Ron Henley (chess player)

Ronald Watson "Ron" Henley (born December 5, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is an American chess grandmaster,[1] writer, narrator and producer of chess videos,[2] as well as financial funding trader.[3]

American Stock Exchange

As President of RWH Advisors, Henley acts as Special Consultant to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices.[4]

From 1985 through 2001, Henley was an American Stock Exchange Member, as a trader, market maker and specialist.[5] Henley traded extensively in Phillip Morris, Wells Fargo and Teva Pharmaceutical. From 2001 to 2005, Henley was a founding partner and Head Trader of a statistical arbitrage family of hedge funds, with clients such as Bank of America, Gottex Fund of Funds and Aegon USA Insurance Company.[6] Henley went into business consulting where he joined the Board of Directors of several private companies including Quantum Genomics.[7] Henley is currently a member of the financial trading industry as well as preeminent chess scholar.[8]

Chess titles

Henley was awarded the International Master title in 1980, and the Grandmaster title in 1982.[9] He won the GM title by jointly winning a 26-player round-robin tournament in Surakarta, Denpasar, Indonesia,[10] defeating Grandmaster Tony Miles in the last round.[11]

Henley has been a second, analyst and trainer for former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov in several matches in the 1990s.[12][13] Henley has written several chess books, and also served as a chess trainer and promoter of leading young women chess players such as Irina Krush.[14]

Henley narrated the double-volume chess video, "American Chess Princesses".[15] In this video, Irina Krush, Elina Groberman, Laura Ross and Shirley Ben-Dak present some of their best games from the 1997 FIDE World Youth Chess Championships held in Cannes, France.[16] He was appointed by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov as President of the World Chess Champions Council Inc, a New York nonprofit organization that promotes chess in schools.[17]

In 2012, Henley was invited to join National Master William Stewart for the educational website 'OnlineChessLessons'. Henley provides skills as a chess analyst to upload content to the website.[18] Henley remains a prominent figure in the chess world, covering the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey.[19]

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