2015年的交易技术40:Hazem Dawani

Software companies commonly provide exercise or play spaces where harried developers can let off steam. OptionsCity Software took the idea outside — and to an extreme — last fall on the exhibit floor of the Futures Industry Association’s Futures & Options Expo in Chicago: It threw a LEGO party. The playtime had a higher purpose, calling attention to the building-block nature of Metro NOW, OptionsCity’s newly overhauled flagship trading system, CEOHazem Dawaniexplains. Slated for official release on March 1, Metro NOW will put the power of design in traders’ hands. “Customers can select the widgets they want and build their own trading experience,” says Dawani, 35. Such app-store-like open platforms are being deployed in many high-tech settings, including finance, “but nobody is doing it in trading.” The Illinois Institute of Technology graduate (BS in computer engineering) started working on optionsautomationin 2003, on the cusp of the e-trading explosion, at market maker Chicago Trading Co. In 2006, Dawani and his co-founders — chairman and CTO Victor Glava and CIO Rudy Fasouliotis — formed OptionsCity to serve a broader constituency of market makers and proprietary traders. In 2007 they launched Metro, followed in 2011 by algorithm platform Freeway. Today their company has 60 employees in Chicago, New York and London, and a wide range of brokerage, hedge fund and other institutional clients. In November it made its first acquisition, Optionshop, a start-up with three employees and cloud service expertise. “It is already integrated and will launch a product in the next few months,” Dawani says.

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Kevin Kometer CME Group	Richard Prager BlackRock	Raymond Tierney III Bloomberg Tradebook	Jonathan Ross KCG Holdings	Charles Vice Intercontinental Exchange
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Chris Isaacson BATS Global Markets	Bradley Peterson Nasdaq OMX Group	Brad Levy MarkitSERV	Dan Keegan Citi	Ronald DePoalo Fidelity Institutional
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Gerard Beatty Goldman Sachs Group	Gerald O'Connell CBOE Holdings	Brenda Hoffman TMX Group	Billy Hult Tradeweb Markets	Nicholas Themelis MarketAxess Holdings
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Bina Kalola Bank of America Merrill Lynch	Gil Mandelzis EBS-BrokerTec (ICAP)	Steven Randich Financial Industry Regulatory Authority	Jerry Dobner GFI Group	Michael Liberman BlueMountain Capital Management
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Bill Chow and Richard Leung Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing	Jamie Selway Investment Technology Group	Brad Katsuyama IEX Group	John Mackay (Mack) Gill MillenniumIT	Jamil Nazarali Citadel Execution Services
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Robert Cornish International Securities Exchange	Tyler Moeller andJoshua Walksy Broadway Technology	Rishi Nangalia REDI Holdings	Manoj Narang Tradeworx, Thesys Technologies	Oki Matsumoto Monex Group
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Alasdair Haynes Aquis Exchange	Veronica Augustsson Cinnober Financial Technology	Stu Taylor Algomi	Luís Otávio Saliba Furtado BM&FBovespa	Tal Cohen Chi-X Global Holdings
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Donal Byrne Corvil	R. Cromwell Coulson OTC Markets Group	Alfred Eskandar Portware	理查德Korhammer SR Labs	Hazem Dawani OptionsCity Software