Born in upstate New York, Mark Rhoades achieved his undergraduate degree in International Business with a concentration in Finance from Florida State University. In 1991, Mark moved to Chicago to pursue graduate studies at the University of Chicago and a career in futures and options trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Mark moved to London, England in 1994 and founded a proprietary trading firm and traded European interest rate futures and German debt on the L.I.F.F.E trading floor. Later, in 2001, Mark returned to Chapel Hill where he founded RH Financial trading, LLC and continued to trade European index futures electronically through the EUREX exchange.

Mark Joined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in order to apply his knowledge of the capital markets in a more meaningful way by helping individuals and businesses create flexible, wealth management strategies and investing in those strategies accordingly.

Mark enjoys running marathons and competes in triathlon. He is happily married, has two boys and a girl, and lives in Hillsborough, NC. He is active in the Hillsborough community and his church.