Michael Braude served as President and CEO of the Kansas City Board of Trade from April 1984 to November 2000.

The Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), established near one of the world's most fertile growing regions, is the largest free market for hard red winter wheat. The KCBT has become an international market force, influencing wheat prices in Australia and Argentina, as well as in Kansas and Oklahoma. Additionally, the KCBT has also become a financial market leader with the introduction of its Value Line stock index futures contract in 1982, and extended its leadership to energy in 1995 with the introduction of Western Natural Gas futures and options.

Braude currently serves as an executive vice president of Country Club Bank in Kansas City, Missouri. He is also on the board of Midwest Grain Products, Inc. in Atchison, Kansas and NPC International Inc. in Pittsburg, Kansas, as well as the National Futures Association. Additionally, he is a past chairman of the National Grain Trade Council and a trustee of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City.

Braude holds a B.S. from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an M.S. from Columbia University in New York. He was married in 1961 to Linda Miller Braude and has two sons, Peter, age 29 and Adam, age 25.