Meet Our Team

Michael Gilligan

Michael is an east coast native.  His trading career started after college where he received an Economics degree from University of Iowa in 2010.  He began trading scrap metal for a Philadelphia based nonferrous trading company and scrap processing facility.  In 2015, he switched coasts and began working for a Los Angeles based trading company.  Jamison Strofs and Michael formed Pivot Metal Group in 2019.  Michael is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

Jamison Strofs

Jamison's career spans over 20 years of commodities trading .  He started trading on the Pacific Stock Exchange floor in San Francisco prior to moving to New York City where he spent the majority of his career on the Mercantile Exchange trading Crude Oil. Jamison left New York and moved home to Los Angeles where he started working for a large nonferrous trading and metal processing company. Over the next 7 years Jamison worked in the scrap metal business, ultimately overseeing both the Nickel and Aluminum Commercial Departments.  Jamison graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Business/ Managerial Economics.  He currently resides in Santa Monica, California with his wife and two boys.