Andrew Strasman is the principal of Totem Asset Group, a commodity trading advisory firm based out of Evanston, IL. He co-founded a networking group of Chicago-area financial professionals (www.tradersfulcrum.com) which grew organically from four people to over 2,200. Mr. Strasman also co-founded an academic project to publish a transparentiIndex of trend trading returns (www.40in20out.com) and served on the advisory board for the Commodity Customer Coalition, which successfully represented customers in the wake of the MF Global collapse.