34. Steven O’Hanlon
President and Chief Executive Officer
Numerix
Last year: 34
Numerix was founded in 1996 as a provider of derivatives pricing and analytics — services that could make for a decent niche business today. The company, which now also offers a trading platform and risk management toolkit, has grown well beyond its roots in a makeover by president and chief executive officer Steven O’Hanlon. He arrived as global head of sales in 2002 from the worlds of enterprise software and startups, rising to president and chief operating officer in 2004 and CEO in 2013. O’Hanlon, 59, oversaw a complete technology overhaul that positioned Numerix for a jump in demand for derivative valuations and analytics around the 2008 financial crisis. In March the company said it bought real-time systems software provider TFG Financial Systems and planned to combine its capabilities with the Numerix Oneview Enterprise Platform to create “the only independent provider of real-time trading and risk with a single source of data and analytics for front- and middle-office risk.” Outside of some big investment banks, systems with real-time views of risk have been elusive. “Numerix is providing technology akin to what firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are providing, while remaining independent and unbiased,” O’Hanlon says.
The 2017 Tech 40
1. Adena Friedman 2. Catherine Bessant 3. Robert Goldstein 4. Jeffrey Sprecher 5. Lance Uggla |
6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko 7. David Craig 8. Michael Spencer 9. Don Callahan 10. Elisha Wiesel |
11. Michael Bodson 12. Terrence Duffy 13. Charles Li 14. Sean Belka 15. Chris Concannon |
16. Guy Chiarello 17. Steven Lieblich 18. David Rutter 19. Blythe Masters 20. Alfred Spector |
21. Neil Katz 22. Lee Olesky 23. Richard McVey 24. David Gledhill 25. Seth Merrin |
26. Antoine Shagoury 27. Peter Brown & 28. Lou Eccleston 29. Peter Cherecwich 30. Mike Chinn |
31. Chris Corrado 32. Neal Pawar 33. Gary Norcross 34. Steven O’Hanlon 35. Sebastián Ceria |
36. Brian Conlon 37. Tyler Kim 38. Michael Cooper 39. Robert Schifellite 40. Jim Minnick |
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