< The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Going with the Flow
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Bradley Peterson
Chief Information Officer
Nasdaq OMX Group
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The Nasdaq Stock Market may have lost the big new listing of last year, the $25 billion Alibaba Group Holding IPO, to the New York Stock Exchange, but it’s still sharpening its edge as a growth- and tech-stock-oriented marketplace — of which it is itself a member. Nasdaq-listed Nasdaq OMX Group, with a market cap of $8 billion and a technology solutions business that generated $403 million in revenue in the first nine months of 2014, “has always been associated with innovative tech companies,” notes executive vice president and chief information officer Bradley Peterson, 55. With start-ups tending to stay private longer, Nasdaq increasingly wants to build relationships in the pre-IPO phase to “help these companies control how they’re structured and when to time a public exit,” explains Peterson, who was CIO at eBay and Charles Schwab Corp. before taking the Nasdaq position two years ago. A case in point is ExactEquity, a cloud-based capital management tool introduced last July that allows companies to link to Nasdaq Private Market for full tracking of primary and secondary share transactions. Nasdaq is assisting international customers — exchanges in Egypt, Indonesia and the Philippines are recent buyers of its technology — with similar strategic concerns. “We’re with these companies,” Peterson says. “We’re talking to them and starting to see that common thread” of nurturing companies while they are private and keeping them local when they go public.
See also Peterson's profile in the 2012 Tech 50.
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