< The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Going with the Flow
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Gerard Beatty
Global Head of Equities Technology
Goldman Sachs Group
Previously Not Ranked
Trading technology is but one facet of Gerard Beatty’s 22-year career at Goldman Sachs Group. From his 1992 start designing risk management infrastructure for commodities and structured products, Beatty moved on to building the firm’s institutional web portal, followed by a buy-side stint creating an online business for the wealth management group. He then helped rebuild the investment research group’s analytics and publishing platform, launched two multistrategy hedge funds and served as co-head of technology for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Currently global head of equities technology, the 49-year-old oversees investment research systems and securities division sales and data services. New York–based Goldman has “written over 1 billion lines of code across all of our businesses,” Beatty says, noting that nearly one third of the firm’s 33,000 employees are engineers. Today, Goldman is leveraging cloud computing and open-source development to extend the reach of its platforms. A case in point is Symphony Communication Services, a messaging platform built in collaboration with other firms that is now being rolled out to the broader financial services community. “Companies that see themselves as technology companies and embrace digital platforms will continue to unlock new sources of value for their clients and grow market share,” says Beatty, a University of Vermont graduate whose first software engineering job was designing embedded controllers for cardiac equipment.
The 2015 Trading Technology 40
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Kevin Kometer
CME Group Richard Prager
BlackRock Raymond Tierney III
Bloomberg Tradebook Jonathan Ross
KCG Holdings Charles Vice
Intercontinental Exchange 6
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Chris Isaacson
BATS Global Markets Bradley Peterson
Nasdaq OMX Group Brad Levy
MarkitSERV Dan Keegan
Citi Ronald DePoalo
Fidelity Institutional 11
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Gerard Beatty
Goldman Sachs Group Gerald O'Connell
CBOE Holdings Brenda Hoffman
TMX Group Billy Hult
Tradeweb Markets Nicholas Themelis
MarketAxess Holdings 16
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Bina Kalola
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Gil Mandelzis
EBS-BrokerTec (ICAP) Steven Randich
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Jerry Dobner
GFI Group Michael Liberman
BlueMountain Capital Management 21
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Bill Chow and Richard Leung
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Jamie Selway
Investment Technology Group Brad Katsuyama
IEX Group John Mackay (Mack) Gill
MillenniumIT Jamil Nazarali
Citadel Execution Services 26
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Robert Cornish
International Securities Exchange Tyler Moeller andJoshua Walksy
Broadway Technology Rishi Nangalia
REDI Holdings Manoj Narang
Tradeworx,
Thesys Technologies Oki Matsumoto
Monex Group 31
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Alasdair Haynes
Aquis Exchange Veronica Augustsson
Cinnober Financial Technology Stu Taylor
Algomi Luís Otávio Saliba Furtado
BM&FBovespa Tal Cohen
Chi-X Global Holdings 36
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Donal Byrne
Corvil R. Cromwell Coulson
OTC Markets Group Alfred Eskandar
Portware Richard Korhammer
SR Labs Hazem Dawani
OptionsCity Software