< The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Going with the Flow
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Bradley Peterson
Chief Information Officer
Nasdaq OMX Group
Last year: 9
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
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Kevin Kometer CME Group | Richard Prager BlackRock | Raymond Tierney III Bloomberg Tradebook | Jonathan Ross KCG Holdings | Charles Vice Intercontinental Exchange |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Chris Isaacson BATS Global Markets | Bradley Peterson Nasdaq OMX Group | Brad Levy MarkitSERV | Dan Keegan Citi | Ronald DePoalo Fidelity Institutional |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Gerard Beatty Goldman Sachs Group | Gerald O’Connell CBOE Holdings | Brenda Hoffman TMX Group | Billy Hult Tradeweb Markets | Nicholas Themelis MarketAxess Holdings |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 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 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 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 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 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 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 |
| 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 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Donal Byrne Corvil | R. Cromwell Coulson OTC Markets Group | Alfred Eskandar Portware | Richard Korhammer SR Labs | Hazem Dawani OptionsCity Software |
