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Tanuja Randery
President, Strategy and Marketing
BT Global Services
(PNR)
Large organizations can struggle in high-tech environments that prize innovation and speed of execution. Conversely, smaller, agile entrants lack geographical reach and leverage. Tanuja Randery brings experience on both sides of the divide — and financial services expertise — to London-based BT Global Services, a £7 billion ($11.8 billion)–in-revenue unit of £18.3 billion telecommunications giant BT Group. Before becoming president for strategy and marketing in November, reporting to BTGS chief executive Luis Alvarez, Randery spent nine years with European data and communications service company Colt Group, the last two as CEO of MarketPrizm, which Colt acquired from Nomura Holdings and its Instinet agency brokerage in 2011. Under Randery, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant who engineered that deal, MarketPrizm grew from 20 to 60 people — pint-size next to BTGS’s 17,000 — and became a global leader in trading and data infrastructure services and low-latency connectivity. “You don’t need a lot of overhead to run a successful fintech business,” says Randery, 47, though the affiliation with Colt, a Fidelity Investments private equity holding, established credibility with a client base that includes major banks and exchanges. BTGS offered “a chance to scale up” and stay close to the “global banking vertical,” one of Randery’s current areas of focus, “at a time of significant acceleration in the pace of change.” Among BT’s brands are Netrix, whose trading-floor turrets are used by 68,000 traders at 800 firms worldwide, and Radianz Cloud, the latest iteration of a multipurpose network, acquired from Reuters Group in 2005, that reaches 11,000 financial industry end points.
The 2014 Tech 50
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Thomas Secunda
Bloomberg Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp. Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments Lance Uggla
Markit 6
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Robert Goldstein
BlackRock David Craig
Thomson Reuters Phupinder Gill
CME Group Anna Ewing
NASDAQ
OMX Group R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group 11
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Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures Dan Mathisson
Credit Suisse Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings Michael Spencer
ICAP Michael Bodson
Depository Trust &
Clearing Corp. 16
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Joe Ratterman
BATS Global Markets Dominique Cerutti
Euronext Ron Levi
GFI Group Gaurav Suri
D.E. Shaw Group Charles Li
Hong Kong
Exchanges and
Clearing 21
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Lou Eccleston
S&P Capital IQ Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings Antoine
Shagoury
London Stock
Exchange Group 26
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Christopher
Perretta
State Street Corp. Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co. Peter Carr
Morgan Stanley Hauke Stars
Deutsche Börse Robert Alexander
Capital One
Financial Corp. 31
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David Gershon
SuperDerivatives Chris Corrado
MSCI Joseph Squeri
Citadel Tanuja Randery
BT Global Services John Bates
Software AG 36
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Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group David Gledhill
DBS Bank Simon Garland
Kx Systems Cristóbal Conde
FinTech Innovation Lab Jeff Parker
EidoSearch 41
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Kim Fournais &
Lars Seier Christensen
Saxo Bank Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates Tyler Kim
MaplesFS Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp. Jim Minnick
eVestment 46
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Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix Sebastián Ceria
Axioma Yasuki Okai
Nomura Research Institute Niki Beattie
Market Structure Partners Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma