PERSON: Matthew Buckley
Employer
Whiz Buckley
Position
Founder & CEO
Biography
E. Matthew Buckley, callsign ‘Whiz,’ is a former decorated Navy fighter pilot, and is the Chief Executive Officer for TOPGUN Options LLC (TGO) and Strike Fighter Financial LLC in Boca Raton, Florida. Prior to starting TGO he was the Managing Director of Strategy for PEAK6 Investments LP in Chicago. He was also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PEAK6 Media, the parent company of the Options News Network, a financial media company headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and execution, raising capital, mergers and acquisitions, managing profitability, public speaking and relationship building, charitable fundraising, leadership development and team building.
Before heading to Wall Street Mr. Buckley was the Director of Leadership with a military themed consulting company, where he became an internationally recognized and highly sought-after public speaker and executive consultant. He created and deployed leadership and strategic planning processes and was a primary executive consultant to many Fortune 500 companies, including GE, Cisco, Sanofi, Macquarie, McKesson, AT&T, VMWare, Logitech, Fidelity, Cargill, Oracle, Capital One, MasterCard, Medtronic, VMWare, Medtronic, Siemens, and Gilead Sciences. See more at whizbuckley.com.
From 1991-2006, Whiz was a highly decorated Naval Aviator with the United States Navy serving at multiple duty stations worldwide. He was an F/A-18 Hornet Instructor and Adversary Pilot. He flew combat sorties over Iraq and was awarded 2 Strike/Flight Air Medals. He graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) Adversary course.
He combined his unprecedented experiences in the military and in corporate America in the writing of 3 books: From Sea Level to C Level: A Fighter Pilot’s Journey from the Front Lines to the Front Office and Covid Crash: From Panic to Profit. Strength and Gratitude is an international bestseller.
He is on the advisory board for Healing Realty Trust. He hosts the MAX Afterburner podcast, a long form podcast covering a wide range of topics from psychedelics, to veterans issues, to politics, and markets. The podcast is ranked in the top 2.5% of 3.3 million podcasts in the world.
Mr. Buckley is married to Susan and has 3 children – Matthew, Jack, and Keeley.
>> NoFallenHeroesFoundation.org
Before heading to Wall Street Mr. Buckley was the Director of Leadership with a military themed consulting company, where he became an internationally recognized and highly sought-after public speaker and executive consultant. He created and deployed leadership and strategic planning processes and was a primary executive consultant to many Fortune 500 companies, including GE, Cisco, Sanofi, Macquarie, McKesson, AT&T, VMWare, Logitech, Fidelity, Cargill, Oracle, Capital One, MasterCard, Medtronic, VMWare, Medtronic, Siemens, and Gilead Sciences. See more at whizbuckley.com.
From 1991-2006, Whiz was a highly decorated Naval Aviator with the United States Navy serving at multiple duty stations worldwide. He was an F/A-18 Hornet Instructor and Adversary Pilot. He flew combat sorties over Iraq and was awarded 2 Strike/Flight Air Medals. He graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) Adversary course.
He combined his unprecedented experiences in the military and in corporate America in the writing of 3 books: From Sea Level to C Level: A Fighter Pilot’s Journey from the Front Lines to the Front Office and Covid Crash: From Panic to Profit. Strength and Gratitude is an international bestseller.
He is on the advisory board for Healing Realty Trust. He hosts the MAX Afterburner podcast, a long form podcast covering a wide range of topics from psychedelics, to veterans issues, to politics, and markets. The podcast is ranked in the top 2.5% of 3.3 million podcasts in the world.
Mr. Buckley is married to Susan and has 3 children – Matthew, Jack, and Keeley.
>> NoFallenHeroesFoundation.org
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