< The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Going with the Flow
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Ronald DePoalo
Chief Information Officer
Fidelity Institutional
Previously Not Ranked
Ronald DePoalo has financial technology in his blood. His father, Phillip, was head of technology at Salomon Brothers. “I spent a good amount of time learning about the business from him,” says the younger DePoalo, now chief information officer of the Fidelity Institutional unit of Boston-based Fidelity Investments. He went on to “put technology at the heart of my degree,” a BS in management information systems from Ramapo College in New Jersey (later supplemented by an MBA from Saint Peter’s University). His “baptism by fire” came shortly after entering a Merrill Lynch & Co. training program in 1986, as a developer in mortgage-backed securities. Back then technology was “the necessary evil of financial services, with lots of batch processing,” the 50-year-old recalls. “I was there at the beginning, witnessing how technology became more and more central.” At Merrill he rose to chief technology officer for global wealth management, leaving in 2008 to oversee Fidelity’s $3.5 trillion-in-assets brokerage platform, which serves the retail and workplace businesses s well as the technology for the institutional business. It includes National Financial, Institutional Wealth Services, Financial Advisor Solutions, Capital Markets Services and Family Office Services. “We are building out trading tools and systems to bring institutional-type quality for all different clients,” DePoalo says. Last year saw enhancements to the PB Optimize price transparency tool for securities lending and the launch of a crossing system for block trades. This year’s priorities: fixed-income trading and transaction cost analysis for equities and options.
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