2013 Tech 50：David Craig

一个自我描述的“Born Geek”，David Craig在U.K.的布里斯托尔大学学习了电子和通信工程。His education in signal-to-noise ratios, filtering and multiplexing was ideal preparation for today’s frenetic financial markets — not just because they run on high-performance networks, but also because in a world deluged with information, “the more white noise there is, the more valuable the filter,” says Craig. That realization colors the 43-year-old Londoner’s outlook as president of Thomson Reuters’ $7 billion-in-revenue Financial & Risk business. The Reuters Group veteran and former McKinsey & Co. consultant has played a key role in integrating the two news and data giants that merged to form Thomson Reuters and in recasting the five-year-old entity as a “platform company” rather than a peddler of single-product “point solutions.” The shift was necessary “to get the full power of data and analytics” out to clients, Craig explains. The Eikon trading system, for instance, grew 38 percent from December 31, 2012, through the first three months of this year, to 47,000 desktops. Financial & Risk’s Marketplaces unit, including Tradeweb (see李奥尔斯基，24号）上8月收购的FXALL货币交易场所，第一季度增加了3％，​​达到了4.56亿美元。克雷格于2010年开始的治理，风险与遵守情况，增长了8％，达到5500万美元。