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The 2016 Trading Technology 40: Dave Snowdon
No. 39 Dave Snowdon, Metamako
Like Level39 in London and other financial technology innovation hubs around the world, Sydney’s Stone & Chalk is primarily populated by software entrepreneurs hoping to bring their apps, analytics and other tools to the attention of buyers and investors. By contrast, Metamako is a hardware company that was already making waves in the trading industry when it announced its move into Stone & Chalk last summer. Founded three years ago byDave Snowdonand his co-CTOs Scott Newham and Charles Thomas, and building on their financial market engineering experience, Metamako develops high-performance network devices specifically for firms that depend on low latency. It’s not just about raw speed, as in the nanosecond-measured two-way communications verified in benchmark testing of the company’s FPGA (field-programmable gate array) devices. Market players are looking for “deterministic latency,” a predictability that is “more important than latency,” Snowdon, 35, asserts. “Determinism will help provide a fairness improvement to the markets.” Signs that Metamako is delivering on its motto of “simplifying networks, reducing latency and increasing flexibility”: It has doubled its original team size, to 16, and opened offices in London and New York. Fintech start-ups have a hard time making their first sales, especially to large financial institutions. Metamako found “early adopters” at high frequency trading firms willing to experiment with offerings when they were “still half-baked,” Snowdon explains. Now doors have opened at banks, brokerages and exchanges, and in the telecommunications industry. Those users are considering additional ways to apply the technology, such as in security and systems monitoring. Network monitoring is a prerequisite for compliance with Europe’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), which Snowdon notes had to be delayed in part because of technological shortcomings. MetaWatch, a Metamako application launched in November, addresses part of the problem with “highly accurate time-stamping and data capture, he says.”
2.Richard Prager
BlackRock
3.Chris Isaacson
BATS Global Markets
4.Jonathan Ross
KCG Holdings
5.Bradley Peterson
Nasdaq
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6.Brad Levy
Markit
7.Dan Keegan
Citi
8.Ronald DePoalo
富达机构
9.Raj Mahajan
Goldman Sachs Group
10.Ari Studnitzer
CME Group
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11.Mayur Kapani
Intercontinental Exchange
12.Gerald O’Connell
CBOE Holdings
13.Nicholas Themelis
MarketAxess Holdings.
14.Gil Mandelzis
EBS BrokerTec (ICAP)
15.Bill Chow and Richard Leung
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
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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
城堡证券
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21.Eric Noll
Convergex
22.Tyler Moeller and Joshua Walsky
Broadway Technology
23.Rishi Nangalia
REDI Holdings
24.Veronica Augustsson
Cinnober Financial Technology
25.Alasdair Haynes
Aquis Exchange
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26.Manoj Narang
Mana Partners
27.Gaurav Suri
Arcesium
28.Robert Sloan
S3 Partners
29.Anton Katz and Stephen Mock
AQR Capital Mgmt
30.Stu Taylor
Algomi
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31.D. Keith Ross Jr.
PDQ Enterprises
32.Donal Byrne
Corvil
33.Alfred Eskandar
Portware
34.R. Cromwell Coulson
OTC Markets Group
35.Masayuki Hosaka
Rakuten
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36.Peter Maragos and David Karat
Dash Financial
37.Amar Kuchinad
Electronifie
38.詹妮弗·纳亚尔
SR Labs
39.Dave Snowdon
Metamako
40.Dan Raju
Tradier
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