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The 2016 Trading Technology 40: Rishi Nangalia

No. 23 Rishi Nangalia, Chief Executive Officer, REDI Holdings

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    Rishi Nangalia
    Chief Executive Officer
    REDI Holdings
    Last year: 28

    Technology has been a consistently strong suit for REDI Holdings, the Spear, Leeds & Kellogg institutional e-trading pioneer Goldman Sachs Group acquired in 2000 and spun off in 2013. But independence was complicated for CEORishi Nangalia. Because REDI was structured as a joint venture, the 40-year-old reports to multiple owners,including Goldman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citadel, while dealing with the growing pains of a virtual start-up and navigating the treacherous competitive landscape into which it was thrust. The good news is the financial services industry is warming up to the consortium model as a way to spread the costs and lower the risks of innovation, and REDI has worked out the kinks. “The open and collaborative nature of our platform stands REDI apart from other fintech firms,” says Nangalia, who started with Goldman’s e-trading team in 2001 and spent two years methodically planning the joint venture’s launch in July 2013. “We think we’re on the cusp of bringing some exciting new technologies to Wall Street,” the CEO says. Nangalia sees REDI as a bridge between established entities and technologies and new players like OpenFin, developer of cross-platform desktop software using the HTML5 language, and enterprise mobile app company PowWow. “Unlike other industries, fintech requires start-ups to work with incumbents to drive true change and innovation,” Nangalia notes. New-tech cultures prize openness and sharing, which historically would have clashed with the proprietary attitudes of traditional finance. But with banks showing signs of becoming more collaborative, Nangalia believes vendors should be too, for their clients’ benefit. His team is currently building an open, collaborative, cloud-based platform; mobile products for iOS; and middle-office enhancements he dubs “OMS [order management system] lite.”

    2016 Trading Technology 40

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    5.Bradley Peterson
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    6.Brad Levy
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    7.Dan Keegan
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    8.Ronald DePoalo
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    9.Raj Mahajan
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    10.Ari Studnitzer
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    11.Mayur Kapani
    Intercontinental Exchange
    12.Gerald O’Connell
    CBOE Holdings
    13.Nicholas Themelis
    MarketAxess Holdings
    14.Gil Mandelzis
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    15.Bill Chow and Richard Leung
    Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
    16.Rob Park
    IEX Group
    17.Philip Weisberg
    Thomson Reuters
    18.John Mackay (Mack) Gill
    MillenniumIT
    19.Robert Cornish
    International Securities Exchange
    20.Paul Hamill
    Citadel Securities
    21.Eric Noll
    Convergex
    22.Tyler Moeller and Joshua Walsky
    Broadway Technology
    23.Rishi Nangalia
    REDI Holdings
    24.Veronica Augustsson
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    25.Alasdair Haynes
    Aquis Exchange
    26.Manoj Narang
    Mana Partners
    27.Gaurav Suri
    Arcesium
    28.Robert Sloan
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    29.Anton Katz and Stephen Mock
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    30.Stu Taylor
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    31.D. Keith Ross Jr.
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    Corvil
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