2015年的交易Technology 40: Bina Kalola

For as long as she can remember,Bina Kalolahas had an entrepreneurial streak. As head of global equities strategic direct investments for Bank of America Merrill Lynch since 2006, Kalola is a corporate venture capitalist, overseeing strategic financial technology investments. “The number of innovative platforms and new technology focused on fintech is at a peak,” says Kalola, 45, who wears a second hat as head of global e-trading market structure strategy for fixed income, currencies and commodities. As part of her mission of identifying opportunities for augmenting BAML’s technology, Kalola sits on the boards of BATS Global Markets, Chi-X Global Holdings and REDI Holdings and is a board observer of data analytics company Context Relevant and messaging platform developer Symphony Communication Services. She extols the advantages of “partnering up through collective mind share, both external — on the Street — and internal.” Working collaboratively and with a portfolio of investments can contribute to the success of strategic holdings: “Sometimes clients want aggregation — to use one or two multibroker-dealer portals, not ten individual portals,” Kalola notes. The tech bug bit the 1991 Barnard College graduate (BA in global economics) when, as a junior analyst at Salomon Brothers, she wrote her first macro in Excel to automate work flow. With a JD from Georgetown University, Kalola did a stint in corporate law, then co-founded a dot-com start-up before landing at Merrill Lynch & Co. in 2001 as an assistant general counsel responsible for M&A and structuring joint ventures.

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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