Dave Kovtun

Options Sales & Trading Jane Street

Dave Kovtun is a member of Jane Street’s Institutional Sales & Trading team. In this role, Dave works with clients to implement listed options execution strategies and helps build Jane Street’s institutional options business.

Dave joined Jane Street in 2018 with twenty years of experience in the options industry. He began his career at Susquehanna as an equity options trader on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange in 1998, later transitioning to their sales & trading team due to his affinity for sharing trading strategies and helping clients solve problems. Dave was then recruited by Citadel, where he was a founding member of their broker-dealer and helped build their equity derivatives business. Immediately prior to Jane Street, he served in an institutional sales role with Macro Risk Advisors.

Dave holds a BA in Economics from Northwestern University in Chicago. Originally from San Francisco, Dave has followed his career in options trading from Chicago to Philadelphia, Boston, and ultimately New York, where he now lives with his wife.