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26. Robert Sloan
Managing Partner
S3 Partners
Last year: 28
Compiling and aggregating data has value, but the bigger payoff comes from “pointing people to better outcomes,” says Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners. Three years ago the New York–based financial technology, analytics, and advisory firm that Sloan founded in 2003 introduced Blacklight, consolidating on a single software-as-a-service platform counterparty intelligence for all products and markets.
The continuing hunt for predictive tools — pointing to better investment outcomes — led to the release last summer of Black App. The all-time best seller from Bloomberg’s App Portal, Black App draws from data on trillions of dollars of asset inventory to deliver short-interest analytics. These are “data points that portfolio managers want to have to start the day, and they were dealing with old information,” Sloan, 53, says. “Now they get it in real time and can make decisions with confidence.” Other innovative analytic tools are being prototyped, he adds.
The 2017 Trading Tech 40
1. Richard Prager 2. Chris Isaacson 3. Bradley Peterson 4. Brad Levy 5. Dan Keegan |
6. Glenn Lesko 7. Bryan Durkin 8. Mayur Kapani 9. Mike Blum 10. Raj Mahajan |
11. Ronald DePoalo 12. Nick Themelis 13. Jenny Knott 14. Billy Hult 15. Rob Park |
16. Bill Chow & Richard Leung 17. John Mackay (Mack) Gill 18. Paul Hamill 19. Eric Noll 20. Veronica Augustsson |
21. Tyler Moeller & Joshua Walsky 22. Alasdair Haynes 23. Gaurav Suri 24. Manoj Narang 25. Michael Chin & Neill Penney |
26. Robert Sloan 27. Anton Katz & Stephen Mock 28. Donal Byrne 29. Stu Taylor 30. Alfred Eskandar |
31. Steven Randich 32. R. Cromwell Coulson 33. Peter Maragos 34. John Fawcett 35. Donald |
36. Jennifer Nayar 37. Dan Raju 38. Susan Estes 39. David Mercer 40. Oki Matsumoto |
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