第35位:P. Howard Edelstein, REDI Holdings

在金融技术领域的30年都没有减弱P. Howard Edelstein他对这个行业的热情并没有减少他在实现新想法时所扮演的角色。他负责经营业务，策划扭亏为盈，并在谈判和监督合资企业方面发挥了关键作用，比如总部位于纽约的REDI控股公司(REDI Holdings)，该公司曾是高盛集团(Goldman Sachs Group)的科技交易企业，自2014年2月以来，他一直担任该公司的董事长。Edelstein也是研究数据公司Alacra的董事，该公司于9月30日被合规系统公司Opus Global收购;担任担保管理市场公司AcadiaSoft的首席独立董事，他曾帮助整合该公司的13名成员所有权集团;和股票投资者的战略顾问，固定收益交易信息平台Algomi。在此之前，他曾担任多家科技企业的首席执行官:汤姆森金融电子服务集团(Thomson Financial Electronic Services Group)，这是一家交易后处理公司，他于2001年与美国存托凭证清算公司(Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.)合并，成立了Omgeo;英国电信集团(BT Group) 2005年从路透集团(Reuters Group)收购的电信云基础设施Radianz;纽约泛欧交易所于2009年收购了交易技术公司NYFIX;以及Tradeweb Markets于2013年收购的BondDesk Group。“人们来找我帮忙，”Edelstein解释道。 “If I get excited about it, I stay,” whether as adviser, mentor, director or investor. He considers “learning machines” — advanced intelligence that AcadiaSoft and Algomi, among others, are working on — “the next frontier in fintech,” along with cybersecurity solutions based on analysis of behavioral patterns, now being pioneered by Israeli company BioCatch. And he hasn’t overlooked the highly touted blockchain, which he used when making a small investment in Pivit, a predictive gaming application. “You get an encrypted key with unique ownership information,” says Edelstein, who has an MS degree in electrical engineering and information sciences from Stanford University and will only admit to being in his late 50s. “It was like the first time I did a paperless trade or used e-mail.”