< The 2015 Tech 50: Racers to the Edge

Fidelity Investments pioneered earlier generations of financial technology — it was one of the first to go online and to offer mobile services — and never stopped pushing the envelope. The Boston-based firm, which has $2 trillion of assets under management, has been continuously upgrading its mobile app and is moving on to wearables, having recently begun to deliver real-time quotes and other notifications to the Apple Watch, another first. It all results from the money management giant’s focus and insistence on “moving things quickly from concept to something very specific and tangible,” says enterprise CTO Stephen Neff. The 63-year-old, a former Salomon Brothers and IBM Corp. technologist who has been with Fidelity since 1996 and in his current role since 2013, has even more futuristic developments on his radar. These include blockchain technology and its potential impact on transparency and on reducing settlement times and costs for digital assets; and Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset developed by Oculus VR, which Facebook acquired last year for $2 billion in cash and stock. The power of start-ups like Oculus and the way they change personal computing have direct bearing on the financial services industry, says Neff. They “enable new customer behavior models and ways for consumers to more actively interact with and manage their financial resources.” He sees the advent of robo-advising in a similar light: “Fidelity has always believed that we can take advantage of these types of innovation to give more people access to the knowledge and financial know-how that have traditionally been difficult for many consumers to obtain.”

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The 2015 Tech 50

1. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange 2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp. Finding, Applying for, and Winning Grant Funding: Tips for Nonprofits Sponsored by Fidelity Investments April 29, 2025 3. Phupinder Gill CME Group 4. Lance Uggla Markit 5. Robert Goldstein BlackRock

6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg 7. R. Martin Chavez Goldman Sachs Group 8. Deborah Hopkins Citi Ventures 9. Stephen Neff Fidelity Investments 10. Adena Friedman Nasdaq OMX Group

11. David Craig Thomson Reuters 12. Daniel Coleman KCG Holdings 13. Michael Spencer ICAP 14. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. 15. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

16. Chris Concannon BATS Global Markets 17. Christopher Perretta State Street Corp. 18. Antoine Shagoury London Stock Exchange Group 19. Kevin Rhein Wells Fargo & Co. 20. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw & Co.

21. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets 22. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings 23. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings 24. Robert Alexander Capital One Financial Corp. 25. Frank Bisignano First Data Corp.

26. John Marcante Vanguard Group 27. Joseph Squeri Citadel 28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group 29. Claude Honegger Credit Suisse 30. Chris Corrado MSCI

31. David Gledhill DBS Bank 32. John Bates Software AG 33. Michael Cooper BT Radianz 34. Gary Scholten Principal Financial Group 35. Sunil Hirani trueEX Group

36. Hauke Stars Deutsche BÖrse 37. Brian Conlon First Derivatives 38. Jim Minnick eVestment 39. Lars Seier Christensen & Kim Fournais 40. Tyler Kim MaplesFS

41. Jim McGuire Charles Schwab Corp. 42. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix 43. Sebastián Ceria Axioma 44. Yasuki Okai NRI Holdings America 45. Stephane Dubois Xignite

46. Mazy Dar OpenFin 47. Brian Sentance Xenomorph Software 48. Mas Nakachi OpenGamma 49. John Lehner BNY Mellon Technology Solutions Group 50. Jock Percy Perseus