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The 2015 Tech 50: Daniel Coleman
The KCG Holdings CEO jumps to No. 12 on this year’s Tech 50 ranking.

When KCG Holdings was looking for a new CFO last year, CEODaniel Colemanknew the high-tech brokerage had found its guy in financial software entrepreneur Steffen Parratt. “He had worked at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup, but it was the fact that he had written software and deployed it, and got other people to do it with the exact purpose of making the financial departments more efficient, that hit home for me when I interviewed him,” says Coleman, who has presided over Jersey City, New Jersey–based KCG since it was created by the July 2013 merger of his company, Chicago-based high frequency trading pioneer Getco, and broker-dealer Knight Capital Group. Fully half of KCG’s 12-person management team has engineering, math or computer science backgrounds and can write code. “It’s very important for us to have technologically literate people throughout the firm because we’re trying to leverage technology in everything we do,” says Coleman, who has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and turns 51 in August. Like many of its competitors, KCG saw a slight drop in market-making revenue during the first quarter from the last three months of 2014, as U.S. equity-trading volumes fell, but its global execution services business enjoyed a one-time gain on the “opportunistic sale” in March of its Hotspot electronic foreign exchange platform to BATS Global Markets for $365 million in cash. Following the sale — the proceeds of which KCG is using to buy back shares in a modified Dutch auction — KCG has approximately 1,000 employees and makes markets and operates electronic trading venues inequities,固定收益和forexaround the world. Among its latest initiatives is New Line Networks, a joint venture with World Class Wireless using microwave technology to connect major global market centers at lightning speeds.
See the full story, “The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge.”
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2.凯瑟ine Bessant
Bank of America Corp.
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3.Phupinder Gill
CME Group
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4.Lance Uggla
Markit
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5.Robert Goldstein
BlackRock
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6.Shawn Edwards &
Vlad Kliatchko
Bloomberg
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7.R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group
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8.Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures
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9.Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments
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10Adena Friedman
Nasdaq OMX Group
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11.David Craig
Thomson Reuters
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12.Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings
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13.Michael Spencer
ICAP
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14.Michael Bodson
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
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15.Charles Li
香港交易所
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16.Chris Concannon
BATS Global Markets
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17.Christopher Perretta
州街公司。
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18.Antoine Shagoury
London Stock Exchange Group
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19.Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co.
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20.Neil Katz
D.E. Shaw & Co.
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21.Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets
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22Richard McVey
MarketAxess控股公司
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23.Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings
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24.Robert Alexander
Capital One Financial Corp.
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25.Frank Bisignano
First Data Corp.
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26.John Marcante
Vanguard Group
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27.Joseph Squeri
Citadel
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28.Lou Eccleston
TMX Group
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29.Claude Honegger
Credit Suisse
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30.Chris Corrado
MSCI
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31.David Gledhill
DBS Bank
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32.John Bates
Software AG
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33.Michael Cooper
BT Radianz
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34Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group
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35.Sunil Hirani
trueEX Group
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36.Hauke Stars
Deutsche BÖrse
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37.布莱恩康伦
First Derivatives
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38.Jim Minnick
eVestment
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39.Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais
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40.Tyler Kim
MaplesFS
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41.Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp.
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42.Steven O'Hanlon
Numerix
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43.塞巴斯蒂安·塞里亚
Axioma
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44.Yasuki Okai
NRI Holdings America
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45.Stephane Dubois
Xignite
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46Mazy Dar
OpenFin
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47.Brian Sentance
Xenomorph Software
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48.Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma
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49.John Lehner
BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group
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50.Jock Percy
Perseus
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