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The 2016 Tech 50: Deborah Hopkins
The CEO of Citi Ventures is No. 9 on this year’s Tech 50 ranking.
Demand for homes and offices in San Francisco has skyrocketed as trendsetters in that most trendy of technology clusters have shown a decided preference for the city over Silicon Valley to the south.Deborah Hopkinshas gone with the flow, relocating to a San Francisco “satellite office” in May. She came to the Valley in 2010 to get close to the high-tech and venture financing communities, in keeping with her mission as chief innovation officer of Citigroup and CEO of its Citi Ventures investment vehicle. The latter, based in Palo Alto, is near such portfolio companies as Ayasdi, Pepperdata and Platfora (all in the big-data space). Downtown, Hopkins has Datameer (analytics), DocuSign (document management) and Square (remote payments) in closer proximity. The portfolio is a window on emerging innovation, which Hopkins, 61, has likened to surfing: “It looks easy, but it’s not,” and it’s all about being aware of coming, but unseen, waves. She believes technological change requires fresh management approaches and openness to experimentation and partnerships. “There is a lot of interesting debate going on around artificial intelligence and whether it’s creepy,” she says. “We were all scoffing at augmented reality, saying it was for games, but we’re actually playing around with that in our labs.” Citi partnered this year with virtual-reality design firm 8ninths, using Microsoft HoloLens headsets to, in the companies’ words, “reimagine financial trading in a mixed reality.” The idea is to augment common experience by overlaying digital tools on existing desktops. “That could be a highly effective way for our traders to operate,” says Hopkins, a former CFO of Boeing Co. and Lucent Technologies who since joining Citi in 2003 has been head of corporate strategy and M&A and chief operations and technology officer. In another partnership, with design firm IDEO, Citi has created collaborative environments to explore uses for new technology such as blockchain. “He who learns the most, wins,” Hopkins says. “Learning really comes from experimentation.”
2.Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange
3.Lance Uggla
Markit
4.Phupinder Gill
CME Group
5.Shawn Edwards and Vlad Kliatchko
Bloomberg
6.R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group
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7.Robert Goldstein
BlackRock
8.Adena Friedman
Nasdaq
9.Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures
10.Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings
11.Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments
12.David Craig
Thomson Reuters
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13.Michael Spencer
ICAP
14.Michael Bodson
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.
15.Charles Li
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
16.Chris Concannon
BATS Global Markets
17.Blythe Masters
Digital Asset Holdings
18.David Rutter
R3CEV
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19.Neil Katz
D.E. Shaw & Co.
20.Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets
21.Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings
22.Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings
23.Robert Alexander
Capital One Financial Corp.
24.Brad Katsuyama
IEX Group
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25.Antoine Shagoury
State Street Corp.
26.David Gledhill
DBS Bank
27.Lou Eccleston
TMX Group
28.Andreas Preuss
Deutsche BÖrse
29.Dan Schulman
PayPal Holdings
30.Scott Dillon
Wells Fargo & Co.
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31.Mike Chinn
S&P Global Market Intelligence
32.Craig Donohue
Options Clearing Corp.
33.Gary Norcross
Fidelity National Information Services
34.Steven O'Hanlon
Numerix
35.Sebastián Ceria
Axioma
36.Michael Cooper
BT Radianz
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37.Tyler Kim
MaplesFS
38.Neal Pawar
AQR Capital Management
39.David Harding
Winton Capital Management
40.Chris Corrado
London Stock Exchange Group
41.Brian Conlon
First Derivatives
42.Jim Minnick
eVestment
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43.Stephane Dubois
Xignite
44.Mazy Dar
OpenFin
45.Yasuki Okai
NRI Holdings America
46.Kim Fournais
Saxo Bank
47.Jock Percy
Perseus
48.罗伯特Schifellite
Broadridge Financial Solutions
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49.Brian Sentance
Xenomorph Software
50.Pieter van der Does
Adyen
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