research at a startup ETF issuer and a Senior Strategist during the formative years of the ETF ecosystem at Invesco PowerShares. He is a highly sought-after contributor to financial media outlets such as Bloomberg, Investor’s Business Daily, The Financial Times, CNBC, FA magazine, FOX Business, Forbes, and Investopedia.com. Graham is a CFA charter holder, a member of the CFA Society of Chicago, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College IL.

Trevor Terrell

SVP Head of Distribution

BIO
Trevor joined Innovator Capital Management in 2017 and is Senior Vice President, Head of Distribution, responsible for distribution and marketing efforts across the institutional, national wirehouse, registered investment advisor and regional & independent broker dealer channels. Prior to joining Innovator, he was SVP – head of sales at Elkhorn Investments and spent time in several sales positions at Invesco PowerShares. Trevor holds a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and also maintains the series 24, 7, 66 and 63 FINRA licenses.

Bruce is co-founder and CEO of Innovator Capital Management. Having cofounded PowerShares Capital Management in 2003, he is recognized as one of the pioneers of the ETF industry. His leadership, creativity and entrepreneurial vision challenged the conventional thinking about ETFs and blazed a trail that made way for the massive growth of what is known today as smart or strategic beta. In addition to being recognized for best-in- class products, Bruce has been named the ETF industry’s most influential person on multiple occasions. He is a thought leader and has been quoted in financial publications around the globe.

John is co-founder and President of Innovator Capital Management, overseeing research initiatives, portfolio management and trading operations of the company. He is the co-founder of PowerShares Capital Management, LLC and T2 Capital Management, LLC, a commercial real estate private equity company. John has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Crain’s, Investment News, TheStreet.com and others. He is a CFA charter holder, holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College and an MBA from DePaul University.

Graham Day, CFA, joined Innovator Capital Management in 2017 and is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, responsible for product development, capital markets, and research efforts. Prior to joining Innovator, Graham was SVP - Head of Product & Research at a startup ETF issuer and a Senior Strategist during the formative years of the ETF ecosystem at Invesco PowerShares. He is a highly sought-after contributor to financial media outlets such as Bloomberg, Investor’s Business Daily, The Financial Times, CNBC, FA magazine, FOX Business, Forbes, and Investopedia.com. Graham is a CFA charter holder, a member of the CFA Society of Chicago, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College IL.

Trevor joined Innovator Capital Management in 2017 and is Senior Vice President, Head of Distribution, responsible for distribution and marketing efforts across the institutional, national wirehouse, registered investment advisor and regional & independent broker dealer channels. Prior to joining Innovator, he was SVP – head of sales at Elkhorn Investments and spent time in several sales positions at Invesco PowerShares. Trevor holds a bachelor’s degree from Taylor University and also maintains the series 24, 7, 66 and 63 FINRA licenses.

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Wheaton, IL 60187


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