NinjaTrader Group Appoints First Chief Innovation & AI Officer and New Chief Product Officer

NinjaTrader Group, a retail futures trading platform, has announced two senior executive appointments aimed at accelerating product and technology development as artificial intelligence reshapes the trading landscape.

Brian Weis, previously the company’s Chief Product Officer, has been named Chief Innovation & AI Officer — a newly created role. In this position, Weis will lead NinjaTrader’s strategy for agent-native AI, MCP platform development, and prediction markets, taking early-stage projects through to launch.

“The most important work happening in trading right now is at the intersection of AI and trading infrastructure, and NinjaTrader is uniquely positioned to lead that charge,” Weis said. “Traders are demanding smarter tools, faster insights, and platforms that work as hard as they do. We are making sure NinjaTrader continues to deliver on that.”

Stephen Yi has been appointed as Chief Product Officer, succeeding Weis. Yi joins from Codal, where he served as Managing Director of Product & Engineering, and brings over a decade of trading industry experience, including more than 10 years at Jump Trading.

“NinjaTrader has spent years successfully earning the trust of serious traders and building a leading platform,” Yi said. “I am excited to join the industry’s top futures trading platform as we lead the way in expanding retail trader access to capital markets innovation.”

Martin Franchi, CEO of NinjaTrader Group, said the appointments reflect the company’s commitment to ensuring its traders benefit from AI-driven change. “Brian will push our AI and innovation agenda forward at the frontier level, and Stephen will ensure our product roadmap is built around what traders need to succeed,” he said.

NinjaTrader, founded in 2003, reports it serves a community of more than 3.5 million traders with a cloud-based platform available on desktop, web, and mobile.