The 2017 Tech 40: Lee Olesky

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< The 2017 Tech 40

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22. Lee Olesky
Chief Executive Officer
Tradeweb Markets
Last year: 20

Tradeweb Markets has more than just longevity going for it, according to Lee Olesky. “We have the advantage of networks,” says the 55-year-old chief executive officer, who helped start Tradeweb while working at Credit Suisse First Boston in the 1990s. An institutional electronic trading pioneer — Tradeweb introduced an online marketplace for U.S. Treasuries in 1998 — the New York–based firm has expanded into more than 25 fixed-income and derivative asset classes, as well as exchange-traded funds. The expansion was done through three divisions: institutional, or dealer to client (Tradeweb); wholesale, or interdealer (Dealerweb); and retail (Tradeweb Direct). The businesses tend over time to overlap and converge, and that’s where the network advantage comes in. As the industry matures and consolidates, Olesky says, “we are in a position to leverage technology and the network to improve services to clients.” Tradeweb’s U.S. credit trading activity hit a record $18.8 billion in May, the same month it introduced an all-to-all corporate bond trading service called Blast A2A. Tradeweb, owned by a Thomson Reuters–led group, has meanwhile attracted banks to a separate service assisting with trade transparency requirements under MiFID II, the pending regulatory revision to Europe’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.


The 2017 Tech 40

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1. Adena Friedman
NASDAQ

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2. Catherine Bessant
Bank of
America Corp.

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3. Robert Goldstein
BlackRock

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4. Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange

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5. Lance Uggla
IHS Markit

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6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko
Bloomberg

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7. David Craig
Thomson Reuters

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8. Michael Spencer
NEX Group

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9. Don Callahan
Citigroup

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10. Elisha Wiesel
Goldman Sachs Group

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11. Michael Bodson
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

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12. Terrence Duffy
CME Group

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13. Charles Li
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

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14. Sean Belka
Fidelity Investments

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15. Chris Concannon
CBOE Holdings

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16. Guy Chiarello
First Data Corp.

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17. Steven Lieblich
Citadel

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18. David Rutter
R3CEV

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19. Blythe Masters
Digital Asset Holdings

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20. Alfred Spector
Two Sigma Investments

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21. Neil Katz
D.E. Shaw Group

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22. Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets

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23. Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings

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24. David Gledhill
DBS Bank

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25. Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings

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26. Antoine Shagoury
State Street Corp.

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27. Peter Brown &
Robert Mercer

Renaissance Technologies

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28. Lou Eccleston
TMX Group

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29. Peter Cherecwich
Northern Trust Corp.

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30. Mike Chinn
S&P Global Market Intelligence

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31. Chris Corrado
London Stock Exchange Group

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32. Neal Pawar
AQR Capital Management

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33. Gary Norcross
Fidelity National Information Services

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34. Steven O’Hanlon
Numerix

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35. Sebastián Ceria
Axioma

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36. Brian Conlon
First Derivatives and Kx Systems

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37. Tyler Kim
MaplesFS

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38. Michael Cooper
BT Radianz

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39. Robert Schifellite
Broadridge Financial Solutions

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40. Jim Minnick
eVestment


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