2015年Trading Technology 40: Ronald DePoalo

Ronald DePoalohas financial technology in his blood. His father, Phillip, was head of technology at Salomon Brothers. “I spent a good amount of time learning about the business from him,” says the younger DePoalo, now chief information officer of the Fidelity Institutional unit of Boston-based Fidelity Investments. He went on to “put technology at the heart of my degree,” a BS in management information systems from Ramapo College in New Jersey (later supplemented by an MBA from Saint Peter’s University). His “baptism by fire” came shortly after entering a Merrill Lynch & Co. training program in 1986, as a developer in mortgage-backed securities. Back then technology was “the necessary evil of financial services, with lots of batch processing,” the 50-year-old recalls. “I was there at the beginning, witnessing how technology became more and more central.” At Merrill he rose to chief technology officer for global wealth management, leaving in 2008 to oversee Fidelity’s $3.5 trillion-in-assets brokerage platform, which serves the retail and workplace businesses s well as the technology for the institutional business. It includes National Financial, Institutional Wealth Services, Financial Advisor Solutions, Capital Markets Services and Family Office Services. “We are building out trading tools and systems to bring institutional-type quality for all different clients,” DePoalo says. Last year saw enhancements to the PB Optimize price transparency tool for securities lending and the launch of a crossing system for block trades. This year’s priorities: fixed-income trading and transaction cost analysis for equities and options.

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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