DIREXION - Key Persons

Andy O'Rourke - CMO, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, Chief Marketing Officer [Bio]
As Chief Marketing Officer at Direxion, Andy leads all marketing efforts focusing on building brand and product awareness within the investment advisor community. Prior to joining Direxion, he was the Director of Distribution Marketing for MassMutual Financial Group's Retirement Services division. Andy has also been employed by State Street Bank, Fidelity Investments, and Emplanet Retirement Services, in various relationship management, product development, and strategic marketing positions. Andy is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and has earned a Masters of Business Administration from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Angela Brickl - Chief Legal Officer, President

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Management Team
  • President
Angie currently serves as President and General Counsel of Direxion where she is the executive in charge of all management and business operations as well as legal operations. Angie has been General Counsel of Direxion since joining the firm in 2010. She also served as Chief Compliance Officer from 2012 through March 2023. From 2021 through 2022 she served as Chief Operations Officer then becoming President in September 2022. Prior to joining the firm, she held key leadership positions at U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, and Strong Asset Management, LLC. Angie received her undergraduate degree in accounting and finance from Drake University in 1998, and her J.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Dan Fenton

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Institutional ETF Sales (

Edward Egilinsky

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, Head of Sales and Distribution, Head of Alternative Investments
Ed graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from the State University of New York in Albany. He also holds Series 3, 7, 24, and 63 Licenses.

Eliott Wellenbach

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Institutional ETF Sales (

Jake Behan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Vice President, Portfolio Management

John McLain

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Assistant Vice President, Risk Management

Jung Kim

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Junior Portfolio Administrator, Portfolio Management
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Patrick Rudnick - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer [Bio]
Pat is a Certified Public Accountant, and received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Paul Brigandi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, Co - Head of Portfolio Management and Head of Trading [Bio]
Paul is responsible for the day-to-day management, oversight, and trading operations for all products in the Direxion lineup. He also sits on various senior management committees and assists in creating new leveraged product ideas, managing product initiatives, and bringing new products to market. He joined the firm in 2004 and played a leading role in the development and marketplace implementation of Direxion's leveraged ETFs in November 2008. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as an Associate Financial Consultant at FleetBoston Financial. Paul is a graduate of Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and received his Master of Business Administration from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He currently holds a Series 3, 7, 55 and 66 license and over 15 years of experience in portfolio management, index replication and executing sophisticated derivatives-based strategies.

Sean McFarland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Assistant Vice President, Portfolio Management

Shawn Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Institutional ETF Sales (

Todd Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer [Bio]
  • FRM, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer
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Tom Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Institutional ETF Sales (

Tony Ng

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Team
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Managing Director, Co - Head of Portfolio Management and Head of Portfolio Strategy [Bio]
Tony oversees a team of Portfolio Managers responsible for the Direxion ETF lineup. His expertise includes the creation and execution to bring a leverage/inverse ETF to market and the daily operations of managing leverage/inverse ETFs. Prior to joining Rafferty, he held supervisory roles in the Middle Office groups at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Asset Management. Tony received his Masters of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University and his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the State University of Buffalo. He currently holds Series 3, Series 7, Series 63, Paper 1 and Paper 2 securities licenses.