< The 2014 Tech 50: Moving Out of the Lab and Into the Cloud
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Hauke Stars
Head of Information Technology, Market Data and Services
Deutsche Börse
(PNR)
Two decades in increasingly senior technology industry positions, including running Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Swiss business from 2007 to 2012, didn’t quite prepare Hauke Stars for the risk management and compliance requirements that she sees as unique to financial services. “It’s not only about delivering the fastest networks or being the first to launch a new application,” she says. Stars, 47, got up to speed quickly after being hired straight onto the five-person executive board of Deutsche Börse, the world’s second-largest exchange group by revenue, in December 2012. She oversaw the merger of — and now heads — the combined market data and IT services divisions, which generated 19 percent of the group’s €1.9 billion ($2.6 billion) in revenue last year. Currently focusing on analytic services and automated regulatory reporting capabilities (which Deutsche enhanced with its January acquisition of London-based Impendium Systems) as key drivers of growth, Stars notes, “It’s interesting how the rapid growth of technology has impacted the need for regulation, and now regulatory changes will drive the kinds of IT advances we see in the future.” She’s also pushing technology and data services as vehicles for boosting the group’s business in Asia. Last year Deutsche Börse licensed its T7 derivatives-trading platform to Mumbai’s stock exchange and entered into a market data and analytics partnership with the Indian bourse.
The 2014 Tech 50Click name to view ranking profile.
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Thomas Secunda Bloomberg | Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange | Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. | Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments | Lance Uggla Markit |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Robert Goldstein BlackRock | David Craig Thomson Reuters | Phupinder Gill CME Group | Anna Ewing NASDAQ OMX Group | R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures | Dan Mathisson Credit Suisse | Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings | Michael Spencer ICAP | Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 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 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 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 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 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 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 |
| David Gershon SuperDerivatives | Chris Corrado MSCI | Joseph Squeri Citadel | Tanuja Randery BT Global Services | John Bates Software AG |
| 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group | David Gledhill DBS Bank | Simon Garland Kx Systems | Cristóbal Conde FinTech Innovation Lab | Jeff Parker EidoSearch |
| 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 |
| Kim Fournais & Lars Seier Christensen Saxo Bank | Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates | Tyler Kim MaplesFS | Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. | Jim Minnick eVestment |
| 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 |
| Steven O’Hanlon Numerix | Sebastián Ceria Axioma | Yasuki Okai Nomura Research Institute | Niki Beattie Market Structure Partners | Mas Nakachi OpenGamma |
