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Steven O’Hanlon
President and Chief Executive Officer
Numerix
Last year: 46

Quantitative models are the basic stock-in-trade of Numerix. Attuning them to consequential, often regulatory-mandated turns in business strategy has been critical to the 19-year-old company’s success in serving more than 700 clients around the world, along with some 90 partner organizations like Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. But agility isn’t automatic. CEO Steven O’Hanlon, who brought his enterprise software industry background to New York–based Numerix 13 years ago, has prided himself on being able to anticipate technological changes and marketplace demands. In 2004, after being promoted to president and COO from head of sales, marketing and support, he ordered a complete overhaul of the analytics and pricing platform. The new platform built in the flexibility to carry Numerix and its clients through the eventual postcrisis derivatives reforms more smoothly than could have the legacy systems. It also enabled O’Hanlon, starting in 2009, to steer Numerix in a new, risk-management-oriented direction. “In 2014 everything jelled,” says the 57-year-old, who became CEO in 2013. “We see an opportunity to disrupt the entire marketplace of risk providers whose platforms date from before the collapse and are no longer adequate.” With demand mounting for enterprisewide views of risk exposure in close to real time, O’Hanlon adds: “You can’t manage risk without pricing data in one place across all instruments. We are unique in our ability to do that for any kind of financial institution, and we are a first-mover. It is no longer acceptable to pull all this together only after damage has occurred.” Numerix is demonstrating global clout in other ways: It has a letter of intent with longtime Singapore customer DBS Bank and Swiss-based technology partners Avaloq and Leonteq to develop a multidealer distribution platform for structured products, initially eyeing Asian markets and potentially expandable to other regions, O’Hanlon says.

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The 2015 Tech 50


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1. Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange

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2. Catherine Bessant
Bank of America Corp.

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3. Phupinder Gill
CME Group

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4. Lance Uggla
Markit

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5. Robert Goldstein
BlackRock

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6. Shawn Edwards &
Vlad Kliatchko
Bloomberg

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7. R. Martin Chavez
Goldman Sachs Group

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8. Deborah Hopkins
Citi Ventures

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9. Stephen Neff
Fidelity Investments

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10. Adena Friedman
Nasdaq OMX Group

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11. David Craig
Thomson Reuters

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12. Daniel Coleman
KCG Holdings

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13. Michael Spencer
ICAP

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14. Michael Bodson
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

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15. Charles Li
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

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16. Chris Concannon
BATS Global Markets

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17. Christopher Perretta
State Street Corp.

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18. Antoine Shagoury
London Stock Exchange Group

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19. Kevin Rhein
Wells Fargo & Co.

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20. Neil Katz
D.E. Shaw & Co.

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21. Lee Olesky
Tradeweb Markets

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22. Richard McVey
MarketAxess Holdings

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23. Seth Merrin
Liquidnet Holdings

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24. Robert Alexander
Capital One Financial Corp.

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25. Frank Bisignano
First Data Corp.

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26. John Marcante
Vanguard Group

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27. Joseph Squeri
Citadel

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28. Lou Eccleston
TMX Group

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29. Claude Honegger
Credit Suisse

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30. Chris Corrado
MSCI

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31. David Gledhill
DBS Bank

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32. John Bates
Software AG

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33. Michael Cooper
BT Radianz

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34. Gary Scholten
Principal Financial Group

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35. Sunil Hirani
trueEX Group

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36. Hauke Stars
Deutsche BÖrse

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37. Brian Conlon
First Derivatives

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38. Jim Minnick
eVestment

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39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais

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40. Tyler Kim
MaplesFS

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41. Jim McGuire
Charles Schwab Corp.

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42. Steven O'Hanlon
Numerix

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43. Sebastián Ceria
Axioma

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44. Yasuki Okai
NRI Holdings America

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45. Stephane Dubois
Xignite

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46. Mazy Dar
OpenFin

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47. Brian Sentance
Xenomorph Software

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48. Mas Nakachi
OpenGamma

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49. John Lehner
BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group

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50. Jock Percy
Perseus